Like most things in life, the concept of Art is subjective. What they consider Art down the Tate Modern for example I would call rubbish. On the other hand I would call the works of Fumito Ueda Art. Take for example film. The likes of Schindler's List or Apocalypse Now or The Godfather can be considered Art. American Pie: The Roadtrip or Biker Bikini Bandits From Space probably won't be. In that sense for every Ico there's a Monster Truck Rally Four. For every 2001: A Spacy Odeyssey's there a Rob Sneider film. For every Van Gough there's someone's unmade bed. I think it's a bit critical to say games can never be Art because the very defintion of Art itself is very much open to interpretation. To my mind saying games can never be an artform is essentially demoting it to an intellectual level of beating rocks on the floor or snapping branches in half.



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