As to the debate about the aesthetics of video games, I am finding it interesting that there are so many people compelled to attempt to exclude video games when

As to the debate about the aesthetics of video games, I am finding it interesting that there are so many people compelled to attempt to exclude video games when it would be simpler to ignore the question. But for the current generation, there is no question that the greatest video games are indeed art. I am in a generation where perhaps half of my peers have never played with a console or a desktop. For me and my closes peers, art has been something which elicits a feeling, as one 'experiences' art. Kitch is not art because it is so easily dismissed. But art takes skill. In reading it is skill in pacing an word choice that involve the reader; in cinema it takes evocative lighting and framing to get rapt aattention. However, video games have had a simple method by which they can achieve the experiential involvement: first person perspective and control. This has lead to a raft of games which are designed fulfill every juvenile fantasy at the click of a button. However, one of the first uses of cinema was blue video and the Canterbury Tales are not high brow discussions of theology; as a medium video games will mature like any other new technology aimed we use to study our world.