Fantastic Blognanza!

This is Greg’s initial response to my original post about Video Games as Art:

I’ve wanted to write a post about video games as art for a while now, but I’ve never bothered to fully think through the matter as much as I’d like, and I never really thought anyone would find it very interesting. I found this very interesting because it’s from a perspective that I probably would never have though of, considering how I haven’t been doing much in the way of sociology.

I think a lot of video game enthusiasts jump far too quickly to the conclusion that video games are art. A lot of the reasoning I hear is that video games are simply an amalgamation of stories and visual art, and both of these on their own are considered art, so simply combining the two shouldn’t make it any less art. I also hear a lot of people saying how anything anyone creates can be interpreted as art by SOMEONE, so that automatically makes it art. These people are difficult to argue with, as their definition of art is so broad as to make it kind of irrelevant.
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