ydrt wrote:

Senor Barborito wrote:

ydrt wrote:

Senor Barborito wrote:

"Yes, video games are art. Very few of them are good art."

How's that different from any other form of
media?

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.

Well for better or worse, humanity seems to love doing just that, and I see no sign of us stopping in the foreseeable future.

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, interactive!' 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

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.