Nobody Reads This

I started writing some drivel about my opinions on Games as Art but it was a fairly lousy post, so to summarise:

To me games aren’t art in their natural form, just like a photo can just be a picture and a building a structure although like these things – they can become art.

In my original post I likened calling an average game art to calling a mud covered man hurling himself at canvas as being art. In this case EA might well be the man hurling brands at the market until one sticks. To reverse the example, what if the man instead of dipping himself in mud took it and created a wonderful mud-based building? They do exist, believe me.

Back to the gaming analogy, that company might be Blizzard or Valve. They to at some point threw mud at the canvas until something stuck – but the difference is, when it did stick they worked on it.

A more appropriate analogy might be in a painter who tries different colour palettes in a picture – There is a time for testing out new colours but if you do so for too long you end up with brown and nothing else.

Gaming can be an art, but we must not fly this flag too high for else we are no better than the Tate Modern and two thirds of the shite they display there. Let us hail some games as art but only a precious few but let us also refuse sub-par developers the right to try and join the bandwagon.

Rant over.

Now onto more important business:

IT NEVER ENDS

Go grab yourself the master on ET and join me in vandalising it, it’s soothing.

Also, I picked up a PC – a little under the spec of what I was looking for to save some money but I have in the process effectively bankrupt myself. I picked up Spore on predownload but found out I have to wait another 30 minutes on release day to get the last 1%. What a load of bollocks.

I have in the mean time been enjoying Medieval TW 2 for which the campaign is a bit meh but the battles are quite fun and Unreal Tourny 3 which seems solid if a bit soulless. When we get the net sorted I might hit the UT3 fansites for some awesome content but in the mean time I use it as a stress release.

I need recommendations on games to get and try, so let me know.

Regards,
JamesR.

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