Thread: Roger Ebert claims "video games cannot be art"; molests children.
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Unread 04-21-2010, 08:37 AM   #10
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The problem is that while those potentials exist- the videogame can easily be the most post-modern medium of all time and challenge the player in ways that books/film/art can't, the vast majority of them don't and it is very difficult to find games that actually present themselves as this rather than just a test of your game-playing skills, not your emotive response to themselvse.
While you could say the same thing about movies (sort of anyway) there are established classics of movie-making as art that can be used as counterexamples whereas videogames not so much.
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