| JuliusHackebeil said: Concerning your last point, I don't think it is fair to say that video games are not the best medium because there is a lot of uninspired copy paste gameplay going on. Sure, a lot of video games feel creatively bankrupt. But there are books like 50 shades of gray becoming an absolute sales phenomenon. And there is a sea of romance novels that are pretty much the same. I would argue the ratio between good books recognition (and sales) to pulp fiction books recognition (and sales) is about the same as good video games recognition (and sales) to bad video games recognition (and sales). I hope by the way, that video games would be much more creative in how they handle interactivity. Concerning your second point, one could even argue that the fleeting nature of video games makes them more beautiful and artistically interesting. |
True, it isn't fair to point at the bad games. But I think, even among the games that are considered masterpieces (also among those I would consider as such), a lot of them either lack artistic merrit in general or the interactivety isn't what provides the artistic merrit.
