Sup Forums, I need your help

Sup Forums, I need your help

>Have 50yr old female co-worker
>Very nice woman, appreciates music, books and arts
>Virtually never played a video game in her life
>Trying to explain to her that video games can be appreciated as a form of art, just as any other medium
>Is skeptical
>Has agreed to let me pick out one game, and one game only
>She will play said game from start to finish, to find out whether or not she can appreciate the medium
>Only requirement is that violence must be kept to a minimum

What do I recommend her?

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Antichamber.

>Trying to explain to her that video games can be appreciated as a form of art, just as any other medium

Kill yourself retard.

Any of them. Any game is objectively art.

video games can theoretically be "art" but nobody has achieved anything respectable in practice. give up now

Set Hotel Dusk Room 215 up for her somehow

And yes, it's specifically because of Helen

Rapeplay

Phoenix wright, then give her the dick.

Something like Ori and the Blind Forest

Hotline Miami 2

Valiant Hearts, or Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons, or Journey.

I doubt a 50 yeard old person who has never played videogames could traverse menus or have any kind of spacial awareness. Stanley parable would be a good choice.

Try Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons with the condition, that she completes it fully.

Killer7

undertale, stanley parabale, the beginners guide

Deus Ex is pure vydia ludo perfection so Deus Ex

Kingdom Hearts

sotc

Honey Select

Getting over it

Undertale like the Pope.

The game is art but gratuitous violence is part of it's charm so op's co worker probably won't like it

The last guardian.

>50 years old and still not capable of understanding generation shifts in trends communications and art

Shes worthless OP leave her senile mind alone.

First off, why? Second, Mount Your Friends.

Serious sam TSE.
or journey

this.

LISA

harvest moon back to nature

The Talos Principle
Antichamber
Journey

The former two will probably be too difficult for her to complete, but I expect they'd be interesting to a person unfamiliar with games.

Skyrim.
It's the only game my mother has played but she still plays it every day.

Video games aren't a form of art dipshit
If you must though, Neon Drive is pretty artsy

She's a 50 year old woman, she's more likely
to live to 130 years than even picking up the game you're gonna bring her. She will put it off until she dies.

Metal Gear Rising is pure art

Thanks a lot so far!

What
said is probably right. She does not know the basics of navigating a video game.
I figured the game needs to be simple enough that she could just pick it up and play, but still “deep” enough that she could enjoy all its little intricacies

Give her some causal shit like Stardew Valley or The Sims.

999?
It's basically a book but it has some elements exclusive to video games. So maybe she will appreciate it.

ANIMAL CROSSING

Also I think its hard for someone new to the medium to truly understand if a video game is art considering the level nuances and references that go into an average of work of art
Without context is difficult to appreciate something.
So just start her off with something that appeals to her personal taste, not something we'd consider "art"

Gorogoa?

SOMA with safe mode

Something like Journey, or Oxenfree.

telltale game

walking dead

>Undertale
You have to be familiar with video games to really appreciate Undertale. It's a terrible first introduction to video games.

Serious answer, Spec Ops: The Line or Tales of Symphonia. Or any game with a good, clear message. She most likely won't acknowledge the medium as an artform unless she can take something away from the experience.

Goodluck, OP.

Peach Beach Splash is an artistic masterpiece

Postal 2

Portal

This but TWAU

Journey or Journey Underwater

They're both heavily violent numbnuts

inside

uniroincally these.

LITERALY ANY Telltale Game.

Would recommend The Wolf Among Us the most though.

youtube.com/watch?v=LgErp-OIi6E

I'm tempted to agree with this user.

What every post in this thread is forgetting is that someone who has never played a video game before will literally never get through anything here.

Like this is absurd.

And this would be fantastic, but you know she'll never even make jumps.

Gorogoa is incredibly easy, very short, and definitely art.

Cuphead because it looks like the cartoons she watched when she was a kid

who fucking cares

To The Moon.

>violence must be kept to a minimum
fucking pleb. recommend sims or some shit. classic virtual dollhouse game for girls. Or some VN

sim city 3. She'll never finish.

