Films and literature are considered art, but can video games also be art?

video games are a waste. it brainwashes most of 90% gamers to buy more games. video games is a drug. shit i smoke weed but i dont spend 30 hours on it like holding a controller. how can you hold a controller that long.

It is art, but the companies are not concerned with art quality, their concerned with making a profit.

At 4/20/14 07:11 PM, anothercoolguy wrote: umm idk

what the fuck

According to the Supreme Court.

Yes.

Shut the fuck up. Seriously? Not a difficult question. Anything that serves no purpose other than to entertain the mind is art. English developed over thousands of years to describe this bullshit with simple canopy words, but now we're evolving out of that.

Call video games anything you want. Interactive art. Games. Artificial environments are going to be popylar once we have full immersion. The world isn't cut and dry.

Fuck your shit. Fuck it.

It depends on the game, or more importantly, the motive behind making the game. If it's created to to make you feel something, or to tell a story or send a message, then I'd consider it art. If it's just something slapped together to make money, I wouldn't really consider it art.

I think threads can be art, because they can be argued to be able to exist in multiple places they don't fit in.

At 4/20/14 08:26 PM, Ragnarokia wrote: I think threads can be art, because they can be argued to be able to exist in multiple places they don't fit in.

Stuff a sock in it. Threads don't magically need to be posted in Video Games because they have the word Video Gane in them. That forum's for getting ridoif the mundane shitposting about new releases that used to clog up General 24/7.

Same goes for Politics. It's just there to keep people from spamming news stories and sharing theîr parents' "genius wisdom" every ducking election season.

I swear, you backseat mods get dumber every fucking year,

At 4/20/14 07:12 PM, MrPercie wrote:

At 4/20/14 07:10 PM, Shade wrote: Nope. Video games are too crude to be considered art. Just like Comic Books.

I guess that is a good analogy, but it might depend on the game.

Bad analogy.

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At 4/20/14 08:13 PM, Piggler wrote: Video games involve a commercialized form of art

So does every other medium. The existence of a commercial mainstream doesn't invalidate the entire medium, or you'd also have to say that film and music and books and everything else aren't art.

In video games like in all those other media, yeah, art and commerce overlap. And also like in all those other media, there are mainstream games that lean more towards the commercial and there are independent games that lean more towards the artistic. If the likes of Gone Home or Papers, Please or even a major studio work like Shadow of the Colossus aren't "art themselves" then I don't know what art is.

Anything manipulated by the hands of man is considered art.

At 4/20/14 07:17 PM, WaffleVoyager wrote: I'd consider something like Gone Home or The Stanley Parable art, but then the cool kids don't consider them games anyway.

Those aren't the cool kids, those are the least cool kids.

>Ōkami

Sure. Have you seen how beautiful games have looked recently? It's amazing how games that involve senseless killing like GTA can have breath taking scenery.

At 4/20/14 07:13 PM, abbuw wrote: No effort is placed into the making of video games.

Oh ok. I would like to see you make a video game, sense you think the process of making one is such a breeze.

Literature isn't art, it's just for keeping records of taxes.

Music isn't art, it's just a way for chanting monks to make their voice travel over long distances.

Photography isn't art, it's just a way to know what people look like.

I consider some games to be art, as in having fantastic art styling to them, but video games are supposed to be entertainment first and foremost. Somewhere along the line, it seems like someone either totally forgot about this premise, or just make arthouse style games for a small segment of asshats to gush over, and treat it as it's the best thing for gaming in whatever amount of time, when that's not even close to the point of video games in the first place.

Shigeru Miyamoto is an Artist.

At 4/20/14 07:09 PM, Xiicubed wrote: Films and literature are considered art, but can video games also be art?

Yes.

Roger Ebert doesn't think video games are art

Nowadays you can call anything art.

Of course they can! If it can be admired for it's beauty, story telling and the works why the hell not?

i actually don't know what i consider video games to be, they are like weird game toys or something idk

At 4/20/14 07:09 PM, Xiicubed wrote: Films and literature are considered art, but can video games also be art?

yup! In fact, newgrounds has a whole collection dedicated to "art games" here.

It depends. If you think performance art is indeed art, then you must consider video games as art. In some ways, video games are the ultimate art form, because it's interactive. Yeah, a painting, sculpture or movie is art, but the viewer just...sees it. What better artistic statement can you make than to allow people to create and participate in it?

Video games are my kind of art.

At 4/20/14 07:09 PM, Xiicubed wrote: Films and literature are considered art, but can video games also be art?

Look at Nintendo titles like DK and Mario, do you have to repeat your question?