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Video James Are ART
| >>144936 where the hook is you're trying to listen to tapes to break yourself out of a mental prison. The AAA game industry wouldn't sell consoles for Receiver.
Anyway, anyone like themselves some HIGH ART???
| Nier Automata's multiple playthroughs which each one building off the last one and consistently providing new ways to look at the world until that incredible 3rd run that just kept me at the edge of my seat the entire time.
| Only ugly old bitches don't think games are art. Only idiots think something has to be good to be art.
If Internal Semiotics is art, Chrono Trigger is art.
| I thought this thread was about James from AVGN
| To the Moon and Finding Paradise are ART, idgaf what you all're saying.
Night in the Woods, as weird as it is (and as questionable as its ending was) is ART.
Heck, even Monster Hunter World is ART, in an odd, somewhat primal way.
| I mean, games can be art, too. But it doesn't need to suck to do so.
| Okami.
| Journey. Unequivocally. Never played a game yet that matches it in terms of artistry, and I seek out many "art" games. Most art games are just tropes about mental illness, murder, or some other sad thing. And predictable and painfully heavy handed. Key to successful art is forcing to interpreter to meet the creator halfway in understanding, providing room for interpretation while not being so vague as to mean anything. Journey does this so we'll, better than lotsa traditional art.
| It can be fun to see games try and fail to strike a chord! Shesellssheshells (bobvids) played this hackjob of a game, The Town of Light, and it was all like "mental illness sad. Rape bad. But lesbien good??? Symbolism!!" Just because it's ART doesn't mean you have to like it. Or that it succeeds in its objectives. Or that it's even good.
| >>145476 also To The Moon legit made me cry at one point. It hits a lot of emotional tropes but it's not overbearing
| Touhou is art. Just look at the influence.
| Even Va-11 Hall-a is a piece of art, and if it weren't we wouldn't be here. Come on.
| Some games such as walking simulators just falls into "virtual art installation" category.
| >>146981 - the part where you find out about River's 'condition'. Doesn't spell everything out but I know some people with that.
-the part where you learn why John wants to go to the moon.
-the part where John gets his dying wish and it still feels wrong.
You're a 2d rpg maker game you can't do this shit to me
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| Walking simulators with long rambling soliloquies about human nature. Games where it turns out the actual game is hidden behind some meaningless rubbish. Half built indie games with weird ass control schemes.
Dear Esther. Firewatch. Avant-garde stuff.
What's the latest thing a video game has done to surprise you? Me, I'm going to say Receiver. Most games wouldn't make you simulate EVERY single action needed to operate a firearm. Most games wouldn't also have a meta-narrative...