Caltrops - Are Games Art?





	[quote name="Fussbett"]As I make more time for Caltrops in my life, I find it fitting that I look back on our great memories together, like this thread. I actually discovered that Christopher Ganz, director of Silent Hill (and Brotherhood of the Wolf, a movie that should have been a video game) <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/ANSWERMAN/604300302/1023" target="egm">trashed Ebert in EGM</a> last year: [quote]Fuck him. I will say to this guy that he only has to read the critiques against cinema at the beginning of the 20th century. It was seen as a degenerate version of live stage musicals. And this was a time when visionary directors like Griffith were working. That means that Ebert is wrong. It's simple. Most people who despise a new medium are simply afraid to die, so they express their arrogance and fear like this. He will realize that he is wrong on his deathbed. Human beings are stupid, and we often become assholes when we get old. Each time a new medium appears, I feel that it's important to respect it, even if it appears primitive or naive at first, simply because some people are finding value in it. If you have one guy in the world who thinks that 'Silent Hill' or 'Zelda' is a beautiful, poetic work, then that game means something.[/quote] Ebert responds to this by saying, I shit-you-not, that video games could be art if they were movies.[/quote]