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7/14/2025, 12:56:50 AM
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Lets say you are listening to Beethovens 9th and you review it and have lots of profound things to say about how it made you feel and the craft of the composition. It is high art, its objectively a high quality piece of art. Now take tetris and replace the background bmg with Beethovens 9th. Its just Tetris but with good music, its just a competition to get the high score with threat of a failure state. A game is a competition with failure state, the background music being high art does not make it more profound. Attempts to make it more artistic amount to turning it into something of a roller coaster, an 'experience' like Tetris Effect. Tetris Effect has lots of nice easthetic choices but its still just tetris, albeit with bells and whistles to highlight the flow state high level play greets you with. SO id say no games are not art and the best they can do is mimick movies to try and "become art" but it only ever negatively impacts the gameplay. And the closer they become to reality simulations the more boring they become because reality is boring. And this doesnt devalue gaming, it doesnt have to be art.
Shitposters who also say "anything is art" are playing word games and ignoring we are obviously discussing literature if you think a toilet is art youre only succeeding in fulfilling your extremely low standard when if we simply switch to "literature" that paradigm doesnt work anymore. If anything is or can be art then sure games are art but they are not literary works or high art.
Lets say you are listening to Beethovens 9th and you review it and have lots of profound things to say about how it made you feel and the craft of the composition. It is high art, its objectively a high quality piece of art. Now take tetris and replace the background bmg with Beethovens 9th. Its just Tetris but with good music, its just a competition to get the high score with threat of a failure state. A game is a competition with failure state, the background music being high art does not make it more profound. Attempts to make it more artistic amount to turning it into something of a roller coaster, an 'experience' like Tetris Effect. Tetris Effect has lots of nice easthetic choices but its still just tetris, albeit with bells and whistles to highlight the flow state high level play greets you with. SO id say no games are not art and the best they can do is mimick movies to try and "become art" but it only ever negatively impacts the gameplay. And the closer they become to reality simulations the more boring they become because reality is boring. And this doesnt devalue gaming, it doesnt have to be art.
Shitposters who also say "anything is art" are playing word games and ignoring we are obviously discussing literature if you think a toilet is art youre only succeeding in fulfilling your extremely low standard when if we simply switch to "literature" that paradigm doesnt work anymore. If anything is or can be art then sure games are art but they are not literary works or high art.
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