Roger Ebert says video games can never be art

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Khuutra said:

dib8rman said:
He's totally correct if you disagree and or have a differing opinion, regardless of perspectives.

=D

Tony Hawk can make Skate Boarding look like an art, when he pulled the 900 it was amazing, doesn't mean Skate Boarding is art.

When I trash people around in Marvel vs Capcom 2 you could call that level of butt wooping amazing that I mean their jobbing look like an art but it doesn't mean Marvel vs Capcom 2 is an art.

=D Yes I just wanted to make clear my dominance in MvC in light of MvC 3 being announced.

You're referring to actions, not to a medium. Nobody, I should think, claims that the act of playing games is an art.

I would make an argument that several of the courses on which Tony Hawk skates are works of art, and I would argue that MvC is the end result of a long artistic endeavour.

You clearly haven't seen the way I play Super Mario Bros.  Actions can definitely be art.  Singing a scale a million times in a row to practice singing isn't art, but Jimi Hendrix playing guitar with his teeth and setting his guitar on fire is performance art.  Follow me through an argument, good sir!

 

1) Designing and building a guitar is art.  Composing a song with a guitar is art.  Playing a guitar is performance art.

2) Designing a virtual guitar (Jam Sessions for the DS) is art.  Composing a song with Jam Sessions is art.  Playing Jam Sessions is performance art.

3) Designing Super Mario Bros. is art.  Creating machinima is using a game to create a film, which is art.  The way I can play the first level of Super Mario Bros. with my eyes closed, by jumping to the music, that's performance art baby.