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Thread: Are games art? Do you care?

  1. #101

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azimuth View Post
    This is not substantiation; it's an opinion.

    I'm over arguing this topic with you. I'm increasingly of the impression that you simply cannot hear anyone else over the sound of how awesome you (think you) are.
    Maybe I could give an example of the kind of dialog I'm referring to?
    http://www.next-gen.biz/blogs/its-been-emotional

    Here's a blog written by a veteran gaming critic, analyzing a particular feature of gaming - notice he specifically uses the term 'art':
    One may cry at the most meretricious and manipulative Hollywood scene featuring a dog or small child, but that doesn’t prove it’s a work of art. Conversely, I did not weep while watching Apocalypse Now or reading The Master And Margarita. Why is crying thought superior to, or more authentic than, laughing, or feeling terrified, or joyously triumphant, or experiencing what I have argued is the central emotional territory of many of the best videogames, the emotion of aesthetic wonder?
    Now, even if he hadn't used the terminology, the nature of his analysis would still be an artistic one, just intrinsically. He didn't have to establish whether the games were art, but he analysed them as art - a key distinction.
    Last edited by jasong; 08-07-2010 at 09:29 AM.

  2. #102

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    It's fine I can just carry on this debate without you guys

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