With a really good story, you don’t want to do anything. You don’t have time for that, your focus is on what’s going on. It’s by design, totally the opposite of a game and its engagement. The story IS the game itself, a game so powerful that it demands that you don’t do any inputting. The input is in the multiplayer part, the discussion you have with your friends. The experience is about listening and watching, analyzing the situation every now and then, weighing all along while the story unfold in a very controlled, designed way. Pressing L1 and R1 alternatively will only add clutter and noise to the flow. I’m probably not the only one trying to imagine Breaking Bad The Game but it just would be silly. Cooking Meth Mama uh, no.
Stories are mind games that don’t require input. It’s pure like that. The only exception I see is for humor –it is fun to input in- but then it is much harder to target a wide audience compared to drama. Drama is universal, Comedy isn’t!