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Roger Ebert on video games as art: "That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent
by jdkee 5y ago
Roger Ebert on video games as art:
"That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic."
- MagnumOpus 5y agoOf course that quote is now 15 years old, comes from a position of slef-confessed utter ignorance of the range of video games available even then, and was the answer to a question about Doom... You wouldn't think of Doom/Quake/TF (or Pong/Pacman/Space Invaders) as art just like you wouldn't usually think of football, darts, scrabble or chess as art - generally you'd describe them as skill-based games or maybe sport. While narrative-heavy games are unquestionably art just like movies or novels are, Ebert has only ever played Myst and some multimedia exploration game of Kyoto before he made that statement. He admitted near-complete ignorance of video games, so he wouldn't have known about, say, Planescape Torment or Monkey Island or Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis. And of course Ebert is guilty of being a notorious edgelord too - he apparently also claimed that "hardly any movies are art" too...