Growing up in the Australian outback can be hard on anyone.

You can not substitute a nice book reading with a videogame ¬¬

Video games by far... second would probably be movies... and third... well I guess it would be a fight between music and literature. No other form of art really interests me tbh that much

Of course videogames!!

Personally I prefer books and cinema over videogames. I like videogames a lot, and they probably are what I prefer for relaxation, but for stimulation, particularly of the brain, I always look elsewhere.

Music sits to the side for me, and I enjoy it both on its own or when well used in films or videogames.

tv: boring
music: maybe
books: so, so, it's like a good movie, I like them
movie: like a book
so basically, yes, but......
does browser counts?

Agreed, of course you can't substitute a great book with a videogame, but videogames combine nice stories, great music and interaction. With this I'm not saying that videogames are superiors to books I just prefer them over books and other media.

Lemmy know how your Atari 2600 is getting on in another 40 years. The only thing I find annoying is all the fluid leakage that happens, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Some people reckon you get more than one life. Trouble is, if we do there seem to be very few who remember anything that happened before the save point, and it looks like you have to start right back at the beginning and even play through the tutorials again. And I still haven't figured out the cheat codes.

OP: Disagree. There is a lot to like about videogames, but when it comes to really hitting the right aesthetic buttons there are other medai (I assume you mean entertainment media) that do it better. In it's current state videogames lack sophistication in all aspects of aesthetics. Even interactivity is a mere shadow for actual human contact or contact with the world around us. If course it does allow us to shoot stuff, blow things up, kick the crap out of people and ride on the backs of dragons and unicorns, which, if your an uncoordinated 60kg weakling is pretty much all impossible to do.

The best, most satisfying media IMO is still books. The ability to turn black (usually) shapes on white-ish tan (usually) paper into a mindscape of the imagination is the greatest thing. No one is really missing out if they don't play videogames, or even if they don't watch movies or TV, but people who don't read are really missing out. Next, or even equal, is music. Music really touches the "soul" or whatever you want to call it.

i love movies,cinema,music,books and games,

people who don't play games seem to dismiss them as childs play,but i think they can be art and as beautiful as anything else,

they can also deliver everything in one which is quite impressive,apart from the 70ft cinema screen

Video Games all the WAY !