Monday, September 20, 2010

Games, should they be considered art?

Welcome to my new blog, here I'll write about games and games related news. I'll also post my own reviews of games. Anyways.
It's been alot of news lately about Roger Ebert's statement that video games can never be art(link). I think video games are as much art as mainstream movies are. I mean, just look at Transformers, that's not a very classy movie in my opinion and should be considered as much artful as Modern Warfare 2. Tho some games tries to break out of the mainstream to be more artful, like Flower and the ICO games. What's your opinion? Leave a comment

10 comments:

  1. Of course vidya should be considered art. What bothered me with this entire thing is that Egbert's not a video game critic, and was never really into videogames at all, so how can he flame away at something he doesn't know jack all about. I think Yahtzee had a little rant about this.

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  2. metal gear solid 4 is more of a movie than a game so yes they can be art, just rarely get a good game out these days

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  3. Games are art. Well, really, they're a collaboration of art and computers. Nowadays, you can't really have a game that isn't graphically beautiful or innovative in some way and hope for it to succeed. Or maybe my computer gamin and simulation major is just shining through. Regardless, I hate Ebert.

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  4. Ofc games are art, no question about it.

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  5. Agh! I completely disagree! Of course video games can be art! It's a mixture of pretty much every form of art that already exists with the added feature of allowing the appreciator to interact with it!

    Beautifully composed music, in-depth stories, imaginative words; How could this not be art?!

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  6. Games are definitely an art form, especially on monster PCs at huge resolutions.

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  7. there are only a few games i would consider as art.

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  8. I am a computer programmer myself and I would say not only are the graphics an art, but the code itself is elegant in logic and mathematics.

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  9. A nice thought you got there mate, in my oppinion there's just a few games that you can concider as art, take crysis for example, if your playing on the highest settings - you can concider that game as art.

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