Revenge Of The Highbrow Games

simoniker writes "In the follow-up to last month's popular 'Where's Our Merchant Ivory?' feature, The Designer's Notebook author Ernest Adams responds to the wealth of feedback submitted by further examining what a 'Highbrow Game' might be, and categorizing the potential audience for such a product." From the article: "Several people pointed out that much of what we see as high culture achieved that status because it's old. Longevity imbues a work of art with respectability regardless of its original purpose — and of course, time tends to weed out the inferior works. For every Mozart there are dozens of classical composers who went to their graves and are forgotten."

Comments

Re:Highbrow games?

[Control Group]

By masochists, maybe.

class and taste

[Anonymous Coward]

I always figured that "highbrow" and "lowbrow" were essentially corrollaries of socioeconomic class, having little to do with actual artistic merit. It's just the elites getting to be tastemakers and defining what is and isn't highbrow. If that's the case highbrow games will only come into existence when some niche of gaming becomes accessable only to the upper class.

So expect to see them sometime after the Playstation 3 comes out.

Re:No thanks

[secolactico]

"Highbrow" carries a snobbish negative connotation. I don't think I want any "highbrow" games.

Hmpf... it's all for the best, really. You probably wouldn't understand such forms of art anyway. Pearls to swine and all that...