> no player likes walls of text

I generally agree and I don't like it either, except for Planescape Torment, because it has awesome characters and text.

> With the possible exception of visual novels

I never did understand visual novels. They aren't games, but they aren't good novels either. Plus I don't read Japanese, and judging by the (poor) translations out there, most "visual novels" consist of mostly pressing enter to skip tons of "..." dialogue.