>Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages I receive urging me to play this game or that and recant the error of my ways. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say "never," because never, as George Lynch informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form.
LEAVE EDDIE ALONE THAT QUOTE IS FROM THAT JAWLESS MOTHERFUCKER FILM CRITIC REEEEEEEE
James Anderson
>What people will still pay for is how content makes them feel. They pay for progress. They pay to stand out. To fit in. To give. To win. -Wang Chung
Owen Jackson
I remember a thread from a while ago when it was the exact pasta but had some numale fag instead of Eddie and Steve Vai instead of George Lynch
John Taylor
First of all that's Ebert and second, why would his opinion matter when he won't even give it a chance? I bet even if anyone did he already decided he hated it so he'd just half ass it and put no effort so he can say "see?"
Jacob Bennett
get him high as tits and let him play Journey. He'll change his mind even though its a terrible argument.
Liam Murphy
Why do I hate George Lynch so much?
Anthony Ramirez
But he's already played with Journey when he's high as tits.
Adam Reed
Go away, Don.
Ryder Perry
Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man. Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
-Zhang Xianzhong
Brayden Bennett
>Videogames were a mistake, it's nothing but trash. -Socrates
Asher Cooper
Ebert had terrible taste anyways. At least he admitted he was a retard for disliking Blade Runner.
Grayson Powell
I would say there are very, very few games that could ever be considered art as a pure representative of what a video game actually is and how it differs from other art forms.
Games such as Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. NES are perfect candidates for a title such as "art". Those games are an experience you will never, ever, ever be able to achieve in any other type of form. They are pure gameplay that is nearly impossible to achieve in real life, unless of course you spend a shit ton of money to build a bunch of walls, get a handful of friends to dress up as ghosts, put a bunch of dots everywhere, build a teleportation device that lets your friends come out from one side of the tunnel to the opposite side, etc, etc you get where I'm going.
These dumb walking simulators will never be art though, and people keep thinking "good stories and amazing visuals" are the key to it all.
Carter Watson
Throw Galaga in there too because I fucking love Galaga
Mason Rodriguez
How can anyone on their right mind dislike Blade Runner?
John Williams
Literally fucking who?
Camden Powell
WHAOOO I GOT IT BAD GOT IT BAD GOT IT BAD I'M HOT FOR TEACHER
Luis Scott
"Console gaming was a mistake" - Prime Minister Obama
Charles Powell
How old are you?
Do yourself a favor and Youtube some Van Halen, my man.
Caleb Sullivan
These pretzels are making me thirsty
-George Costanza
Jason Lopez
Are you master of your domains?
Austin Jones
HE'S A NIGGER JERRY, A NIGGER
Joshua Wright
The only people who care if video games are called "art" are usually people with shit taste, who gives a shit really? Just play vidya fag
Logan Anderson
"take your baby by the hand"
Sebastian Miller
Do you have any single fact to back that up? - Adam Jensen
Chase Torres
>I've never played any game but I don't think they're art, said person with no interest in games Okay.
Jeremiah Campbell
>they literally never played Planescape or SOTC
Nathaniel Foster
Roger Ebert, cultural Nostradamus, once said the Simon & Garfunkel songs from The Graduate were instantly forgettable.
Kevin King
>caring about what some dad rock nobody has to say
Matthew Brown
I agree with Ebert 100%.
>Why are gamers so intensely concerned, anyway, that games be defined as art? Bobby Fischer, Michael Jordan and Dick Butkus never said they thought their games were an art form. Nor did Shi Hua Chen, winner of the $500,000 World Series of Mah Jong in 2009. Why aren't gamers content to play their games and simply enjoy themselves? They have my blessing, not that they care.
>Do they require validation? In defending their gaming against parents, spouses, children, partners, co-workers or other critics, do they want to be able to look up from the screen and explain, "I'm studying a great form of art?" Then let them say it, if it makes them happy.
>One obvious difference between art and games is that you can win a game. It has rules, points, objectives, and an outcome. Santiago might cite a immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and becomes a representation of a story, a novel, a play, dance, a film.
