| gorgepir said: Well I have to agree with ckmlb that I don't think brain age is art, but I don't think any game is art for that matter. maybe my art standards are just to high |
I think certain games have artistic elements. Also I think games are getting more artistic with time not the opposite. I mean early on games were very simple matters with no story even, I think more and more people will approach games with the objective of proving that they can be art and I totally think they can be.
Movies were pretty limited at first generally too, but as time goes by more people decide to experiment and push the artistic in a game. I think the closest to art that I have seen in a game is Ico. Sure most of the game is spent solving puzzles and surviving (like Zelda) but it is very artistic in that it delivers an emotional content in the slightest of gestures and actions and implications within the game.
The way the girl character contrasts with everything else in the game. The way you are dropped into the story with very little context that makes the story so straightforward yet so instantly pulling you in and making you feel like this world is totally plausible which most games only manage to touch on rarely. Even the way the enemies act and what they are is artistic. The way how throughout the game you really feel the relationship between teh girl and the horned boy as two characters that have just wound up together because of their respective circumstances that are largely explained as you go are all deeper elements than you will find in any game really.
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