Video Games = Art?

So suppose you had to argue that video games could be art. If you could only use one game as an example, what would it be?

I know for a fact I would choose Bioshock.

Red Faction Guerillaguynamedbilly

Limbo could be

Heres a video about 'Arty' games.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/06/08/video.game.art.pixel/

[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]Red Faction Guerillarealguitarhero5

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[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]Red Faction Guerillaguynamedbilly

But try this:

Red Faction Guerilla

Bioshock

Looking at ONE screenshot, which one is more qualified as art?

Dragon Age

seriously every time I play it I feel like I'm writing a story on a partly drawn canvas :D

Looking at ONE screenshot, which one is more qualified as art?realguitarhero5

[QUOTE="realguitarhero5"]Looking at ONE screenshot, which one is more qualified as art?guynamedbilly

Bioshock is the closest but I wouldn't really regard any game as art. Art is meant to infect you with the same feelings that the person making it had. There are very few games that do that. Art and artistic are not the same thing.

Some are. It depends on how well it affects your emotions.

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[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]Red Faction Guerillaguynamedbilly

Dragon Age

seriously every time I play it I feel like I'm writing a story on a partly drawn canvas :D

Darkhell153

Braid, easily. I've written 2 essays now on Braid, one on the overall importance of Braid, the other specifically about the final quote in the game ("To build a castle of approperiate size..."). Granted I'm a high schooler, so these aren't professional level essays, but Braid is easily the most artisic game ever made I would argue, with Bioshock coming in 2nd.

Bioshock is the closest but I wouldn't really regard any game as art. Art is meant to infect you with the same feelings that the person making it had. There are very few games that do that. Art and artistic are not the same thing.

biggest_loser

No it isn't.. Because some art with out artist explaination can be completely clueless on the meaning of the picture.. The entire abstarct art community would like to have a word with you.. An art piece can be interpreted in so many ways that there is no single or correct way..

Halo

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Bioshock is the closest but I wouldn't really regard any game as art. Art is meant to infect you with the same feelings that the person making it had. There are very few games that do that. Art and artistic are not the same thing.

sSubZerOo

No it isn't.. Because some art with out artist explaination can be completely clueless on the meaning of the picture.. The entire abstarct art community would like to have a word with you.. An art piece can be interpreted in so many ways that there is no single or correct way..

You can interpret it anyway you want, but even abstract art has some emotions from the artist found in it, even if those emotions are disorientation and confusion.

Find me an artist or an artwork without feelings and I'll call him a fraud!

God of War 3 was one of the only games that I had to take a second to truely appreciate what was happening around me. That's art.