Can video games be considered art?
Can video games be considered art?
Jose Hernandez
Xavier Rogers
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Elijah Taylor
i want niggers to shit in my mouth
Thomas Watson
Yes.
Brody Myers
art doesn't exist
Bentley Taylor
No
Robert Thompson
Videogames are not art, now you can bother other people with your identity politics.
Jason Gray
why does it matter if videogames are art? videogames should be fun
William Williams
ebert was and is right
Parker Anderson
Who the fuck cares? Holy fuck! Divine fornication!
Just play the game, have fun, and be grateful you live in a setting that enables you to do so. I personally do not give a fuck if it is not considered art because something does not have to be art to be respected and honorable.
Easton Evans
Video games being art doesn't change that feminists were and are wrong about everything.
Seethe ledditor.
Thomas Johnson
Who fucking cares?
Brayden Parker
No, but shitposting can.
Carter Scott
Can wojakposting be considered a bannable offense?
Juan Peterson
I know this post is shitposting, but what the fuck kind of point is this?
Yes, they are art, and they should be allowed to be critically analyzed. The point is that Anita's analysis is retarded.
Nathan Allen
Awww I miss her, has she dropped off entirely, or did she start a new grift already?
Jayden Morales
>MUH ART
Videogames aren't art because art is SHIT AND GAY AND BORING, every game that tried to be art ended up being GAY AND BORING
BEHOLD, THE POWER OF ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>HURR HURR LOOK AT THIS CLAY POT
>HURR HURR LOOK AT THIS LITERAL DIARRHEA ON A CANVAS
>HURR HURR LOOK AT THOSE GAY LILIES I PAINTED
VIDEOGAMES ARE BETTER THAN ART
Also, SAGE ON EVERY FIELD for blatant facebook/leddit meme
Ethan Bell
yes but they should prioritize being fun over being artistically significant
Charles Diaz
This but unironically
Brandon Cox
nobody has ever wanted videogames to be art
Josiah James
Would you buy a $5 ticket for Anita's breeding lottery? If you win you get to spend the day having unprotected sex with, any position, any hole, as long as you finish balls-deep in her hairy Armenian pussy, continuing to gently thrust into her post-climax, making sure every drop of cum hits her cervix.
Camden Butler
>The point is that Anita's analysis is retarded.
the point is anita didn't just stop at "muh wahmen", she went to e3 and seethed at all the violence on display
Hudson Reyes
It's common redditor strawman behavior
Something something gamers are entitled bigots that hate anita
It's all so tiresome
Justin Peterson
why does the link send me to the porn board?
Joshua James
Zoomers never heard of icycalm, apparently.
Matthew Rivera
I want to fuck Anita until her back breaks but I wouldn't pay for it
Mason Baker
Why aren't they giving shit to rap then?
Zachary Phillips
I agree with Ebert, videogames are not art and that's okay
Christopher Gomez
Games will not be art until two things are done:
One, there needs to be a universal format/system that games are played on. Exclusives and consoles need to end. Imagine exclusive BluRay players for each of the major film production studios. This will make games more readily available and, the important part, make classic games that will structure the "games are art" argument. Braveheart and Super Mario 64 came out in the same year. Braveheart has been made available for home release on VHS, DVD, BluRay, and 4K Blu Ray for physical purchase. Super Mario 64 can only be physically bought on the N64. Braveheart can be streamed or downloaded legally. Super Mario 64 has been made available on the Wii's Virtual Console (dead) and the Wii U (last generation and almost dead). Imagine if you could only watch Braveheart on VHS. We can't form an argument that games are art until they are more readily updated and available on modern terms legally.
The second thing is shifting the focus from movie like games to games that tell a story through gameplay. THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE NOT SAYING IT'S REAL. But lets say for example purposes that TLOU 2 is the greatest story ever told in a video game. Okay fine. However, the gameplay is good. It's fine, it's serviceable and does the job. Heck, it's might even be pretty good. What it is not however is integral to the experience. If I were to take The Godfather and make it a "game" in which it's literally the film but to keep watching, you have to beat a level of Tetris, is that a great video game or a great story told in the wrong medium?
Film, music, books, etc. They each have their own specific ways of being expressions of an artistic medium. A video game that tells a good story but puts gameplay second is really just a great story but told in the wrong way. Games like Journey (again, just an example not saying it is or isn't the best choice of representation) in which story is important are what we should focus on.
Easton Campbell
No, they should be fun
Ethan Edwards
Focus-group product made solely for investor-profit cannot be considered art