If someone goes and makes a game that can make me cry from sadness or desperation, because it was doing something terrible to characters I liked for example, I think that would make it a deep moving good game. One you don’t play for fun, but you play for the memorable experience, to learn something.

I haven’t played pathologic, and I don’t fully think of the Path as a game, more of a experience told through the game medium. But if some of what they did was implmented into a traditional game and you stripped out a lot of the gamey fun I think you ould make a excellent game. If that doesn’t count as a game then at least it will be a great story told through interactive means.