This trend of spitting on casual gamers...

[Bodhesatva]

The core of my frustration comes from my inability to prove or disprove the validity of great art. I feel, with some degree of certainty, that no serious artistic expert would give much credence to the artistic value of a game like Gears of War on any level but a purely visual one: and even there, it's very young and it's very male. It's really very similar to Pokemon. Can you PROVE that Pokemon isn't great art? No, you can't, even if a large portion of us can agree that it isn't. 

I feel the same about God of War, and I'm patently aware of the complete inability to PROVE it. It's very frustrating to me. All I can give is tangential evidence, and I've given every ounce of it I can muster.