/lit/ - Literature

>>2656619
Uh, I don't think you quite understand the point that "games are art" people are trying to get across, and seeing that I am one, I think I can help you out here. We're not saying that current games are examples of high art, we're saying that they CAN be high art. Gaming is a very young, very budding artistic medium that's making strides in all directions, and just because Deus Ex doesn't tickle your fancy means nothing when there are plenty of other games that get across their points without needing any special, pandering delivery.

Limbo, for instance, tells a story through minimalistic gameplay, and it simply wouldn't work in a non-interactive medium in that the deaths that the player inevitably experiences, the tedium of avoiding a trap and then dying moments later, mirrors the horror of truly being stuck in, well, Limbo.

It's a simple example but a great one, and we can have more of that shit, with or without the giant robots you so love, when gaming finally comes into its own.