Forum Overview :: Are Games Art? :: Re: There's also the fact that Ebert is a fuck ass.

[quote name="Souffle of Pain"][quote name="Creexul :("][quote name="casual observer"]Weapons, machines, buildings, and everything that's wrought with human hands has an aesthetic value, after all, and video games have no purpose other than to entertain; there's just no other way they can go but to become art, eventually. Look at such things as theater and film itself, they all went through the same process. Now all we need is Charlie Chaplin or Euripides to come around and whip things into shape.[/quote] I'll get right on that.[/quote] I don't mind the snotty disdain when it comes from someone who reads books or goes to galleries. You can't argue with those people anyway. But it really gets thick when MOVIE GUY like Ebert starts trashing video games. Has any medium produced more man-hours of unwatchable garbage than the movie industry? At least when the video game industry gave Rob Schneider a shot it didn't go back for seconds after seeing the result. [/quote]