Malstrom email response: The Sick Obsession of Culture in the Game Industry

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Demotruk said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:
The one thing I'm wondering is what does he mean by reviewers want games to be artistic, to me my definition is much different then most reviewers. The games that have deeper meaning that the "gaming culture" generally will not understand as most stories and scripts for video games are pretty bland and generic. The people that make artistic games to me either want to make an inventive idea for a game to make something no one has thought up before (which also doesn't sell well to gaming culture) or those that just enjoy doing their games like Itoi the creator of Earthbound, he being a philosophy writer in japan and does articles for big publications over there but he makes Earthbound cause he enjoys it and makes a very funny, deep, and artistic game each time.

 

Well, I think games can be artistic too, I've often argued with people who claim games can't be art because they're not trying to express anything. But I don't think games become art by trying to be 'artistic', trying to be artistic is a waste of time. Just make it fun and it will automatically be considered art in the future.

I think Malstrom said something like that once...

 

 

BTW, while I enjoy his articles, it is amazing how people try to treat them as some sort of holy scripture, for example the Bible:

They give "interpretations", the opposition searches for contradictions, the believers explain that "this part is metaphorical", or "we must take into account the age when the Wiikly articles were created".