Video Games Are Art Kinda Sorta If You Squint
Video Games Are Art Kinda Sorta If You Squint Im coming to the Roger-Ebert-Games-Are-Art-No-They-Arent shoutfest a little late. But playing God of War 3 sort of got me thinking about it again. Ive gotten e-mails asking me for my opinion of Eberts trolling, but, as much as I respect the guy, he makes it clear in his writings that he is totally uninformed about the art form/activity that he is writing about, and he has no intention of becoming otherwise. That he would call out computer games without, so far as I can tell, actually playing any is kind of stunning. I dont know what hes thinking. He never seemed like a flamebait kind of guy. But, unless he ever shows any interest in learning about the field, theres no point in engaging him in any way. But this is another of those times when I think Tycho at Penny Arcade summed it up with uncharacteristic clarity, brevity, and conclusiveness. "He cannot rob you, retroactively, of wholly valid experiences; he cannot transform them into w...