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Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | |
Posted By: Sep7imus [subnova] | Date: 12/7/05 10:30 p.m. |
In Response To: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Game (Brian Graham) : The idea that a game can tell multiple stories really doesn't address the key
Although I agree that art and entertainment value aren't the same thing, they aren't mutally exclusive either. : Ebert's whole argument was that movies and books can be used as stepping
: A person who reads a book or watches a movie must be offered something that
: Until a video game can provide us with insight into ourselves by the choices
: That's the crux of the matter, in the end: Video games do not civilize us,
Who says that they don't? There are plenty of games that make you make choices, moral and otherwise, whose consequences change the course of the game and your success in it. If you think that's not teaching people who play them, then you have a very limited sense of teaching. (Although, I REALLY don't think that the judgement of whether something is art is whether it "civilizes" us. Some people, particualrly artists, would say just the opposite. It sounds like you are objecting to the lessons that games are teaching, rather than their ability to teach or not. By that standard, there's probably a lot of stuff that's considered art by many people that you don't think of as art.) : Until the interactivity of the game is what differentiates it from books and
Almost word for word (except for the bit about interactivity) your arguments are EXACTLY the arguments made against novels in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Many people then thought that novels were a waste of time, immoral, non-educational, etc. (The equivalent of your "they do not teach us morally by the act of playing; a narrative offered outside the context of interactivity might do that, but if that's the case, why not just make a movie?" argument was, essentially, "novels don't teach us morally by the act of reading the narrative: there might be a lesson buried in there, but if that's the case, why not just read sermons?") Now almost everyone thinks that those people were wrong. And, it's not that novels have gotten better. The same novels they were criticizing as non-art, we now think of as classics. -Sep7imus |
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Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Game | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 4:12 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Ducain | 12/7/05 4:27 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Narcogen | 12/7/05 9:47 p.m. |
I do wonder... | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 12/7/05 4:29 p.m. |
Re: I do wonder... | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 4:57 p.m. |
Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 12/7/05 5:03 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Roger Wilco | 12/7/05 5:58 p.m. |
metacriticism | Narcogen | 12/7/05 9:51 p.m. |
Re: metacriticism | Roger Wilco | 12/7/05 11:23 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 8:25 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 12/7/05 9:28 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | zugy | 12/7/05 9:36 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 9:42 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Narcogen | 12/7/05 9:56 p.m. |
Re: Reprinted from my Rampancy.net posts: | Pak | 12/7/05 10:09 p.m. |
Comment repiles | Narcogen | 12/7/05 9:49 p.m. |
Re: Comment repiles | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 10:09 p.m. |
I disagree | Echoes | 12/7/05 4:34 p.m. |
Re: I disagree | Sep7imus [subnova] | 12/7/05 4:56 p.m. |
Art...Video Games...Murder | Pallor [subnova] | 12/7/05 5:53 p.m. |
Welcome back. *NM* | c0ld vengeance | 12/7/05 6:38 p.m. |
Re: Art...Video Games...Murder | Sep7imus [subnova] | 12/7/05 6:47 p.m. |
Re: Art...Video Games...Murder | mad.max [subnova] | 12/7/05 6:57 p.m. |
Speeding It Up | Pallor [subnova] | 12/7/05 7:14 p.m. |
Craftsmanship | mad.max [subnova] | 12/7/05 6:43 p.m. |
Expression. | Peptuck | 12/7/05 7:05 p.m. |
Re: Expression. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 8:20 p.m. |
Re: Expression. | Peptuck | 12/7/05 9:44 p.m. |
Re: Expression. | Louis Wu | 12/8/05 9:00 a.m. |
Re: Expression. | Malleus | 12/8/05 11:27 a.m. |
Now that you've defined art and craft so well | char | 12/7/05 7:10 p.m. |
Re: Now that you've defined art and craft so well | Peptuck | 12/7/05 7:16 p.m. |
Re: Craftsmanship | Pak | 12/7/05 7:42 p.m. |
My Creation. | Pallor [subnova] | 12/7/05 7:53 p.m. |
Re: My Creation. | Pak | 12/7/05 8:52 p.m. |
Re: My Creation. | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 12/7/05 9:15 p.m. |
Hanging on my "Wall" IMG | Pak | 12/7/05 9:25 p.m. |
Re: My Creation. | Peptuck | 12/8/05 12:21 a.m. |
Re: My Creation. | Peptuck | 12/7/05 11:42 p.m. |
Craft, Art, Low Art, High Art, Pop Art, PopTart | Narcogen | 12/7/05 10:09 p.m. |
Re: Craftsmanship | Wado SG | 12/8/05 2:29 a.m. |
Re: Craftsmanship | Pak | 12/8/05 3:52 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | char | 12/7/05 6:56 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Whisp | 12/7/05 7:03 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Pak | 12/7/05 7:08 p.m. |
I also disagree. | Shishka | 12/7/05 7:33 p.m. |
Er, with Mr Graham, not Narc. *NM* | Shishka | 12/7/05 7:49 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 8:10 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 8:26 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 8:35 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 8:46 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 8:57 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 9:08 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Louis Wu | 12/7/05 9:14 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 9:30 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 12/7/05 9:40 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 9:44 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 9:50 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 9:54 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 9:58 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 10:07 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 10:11 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 10:13 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 12/7/05 10:15 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Pak | 12/7/05 10:28 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Narcogen | 12/7/05 10:32 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | jman571 | 12/7/05 8:46 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Shishka | 12/7/05 9:54 p.m. |
Re: I also disagree. | Narcogen | 12/7/05 10:22 p.m. |
Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 8:28 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 8:30 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 8:42 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Pak | 12/7/05 8:50 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 9:36 p.m. |
art is like the gum at the bottom of my shoe *NM* | jman571 | 12/7/05 8:51 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 8:53 p.m. |
the ART of War, maybe? *NM* | jman571 | 12/7/05 9:07 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 9:14 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Pak | 12/7/05 9:40 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 9:59 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 10:19 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Pak | 12/7/05 10:30 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 10:37 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 10:36 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Pak | 12/7/05 10:27 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/7/05 11:07 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Pak | 12/8/05 2:24 p.m. |
Re: Is a rose by any other name... | Wado SG | 12/8/05 9:18 p.m. |
The problem with art... | zugy | 12/7/05 9:30 p.m. |
Re: The problem with art... | Peptuck | 12/7/05 9:46 p.m. |
Isin't it ironic.... | jman571 | 12/7/05 10:14 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Brian Graham | 12/7/05 10:22 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Sep7imus [subnova] | 12/7/05 10:30 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Wado SG | 12/8/05 1:59 a.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Pak | 12/7/05 10:31 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Sep7imus [subnova] | 12/7/05 10:30 p.m. |
Re: Rebuttal to Narcogen's Article on Story and Ga | Tiny | 12/7/05 11:55 p.m. |
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