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Video Games Are Beyond Art

April 30, 2010 in Blog comments 2

Video games can be debated to be considered as art or not and different people will have different opinions. In this article, Game Podunk presents games as something more than an entertainment piece put together by talented individuals. Games are interactive that takes players to new heights, it is beyond art.

Most of art is passive. You read a poem, watch a play, or listen to an album. The most activity that you’ll get will be automatic: you create images of the people and places in a book based on descriptions, or you start to wonder how the plot of a movie will unfold. Those are natural reactions, though, and it’s never hard to remember what you are. You’re an observer. You are experiencing something from a removed perspective.
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    Pepper Roni Apr 30, 10
    Interesting that even though they have Shadow of the Colossus as the article header, they don't mention it at all in the article itself, though it's easily expected.
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    SilentLightning May 10, 10
    I really liked the last paragraph of this article:
    "Games aren’t art and maybe they never will be. But they hold a power of their own, one beyond the scope of art. While other mediums are limited to visuals and sounds, games allow for interaction. We aren’t a passive observer. We’re the ones in control, even if we are moving down a set story. It’s what makes our victories all the more exhilarating, and our failings all the more crushing. It’s the human element, that psychological connection, which not only makes games captivating, but sets them beyond any other medium."

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