Damn you Ebert!
I was stumbling around websites as I'm prone to do at work where I have nothing better to do, and I somehow ended up on Roger Ebert's page. I was reading his Q & A section when I came across this quote from Davis Bordwell who literally wrote the book on film art:
"My student told me that the most sophisticated games require up to 100 hours to master. In 100 hours we can watch 25 Bollywood films or 50-plus Hollywood/ foreign features or 80 B-films or 750 Warner Bros. cartoons. Depending on how fast you read, in the same interval you can probably finish reading 20-30 books. Not to mention 25-35 operas or 100-120 symphonies. And that's just for one game! On the basis of my very limited experience, and given my tastes (a big part of the issue here), the problem with video games is that they're too much like life -- too much commitment for thin and often frustrating results."
Damn video game addictions ;).