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Scenario 1: You are in a maze, being chased by a pack of agile zombie-like creatures with giant claws. Scenario 2: You are in a room with a giant blob of meat who launches poisonous gunk at you. Which Scenario would scare you the most if (a) it happened in real life and you did not have...

I'm gonna be a horse. Or a Nord Paladin type guy with a sword and healing magic.

I'm probably being a bit ambiguous with what i meant. I'm not just referring to unlocking a new difficulty but about progression. Most games have that. As you progress through a game, it usually becomes more challenging.

I'm not just talking about unlocking difficulties after finishing a game, but also during the game.

Recently, i got into a friendly argument with a friend on whether difficulty can be a reward in a game. This argument arose because a friend of my friend was playing "The Binding of Isaac" and after playing through the games 4 times, unlocked a higher difficulty for the game. The question...

He's inside, waiting for me to put my guard down!

Hey, Listen! (Just joking)

The Smithsonian has an exposition on games but that doesn't mean that they classify them as art. Here's a link to an interview between the curator of the exposition and a journalist. http://boingboing.net/2011/05/06/art.html

There are other benefits! For example : most countries have grants for art, which could mean more experimentation and possibly raising the quality and originality of future games.

When i asked if games should become art, i meant to the eyes of the greater public. If you asked 60 random people in the street if they considered games to be art how many of them would say yes? By having the word art attached to games, will it improve the quality of the games we get? Will it...

Ah well, the poll was suppose to be an extra whilst the replies are the main course. But you're right, it is a terrible poll.

If games are art, that means that the developers are artists not the gamers. :p

I'm not a big fan of cheats, even if it is in real life.

What I'm truly looking for are reasons for why games would want to become art. People either say games are art or games can never be art. Why are these people saying these things. Is it valuable for a game to have the title art attached to it? Will it somehow improve future games? etc... This...

You're not standing out, a lot of people in this thread have had the same opinion as you (that not all games are art). Hell, i even believe that games have the potential to become art, but not all of them.