Thread: Roger Ebert claims "video games cannot be art"; molests children.
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Unread 04-21-2010, 08:24 AM   #8
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The definition of art always changes.
The greek definition of art was different to that of the romans to that of the renaissance to that of the enlightenment to that of the modernists to that of today. Giev it some time and our current conception of art will be outmoded.
The problem is that while the videogame industry is not interested in exploring its medium and is interested in generic titles that make the most money the movie industry is pretty much the same at the moment.
The point about the number of artists is important though. Art is about conveying something, some emotion, some response to the world and if your story- the most "art" type section of the game- is banged out by 100 people trying to fit some game mechanics, it doesn't really work. Still art just really really shitty, muddled art.
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