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But Is It Art?

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    Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    listening to what you guys are saying this is for sure a "hey guys look at all these videos games we love!" and not an art thing

    i mean goldeneye seriously

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Veretas wrote: »
    oh what the fuck

    Chrono Trigger, A Link to the Past, or motherfucking Earthbound


    why you gotta make me choose?

    for some reason I went with Earthbound and that was the one I NEVER PLAYED...

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rolo wrote: »
    final fantasy 7 has the worst art direction

    final fantasy 7 is the best game ever made ever

    every aspect of it is more perfect than the aspect that came before it

    barfing from every hole

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    MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Chrono Trigger because I gotta support my main dogg Akira T

    Had to go with Earthbound because seriously I love it.

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    Tam wrote: »
    OLD ART: SENTIMENTAL OVERWROUGHT BULLSHIT
    MODERN ART: CRUDE SOPHISTRY
    POSTMODERN ART: FUCK OFF
    ok I'll stop now

    what I like in videogames is the effective use of a unique looking aesthetic
    to this end, I like cartoonier styles like Psychonauts or stuff like Okami, or even more abstract looking stuff like that one where you had to eat things to get bigger and bigger

    the more realistic looking games I don't find as interesting visually
    or at least, I don't find them as interesting as long

    I agree to an extent

    I also think realistic looking games have their place as art because they can kind of be more immersive, and I feel immersion is a major component of the artsyness of a game

    I'm trying to think about this because "not realistic" is a little inaccurate. I think maybe it's just unusual settings, forms, colors, and scale.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    from an art perspective the n64 game I'd give it to is Ocarina

    and I fucking hate 3d zelda

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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i went with chrono trigger because chrono trigger is the best video game

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Why yes I think Grim Fandango was a work of art
    Why even include other games in that category

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Tam wrote: »
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    Tam wrote: »
    OLD ART: SENTIMENTAL OVERWROUGHT BULLSHIT
    MODERN ART: CRUDE SOPHISTRY
    POSTMODERN ART: FUCK OFF
    ok I'll stop now

    what I like in videogames is the effective use of a unique looking aesthetic
    to this end, I like cartoonier styles like Psychonauts or stuff like Okami, or even more abstract looking stuff like that one where you had to eat things to get bigger and bigger

    the more realistic looking games I don't find as interesting visually
    or at least, I don't find them as interesting as long

    I agree to an extent

    I also think realistic looking games have their place as art because they can kind of be more immersive, and I feel immersion is a major component of the artsyness of a game

    I'm trying to think about this because "not realistic" is a little inaccurate. I think maybe it's just unusual settings, forms, colors, and scale.

    wanna keep talking about this but I gotta go to dinner! GRAAAAHHHHHH THREAD

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rolo wrote: »
    final fantasy 7 has the worst art direction

    final fantasy 7 is the best game ever made ever

    every aspect of it is more perfect than the aspect that came before it

    barfing from every hole

    no book, play, movie or other thing

    can compare to the emotion of Aerith (NOT AERIS BAKA GAIJIN WESTERN SCUM) sacrificing herself to cast Holy against the terror of Sephiroth

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rolo wrote: »
    Rolo wrote: »
    final fantasy 7 has the worst art direction

    final fantasy 7 is the best game ever made ever

    every aspect of it is more perfect than the aspect that came before it

    barfing from every hole

    no book, play, movie or other thing

    can compare to the emotion of Aerith (NOT AERIS BAKA GAIJIN WESTERN SCUM) sacrificing herself to cast Holy against the terror of Sephiroth

    Or when Barreth murdered his best friend cause he.... was... uh... a gun arm guy...

    oh wait he killed himself cause he... killed people...

    REDXIII's part always gets to me for real tho

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    MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Anyone who voted for Indigo Prophecy should be shot

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    Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    from an art perspective the n64 game I'd give it to is Ocarina

    and I fucking hate 3d zelda

    even....wind waker?

