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Re: Taking games seriously
Careful, we're getting into some serious intellectual and philosophical heavy-lifting territory if we're debating whether interpretation changes the actual event. :poly142: You've got a great point about artist intent not always being audience perception... Heck, if that wasn't the case, I doubt we'd hear Green Day's Time… -
Re: Taking games seriously
This is just gaming being used as a scapegoat in the same way that comic books and violent movies are. This is very different from taking games seriously as a medium of artistic expression. I was thinking technology more in the sense of how it's used to make games well. A lot of the tech used in movie making, for example,… -
Re: Taking games seriously
@Zwebbie I'm going to have to disagree with your first point (even though i completely get where you're coming from). The beauty of games is that stories can be told in the present and they can be interactive, as an industry we have not figured out how to do this correctly, and it will probably be a few years before… -
Re: Taking games seriously
Apparently he said that. The point I'm using it to make is that to ask whether or not it can be serious is to pretty much conform to the notion that it is not because there are others that do not and as a collective label it such. I prefer to simply decide for myself what it serious and valuable, or even what could be… -
Re: Taking games seriously
Video games, for the most part, are still pretty much stuck in the equivalent of the silent film era. There's melodramatic acting, silly stories, undeveloped technology, and a general sense that things just haven't reached their peak yet. There's a lot of neat stuff out there, and a lot of games are doing great things to… -
Taking games seriously
pre-warning: I suspect that there have been threads in the past that have had a discussion on this very subject. I have honestly looked around for them, but found nothing solid. So if you think this thread is unneccessary or the discussion has been opened too many times, please excuse me, it's not my intention to fall into…
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