Posted: Apr 18, 2012 7:59 pm
Thommo wrote:I have never understood where all this obsession with classifying video games as "art" has come from.
There's an art to taking a piss without splashing your feet, does that somehow make urinating more moving than watching your team win the world cup at football, because someone has judged football merely "a game"?
I feel similarly about the term "game", football and "eye-spy" have just about nothing in common, does the label somehow matter?
You have to draw circles around things and give them a label. That's just how language works. Giving everything with subtle nuanced differences different names just becomes too tedious.
Video games are art in very much the same way a motion picture or a graphic novel is art.
Both football and eye-spy are done for entertainment, have a rule set and at least one or more subjective or objective goals. Pissing in a bowl without sploshing your feet would not really fit this criteria (with the exception of the last).