clyzm wrote:Watch out guys we got a shakespeare here
Dying.
They can't be art, don't be silly.
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clyzm wrote:Watch out guys we got a shakespeare here
James wrote:Clancy Stein wrote:I see viedeogames as an artform because they evoke ideas... like art just does. The beauty of something artistic is the aesthetic lure to retain your attention to it, and thus express more through the captivation of the senses.
Problem is that games focus on looking good rather than being games.
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Clancy Stein wrote:Protocol wrote:imma delete this post because the topic gives me a headache
Yes yes, better everybody agree lest we fall into a discussion.
Clancy Stein wrote:I feel a lot of hostility towards any opinion here that breaches the consensus.
Tantalus wrote:It's good to talk about it. Just agreeing to disagree gets nothing done; although it does detract HUGELY from the original post.
Deus Ex will never be art to me, but that doesn't detract away from it in the slightest. To me, calling a video game art is like calling an apple an orange. It's just wrong, yet it doesn't detract away from the deliciousness of an apple.
Tantalus wrote:things
Art is not restricted by rules of design and serve no other purpose other than itself
James wrote:Let's just boil it down to this, I agree with Jake; videogames as art is as much as carpentry is to art.
James wrote:http://www.bogost.com/blog/carpentry_vs_art_whats_the_dif.shtml
James wrote:No, no God no. Just a quick link, but it essentially re-enforces a common belief (reason 4 of comparison) that practice items cannot be art as they're part of practice first.
James wrote:RE: Gameplay/Entertainment cannot be art thing; is not the skill of a player who has made the game his own not an not a practice or performance of art?