Post by sergeofarnivillage on Jun 15, 2009 13:11:40 GMT -5
Random things just pop into my head. These thoughts are like random firefights in my brain, and the crossfire results in synapses being fired in unpredictable ways. At least there are guns in my head as opposed to voices. Well, this happened one day, as I was feeding my cat (it always happens when I feed my cat): do video games have the potential to be art? At first I thought this question was the result of the constant metaphorical Western going on in my head, but it seems that many people have blazed their trails across the internet of their views. But many of these opinions, when expressed, make me feel unsatisfied, on both sides of the argument. Roger Ebert's essays on why video games cannot possibly be art, for instance, strike me as pretentious and stuck-up, while the other side's arguments (video games can be art) constantly strike me as childish and immature. I'd like to know all of your opinions on it, fellow mutants!
By the way: my personal opinion is that video games can definitely be art: I uphold Chrono Cross as the perfect example of this. (Although, for Chrono Cross to have the same impact, you'd already have had to play Chrono Trigger and Radical Dreamers) I have never played Ico or Shadow of the Colossus, so I cannot speak for them (I mention them because they are often sited as "art" for video games).
By the way: my personal opinion is that video games can definitely be art: I uphold Chrono Cross as the perfect example of this. (Although, for Chrono Cross to have the same impact, you'd already have had to play Chrono Trigger and Radical Dreamers) I have never played Ico or Shadow of the Colossus, so I cannot speak for them (I mention them because they are often sited as "art" for video games).