For all those (probably zero) of you who wanted to hear my own view on Roger Ebert's controversial opinion that video games cannot be art (which enraged many a nerd with not much better to do), I guess it's time to weigh in. Of course video games aren't aren't. Video games are games, and games aren't art. No one argued that video game art isn't art, but it's the games themselves.
Ebert gives the example of a particularly brilliant game of chess. Is that game, no matter how well played, art? Of course not. So, he was right entirely, aside from his dig at Braid (it is kind of ugly, in an ugly cute kind of way, and besides he was basing his opinions on it chiefly from the trailer and he admitted as such.)
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