Are Games Art?

[Phoenix Gamma]

Originally Posted by Grislygus

Videogames will never be art. Unless, of course, some pop factory art tool like Murakami develops a video game; suddenly "ironic" video games will be seen as a clever and stunning subversion of the shallow, corporate and moneybased culture that it satirizes by becoming yet another facet of that shallow, corporate, and moneybased culture.

That's already happening. That's why people circlejerk over Suda51 even though he hasn't made a single game that was good aside from a few flashes of goodness in No More Heroes 2.

If I ever meet anyone in person who seriously argues that the overworld in NMH1 is bad because it's a statement, I will personally shove my foot so far up their anus that it pops out of their mouth.