10 Video Games That Should Be Considered As Modern Art

I don't think any of those deserves to be on the list honestly. Each of those games has great art in it, but there's a huge diffrence between "having art in it" and being art itself. Bassicaly imagine a movie that for 8hours shows just a static image of Picasso's painting. Would you call this movie "art"? The painting obviously is art, but the movie itself isn't. Most games are the same, they're like this movie.

anyway those games don't look like art. and games aren't even ment to be art, just funkweeni

I value art in games more than gameplay itself, especially since i play RPG's/adventures mainly, a world that has amazing art style is my single most important aspect in any game

I don't think any of those deserves to be on the list honestly. Each of those games has great art in it, but there's a huge diffrence between "having art in it" and being art itself.AdrianWerner

Exactly. Darwinia would be more of an art in itself, though I personally wouldn't risk calling it like that. Nevertheless it's a deconstruction, pastiche, and abstract retro-futurism all in one, that plays and transgresses many conventions.

Good to see Tim Shafer and Lorne Lanning are represented on that list. :)

Now show that list to Lorne and tell him to hurry up and create a new oddworld game asap.

I'd consider lots of games to be modern art. Some focus on art, some don't.

For example, Odin Sphere would be a game that most people would agree on.

I'd also argue games like Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill, Siren, Final Fantasy XII etc are artistic as well. Lots of games have artistic merit, not necessarily in the graphical department.

[QUOTE="kweeni"]anyway those games don't look like art. and games aren't even ment to be art, just funobamanian

I value art in games more than gameplay itself, especially since i play RPG's/adventures mainly, a world that has amazing art style is my single most important aspect in any game

Who cares? I don't want art, I want a game.Cherokee_Jack

oddworld! so thats what the game was called! i remember playing it on my ps1 when i was young, liked it alot lol but lost it and didn't know the namekweeni

oddworld started out as pc game, i remember there was a pc/booth across the ebgames at my mall, but they had oddworld running on it, and this wasnt out for any other platform at the time.

No Metal Gear Solid? Fail list. Ain't an art game list without MGS.pp222

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[QUOTE="kweeni"]anyway those games don't look like art. and games aren't even ment to be art, just funRagnarok1051

I value art in games more than gameplay itself, especially since i play RPG's/adventures mainly, a world that has amazing art style is my single most important aspect in any game

Everything is important, but i just love moving arounnd artistically pleasing environments more than anything

Everything is important, but i just love moving arounnd artistically pleasing environments more than anything

obamanian

not really. Looking at what you hype it;s obvious that ss long as it's fantasy, on 360 and preferablyt not coming to PS3 you will love it, no matter how absymal the art is.

Those are just 'different' looking games. Much like JSR would have been when it first hit the DC.

REZ is a game that I think should be considered as Art.

How about DeBlob is that not Art as a game?

[QUOTE="pp222"]No Metal Gear Solid? Fail list. Ain't an art game list without MGS.KiddSushi

Calling videogames art is the sillyest thing I have heard in a while. Stop talking videogames seriously. :|Aljosa23

Why? Some movies are considered art, some music is considered art, why not videogames?

It does after all take (an) ARTist(s) to develop a game.

Or do you not consider game developers artists?

[QUOTE="kweeni"]anyway those games don't look like art. and games aren't even ment to be art, just funobamanian

I value art in games more than gameplay itself, especially since i play RPG's/adventures mainly, a world that has amazing art style is my single most important aspect in any game

Wha? A beautiful game in expense of the gameplay sucks though.:?

Calling videogames art is the sillyest thing I have heard in a while. Stop talking videogames seriously. :|Aljosa23

I don't think any of those deserves to be on the list honestly. Each of those games has great art in it, but there's a huge diffrence between "having art in it" and being art itself. Bassicaly imagine a movie that for 8hours shows just a static image of Picasso's painting. Would you call this movie "art"? The painting obviously is art, but the movie itself isn't. Most games are the same, they're like this movie.

AdrianWerner

Calling videogames art is the sillyest thing I have heard in a while. Stop talking videogames seriously. :|Aljosa23

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So what is art?

This debate ended decades ago.

I only agree with Psychonauts and of course Shadow of the colossus/Ico for that list.

I agree with some on the list. But how do you not include some of these?:

Calling videogames art is the sillyest thing I have heard in a while. Stop talking videogames seriously. :|Aljosa23

All forms of media are considered art. Maybe you should look at the definition of art

1. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
2. 1. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
   2. The study of these activities.
   3. The product of these activities; human works of beauty considered as a group.
3. High quality of conception or execution, as found in works of beauty; aesthetic value.

what a stupid list

fallout and portal but no JSRF?

who cares? if i want to look at art ill buy a picture, i get games to play gamesshadow_hosi

If I look at a picture it's because I like it, not because it is art.

If I play a videogame it is because I like playing it, not because it is art.

Doesn't mean I don't consider it to be art though.

I find it really dissapointing that to almost everyone here as long as game has "teh pretty pictures" it's art.

Shows how primitive gaming still is as a mediumAdrianWerner

It isn't about "teh pretty pictures" for me, it's about the respecting the creative vision that some developers have.

But please describe 'art' for me if you don't think these should be considered art.

Pretty meh list for me. A lot of it seems to be "let's find games with unusual art styles and stick them up there." I would have added Deadly Creatures to that list. It's a normal looking game, so that probably disqualified it, but the game doesn't follow the rules of traditional story telling and offers a very unique perspective. To me that's a little more artistic than characters with disfigured heads and weird color palattes.

I find it really dissapointing that to almost everyone here as long as game has "teh pretty pictures" it's art. Shows how primitive gaming still is as a mediumAdrianWerner

Art in a video game is the game as a whole, the gameplay, the environment, the story, the way the story is told. Just like a movie(except for the gameplay of course :P )

Who cares? I don't want art, I want a game.Cherokee_Jack