08-18-2012, 11:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2012, 12:18 AM by SKELTON S. SKELETON.)
videogames can be art when shitty nerds on the fucking internet can get over people analyzing their awful fucking pulp genre fiction distilled into shooting and hitting buttons to get rewards
that's it
that's really the only answer to this question
videogame, as it is now, is not art. it is not approaching art as a whole, cohesive medium. there are videogame that have artistic qualities, some of them even provoke thought. unfortunately, one or two titles every few years that posses these qualities do not validate "videogame" as an artistic medium.
which means you can't, ergo, consider them literature
because when anyone actually seriously says "literature" they never think of the hottest fuckin harry potter or hunger games book they just read with all the snappy dialogue, don't kid yourself.
you're thinking of fiction and non fiction that has gravity and weight to it, actual substance that can be analyzed and thought about.
maybe cheap genre pulp trash
or dime novels
that's it
that's really the only answer to this question
videogame, as it is now, is not art. it is not approaching art as a whole, cohesive medium. there are videogame that have artistic qualities, some of them even provoke thought. unfortunately, one or two titles every few years that posses these qualities do not validate "videogame" as an artistic medium.
which means you can't, ergo, consider them literature
because when anyone actually seriously says "literature" they never think of the hottest fuckin harry potter or hunger games book they just read with all the snappy dialogue, don't kid yourself.
you're thinking of fiction and non fiction that has gravity and weight to it, actual substance that can be analyzed and thought about.
maybe cheap genre pulp trash
or dime novels
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