>Serious answer, Spec Ops: The Line or Tales of Symphonia. Or any game with a good, clear message. She most likely won't acknowledge the medium as an artform unless she can take something away from the experience.

No, a thousand times fucking NO.

Why do you assume the only worthwhile experience is one that a scripted narrative that could be told just as well with a film or short story?

Have her play fucking Tetris or Super Mario Bros., games that stand on their gameplay, something that offers and experience that can't be had by watching a movie.

No, for the reasons listed above.

Narrative games are probably the WORST kind of game someone who has never played a game can start with. They completely miss the point of being a video game and if the person doesn't care for the story there's nothing else there to appreciate.

>brainlets thinking "art" means stylized art style

lmao

Deus Ex
if she wants to keep violence to a minimum she'll get good and ghost the whole game

you and OP need to fuck off. Telltale games are utter garbage, and games are not art

give her the dick

Shadow of the Colossus or Ico are the easiest choices.

Doom not the new one

I love The Line but it's not a good way to introduce someone to video games.

I got my old man to play his first game when he was 59, which was Mario Kart, and he loved it.

Older people can figure things out if given enough time to open their mind to something new again.

She wants to fuck

>implying shes capable of even playing shit properly
Give her puzzle games or animal crossing

Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

>The only experience that can be taken from games is the narrative they place in front of you
I wish all these morons would stop recommending non-game storyshit.

Of course they're art, all games are already art by definition of the term.

They're just bad games because they're interactive storybooks.

Abzû would seem like the perfect choice.

Why even try? Some people don't wanna play vidya, some people will never play vidya. It doesn't matter, you don't have to "convert" people into vidya.
Don't tell me you autistically started REEEing at your co-worker because she said games aren't art, and that's why she agreed to do this, to quell your sperg rage.

Kingdom Come Deliverance is the only correct choice. Old people love history and shit

Braid is a good choice.

The recomendations I see in this thread makes me remember I share a board with certified retards that for the worth of their life understand what context and enviroment is, jesus fucking christ you are all dumb

Civ 6

Shadow of the Colossus.

>understand what context and enviroment is
being unable to catch social queues is a sign of autism

What about ABZU?

>Why do you assume the only worthwhile experience is one that a scripted narrative that could be told just as well with a film or short story?

Well for one, I'm making the assumption that the lady OP is talking about wouldn't be able to take away much from the gameplay alone.

You give her Tetris or SMB and she'll just keep looking at it like they're just simple children's games.

A scripted narrative doesn't necessarily "miss the point" when done well.

JRPG stories always left me with a huge impact thanks to the "struggle" of playing with the characters, which I think is where a game's narrative can really shine.

It's one thing to watch a party struggle. It's totally different to BE the party and experience their struggle.

Just my two cents.

Your dick

This and Journey are sure bets, I'd imagine even a 50 year old with no video game experience could complete these.

I would say SotC, but the combat clause kind of defeats that.
The Stanley Parable.
Endless Legend with auto-resolve combat.

so instead of trying to get your dick sucked you've been trying to convince her that video games are art. great job you fuckin loser.

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>Trying to explain to her that video games can be appreciated as a form of art, just as any other medium

Kill yourself retard

If she is intelligent, maybe try something like Pillars of Eternity.

Journey

Or Stellaris.

>Older people can figure things out if given enough time to open their mind to something new again.

The thing is that they older the people get, the less likely this can happen. I studied finance but my dad refuses to listen to me or any kind of financial advise.

The guy literally doesnt know how to cook but also listen to refuses to me knowing I can cook decently.

Yes, lets make the 50 year old granny play Doom and DMC3, those are good games!

Hey she was only in her mid 20s when Doom came out.

Dwarf Fortress

>>Trying to explain to her that video games can be appreciated as a form of art, just as any other medium
Hahahahahaha.

Kentucky route 0 art hipsters love that shit

Mega Man X is a fantastic game but it might be too violent. Pick up Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen and play through them together with her.

Seriously, The beginners guide

Team Ico games frustrate people who know how to play games, I doubt OP's coworker could finish them with the way they're designed

Aside from All these suggestions are shit. You need something basic, visually interesting and non-violent.
Something like ICO or Journey or something along those lines. She's 50 dude. Keep it simple