I’m truly not an avid video game player. I’ve stuck basics of it all. Madden, 2k, Assassin’s Creed, GTA, etc.
If a picture can paint a thousand words, and a movie can move you, and a poem can stick with you, and a novel can change you, then it’s hard to argue a well-created video game doesn’t do that all at the same time.
I say this as an avid reader, there’s such satisfaction in a well told story you’re literally part of.
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The problem is, I disagree due to the exact same facts. It costs so much resources that it is impossible to treat it as “art for art purposes”.
Another unpopular opinion i have is that art with monetary value is not art. I don’t know what it is. It certainly matters too. But I don’t think its art. Therefore, I believe art that costs enough resources that it forces you to make money out of it also isn’t art.
I still look back on the gameplay of the original Mass Effect Trilogy and think so fondly about how cinematic the entire experience was.
An avid reader, ladies and gentlemen.
I know this is an ice cold take but Video Games are just as artistic as any other form of entertainment media. Movies, television, anime, cartoons, or otherwise.
I think this too. I love Final Fantasy X for example. I think game soundtracks and music are highly underrated too
Just wait till you start playing games like disco elysium, and the house in Fata Morgana you will cry
Videogames are art and good art…but, the best? I’ve loved video games…but never better than my favorite song, movie, or TV show.
Video games are getting better and better dialogue….but better than Pulp Fiction? Better than His Girl Friday?
Videogames have good artwork/cinematography…but better than 2001? Lawrence of Arabia? The Matrix?
They’re interactive, and that provides it’s own unique value of the art, but you’re going to have to preserve t kre than your personal preference as a reason, or more than explaining that videogames have multiple aspects, therefore they win.
Some definitely are. Some video games are truly excellent in terms of story, characters, worldbuilding that they are just as good as the great novels and movies.
The Last of Us, Life is Strange, Detroit: Become Human, Bloom & Rage, Baldurs Gate 3, Ghost of Tsushima etc.
And some have a sort of unique factor you just dont get with other forms of media–Killer Frequency, where you’re a radio DJ in a town with a serial killer on the loose and you have to try and help people calling in to survive springs to mind
I’m gonna say no, video games are entertainment before art.
I think they have a high capacity to be artistic, but most art isn’t commercially appealing enough to make it in the game industry, whether it’s AAA or indie.
Some games slip through the cracks though, and become more than mere entertainment. I’ve been really enjoying the story of the Norse GOW games, despite not playing them myself. And you could argue that games like LSD Dream Emulator could be considered art.
Porn is highest form, games are deffs a close second..
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I’d say they CAN be, but almost never are. “Fun interaction” takes precedence, since it’s a game, and everything takes a second place to that, which limits how much art can be it.
Only a few have I felt really lived up to what a great book or film can do.