yea i hate the games as art crowd, it just seems ridiculous that games get knocked down for not trying to "push the boundaries of the medium" or whatever crap they come up with to debunk games that dont fit their criteria. the thing i hate the most about it though is art is so subjective and interpretive that their faults with their game have no concrete value to anyone. and in the end, i really just dont find artsy games fun.
i remember i played shadows and when i played it i had no idea that it was some heralded game from the games as art crowd. i remember after i beat it and i read about it on forums and stuff i was just confused by why people had such a high regard for it. in all honesty, i was a little bored by it and i didnt really get why the ending was presented like it was. ever since then, any game that is classified as art by the majority of forum goers are games i avoid.
for me, i feel the same way about games as art as i feel about people who debunk pop music. it makes no sense to hate a song, to me, because it was designed to be catchy, and that devoids it of artistic value. i feel those people try to hard to hate things for no reason other than feeling more elite.
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