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video games and art

taumeltaumel
edited April 2010 in General Chat
If you think video games can be art i would like to know if you could name some, so Which video games qualify as art and can you explain why you feel so? or In which fields do you think a certain game qualifies as beeing art?

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  • taumeltaumel
    edited April 2010
    So no one? :O)
  • glenfxglenfx
    edited April 2010
    To name a few, Maniac Mansion "DOTT", Sam and Max "hit the road", Monkey Island 1, 2&3...

    I consider them true pieces of art since they are not just games, the beauty of the animations, backgrounds (cant deny the backgrounds are pure art), the character personalities, the story, the feeling of the experience, and the replayability.

    There IS a reason why even today these games are still strong and people play even with the dated graphics.

    If that isnt art...
  • taumeltaumel
    edited April 2010
    I know a couple of video games which qualify as art to me and where i wouldn't feel ashamed placing them in a museum. One of them is The Sentinel by Geoff Crammond due to the game concept, the abstract and weird atmosphere and the interesting code for the level generation.
  • elzbenzelzbenz
    edited April 2010
    LOOM, Monkey Island 3 and basically any game by square enix are games that I consider pieces of art... mainly because of the music score... and of cource amazing graphics and story... I agree entirely with glenfix although I don't really consider MI1 or Hit the road to be art...they just don't seem to have a good enough storyline...
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited April 2010
    ET. It sucks, but maybe that's the point.
  • elzbenzelzbenz
    edited April 2010
    oh... I'm sure so much artistic style was needed to create a game about falling into holes... Only a pure artist could recreate an experience as boring as finding REAL parts for a spaceship... :P
  • taumeltaumel
    edited April 2010
    Another old game i see as art is Jordan Mechner's Karateka because of the new way of storytelling at the time it was beeing released as well as the aesthetics.
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