Look and think beyond traditional "art" -- looks nice, sounds good, reads well. Video games are an entire artform in their own right beyond how the graphics look or the music sounds. There is an entire stratum beyond these traditional levels of art: Game designers and programmers spend countless hours creating "playable" environments. This creation goes beyond looks. For example, Id software created an entire new genre of gaming with its first-person shooters; the original wolfenstein and doom is art -- it's wonderful work.
However, just because we claim something is art doesn't mean that our government won't censure the material. It's not the material that's affecting children so much -- other cultures with similarly violent material have exponentially less violence.
What will happen though? Nothing can be banned, but the market will be affected...companies will produce less of these M games and their prices will rise and well, that's that.
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Look and think beyond traditional "art" -- looks nice, sounds good, reads well. Video games are an entire artform in their own right beyond how the graphics look or the music sounds. There is an entire stratum beyond these traditional levels of art: Game designers and programmers spend countless hours creating "playable" environments. This creation goes beyond looks. For example, Id software created an entire new genre of gaming with its first-person shooters; the original wolfenstein and doom is art -- it's wonderful work.
However, just because we claim something is art doesn't mean that our government won't censure the material. It's not the material that's affecting children so much -- other cultures with similarly violent material have exponentially less violence.
What will happen though? Nothing can be banned, but the market will be affected...companies will produce less of these M games and their prices will rise and well, that's that.