Is GTA IV being hailed because its not Nintendo

[The Fury]

Kyros said:

There are college courses on video game culture.

LOL really? I think I would put my kids in a different college . On a serious note you may be correct in the US, I don't know I am sure it isn't like that yet in Europe.

But seriously is that something you want? One reason I like gaming is because nobody tries to take it serious (outside the console wars of course ) and make an art discussion out of it. With movies and music you always have these annoying people who speak about the artistic integrity of the artist and other bullshit.

Pick a course:

Game Courses.

If gaming is to be accepted as something serious, as a career choice and as entertainment, it should also be accepted as an art form. Saying it isn't just insults those who work so hard on what they have designed and made. Graphical designers create characters, writers pen stories and scripts, these are accepted in movies as art then why not in Games?

But the same works for movies as games, there are movies that are just for fun and nobody is mean to take seriously, but the there are games the masterpeices of story. Some stories match or even exceed those of the greatest in cinema. Yet should be ignored because they are just 'games'?