Video Games Are Officially Art!

[Irridium]

Also a side note, there's a game exhibit at the Smithsonian?

Why yes, there is [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109801-Smithsonians-Art-of-Video-Games-Selections-Announced].

 

[Quiet Stranger]

hey Ebert......U MAD?


Can someone edit that troll face picture into my post, thanks

 

[rsvp42]

Legally, it's cool and if it inspires game developers to greater heights, so much the better, but I can't help feeling this is just a technicality. I mean, devs still have the same abilities as always to make great games.

 

[Atheist.]

As an engineering student I look down upon all arts by default.

WHY DID THEY RUIN VIDEOGAMES FOR ME!?

But art has such an incredible impact on structural engineering. Why would you look down on something that helped innovate your field?

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

What's sad is that so many people care about a piece of legislation stating "Games Are Art! IT'S OFFICIAL!"
As if it weren't official to all gamers out there with or without a piece of paper stating so already?
And while we've been chasing this "art" classification, games have just gotten more and more cinematic and less about the core mechanics and fundamental FUN factor.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, an unashamed gamer's game. 'Cos guess what? To me, that's art.

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

A certain gaming celebrity, on gaming as an art form and a science, directed at the haters:

Somewhere, Roger Ebert is eating his words.

I was going to put ode to joy....but this is more fitting.

Finally my brothers and sisters....our day has come.

 

[instantbenz]

Does this mean we need more video games that don't make a lick of sense and apparently have deep symbolism?

You don't have to play any artistic game, just as you aren't mandated to watch a movie.

The products of this are irrelevant at this point, what's fantastic is a dev can be federally funded by nea and no longer needs to be slave to a company. AAA gaming's grasp around some of the most ambitious of devs will loosen. They can write grants and stop making things for the big names.

Innovation HO!

 

[Tim Mazzola]

Not to be a negative nancy, but there's still probably going to be SOME scrutiny and attempted censorship from the haters. I mean, look at the PMRC in the 80s. Music was art then, but they still talked about censoring it. Games are recognized as art now. It doesn't make us IMMUNE to oppression, but it sure as hell gives us a damn good barricade from it.

 

[Custard_Angel]

Excuse me...

What does this actually mean?

Does this change anything at all?

Honest questions... I'm reading this and thinking... well... so what?

Whether its considered art or not, Portal will always be a great game and Daikatana will always be considered a piece of shit.

Why does that label mean anything?

 

[Tsunimo]

Yay! Finally. I suppose I could see there hesitation when there are games like this

Spoiler

being made.
But if this

counted as art before... I'm not sure how much celebrating we should be doing.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

If card, board, pen and paper ect. games aren't also considered art then this is a ridiculous decision.

 

[hazabaza1]

...woo?
Does this really matter that much?

 

[crazyfills]

hooray

 

[Craorach]

You can put your old filthy bedroom on display as "art" and win awards.

You can chop corpses in half and encase them in transparent resin and call it "art".

So.. umm.. yay?

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Also, the Smithsonian has an exhibit on like, right now about games being art.