I was being extreme to make a point. The Uncharted games rank among my favorite games ever partly because they tell a fun and exciting story. The story is enjoyable, but won't win any awards for being excellent writing. But I would never go into a video game looking for an award-winning story because that's an unrealistic expectation.
When you focus so much on the story, you get Heavy Rain. It might be great but the more you focus on the story, the less it becomes a game because you can't really have the quality of story you are looking for when the main character is constantly shooting people and solving puzzles and other things that video game convention calls for.
Or you get Xenogears (you can make arguments about Disk 2 - I'll accept the obvious callout because it was murdered by lack of budget and deadlines). It doesn't have the most stellar mechanics ever, but it doesn't need 'em. The story of it IS the main draw, and it's pretty damn good.
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Twostuck, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/62168402