Roger Ebert says video games can never be art

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Salnax said:
At the end of the day, it all depends on what definition of art you're using. And since everybody has their own definition, we will never come to a satisfactory conclusion.

I agree, but I can't think of any reasonable definition of art that would allow for the inclusion of all the media that Roger acknowledges and yet exclude videogames, unless you just arbitrarily decide that interactivity entails lack of artistic merit.

When Ebert says videogames can never be art, I think he is implying that they can never be the subject of sensible critical review (in the same way that there are art critics, film critics, literature critics). This is plainly false, and the snobbery of the implication infuriates me.