While during research for project 2. (i'm playing shadow of the colossus) I stumbled upon this article by Roger Ebert. Ebert claims that games are not art or that someday they could be. I feel that we all would consider games today an art form. What I found most interesting about this article is his quick claim to denounce games as art, even though he personally doesn't play them. (Even in the article he goes out of his way to not play games)
Ebert on games as art
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html
ReplyDeletethis is the original statement ebert made about games as art.
Limbo is all i have to say. i know we aren't due to talk about it for awhile but seriously if havent played it, do it!!!! even though it is very linier it is a very well controlled experience.
ReplyDeleteI 100% believe that games are art. I posted this article because i do not agree with it.
ReplyDeleteand limbo is sweet. In LittleBigPlanet someone created a limbo level that was pretty sweet.
Let me get something straight: I personally have always seen Ebert as an idiot with or without this article. He has a crippling allergy to technology with a fixation on narrative and metaphor.
ReplyDeleteEbert went on to post a completely asinine poll that asks which is more valuable: a "great video game" or "Huckleberry Finn." What "great game" are we talking about here, Ebert? You don't even know any great games! Already he is selling games short by being unable to even identify one. Of course something vague and undefined isn't going to win against something identifiable. Huckleberry Finn may as well have been pitted against a "great sandwich."
"Art seeks to lead you to an inevitable conclusion, not a smorgasbord of choices."
But then he goes on to smugly regurgitate the definition of art from a dictionary and berate games as a form based on that.
…I've already argued too much about this article. It's just another one of those zingers written by Roger Ebert.
If Ebert pitted himself against Huckleberry Finn, WHO WOULD WIN?
Deleteit's a form of human expression, even though the market has a big say in it, humans still are designing, creating, forming and experience that other humans can partake in.
ReplyDeletei think technophobia has a significant sway on his opinion