Do you think video games can be art?

Roger Ebert recently wrote an essay entitled Video Games Can Never Be Art, and he's been getting a lot of flak for it. In general, I'm not one to try to define what is and is not art, but I'm curious what other people think. In my opinion, there are no wrong answers here.Do you think video games can be art?
I think Ebert was deliberatly stirring the **** because he thought it would be fun and controversial. Again. He's admittedly (and gleefully) ignoring counter-arguments because he simply doesn't care about playing video games and he thinks it's funny to watch the fans get up-in-arms.



Declaring video games can never be art is like saying "Citizen Kane" isn't art because it's the same media form as "Deuce Bigalow" and "Rollerball."



There's certainly a difference between "art form" and "artistic value." Bad poetry, awful movies and shitty paintings exist in spades, but that doesn't diminish the artistic weight of what others do in those fields.



Video games, when done well, combine great narrative with stunning visuals, and most importantly allow the audience to participate in the story itself. What's more artistic than that?



Sometimes you just want to blow stuff up (or watch Transformers 2), but that doesn't mean the entire media form can never be anything other than worthless.Do you think video games can be art?
Roger Ebert should stick to movies the guy I'm guessing is biased towards video games I mean look at the game Flower on the PS3 that game is a work of art.



If people don't believe me then watch the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJam5Auwj鈥?/a>Do you think video games can be art?
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