Is Roger Ebert right? Is Jonathan Jones correct? Are video games mere forms of entertainment devoid of artistic merit? Well, no. They’re so much more than that. Silly Roger Ebert. Foolish Jonathan Jones.
Tom Henderson and Jeff Grubb suggest a 2.5D Metroidvania-style God of War spin-off is in development, set in Greece before Kratos becomes a god.
And not in a good way! GOW 2018 was not what I was expecting either, and it blew me away! However this is like a popcorn fart in church.
I wouldn't mind playing that, I'm guessing somewhat in the vein of Prince Of Persia:TLC but hopefully with better graphics.
2.5D can be done in many different ways. It could be as simple as a size scrolling game with 3D backgrounds
🤔 Interesting. Nothing wrong with switching it up to a different genre of game for a side project. Hope they don't try to do that to a main entry.
Today, Portal with RTX is being upgraded with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, multiplying framerates, as well as the transformer model for Ray Reconstruction and DLAA, enabling even better image quality. Portal with RTX is also adding RTX Neural Radiance Cache (NRC), a neural shader that improves indirect lighting, as well as a bevy of performance optimizations.
Discover 10 timeless video games from the past that remain absolutely playable today. From Chrono Trigger to DOOM, these classics have aged like fine wine!
Hot damn that's a good list. The only one i never played is AOE2 and i never finshed Chrono Trigger but it was damn good.
Speaking of what's old but holds up amazingly well and plays like a dream.. i played Symphony of the Night for the first time in 2019.. yep that's right. It became one of my favourite games of all time that i replay almost every year. I couldn't believe how good it was. That is almost impossible for me with newer games let alone older ones. Truly a special gem.
The only one I’d disagree with is doom. It shows its age badly I think. After 5 minutes of play these days you put it down.
Video games have to distinct themselves as an art form.
As fun as heavy rain was, you cant have games that try to be movies and call video games art. What separates video games is the interactivity, the ability to control a character and shape and traverse the world around you. A game that masters that is truly art.
Also, I cant help but notice all these games including the honorable mentions are strongly connected with the playstation brand, except for portal. bias much?
Who cares if video games are art? Art is a very broad word. As long as I enjoy the games I play, I couldn't care what you classify them as. I'm getting tired of so many people arguing over whether or not video games are art.
Heavy Rain is less a videogame, more just a bad film.
Voicework's pretty bad, shoddy dialogue, the writing's terrible and pretty juvenile (Origami killers and Alternate reality sunglasses), the music's not bad but it's used in such an unimaginative way.
I mean, a seriously overrated game.
There are elements of games that might be called art: the visual design, the music, the storytelling. But the interactivity is different. How the interactivity relates to the aforementioned artistic aspects might evince a kind of art, but interactivity on it's own I don't think you can call art, and often it's inclusion in games is completely artless.
How Journey isn't on this list baffles me.