Right. We're all art critics now.

[FalloutJack]

Games are art within the United States and now the supreme court has made a decision to constitutionally protect games in the same way as other media. Fabulous! Well, time to get to work then. Put on your monocles and follow me. If games are art, then we're the critics.

Now, give me a spoofy sort of artsy critique of a game of your choice, as silly or snobby as you like. You have that power, so let's see something funny.

 

[Ghengis John]

Well not all games are art. Much like the movies. Just because something can be art, doesn't mean that it by necessity, is. While some might argue that the qualifications are subjective, it's important to stay objective. Nobody would argue the Micheal Bay or Uwe Boll compendiums are art. In the same fashion, trying to defend every game with the art banner only serves to stretch the banner thin and weaken credibility.

 

[Erana]

Well not all games are art. Much like the movies. Just because something can be art, doesn't mean that it by necessity, is. While some might argue that the qualifications are subjective, it's important to stay objective. Nobody would argue the Micheal Bay or Uwe Boll compendiums are art. In the same fashion, trying to defend every game with the art banner only serves to stretch the banner thin and weaken credibility.

They're all art, some are just much more kitschy than others.

Like comparing Monet to a ceramic garden gnome.

 

[Palademon]

Pokemon is a jolly good, spiffing tale of animal cruelty.

 

[LuckyClover95]

I think Fallout 3 represents what would happen if we had a nuclear war. Oh wait.... it did.
Personally, I think LittleBigPlanet, on a deep level, represents the Holocaust. Somehow.

 

[ryo02]

Well not all games are art.

and at the other end of the scale some games are better by far than some of the $%@# that gets hung on a wall.

art ... solid black canvas ... straight black lines and block colours ... half a cow ... someones bed ...a starving dog... a toilet.

some art isnt good enough to be art.

 

[zehydra]

Well not all games are art. Much like the movies. Just because something can be art, doesn't mean that it by necessity, is. While some might argue that the qualifications are subjective, it's important to stay objective. Nobody would argue the Micheal Bay or Uwe Boll compendiums are art. In the same fashion, trying to defend every game with the art banner only serves to stretch the banner thin and weaken credibility.

Yes, I would argue that Uwe Boll and Michael Bay are art.

Bad art does not make it not art.

The Qualifications for art IS the objective part of art. It's the judging of good and bad which is subjective.

 

[kuyo]

I have never been subject to a more vacuous and meaningless experience as Bejeweled 2. I'm still unclear as to why this game needed a sequel, the first one had no indication or need of a sequel. This new one is nothing more than some transvestite whore pretending to be Monroe. I am mortified by these mouth-breathing philistines wasting their time at bus stops playing PopCap's leavings. Even if these cretins only have an iPhone, they could spend their time with something with a modicum of value like ZenBound or something.

 

[Ghengis John]

Well not all games are art. Much like the movies. Just because something can be art, doesn't mean that it by necessity, is. While some might argue that the qualifications are subjective, it's important to stay objective. Nobody would argue the Micheal Bay or Uwe Boll compendiums are art. In the same fashion, trying to defend every game with the art banner only serves to stretch the banner thin and weaken credibility.

Yes, I would argue that Uwe Boll and Michael Bay are art.

Bad art does not make it not art.

The Qualifications for art IS the objective part of art. It's the judging of good and bad which is subjective.

I knew somebody would say "Yes they're art, they're simply BAD art." And while you're entitled to your opinion no, in my opinion something made completely devoid of soul or according to forumlae for the sole purpose of material gain, while it may utilize the process of an art form is not art. A coffee mug and a fine vase are both sculpted clay. That does not make the coffee mug art.

Bioshock? Art.
Yearly installment of Madden? Not art.

 

[shitoutonme]

So, uh... Whatever happened to just playing a f***ing game for fun? Those days just seem so far behind now...

 

[Baneat]

Pokemon is a jolly good, spiffing tale of animal cruelty.

But how does one be cruel to that which hasn't the function of reason? Tally ho!

 

[Julianking93]

Killing Floor shows the horrors of a society in an uproar over it's awful government and what happens when the dark side of politics show. The specimens are just metaphors for the angry and violent ways people control the world.

Or something.

 

[Pinkamena]

Manhunt 2 is a quite exquisite work! It is apparent that it is the work of truly exceptional and skilled artists, and that is with no doubt, a piece that deserves more attention, I say!

Also, you just read this in the voice of Pinkie Pie.

 

[JPH330]

Plants vs. Zombies soliloquizes the horrors of capitalism.

 

[cameron196789]

What a fabulous idea, just let me get my monocle and... no its gone!

 

[Cousin_IT]

Pokemon is a jolly good, spiffing tale of animal cruelty.

But how does one be cruel to that which hasn't the function of reason? Tally ho!

But if the one being cruel has the capacity for reason, & being cruel is said to be an unreasonable thing to do, surely it stands to reason that they shouldn't be cruel even if the cruelty is towards something incapable of reason? Is it only cruel when the recipient recognizes it as such, or the perpetrator? What if an external party to the action recognizes it to be cruel? Is cruelty relative? Am I cruel to make my magikarp fight, knowing it cannot defend or attack, on the basis that doing so may in future lead it to evolve into the much more powerful Gyarados?

 

[ToxicOranges]

Pokemon is a jolly good, spiffing tale of animal cruelty.

But how does one be cruel to that which hasn't the function of reason? Tally ho!

Good sir, you quite simply forget the morality issues and let loose with the splendid battling, wot wot. Go, Pikachu, go forth on thy endeavour! Smite the foe beast with righteous fury!

 

[Assassinscreed548]

Also, you just read this in the voice of Pinkie Pie.

Nope... I didn't. My little Pony is a fad that will hopefully blow over and I don't want to be looking back at it when it does, thinking about what an idiot I've been to enjoy a show solely on the reason that everyone else thought it was ''PONY'' or something.