Some how all of the guy friends I
have play copious amounts of video games. I have the friends who when we
hangout would rather play video games than do almost any other activity. My
friends in high school were more interested in games with more high quality
graphics and more intricate plots. My friends here at UK have a strange
obsession with bad, and I mean bad, video games. They play games such as
Anticipation (video game Pictionary, with stick figures) and a game where the
goal is to bring a yogurt machine to some really wealthy business people who
are determined to cause problems.
The woman
giving the Ted talk focused on how video games began similar to paintings. She
made a connection between cave drawings and much more famous works. Similarly
games like Anticipation could be compared with games such as Halo. I felt that
the woman giving the speech was rather dry, uninteresting, and a slow speaker.
I did not agree with her assertion that video games are becoming an art and I
had a difficult experience trying to listen to her and follow the points she
was trying to make. I am more in agreement with the author of the article that
advocated that the art form was in the process of forming the video games.
I think
that the art of video games is created during the process but I also agree with
Ebert in that I don’t think that video games, in themselves, are art. I am
ignorant in the fact that I have played on a game system no more than 10 times
in my lifetime but I do not see them as an art form. I completely respect the amount of art and
creativity it takes to put together the images and plot for the game but I feel
that the actual enjoyment of the game is entertainment instead of art.
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