because it is personal preference to want more of an experience/story out of a game? I too enjoyed the older games from decades past such as the Mario series, FF series, Zelda/Link etc. It just comes down to personal taste and expectations imo there is something out there in the gaming world for everyone to play.
Keep in mind that when I say "I'll never understand _____", that doesn't suggest that I think there's anything revolting, intolerable or unacceptable about people having different preferences, just that I don't agree with the logic of them or empathize with those views myself.
What I'm saying is that I don't think that blockbusters (not film in general, just blockbusters) provide a more compelling experience or stronger storytelling than video games anyways. In fact, it's generally pretty bad at those things, IMO-- they're usually just formulaic novelty-filled roller-coaster rides with some trivial technical polish but little charm, creativity or substance. That's a really low bar to clear, and video games (the good ones, anyways) have already surpassed them pretty handily for a couple of decades now, in my view.
I can't say anything about Red Dead because I haven't played it (maybe it's some transcendent experience and I'm just not aware of that), but something like Spiderman for example pretty successfully emulates the typical experience/storytelling of most acclaimed movie blockbusters, and that's really not very impressive to me, because the movies that it's emulating are pretty mediocre at those things to begin with. Neither the game nor the movies it's emulating, in terms of experience/storytelling are anything close to what's already been repeatedly accomplished within the medium, IMO.
I think that the only aspects that emulating blockbuster movies would really improve are things like novelty, flash, fidelity, production values and technical realism, which barely moves the needle in any meaningful way.
I much prefer video games to movies or TV in general, myself.
I think that both videogames and television have a long way to go before matching the peaks of movies, personally (I don't think that there are any videogame creators who have reached comparable heights to certain genius filmmakers for example-- Like if somebody told me that they think Sakaguchi, Kojima, or whoever's big right now were greater geniuses than Kubrick or Kurosawa, I'd find that pretty absurd, personally-- but greater geniuses than blockbuster guys like James Cameron or George Lucas?-- Yeah, I'd totally agree with that). They're both really young mediums that could probably stand to grow up a little bit and have barely scratched the surface of what's possible yet.
But everyone has their own take on that, obviously.