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Videogames as Art
Philip Kollar writes "AllRPG has just posted Games As Art, Part 2.
In this article, I attempt to create a viable list of things that come together to make a videogame art, rather than just entertainment. I also explore how these three concepts (writing, design, and interactivity) have been used in other forms of media and how they're being further explored in the world of gaming."
To which you reply: "The medium does not decide if something is or is not art." Huh?
LOOK AT WHERE YOU CHOSE TO END THE QUOTE!
Here's the whole section I quoted:
"I'm sorry, but this is contemporary art. As much as I agree with the author's premise that video games is art, his writing style bears no reality on the current status of art as a discipline and offers about as much insight as my grandma would on the state of open source in the computing disciple. Comparing it to hollywood, which has it's own artistic foundation totally removed from the authors writing, is grotesque."
Note how IN ITS ENTIRETY it takes on a much more caustic tone. This guy just points at a few things he likes, states an opinion and starts trashing people and entire industries.
My point is that all Hollywood movies aren't bad and all videogames aren't great. The medium really doesn't decide the quality of the art.
The reason I chose to label this guy a "snob" is because of his willingness to insult others.
The parent's saying this ain't much of a show, not that its premise is wrong.
No he's saying: "his writing style bears no reality on the current status of art as a discipline and offers about as much insight as my grandma would on the state of open source".
A) Don't you think that's a bit over the top?
B) Having a poor "writing style" don't necessarily say that the logical content is bad. It would have been a lot more respectable if he had actually said something RE the points the author was actually trying to make.
There was WAYYY too much venom in that post for me.
Life is too short to proofread.