Games are art. Being art isn't important. The whole games as art thing just holds no importance to me.
How does being art make it better? Art now days can be blow-up dolls having sex or an empty white room with a light bulb in it.
If everyone turned around and said "Yes games are art" after a bit of patting ourselves on the back we'd be where we are now, well except we'd be arguing over what games are in fact not art. The word art allows Call of Duty to art as much as it allows Journey to be. It's flawed by definition alone.
I also don't know of many gamers who just see E3, specially here in the UK where the only why you know about E3 is by going on game related websites.
I'd also like to point out that FPS games has been the main genre since Doom. Doom - and that's really fricking old. As much as I hate it the majority of gamers love FPS games and that's just how it is. If company's sat down and said "Hey lets stop making these games that make use money and make more artistic games that may not sell" we'd be reading about how that company closed down. Sure it may be a great game, but these are people's jobs on the line.
No one is making you play these games, and the uninformed people who think games are all blood and shooting would just be uninformed people who think games are all arty bollocks if a swing was to happen. Everything is under attack from the uninformed masses be it gaming, sex (taboos for example) or religion.
What makes money gets made. Big companies can't risk millions on something that might not sell. It's great we have such amazing downloadable services such as Steam, the PS-Store and XBLA to enjoy the creative brilliance of those who are willing to take a risk but we can't expect bigger companies to not make games that sell. It is, after all a business and as a great man once said...
"It's nothing personal Jack, it's just good business"
(Also last time I checked the film industry's image is rather grim (a million Saw films, Human Centipede 2 etc.) and the best selling books now days are utterly crap - aka Twilight).
As for the sexist thing. Yes sexism in games is bad. But it's also bad in films and the world in general. I'm not saying sexism isn't bad but it's not like this is something new and shocking (Lara's tits being made giant in Tomb Raider 2 for example). I'm also quite sure a lot of opinions about sexism in this game are being made waaaay too early.
Gears of War is an example of how male sexism has generally been excepted (aka muscle-bound, invincible killing machines without emotion).
In a world where sexism is the norm in many ways (shouldn't be but is) having a game with an apparently over vulnerable female isn't a reason to be mad at the game - it's a reason to look at the world and sigh in disbelieve.
I loved Joanna Dark because she was a strong woman, and I was upset when they changed her design for Zero but while playing Perfect Dark I felt the same about not getting shot and killed as much as I did while playing Golden Eye.
Maybe I'm too laid back to get into this. I mean black, white, man, woman - I really don't care who I play as or who I talk to. Everyone's the same. I can never get passionate about these issues, sorry.
How does being art make it better? Art now days can be blow-up dolls having sex or an empty white room with a light bulb in it.
If everyone turned around and said "Yes games are art" after a bit of patting ourselves on the back we'd be where we are now, well except we'd be arguing over what games are in fact not art. The word art allows Call of Duty to art as much as it allows Journey to be. It's flawed by definition alone.
I also don't know of many gamers who just see E3, specially here in the UK where the only why you know about E3 is by going on game related websites.
I'd also like to point out that FPS games has been the main genre since Doom. Doom - and that's really fricking old. As much as I hate it the majority of gamers love FPS games and that's just how it is. If company's sat down and said "Hey lets stop making these games that make use money and make more artistic games that may not sell" we'd be reading about how that company closed down. Sure it may be a great game, but these are people's jobs on the line.
No one is making you play these games, and the uninformed people who think games are all blood and shooting would just be uninformed people who think games are all arty bollocks if a swing was to happen. Everything is under attack from the uninformed masses be it gaming, sex (taboos for example) or religion.
What makes money gets made. Big companies can't risk millions on something that might not sell. It's great we have such amazing downloadable services such as Steam, the PS-Store and XBLA to enjoy the creative brilliance of those who are willing to take a risk but we can't expect bigger companies to not make games that sell. It is, after all a business and as a great man once said...
"It's nothing personal Jack, it's just good business"
(Also last time I checked the film industry's image is rather grim (a million Saw films, Human Centipede 2 etc.) and the best selling books now days are utterly crap - aka Twilight).
As for the sexist thing. Yes sexism in games is bad. But it's also bad in films and the world in general. I'm not saying sexism isn't bad but it's not like this is something new and shocking (Lara's tits being made giant in Tomb Raider 2 for example). I'm also quite sure a lot of opinions about sexism in this game are being made waaaay too early.
Gears of War is an example of how male sexism has generally been excepted (aka muscle-bound, invincible killing machines without emotion).
In a world where sexism is the norm in many ways (shouldn't be but is) having a game with an apparently over vulnerable female isn't a reason to be mad at the game - it's a reason to look at the world and sigh in disbelieve.
I loved Joanna Dark because she was a strong woman, and I was upset when they changed her design for Zero but while playing Perfect Dark I felt the same about not getting shot and killed as much as I did while playing Golden Eye.
Maybe I'm too laid back to get into this. I mean black, white, man, woman - I really don't care who I play as or who I talk to. Everyone's the same. I can never get passionate about these issues, sorry.