Gaming as a medium is quite artistic, you can't really debate that. You have 4 different mediums coming together in the form of writing, music, artwork and then interactivity on top of all that. Slamming all that together to make a game is no easy task so to say games aren't artistic at all would be a bit silly.
But should games be considered art? Well fucking no because art is fucking terrible. I'm aware that made me sound like some kind of uncultured swine but hear me out.
One thing you may have thought when you first opened this page is "why did he put a blue (it looks purple thanks to blogger, whatever) rectangle at the top of this post?" Well that's no ordinary blue rectangle, that's fucking ART! I'm not even joking, that this is a piece by a bloke called Yves Klein and is titled "Blue".
I took a page from his book and made my very own piece of artwork
Sarcasm aside, art is a load of toss surrounded by complete tossers. I'm aware not all art is like this, there are some very skilled people out there doing very skilled work, but they are buried under the droves of tossers making crap and somehow getting large amounts of recognition for it.
So no, games shouldn't be considered art because art is a load of fucking bollocks. I saw a video of a woman at some kind of art event rubbing shit all over herself in front of a large group of tossers and she was APPLAUDED FOR IT! Games do not belong in the same category as this so called fucking "art". If I ever find that video again I'll update this post.
The games that people want to call art, like Ico, Silent Hill 2, Dark Souls and all that stuff aren't trying to be art, they are trying to be games. However, they use their given medium extremely well and as a result produce something that could be seen as artistic, I get that.
But do you want to know what happens when you TRY to make art within the medium of video games?
What's funny about Gone Home is that 100% of the people I've encountered who said Gone Home was a good game are tossers......so maybe it does have a place in the world of art.
Make GAMES, not ART! When you make a GOOD fucking game, the artistry that went into making that game will shine through. If you try to make art instead of games, you end up with shit like Gone Home and Dinner Date........so yeah, Art can go fuck itself.
