Santa Claus is coming to town in just a few days but Christmas has already arrived in the world of GTA Online. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I hate bad art.Video Gamer is reader-supported. We just politely pretend that it is.īetter to create a good game than a bad work of art. I would argue that very little art is actually art – because most of it fails, and failed art is not art. Why would it need to be anything else?Įlectronic games offer a rich and spectacular entertainment, but why do they need to be anything more than fun? Why does everything have to be art? Like, if I was reading Jane Austen and you said, 'But is it sport?' No, it's not sport, it's a novel. It seems a bizarre and irrelevant question to ask. Which brings me back to that old chestnut … can video games be art? And the answer is still No, or at least, Not Likely. Until you post your scores online and blog about which game is better and the whole noise of random comment starts again. So in many ways, the world of computer games is an alternative model of digital life – a more creative, even contemplative, style of interaction. Above all, in an age when free online stuff is the norm, games have expensive production values and no one seems to resent paying money to reward those. They create fictional worlds of great conviction and intensity. Please read to the end of this short article before posting a comment …), games demand absolute attention over long periods of time. While many aspects of digital culture minimise concentration (hey you! You know who you are. The great defence of video games is that they are not the internet – no offence intended – with its ceaseless assaults on attention span. But do I still suspect these computer game thingumajigs are the devil's mind candy? Well, no.

I am no expert (honestly, Lara Croft, I thought you could jump off that cliff without a scratch).

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