Arturo Garcia: Videogame critic Chris Franklin released a biting commentary of many fans of the industry on Sunday, calling out fans who want games to be “recognized” as an artform but also complaining when critics point out instances of problematic messaging or presentation.
“They’ll bum-rush [Roger] Ebert or any other respected figure and insist they take games seriously as art,” Franklin argued. “But as soon as anyone does try to take a game’s claims of artistic intent seriously by looking at the game’s content and meaning then suddenly the line becomes ‘Oh, they’re just games!’ ‘Stop being so serious.’ ‘They’re just for fun!’”
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Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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games are art.
they can be taken serioulsly.
they are taken serioulsly.
they should be taken serioulsly as anyother form of media
how can you tell its the same people demanding this then contridicting themselves?
if it is, then they are stupid
the crime rates in california started dropping (and continued to drop every year) since the very same year GTAsan andreas was released (every form of crime btw).
Sorry, i love 'em, but games are not art.
They are produced FIRST to make money, not make a statement.
This guy is so right, and I hope a day comes when people finally understand that.
I personally feel that anything borne from creative efforts deserves to be recognised as art.
The game at hand also doesn't need to have some deeper meaning or be moving or contain a strong story to be considered as art.
There are so many creative decisions with regards to engineering, mechanics, art, sound and a myriad of other factors that I would argue that games merit artistic consideration on many levels.
I have recently completed The Last Of Us for the fourth time (trophy mop up). The story, performances, sound design, art design, engineering and overall direction all combined to make this game the finest game on an artistic level that I have played this year.
On the other end of the story spectrum, I also completed The Puppeteer last week. This games story has nowhere near the same power as The Last of Us, however I had a smile on my face the whole time and enjoyed it almost as much as TLoU. While I could appreciate the games artistic merit on its graphics, sound and engineering front it was the art design and direction that made the game stand out.
In my opinion, if people are willing to class the garbage that passes as modern art installations these days as art, then I cannot fathom how something that demands so much creative talent as creating a game cannot be classed as art.
Just my two cents!
Games are just games like a painting is a painting. He kind of sounds like he wants to censor what the developers can make and I call that anti freedom of expression. The way he mocks the "gamers" he knows clearly is in bad taste. You can't take an asshole like that seriously.