Bodhesatva said:
I think this is a valid argument, although you'll have a tough time convincing me that Wii Sports is less mature than, say, Killzone, for example. I haven't even played it, by the way; I'm just going to judge a book by it's cover and say that it's extremely unlikely that any game called "Killzone" is going to have significant intellectual value. Really, I don't expect us to jump from "almost no adults play video games" to "video games are a serious art form" in a single bound. There are a LOT of small, in-between steps, and as I said, I think the first step goes something like this: 1) Stop making so many games about killing legions of aliens or zombies or soldiers. From there, we can move away from video games as a young male's fantasy land and start attracting an adult audience. Not necessarily a serious artistic audience, just some adults, for any reason whatsoever. Once that is accomplsihed, then we can start worrying about providing these adults with complex story lines, mature dialogue, and intellectually sophisticated material. |
What intellectual value do Wii Sports and Wii Play have? While I agree that generic FPSs are getting stale, I don't see how games like Wii Play are any better/mature. Of course, they increase the number of people that play games, but other than that, they're just overly simplistic games.
