Are Games Art?

[DougClayton4231]

Though movies and books are not in galleries per say, they are still generally accepted as art. People have tons of awards and award services for them. All games have are shitty Spike TV award shows (which don't matter anyway) and rabid fan praise (say that FFVII sucks in a game store and see what I mean). I guess that once gaming actually becomes completely socially respectable, people could view them as art.

I dunno. I'm still embarrassed to tell people that I play them due to social stigmas attached with playing video games. I don't fit the stereotypes and it seems awkward to play them for some reason. My homebrew Wii has well over 1000 games on it and that's cool but my 360 with ~30 is completely lame. I don't get it.