Video Games Can Never Be Art Summary

Aaron Smutz, a philosophy professor at Rhode Island College, in his rhetorical essay “Are Video Games Art?” asserts that video games are indeed art. He first puts forward three critically well-received games to be considered art, then determines what can be used to determine art by considering “sister media” like art and music as well as competition such as chess, football or ice-skating. After establishing an “informal” definition of art, Smutz comes to conclude that since the games he provided cover several facets of game-types and since those games can reasonably fall into the definitions provided of art, then most video games should be considered art. Smutz forms his essay in order to explore the artistic merit of games. Smutz also writes

I disagree Even though Rosewall makes valid points on the differences between Art and entertainment with one form dealing with small scale none profit organization and the other dealing with mass production profited organization I feel that both are in a way the same in this time period. In today society art is becoming more of an entertainment with movies, theater, music, esc but does the fact that now it is more profitable change the artistic value that goes in to the finished product. Rosewall explain the differences she sees in art and entertainment; art is done in a more small scale manner, put on by people who studied in traditional university programs and the artistic merit takes priority over popularity with entertainment dealing with

In his essay “Dream Machines”, Will Wright emphasises the benefit of video games in modern society. He thinks that video games can teach players to solve problems, be more creative and interesting person overall. Will Wright is trying to tell people that we can all benefit from playing and exploring the worlds of gaming. “Watching someone play a game is a different experience than actually holding the controller and playing it yourself”. These words mean that people who never played video games themselves should not judge and critisize gamers, because you could not know the flavor of an apple only by looking at it, right? I am going to to agree with what Will Wright said about video gaming and gamers themselves, because I myself played

Ebert's essay was strongly criticized by the gaming community,[23][24][25] including Santiago herself, who believes that video games as artistic media are only at their infancy, similar to prehistoric cave paintings of the past.[26] Ebert later amended his comments in 2010, conceding that games may indeed be art in a non-traditional sense, that he had enjoyed playing Cosmology of Kyoto, and addressing some replies to his original arguments.[27]

The author of this essay, is not intending to persuade the reader to feel a type of way. What he is expressing ideally are his opinions on said games. Yet, one is somewhat persuaded, because of how he speaks, clarifies, and uses rhetoric in his writing. It really makes someone want to stop what they are doing and get on the nearest gaming system. In fact, it is consolidating to know that he isn’t characterizing the game as just a game, but an aesthetic and an art. Tom Bissell questions himself, “To what part of me do games speak, and on which frequency (361)?” We all would like to know the answer to this question, because there have been so many games, some good and some awful. However, we as a world continue to try and try again. Some of the appeals that Bissell uses in his argument were emotional and descriptive. Basically, in the entire article he described to the audience in intimate detail the world of

Whether it’s playing video games or watching video games, we get filled with an intoxicating feeling to play or watch more. Throughout generations, there has been an increase of people playing video games and about half the population in the United States plays video games. Since 1980, video games are taken to a different level with eSports, which is competitive electronic gaming tournaments with other competitors. In 2000 to the present , eSports grew in popularity and became known worldwide because of the game “League of Legends”. In 2011 “LoL” tournament ranked over 1.6 million views worldwide and during a “LoL” championship in 2015 over 36 million people were viewing the game. ESport raises this question: “Do video games counts as sports?” Video games do not count as a sport because it does not match the criteria of a sport,video games are luck-based, and are unhealthy.

The video game world is full of wonders, fantasy worlds, and even real life scenarios that we see on television. There are games based off of television shows, popular movies, and even comic book universes. In David Perry’s speech and presentation, “Are Video Games Better Than Life?” he brought up a lot of points about gaming both from its humble beginnings to where we are today. However, he made it clear that the discussion was to be about the video game world. Are video games better than reality? This is a hard question with various and diverse answers. It is something that people from just about all walks of life have an opinion about. Through the use of a media presentation, he showed the diverse evolution of games; how since

Rhetorical Analysis 1 The critical article “Video games can never be art” was written by Roger Ebert, who was a famous American film critic. Ebert was a very popular and well celebrated journalist and film critic in his field. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, which is the highest honor in journalism (rogerebert.com and Wikipedia). This article is about Roger Ebert’s critical analysis of Kellee Santiago, a professional video game designer, presentation about video games as already being a form of art.

Storytelling has always been an ancient art form, taking people back to past cultures. Some believe stories were first printed on rock, carved into clay tablets, stone, bark and other materials. With the beginnings of writing they moved on to parchment and paper and now are digitally produce. “When we experience a story, we allow ourselves to be invaded by the teller” (Gottschall XV). If the author is good at his job, we are completely taken over by the story and our mind is working hard to absorb the characters, theme, colors and scenes. Early video games did not have a story but with the new digital forms, stories are necessary to keep players involved. Storytelling in games gives the gamers the opportunity to be involved in the game, experience the characters, stimulate feelings like fear and excitement and let the player know they make situations happen and the choices they make affect the outcome as well as motivate them to continue on. Graphics have always been important to the game, but developers are now realizing that the story is equally as important if players want to stick with the game.

Games Art? movie critic Roger Ebert has an opposing view on whether video games should be

Just as some people may prefer different artistic styles and techniques, video games can provide something for everyone - no matter what your preference may be. If cartoonistic drawings make you smile, there are games like Pac Man, Mario Bros, Animal Crossing to suit your taste. If cubism is more to your liking, try on Tetris, 1010, or Minecraft. If you truly enjoy realistic art, you may marvel at the scenery of Skyrim. If you think surrealism is superb, check out The Stanley Parable.. This amount of variety is achieved only by the amount of video game designers and “More makers means more variety”

Everyone enjoys fun, and what better way to have fun than participating in the activities you love? Gaming is one of the many favored ways to escape the reality of one’s life and enter into a surrealistic one, which is made from the imaginative thoughts of the game’s developer. Throughout its approximately thirty-year lifespan of popularity in homes, (as opposed to arcades) the games and the consoles on which they’re played have advanced drastically in graphical and interactive capability. Out of all the diverse genres of video games, by far the most immersive is the role-playing genre, and more specifically the choose-your-own-adventure archetype, as you are able to interact and make your own choices in the video game world the way you would have, rather than a slew of single-choice pre-scripted events in a story. However, even with the choose-your-own-adventure archetype’s interactions, the amount of choices could only go so far, so fans resorted to creating fan fictions, which are stories about the games created from their imagination that display alternate choices and realities.

A main idea created by Roger Ebert was that “art” is dependent on what a person can learn from another human being. However, there is also the suggesting that art can’t really be defined. In the article “Who Framed Roger Ebert”, Rich Stanton provides an opposing opinion that art is indefinable and the current “accepted” definitions of art in our society negatively affects the gaming genre. I concur with Stanton’s opposing opinion that art is indefinable because of many variations

Roger Ebert strongly expresses his opinion toward the tense debate on weather video games should be considered art. He expresses his belief by demonstrating in his article how video games could never compare to the amazing writers and the incredible filmmakers (Ebert). Ebert  envisions art being created by one person rather than a team of people having skilled enough abilities to produce the same masterpiece. He does not see a similarity in objectives between video games and an art piece. Ebert explains that in games there are, “Rules, points, objectives, and an outcome” (Ebert). As for art, that is something he believes one can’t win. Considering one who believes video games can not be a form of art may

Whatś a sport? What makes up a Sport? People today believe that there are defining characteristics of a sport, while others believe that any activity could possibly become a sport with the right format and or qualities. By examining the similar characteristics of ¨regular¨ sports and video games, the fact that people already use/train with video games in different situations, it is clear that video games should be a sport too.