A while ago Roger Ebert commented that video games would never be art and even expanded on his reasoning an article despite never having explored the medium.
But the point still remains, when do video games become art and with a World filled with chopped up cows and hanging light bulbs – are video games already art?
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Sometimes we all need a good cry. And while a good book or touching movie can do the trick, there’s plenty of video games with emotional narratives and motifs out there that can help work through some complicated emotions or just experience a sad story."
The end? Who cares about the end! Tidus was a baby. What about Jehct, my favorite one arm wielding spirit :'(
How is metal gear solid 3 snake eater not on this list? I was sad for days with that ending.
"Many video games catch not only great commercial attention but remarkable critical attention as well. We have seen games like Heavy Rain, The Last of Us Part II, and even entries in the Metal Gear series described as fantastic interactive experiences, even heralded in the same way as Hollywood's greatest films.
I would suggest that not only is this an unfair comparison but also a harmful one. Video games, by their very nature, are an intricately different medium and should be weighed against one another rather than another form of media," Phillip writes for GF365.
I think Hollywood films will becoming increasingly more like video games in the future, especially as the world embraces the "new normal" from the pandemic. It makes sense, as games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales showcase just how realistically we're reaching in graphical capabilities, as well as showcase extreme action sequences in spectacular ways. And as time goes by, it'll get easier and cheaper to produce such "art", as well as create new star "actors" that never age, never die, never complain, never gets involved in scandals, etc. Technology is amazing and we're only just getting a taste of what it'll eventually be.
No. For the money spent, a quality game provides far more entertainment value than a quality movie. Especially when looking at what is going on in the world, and how a studio can attempt to pilfer from consumers by charging 30 dollars for Mulan via streaming. Ridiculous. There is no comparison....games all day.
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When you start thinking of them as art.
When they look like Uncharted. Sorry, but I had to be the guy that mentioned it xD.
To me any medium that is a representation of someone or a groups creative process combined with an attempt to get an audience thinking can be art. Is it good art? Possibly yes possibly no but its art nonetheless.
Games in my opinion is the most likely to feature a sense of art simply because as opposed to most other mediums it has a wider range of areas it tries to cover. The world, the characters, the narrative, even the way the game is played. I'm not saying that games are artful as a standard but more on the fact that even in the situation where a game is aimed more towards earning a profit there will be at least one instance of there being an attempt to stir up thought and make us use our imagination to figure out the meaning within the situation. Take COD:MW2 and the whole "No Russian" mission. I'm not going to debate whether it was done well or not but one thing I'd like to point out was that in that moment you notice your character was now moving slower and can't keep up with the terrorist as they gun down innocents. There was a sense in the design of that mission that gives us a look into this character that was undercover. Though he was meant to be forgettable the scene and the gameplay managed to give that person a deeper sense of character. And when you create character or that deeper meaning in something would you not consider it art? I would and in this situation I found something I would consider as an attempt to something artful in a game that is one of the least likely to contain any sense of art.
Take games like Demon's Souls for example. What it lacks in story it makes up for in the world it is presented in. Likewise the gameplay reflects the basic concept of it. In a dark and unforgiving world it refuses to conform to the status quo of constant checkpoints and similar concepts. Does the gameplay not fit well with the unforgiving notion of the world that it is in? It does.
Long story short. Art from my perspective can be something presented in any form of medium as long as the attempt to create meaning within that product is there. Good art is when it succeeds to those things.
It's all technically "art." Art, by it's technical definition, is just an expression of creativity in a presentable form.
What people REALLY mean when they get into these discussions is what constitutes "inspired" art...and that's a question no one will ever be able to objectively answer.
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