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I spent my adolescence playing games similar to Dungeons and Dragons. One common sentiment that seems to pervade amongst its older devotees is an inability to s
by blockwriter 5y ago
I spent my adolescence playing games similar to Dungeons and Dragons. One common sentiment that seems to pervade amongst its older devotees is an inability to see the game for what it was, which is to say largely a trifle and diversion for adolescents. There are those that think the game has outlived its origination because these companies make big pushes to diversify an audience that has always been compromised of uncouth suburban teenage dudes. There are those that place an undue stake in the game’s proliferation because it validates their difficult youths. At the end of the day, it is not worth analyzing too deeply. Thinking of games like this as art is a categorical error in my opinion.
- mcphage 5y ago> Thinking of games like this as art is a categorical error in my opinion. Why is that?
- blockwriter 5y agoIn part because what is engaging about it is not vested wholly in its aesthetic value. This, of course, does not necessarily preclude a work from being considered art. I think my refusal to consider games of this nature, or indeed games of any sort, as art comes down to the medium. Literature extends literature in a transcendent manner, putting like into a like medium that is wholly expressive and formally complete, whereas games of fantasy enrobe themselves in the trappings of purely aesthetic mediums; but the medium of games leaves room for gaps in its progenitor’s sublimer forms. This is only one man’s opinion though, I concede.
- Octopodes 5y agoI tip my fedora to you, good sir.