Forum Overview :: Are Games Art? :: Re: I'll take the "The Obvious Answer", Alex

[quote name="ydrt"][quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="ydrt"][quote name="Senor Barborito"]"Yes, video games are art. Very few of them are <i>good</i> art."[/quote]How's that different from any other form of media?[/quote] It isn't, and I suppose that's the point. Asking if video games are art is like asking whether any form of media is art - it's mental masturbation as we yell at each other over angels and heads of pins and who exactly is the pinhead for the angels to dance upon.[/quote] Well for better or worse, humanity seems to love doing just that, and I see no sign of us stopping in the foreseeable future. [quote]Thinking that video games are in some way some 'special' form of media just because they're [pretends to be frightened, sticking fingernails in teeth] 'ooooh, <i>interactive!</i>' is so much egotistical self-deception and nothing more. This is not to say, however, that media won't eventually encompass the whole of our experiential universe - it's slowly taking over for most people as it is, and it will only continue to do so as we humans proceed to abstract ourselves out of our society entirely. --SB[/quote]Eh, I think there's a much higher chance of us blowing ourselves straight off the planet before that. We still need human interaction for sex, and I doubt that any artificial substitute will completely replace that. And as long as we have that need, we'll still have a society in which we can chase each other for love or war.[/quote]