best example of a game that you could call "art"
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The game thats coming out soon can only really be considered art...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-A8xvFKaRA
Thats "Love" and it looks very nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-A8xvFKaRA
Thats "Love" and it looks very nice
Yes, because reciting the popular medias opinion and not coming to your own conclusion is totally rad.Aby_Z said:
Now that's quite uncalled for. I played both of those games and truly loved them. I shall give you reasons why, as you seem to think I only like them because other people like them.Bulletinmybrain said:
Shadow of the Colossus, I got as a birthday gift more or less on day one. I saw a video of it on the internet and was amazed by the giants you would get to kill. Once able to play it, I played nonstop and beat it within 2 days. I then did what I have done with no other game and played through a second time, then a third, and a fourth.
Part of why I love this game is how it has almost no story, and yet tells one that is quite profound. Truly, it nearly made me cry for that horse, Agro. I loved it because it wasn't a particularly happy ending, and that gave it a much more profound meaning. I loved the game itself because the game play was quite fun. It was a puzzle where you had to figure out how to get to a weakpoint and stab at precise times so you can do some actual damage.
I found this game to be art simply because of the story told in such a minimal way, and the huge landscape that just begged you to explore it. The colossi, who were truly giants, their size was portrayed excellently. Even now I take out a dusty old PS2 to play it once in a while.
Now for Bioshock. I loved this game because of, once again, the story. This is the first game I have ever played that almost felt like it could have been a book, especially with the 'would you kindly' revelation. I could see this game as both movie and book, as it had an excellent story. I gasped, my jaw dropped, when I got to the point where I killed Andrew Ryan.
I truly had no idea about this game for the longest time. I first played it about a year after its' release and I somehow was able to avoid spoilers. Truly, I had dismissed Bioshock at first. In playing it, though, I found an excellent experience to behold and I loved every moment. I rented it twice, then got the game a few months after that, even though I had already beaten it in my time renting it. (It didn't actually take me 2 weeks to beat, I just got side tracked with Mass Effect on the first rent...)
Bioshock gave me a view into a dilapidated, run down, and crazy city in a lovely Atlantis setting. I missed the whole idea of "Is it actually right to kill the Big Daddies" the first time around, though, as I made a habit of either hiding from them the instant they saw me, or shooting at 'em the instant I saw them... I was convinced the game was glitched when a new Big Daddy popped out of a door the instant I had just killed another one.
I say these games are art, not because the "popular medias opinion" loves them. I love these games based on my own believes and my own time with the games. I think your comment may say a bit more about you than it does me, though. Look into that, would you?
I agree with those saying "art" doesn't have to mean the games aesthetics, it can also be gameplay. I consider a lot of old NES games to be art, at least to me, because playing them makes me feel a whole gambit of emotions. I find Jak and Daxter to be a piece of art as well, because I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it, and once again it makes me feel a variety of motions to experience it.
Metal Gear Solid series. I have completely fallen in love with the story line. Its just told so well!
Using such a specific definition of art and reducing a work down to its bare essentials seems more like rationalizing your love for a game than a serious evaluation of it. Deciding that art is a game where you kill people you don't want to kill (A lot of games do this for me like Devil may cry 3, Kingdom Hearts 2 or Metal gear Solid 3) or a game about protecting people (how about Resident Evil 4 or Yoshi's Island?) You might as well say that Mario is great art because it is about saving a princess.Noelveiga said:
@ Original person quoted ; I won't defend Bioshock (it sucks ass) or Shadow of the Collosus (which has enough support already) but beyond good and evil is one of my favorite games. It has the best world I've ever explored among other things like charming story and characters and great puzzles. Other games mentioned consistently in this thread like Silent Hill 2 and Portal are also very good, even though that stupid cube puzzle in SH2 hurt it a lot IMHO.
Okami anyone? Seriously no-one's said Okami?bioshockedcriticjrr said:
Killer7?, Valkyria Chronicles, Lair to name a few.
