If video games are art, what kind of art are they? What is unique and particular to them? And, perhaps most important, just how great is their potential?
If video games are art, what kind of art are they? What is unique and particular to them? And, perhaps most important...
Grayson Russell
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Jose Foster
They're not art. They're toys.
Luke Gonzalez
Corporate art.
Amalgam art.
Basically the same garbage as movies and TV shows and music videos. The visuals will never be on-par with paintings, the music will never be on-par with musicians, the writing is way below even what passes on places like Wattpad, etc.
Cameron Garcia
Interactive art
Demon's Souls, Shadows of the Colossus are examples on how to get close to realizing that potential.
Benjamin Gray
>video games aren't art you fucking manbaby grow up XD
>*sees pic related* O.M.G. THAT'S LIKE SOOOO DEEP THIS IS TRUE BEAUTIFUL ART
Xavier Gutierrez
Pic related is anti-art. The guy who made it hated art.
Anthony Martinez
Video games are not art.
Video games are product.
It is POSSIBLE to produce a work of art using the medium of video games, and it's even been done, but they're usually not very good.
It is also, of course, possible to transform art into product, but it's a lot more difficult to do it the other way around.
With art, it's about the intention of the creator.
All this said, art is its own thing and video games are their own thing. Athletes don't try and get their thing called "art" because it sounds lofty. Let everything be its own, distinct thing. There are art pieces that make me feel like no video game ever could. There are video games that make me feel like no art piece ever could.
Benjamin Sanchez
>The visuals will never be on-par with paintings
Why not? Just because you don't want it to be? There is always the possibility of an artist creating something for a video game that envokes emotion in the observer, that's literally what art is.
>the music will never be on-par with musicians
Again, same as above, why are you such a retard? Do you think the musicians who create music for video games are just suddenly not musicians anymore because what they made was put into a video game?
Jack Fisher
Games can't be art. Art is about the pure vision of its creator while the creator of a video game willingly and necessarily gives away the control to the player of the game. Games contain art but aren't art itself. This is only a problem for video game journalists who like to pretend what they do has more significance than people who write about board games.
Colton Moore
>Art is about the pure vision of its creator
That's not a necessity for art, bud. Sure there are many people who speculate on authors/artists' vision of their creation, but that's not a requirement.