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For me, the question was never "are games art?" - the question was: "can someone who's never played a video game and never plans to say anything meaningful abou
by fenomas 10y ago
For me, the question was never "are games art?" - the question was: "can someone who's never played a video game and never plans to say anything meaningful about whether games are art?"
Ebert's implicit answer of "yes" to that question is what I found mystifying.
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- habitue 10y agoYeah, this is totally true, but it is also an uninteresting thing to say because basically only Ebert and potentially the author of this piece disagree with you.
- fenomas 10y agoI think you're misunderstanding me. I don't think it's self-evident that Ebert was wrong to argue about games' artistry without playing them, and I suspect that a reasonably good argument could be made that he wasn't. What I find weird is that Ebert didn't make that argument, and didn't seem to think he needed to.