Are video games art? Yes. Should we move on? Yes. A Dork Shelf guest editorial by Ubisoft Toronto narrative designer Navid Khavari.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
https://www.theverge.com/20...
This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.
Every industry has these issues
Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.
auteur? Ahumm... its not a goddamn book.
Anything that expresses the human creative skill and imagination is art. The question is whether it's good or bad. What many developers fail to understand is that they're has to be great character development in order for the story to be powerful. Bioshock infinite, Uncharted, even Journey accomplished that without having dialog. Games have evolved through time and are now a great way of telling amazing stories that could be found in books or movies.
@dboyc310: Emotional impact. For me that is the biggest thing I look for in Art. My favorite, well everything, has had an emotional impact on me. Whether I am amazed, empathetic, angered, intrigued, or driven to laughter, I need at least one of these to have any interest in what is going on. A character could grow in from of my eyes (e.g. AC3) but if I'm not emotional invested I get bored with that character and that story (e.g. AC3).
On topic: Love this guys critique though. If we're going to change the way we talk about video games it's really going to come from developers. Lets face it, we just want to talk sh*t, and video game reviewers of any actual quality are rare.
The art of video game creation is respected by many but ignored by most. If that is to change it will have to be a shift in the entire industry and that starts with the developers. The gamers are the money men, we hold all the cards. But it's the developers that make us willing to play our cards. The more indies are embraced, the more risks that are taken, the better this industry will be and the more respect it will command. It's already got the money side respect, now it's time to get the artistry respected. It'll take time but these guy will make it happen. Heavy Rain, Journey, Red Dead, games with character, impact, big budgets, big ideas, small budgets, small ideas, there is so much that has yet to be done the sky isn't even the limit here. One day we'll look back and remember when video games didn't get any respect and we still called them video games (I hate that term SO MUCH).
If Bioshock Infinite isn't art...I don't know what is. This game has ruined me for awhile. But good art does that.