The world's biggest movie critic has some choice words regarding games as art. Check out what Roger Ebert has to say and how gamers are reacting! http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ nice article http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684236 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:27:16 GMT I can see why lots of gamers are riled up about Ebert's comments. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684457 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:06:05 GMT I dont think he even has the authority to talk about video games not to mention EVEN take shots at it. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684458 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:06:48 GMT Why do you post twice on every page, just put it all in one. Well thats his opinion and i don't really care for it. He should stick to the Movies. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684559 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:11:08 GMT WHERE IS LINK!?!?!?!?!?!!? http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684808 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:28:50 GMT i don't know shammon, maybe it will be in a feature that hasn't been out yet but latr on today. duuuuuhhhh. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684831 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:45:19 GMT I don't consider videogames to be art either. There's a lot of art that goes into them, but when it comes down to it I want to play a damn game, not look at it. I don't want to have deep discussions of how a game make me feel, because I just wanna play the damn thing. To many game developers are too busy trying to make art that they forget about putting any actual good gameplay in them.[p]I also hate when developers talk about the gameplay experience. I don't want an experience when I play a game. It's not a damn orgasm it's a game. I just wanna play it.[p][quote]LMG Posted at: 07/24/07 at 12:11 PM PST [p] Why do you post twice on every page, just put it all in one. Well thats his opinion and i don't really care for it. He should stick to the Movies.[/quote][p]Because he's trying top spam his way into the hero rank. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684886 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:16:14 GMT Trying[b] to [/b]spam his way I mean. Sorry for posting twice too, buy I had to clarify my typo. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684889 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:17:30 GMT You got me there boy. Good thing you did your homework http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_684933 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:47:42 GMT A bunch of bull. I liked him then he screwed it with his comments. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_685874 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:19:43 GMT I couldn't put it much better than that Kotaku blogger. It's a shame that Ebert will never see or respond to those comments, seeing as public figures rarely get drawn into lengthy public debates. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_686370 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:47:28 GMT I myself am an artist I have studied art and work on art daily, I have been to art galleries and lots of the stuff I see that they call art looks like some random slap together to me. but they are put in museums. I would like to show that guy a series of pictures some from art galleries and some from games and ask him which ones are art and which are not. I bet that half the time or more he will call things from video games art. emotionAlso I think he is push his personal opinion on things. Like "This is art. things of the same medium in the past have proven that its art so this is art. Now this (video games) is not art its new and I personaly have never seen any art to come out of it." I also would like to point out that this guy might not have played a game in his life. how can he condemn games as not being art when he does not play them?.... http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_688225 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:53:11 GMT ...(sorry this had to be spit in 2 because its too long) On another note he seems to be saying that just because a medium is new that it is not art. here "Not only are we now operating under the tacit agreement that movies have matched one of the highest incarnations of the written word (a topic worthy of its own debates, surely), but that videogamesa medium but a few decades into widespread explorationare to keep up with over a century of progress (film), 9,000 years of advancement (writing) or a history as old as humanity itself (theater)." Like saying that games being new can't be art and because thing like writing and treater are so far ahead that games can't be art. That would be like some Aztecs saying that theater and writing are not art because the Aztecs have some odd thousand years head start. Anyway I think the matter at had is not weather video games are art it more weather they are good art. I famous sculpture once put a toilet in a museum and called it art. And many debate weather photography is art or not. Because many photographers don't change the pictures they take at all they just take them and sell them. But photography is regarded as art. All in all I think this guy is overpriced and thinks too highly of himself and his own opinions. In other words I think he needs to shut up. Art is creating, emotion, expression, passion. games have all of these. http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/#comment_688226 http://www.games.net/blog/29893/ebert-on-gaming-it-stinks/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:53:53 GMT