“If you don’t choose to appreciate that particular aspect of game…
“If you don’t choose to appreciate that particular aspect of games as an art, that’s fine by me.”
It’s not that people that don’t like cutscenes don’t respect games as an art form…if anything it’s the opposite. Story and gameplay shouldn’t be mutually exclusive - you should be getting story while playing the game. This is why Bioshock is such a good example of how to do it right - it had a story as rich as any other game yet did it without cutscenes.
If I wanted to watch a movie I’d just watch a movie. They’re higher quality than the wanna-be movies you see in most game cutscenes.