Movies vs Games

If one had to go extinct, which would you rather live with for the rest of your life?

Mine is movies. Games is a thing that we will all grow out of as we get older. sure its cool and fun now but not when we are in our 40's. movies is something that will always love even in our 60s, 70s, 80s till we die. we will always enjoy movies.

I would go with movies as well. For exactly the point you stated.

Video games. I maybe to young to see it right now but I think I will play video games forever...

Games.I have way more fun with games than movies.

Games. Since I can play games that look like movies.

Ew, movies, games by far, I still don't get tired with a lot of them while I get tired with movies within 1-2 viewings besides a few.

I have yet to own a Blu Ray movie.

I rarely ever play video games anymore, so I'm going to say movies.

Movies. I can happily play vidya for hours but I get bored if I try to watch several movies consecutively.kamikaze_pigmy

Video games, movies are just mindless video games with no choice, high budgets and the same famous people who are in a ton of other movies.Inconsistancy

Games. Movies are good for 1.5 to 2.5 hours. But even the shortest game (Portal) is 3hrs. Add in replayability, and there is much more to gaming. Oh, and I don't buy the "Games is a thing that we will all grow out of as we get older" argument. There is nothing more mature about movies than there is about an interactive media like video games.

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]Video games, movies are just mindless video games with no choice, high budgets and the same famous people who are in a ton of other movies.PernicioEnigma

Games easily.

Movies can die, videogames can give me hours of fun especially if it has online.

Movies can die, videogames can give me hours of fun especially if it has online.

The-Tree

Its close, but I think I would go with games.

Games,

Movies are timeless.

video games, better story zahyr

:lol: that's a good one.

[QUOTE="zahyr"]video games, better story LZ71

:lol: that's a good one.

video games...price point alone they win...and idk...i dont like movies too much...sure i like some of them...but most of them just suck...

Movies because I love movies. I could watch movies all day long and not get mad or tired of them. Games after a few hours I get mad at or something and just stop playing.

Film.

There's like 15-25 games I want this year, I'll be lucky to see 10 even 5 movies for that matter.

I would save books.

I would save books.

spookykid143

plz...who reads anymore...doesnt everyone have their cellphone and computer convert txt to voice for them nowadays ;)

Years ago I would have said games because all those epic adventures were perfect forms of escapism. But I guess along the way movies became more appealing because some of the relatable stories and characters were able to inspire the way I look at my own life.

inB4 metal gear solids cutscenes make it feel like a movie

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I would save books.

lpjazzman220

plz...who reads anymore...doesnt everyone have their cellphone and computer convert txt to voice for them nowadays ;)

If one had to go extinct, which would you rather live with for the rest of your life?

Mine is movies. Games is a thing that we will all grow out of as we get older. sure its cool and fun now but not when we are in our 40's. movies is something that will always love even in our 60s, 70s, 80s till we die. we will always enjoy movies.

HaloReachGOTY

Movies touch the soul, provide insight into life, and far more often start to approach actual art.

So yeah...I'd give up games long before I ever gave up on movies.

Games.I have way more fun with games than movies.

Lto_thaG

There's another point in favor of movies.

Movies don't actually HAVE to be "fun" in order for them to be great. I can watch a movie and have no fun doing so, and still love that movie. Whereas with a game, if I'm not having fun then the game is a piece of ****.

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If one had to go extinct, which would you rather live with for the rest of your life?

Mine is movies. Games is a thing that we will all grow out of as we get older. sure its cool and fun now but not when we are in our 40's. movies is something that will always love even in our 60s, 70s, 80s till we die. we will always enjoy movies.

MrGeezer

Movies touch the soul, provide insight into life, and far more often start to approach actual art.

So yeah...I'd give up games long before I ever gave up on movies.

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[QUOTE="HaloReachGOTY"]

If one had to go extinct, which would you rather live with for the rest of your life?

Mine is movies. Games is a thing that we will all grow out of as we get older. sure its cool and fun now but not when we are in our 40's. movies is something that will always love even in our 60s, 70s, 80s till we die. we will always enjoy movies.

Inconsistancy

Movies touch the soul, provide insight into life, and far more often start to approach actual art.

So yeah...I'd give up games long before I ever gave up on movies.

Movies. No contest.

Video games. Movies are boring as hell, i'd rather just read. And the only ones i'd miss are disney and pixar movies. Video games just last longer and offer much more enjoyment.

[QUOTE="PernicioEnigma"]You've made a decision in any movie that changed any outcome? What?. Inconsistancy

By that logic, this...http://www.cyoa.com/templates/webStore_1column_noHeader.php?pageid=69

is a better book than this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

And even if you were to say that the latter IS worse than the former, then your REASONS for coming to that conclusion probably wouldn't be "because the former lets you choose the outcome." So...why assign different standards for picture-based media? Do you think there might be a REASON why "choose your own adventure" books are specifically for children? Likewise, do you think that there might be a REASON why videogames so often involve aliens/ninjas/mutants/robots and why the plot basically revolves around solving the problem by making enough of the bad guys become dead?

Being able to affect the outcome of the story is simply a novelty at best. The point is that meaningful art directs the viewer to see what the artist wants him to see. You can call that propaganda if you like, but the same thing happens in interactive media like videogames. A movie director only allows for one ending to a movie. The movie always ends the same way. But witrh a videogame, the developer is still only allowing a set number of different endings. "Choice" is really just an illusion in that sense too, since they are telling you which choices you can pick. In the vast majority of cases, that is just as pre-determined as with any movie.

Here's the thing with that...altering the ending can very easily go against the entire POINT. If the movie "Seven" didn't end on such a down-note, then wouldn't that have invalidated the entire POINT of the movie? If an alternate version was released and the Box contained a bunch of chocolate chip cookies, then that'd be ****ing stupid. Basically, the more fredom that the developer allows the player to deviate from a set path, the more that the devolper loses control of intent/meaning/continuity. The more that the player is able to change the outcome of the story, the more that the developer has less control in actually SAYING ANYTYHING.

"Actual art"? What is 'art' in your mind?

Inconsistancy

Rather than answer that question, I'd say that there's one quality that is characteristic of nearly all art (I only say "nearly" because I admit that there can always be exceptions)...and that's that the art can be seen/experienced in order to SERVE A POINT.

The thing about serving a point is sort of weird, since so often "choice" and "freedom" are selling points, and that almost always go AGAINST making a point.

And to a lesser extent, it's also a bit weird that game developers are actively making games that a hell of a lot of gamers will never finish. I mean, I can go to a museum and look at a painting, and I just saw the entire painting. What DOESN'T happen is for the painter to go through the effort of making the painting in the first place, and then somehow devise a mean in which the viewer doesn't get to see the entire painting until they've gone through a series of grueling tests. Same with movies. I might not UNDERSTAND all of David Lynch's movies, but the movie doesn't cut off halfway through with me then getting a message basically saying "sorry, but you aren't smart enough for this. Come back when you're smarter, and maybe you'll get to see more of the movie."

See...I could be wrong about this but I've always thought that one of them common reasons for making art is so it can be SEEN (or heard/etc). So if anyone ever can't finish a videogame because their hand dexterity isn't good enough to pass the tests that allow the work to be viewed in its entirety, then that's a very very strange thing.