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I started writing a big long winded argument but really, Ebert is trolling here. Creating controversy for his own benefit. His rambling half formed ideas, muc
by r0s 17y ago
I started writing a big long winded argument but really, Ebert is trolling here. Creating controversy for his own benefit. His rambling half formed ideas, much use of spurious philosophical definitions of 'Art', make me think he doesn't really believe any of it himself.
- hugh3 17y agoI think he believes half of it: that no games rising to the level of good art (let alone great art) currently exist. The rest, where he's forced to tie knots in the definition of both "game" and "art" to prove one can't be the other is a lot iffier. It's a pity he didn't limit himself to the argument about whether any games which are "good" art currently exist, or else we could be having a much more interesting discussion. Personally I think that Half Life 2, say, is far better than many of the movies to which Ebert gives four stars, but not quite good enough to kick it into the stratosphere of what's truly great. I guess that video games are probably the hardest medium in which to create great art. It used to be said that filmmaking was the hardest medium since it combined most of the others; music, writing, photography etc. Gamemaking is even harder since you have all those other elements plus the need for gameplay.