Roger Ebert claims "video games cannot be art"; molests children.

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Originally Posted by Krylo

You can't have a legitimate opinion on something without experiencing it.

It would be like me trying to tell you that having penises in your vagina sucks because obviously the act of penetration is superior to the act of penetrating. Maybe I could draw some comparisons on how like, any OTHER kind of penetration of the body is usually pretty terrible or something.

MAYBE if he actually played some of the more artistic games or did even some cursory research into the subject he could have a legitimate opinion.

He admits he has done neither, and so as it stands, he has none.

It's why I haven't, until now, bothered to actually respond to anything dealing with Ebert directly.

See, this is why I made that chess analogy. Playing or not playing the game isn't relevant to his point. He just chose something inherent to all games (not just video games) and said that that quality, the one the makes them games, differences them from art. If that's his opinion then he doesn't have to play the game. That it is called a game is a justification for his reasoning (which isn't horrible, mind you, but very easy to disagree with).