Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over
by munificent on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:35PM
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> Games Are Not Art (Yet).
But pigment smeared on a piece of wood is?
> they will not be as culturally relevant as movies or books.
I'm sorry you missed the memo, but games are more culturally relevant than books now. It makes me sad too.
> A mind like Orson Welles will never be compelled to make the Citizen Kane of games.
This sentence is equivalent to "A mind like Langston Hughes will never be compelled to make the Mulatto of films." Except, well, there is Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, so it's obviously wrong. Your sentence probably is too.
Will Wright, Sid Meier, Markus Persson, Shigeru Miyamoto, etc. You may think, "These people are not the stature of Orson Welles", but you'll be hard pressed to come up with a definition of "stature" that isn't basically just equivalent to "I'm trying to evaluate games as if they were movies". Koyaanisqatsi would fare poorly if you evaluated it as if it were a play, but it is certainly art and a good film.
But pigment smeared on a piece of wood is?
> they will not be as culturally relevant as movies or books.
I'm sorry you missed the memo, but games are more culturally relevant than books now. It makes me sad too.
> A mind like Orson Welles will never be compelled to make the Citizen Kane of games.
This sentence is equivalent to "A mind like Langston Hughes will never be compelled to make the Mulatto of films." Except, well, there is Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, so it's obviously wrong. Your sentence probably is too.
Will Wright, Sid Meier, Markus Persson, Shigeru Miyamoto, etc. You may think, "These people are not the stature of Orson Welles", but you'll be hard pressed to come up with a definition of "stature" that isn't basically just equivalent to "I'm trying to evaluate games as if they were movies". Koyaanisqatsi would fare poorly if you evaluated it as if it were a play, but it is certainly art and a good film.