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    Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Why yes I think Grim Fandango was a work of art
    Why even include other games in that category

    part of me is ashamed I voted for fallout

    but then i remember that fallout is incredible and i stop feeling bad

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    why is it
    that they dressed Aeris all princess purity like
    when she was clearly more outgoing
    and Tifa as dressed all sexy
    when she seemed more quiet

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rolo wrote: »
    Rolo wrote: »
    final fantasy 7 has the worst art direction

    final fantasy 7 is the best game ever made ever

    every aspect of it is more perfect than the aspect that came before it

    barfing from every hole

    no book, play, movie or other thing

    can compare to the emotion of Aerith (NOT AERIS BAKA GAIJIN WESTERN SCUM) sacrificing herself to cast Holy against the terror of Sephiroth

    FF7 is the defining moment of our time

    ???- 0 - BC (jesus christ is born)
    0 - 1998 AD (end of pre FF7 era)
    1998- present (post FF7 era)

    this is the year 13 AFF7

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    from an art perspective the n64 game I'd give it to is Ocarina

    and I fucking hate 3d zelda

    even....wind waker?

    highest 5s

    Wind Waker is the best cell-shaded game in history, visually anyway

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Tam wrote: »
    why is it
    that they dressed Aeris all princess purity like
    when she was clearly more outgoing
    and Tifa as dressed all sexy
    when she seemed more quiet

    WHERE ARE THE FEMALE CAT THINGS?!

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Veretas wrote: »
    Anyone who voted for Indigo Prophecy should be shot

    I mean next to Fable or Shenmue II
    It's not such a bad choice

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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i would've used all of my votes on killer 7 if that were an option

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    Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    wind waker is gorgeous

    also the story is more interesting then the other zelda games i have played

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Grandia?
    Grandia

    that game holds a special place in my heart

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    MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    from an art perspective the n64 game I'd give it to is Ocarina

    and I fucking hate 3d zelda

    even....wind waker?

    highest 5s

    Wind Waker is the best cell-shaded game in history, visually anyway

    Woah I dunno I mean there's JSRF and man I fucking loved that game

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I've only played Twilight Princess, but man I didn't enjoy that game at all.

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    MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Also if Flower isn't artistically beautiful then I do not know art

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    What about DS games?

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Veretas wrote: »
    Also if Flower isn't artistically beautiful then I do not know art

    beauty

    heh

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    Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rolo wrote: »
    I've only played Twilight Princess, but man I didn't enjoy that game at all.

    it was super boring and the story was awful

    especially the ending, what the fuck

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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i think my favorite games are chrono trigger, killer 7, skies of arcadia, eternal darkness, and shadow of the colossus

    world of warcraft too but i think of it differently since it's just been a part of my life for years now, instead of being a single discrete experience

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    Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i'm glad to hear you liked killer 7, i liked it a lot back in the day. i'm kind of over it now though

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    Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    listening to what you guys are saying this is for sure a "hey guys look at all these videos games we love!" and not an art thing

    i mean goldeneye seriously

    If this were a book display would you choose books that you personally enjoyed or were touched by or some other book that by some archaic measurement was more "art"?

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    you know that friend that brings you out of a slump effortlessly because they're so wonderful

    in videogames, that is Grandia for me

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    What about Heavy Rain as "Interactive Fiction"?

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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i'm glad to hear you liked killer 7, i liked it a lot back in the day. i'm kind of over it now though

    it was a really singular experience to me

    i found myself probably more engrossed by that game than anything else

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rolo wrote: »
    I've only played Twilight Princess, but man I didn't enjoy that game at all.

    it was super boring and the story was awful

    especially the ending, what the fuck

    I got up to the bit with the monkey temple and go fed up with the amount of backtracking. Also the game looked like a butt, and all the waggle felt pointless.

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    XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I wonder if they'll put GTA, Manhunt, Mass Effect, or Bulletstorm in the display?

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    satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    JoeUser wrote: »
    What about Heavy Rain as "Interactive Fiction"?

    i really liked heavy rain, but its glaring plot holes are kind of tough to get over

    reading an interview with the creator where he described one of his bullshit red herrings as a macguffin started to make me think that he just isn't as smart as i'd like him to be
    he later expressed surprise when the interviewer asked why the police never seemed to find out about that guy ethan kills and then vomits next to. he seemed unaware of dna as a thing.

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I don't think archaic is what you're going for there VI

    maybe esoteric, academic, technical

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i'm glad to hear you liked killer 7, i liked it a lot back in the day. i'm kind of over it now though

    it was a really singular experience to me

    i found myself probably more engrossed by that game than anything else

    I've never played Killer 7, so the name always makes me think of Killer Instinct.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJ0AltxiiA

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    Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The concept art from Mass Effect 2 is what they have up on the Smithsonian website, so I'd guess yes.

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