>>724067190 (OP)
People who create art don't talk about how they're creating art, they just do. This is a pseud subject to discuss because if you need words like "art" to self fellate and borrow prestige instead of creating it, you're not creating art to begin with.
Video games are entertainment first, because you "play" video games, that's their purpose as commercial products.
Some midwits want to be seen as "important" by others, therefore they really insist on their digital toys somehow being more important than they really are, and by doing so they go against the exact thing which makes art, art. No real artist gets up in the morning and says to themselves
>ah yes, imma art today because imma artist and that's what artists do!
they just create and create and then somebody else comes across their creations and is impressed by or touched by their work, and they decide to become the patrons of that artist, if their financial situation allows them the luxury.
No, the 9-5 "professionals" who bitch on twitter about how "video games need to grow up" aren't artists, they're just employees who wanted to become film directors, writers, producers and the like, but lacked the connections and/or talent to impress others with their "art", and now the cheap flashy digital entertainment HAS TO BE ART because otherwise their lives lose the modicum of meaning they deluded themselves into thinking they had.
tl;dr games are at best free expression, if you want to, you can call them "art" but when others disagree, don't bitch too much. Something can be more than the sum of its parts but it can also be less.
