Has BioWare Devalued the Video Game?

[Jay520]

maverick40 said:

Jay520 said:

maverick40 said:

Jay520 said:
I only skimmed through the article (it had a shit ton of filler), but it looks like he's trying to say that video games where you can create your own story are not art because you're not realizing the creator's artistic vision.

1.) When was it universally agreed that video games are art?
2.) The creator of the experience is irrelevant. All that matters is the player gets a powerful experience.

You should probably read the whole article.

1.) It was never universally agreed that games are art, the bioware cofounder Dr. Muzyka’s  believes that games are an art form thus contradicting himself.

2.) What? So in this case in order for a player to get a powerful experience, he/she deserves to get the ending of a game changed??

They don't HAVE to get the game'e ending changed, but if it still evokes a powerful emotion, then it's still art.

Exactly Bioware didn't have to change the ending of THEIR own work but, because of a bunch of angry keyboard warriors who didn't like the ending Bioware bent over and decided to change it. Instead what they should have said was: This is the game, if you don't like it then don't buy it.

Thankfully though, the game is universally aclaimed by professional in the games industry.

I never said Bioware didn't 'bend over'. (Though I don't see how it's 'bending over' to try to please your dissatisfied consumers while not harming the others, but whatever). I'm just saying that you can't say that this alternate ending isn't art. If the player feels powerful emotion/experience, then it's art. It being an alternative ending doesn't change that.