My girlfriend's art teacher said video games are not art. Do you agree?

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rolltide101x said:

Anfebious said:

Sure they are, but I hate it when a game tries to go beyond that and sacrifice gameplay for that. Journey is a good example of that, the game looks gorgeous but I felt no fun playing that game.

I loved every bit of Journey, brillant game in my opinion

I also liked Journey because of the exploration part. Not every game needs some sort of violence to be a game. I mean  jumping on litlle mushrooms in Mario is also some kind of violence ;).  Handholding is also no requirement of being a game.

When I played journey I felt like I was some "person" that lost his memory and and that was dropped into a strange world that aimlessly wandered around to explore the world and to find out what the purpose of simply everything is.

So I agree everything I played about Journey was cool.

When one expects a linear story with cutscenes then its somewhat obvious why they felt let down by Journey tho.