| bdbdbd said: @Nordlead: Or maybe fun is the actual aspect of art in videogames? @Trashleg: This topic was about art, not what games you like. Art in itself is a justification for the existance of art. And therefore art itself doesn't need to entertain anyone. |
I'm not against pretty games, or ones with big stories that are intriguing. What I am against is the industry becoming so full of itself that it must be "arty". Make a game fun should always be the primary purpose, but how to make a game fun can be open to thousands of interpratations. However, whenever someone claims that a gaming is losing their artistic touch, and that games need to be more arty, what they are realling saying (most of the time) is that games with no story (or some other type of game) have no place in gaming, which isn't true at all. Or that another version of Mario Party should have never been created. It is this attitude that needs to die. Forget the "arty" part of video games and focus on "fun" and you'll have a better product overall.
