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based on the effort the composers, writers, directors, graphic designers,artists, and developers put in you better believe its art you vapid cunt

You'd fit right in on reddit!

i also smoke weed

Braid was pretty emotinal nd good.
The more indie, smaller team made games can be more down to earth and honest. Another interesting example was The Stanley Parable..Its a meta kind of game..so the mechanics of games are even a part of the artistic experience in that one. Interesting game.
The fanbase has nothing to do with it dude...btw

yeah, surprised it doesn't get more recognition because of klaus schulze

give it time damn. videogames really only started the way that movies and modern literature did in the 20s, in the 90s

play HellBlade: Senua's Sacrifice, if that isn't on par with Moby dick, I dont know what is

also if you're actually gonna take my advice and play it, wear headphones, its worth it

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Furthermore nowadays video games are so commercialized that anything with a budget is focus grouped into oblivion and has zero artistic vision, while anything created by someone with actual vision will not have enough budget or manpower to be truly special. The barrier for entry is way too high to produce truly great art.

Maybe if we're talking AAA game titles popular on consoles, maybe. There's actually more people now then ever that are developing video games into modern art now that there are so many different ways for people to start and the indie boom is bigger now than ever. Games like Journey, ABZU, The Witcher 3, Portal 2, Hyper Light Drifter, Owlboy are just a few fairly different games that transcend the idea of simply "selling" and manage to create something that really sets video games apart as it's own art form. It's the same way that film has so many blockbusters that are popular, but looking just a bit you can find truly groundbreaking pieces of modern art.

similar to what this guy is saying:
if you want to find good video games, you should ignore anything "triple A," like every rule, there are exceptions, but the vast majority of the truly interesting things going on in the space are being done by the indies, much like music, really.

>Music
Katatonia
Carpenter Brut
Misfits

>Film
Jacob's Ladder
The Shining
No Country For Old Men

>Book
Blood Meridian
A Confederacy of Dunces
Trainspotting

>Vidya
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Silent Hill 2
Saint's Row 2