In the past few years, an argument which has frequently come up is whether or not video games can be considered \u201cart\u201d, if they are a proper, legitimate form of artistic expression.<\/p>\n
Talking to Gamasutra, Rockstar<\/a> co-founder and vice president Dan Houser says they don\u2019t really care. According to Houser, the argument is a \u201cparlor debate\u201d, and something which never affects the process or output of Rockstar\u2019s games.<\/p>\n “We make something we think above all is going to be enjoyable for people to play. Otherwise they are not going to keep doing it — and the idea that anything could be artistic and not enjoyable is something that I am not sure I agree with,” he says.<\/p>\n Houser says that games are simply a commercial medium, such as pop music and movies, and can be considered artistic as easily as they can be exploitative. When asked if he thinks the average consumer will accept games as a legitimate form of artistic expression, Houser said that he think it\u2019d be bad for the industry.<\/p>\n “In some ways I hope not, because we will become more and more controlled and Academy-sized [as an industry] and you’ll lose a lot of the freedom that we enjoy,” he says.<\/p>\n Rockstar is well known for pushing the boundaries, with almost all of their games being met with a fair measure of outcry and controversy from politicians and parents alike. Perhaps it\u2019s not surprise then that their attitude to these kinds of abstract arguments is indifference \u2013 as long as they can maintain the freedom to make their games however they want, they\u2019ll stay out of these kinds of \u201cparlor debates\u201d.<\/p>\n VP Dan Houser says it has no influence on their games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":26619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3,4],"tags":[677,627,21,193],"class_list":["post-26617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-art","tag-dan-houser","tag-headline","tag-rockstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26621,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26617\/revisions\/26621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Source: Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"