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Gaming is the highest art form...

True 14 37.84%
 
False 21 56.76%
 
No opinion/elaborate in comments. 2 5.41%
 
Total:37

Think of it this way, every other artistic medium has a place in gaming from sketch drawing to paintings to choreography, photography, Film, Music, writing and so on. They all are needed on some level to create a game, If you think of games like this as a sum of all the art that has come before.

Read Dead 2 is a game that left me more emotional through it's game time than I have in years watch film, reading or or viewing traditional art. Now, given the choice between video games and music, it's a tough one, I don't know how I'd choose cause video games without music simply aren't as good and music is such an integral part of living. Probably music is what I most need in life from art but games are what I most enjoy and by far are what are pulling the most emotion from me even if that is sometimes anger and more negative emotions.



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Gaming often combines interaction, cinematography, visual effects, reading, music and artwork.
I give more games a 10/10 than films.
You can make a game that is similar to a book, you can make a game very similar to a movie. People joke about certain films being close to video games, but that's more the heavy CGI, as almost no film by default is interactive.
Gaming is not an unchallenged primary medium, but it is the best.



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Leynos said:

porn

We have the winner, because unlike games porn is like a colossus striding across the artistic landscape leaving behind it's footprints firmly embedded in literature, painting, film gaming sculptor to name a few.



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Wman1996 said:

Gaming often combines interaction, cinematography, visual effects, reading, music and artwork.
I give more games a 10/10 than films.
You can make a game that is similar to a book, you can make a game very similar to a movie. People joke about certain films being close to video games, but that's more the heavy CGI, as almost no film by default is interactive.
Gaming is not an unchallenged primary medium, but it is the best.

Exactly. You good sir, understand and are a refined gentleman. 

Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 11 December 2024

mjk45 said:
Leynos said:

porn

We have the winner, because unlike games porn is like a colossus striding across the artistic landscape leaving behind it's footprints firmly embedded in literature, painting, film gaming sculptor to name a few.

Is prostitution considered art? 🤔 It's a product. 



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LegitHyperbole said:
mjk45 said:

We have the winner, because unlike games porn is like a colossus striding across the artistic landscape leaving behind it's footprints firmly embedded in literature, painting, film gaming sculptor to name a few.

Is prostitution considered art? 🤔 It's a product. 

I haven't paid a painting for sex 😊 at least not yet.



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mjk45 said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Is prostitution considered art? 🤔 It's a product. 

I haven't paid a painting for sex 😊 at least not yet.

I wasn't suggesting it, lol.  Just wondering your opinion since porn is work and it's art. Is prostitution art even though the costumer is typically. Strippers are artists, so perhaps whore are too. 



LegitHyperbole said:
firebush03 said:

You need to be a little more specific when you say "Gaming is better than any other art medium" or "Gaming is the highest art form". By what metrics? Saying something is "better" is about as useful as asking whether a video game console is a home/portable console. It's fully subjective...and b/c of this subjectiveness, the blanket 'Yes' or 'No' response also doesn't really lend itself well here.

You can ask people subjective questions. What's your favourite video game is extremely subjective. The game awards are subjective. Hell, everything is subjective accept the laws of mathematics. 

not saying you can't ask subjective questions, my intent was more that you prolly shouldn't ask questions with subjective interpretation with the only responses being ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. idk kinda a bad point on my part lol, but I’ll still defend it to an extent.

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That all being said...you mentioned the laws of mathematics, and Legit, do I have some good news for you. :) (you are speaking to a phd candidate in mathematics.) Ask me anything about localizing integral domains (aka 'domains' in commutative algebra) over a multiplicatively closed subset of such integral domain, constructing isomorphic/epimorphic/monomorphic/etc. relations between objects of a shared category, the Lebesgue-Radon-Nikodym Theorem and it's powerful implications in studying the reflexive nature of the $mathbb{C}-$space $L^p,$ etc. Matter of fact, Legit, you should start a thread asking for the VGChartz community to talk about their favorite mathematical statements. I got a whole lot to share with the community. We could turn VGChartz into MathChartz. Make everybody really good at math. Legit, you ahev this power to start a thread for math. Begin the change!!!!!! Lebesgue-Radon-Nikodym Theorem! Fubini-Tonelli Theorem! Reisz Representation Theorem! Mayer-Vietoris Theorem! Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic & Algebra! Classification Theorem for Fin Gen $R-$modules over PID!

(you gave me an opportunity to talk about math, and I ran with it.)

Last edited by firebush03 - on 11 December 2024

LegitHyperbole said:
mjk45 said:

We have the winner, because unlike games porn is like a colossus striding across the artistic landscape leaving behind it's footprints firmly embedded in literature, painting, film gaming sculptor to name a few.

Is prostitution considered art? 🤔 It's a product. 

I think it depends.  If you go back in time to EDO japan a courtesan (a prostitute with  wealthy clients) many of them was practice and skilled entertaining both during and before sex.  Especially those that rose to rank of Oiran.  I would consider what they did art.  I think a prostitution that skilled in the art of seduction and pleasurer could be considers artist.  On the other hand if it just money exchange for quick sex then it probably not art.



You can't really rank individual forms of art, but gaming is the one art that combines all of the others into a cohesive piece, where everything needs to work as one. Plus, you get to interact with it and have a very personalized experience, or even participate by making mods and whatnot. In that sense one could argue that games are the ultimate art.