To begin with, games are not an art, they are simply games - made for entertaiment, for consumer purpose, created as a compromise betwen the developers, artists, writers, musicians and whoever else in way to get a profit, if they are anything than they are interactive medium. If they were art, than every game is art, thus games that has nothing to do with art are art. You can admire certain aspect of game which is well handled, as a music, graphic style or writing as a good art, howevery without scripting it into the code it would be still just a piece of book, picture or soundtrack. The main purpose of games is to be an interactive and most of the games are more focused on being interactive rather than being artistic. You simply can´t say that Fifa or Call of Duty is an art, just because none is buying those games for being one.
Let's be clear, your view of whether or not video games are art is entirely subjective. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, one of the most renowned museums in the United States, had a six month art exhibition showcasing video games. When film was first birthed, people claimed that it was not art. Cinema is now considered an art form by most communities and it is exactly what you have described, sans the interactivity. You are making completely arbitrary boundaries as to what is art for your own rhetorical convenience, which is now only serving to back you into a corner. You seem to think that if multiple art forms unite for a collaborative project or if it is interactive, it is suddenly not art. What a profoundly stupid statement.
But what is and what isn´t art is entirely subjective and if games were art, then they are so mainstream that it devaluate their whole artistic integrity. As a Duchamp ironicaly said by the picture of toilet, if this can be art, then everything else is art, that picture made a good point how subjective art not just can be, but how absurd definition of art can be.
First of all, you are totally missing Marcel Duchamp's piece. He is saying that it is art because someone had to design the toilet and someone had to take the photo, at which point this statement would become the movement of Readymade art. Popularity does not make something less artistic; by that logic, the Mona Lisa is one of the least artistic pieces on the planet. Making video games is an art form just as producing film, radio, or a play is.
Entirely different thing is to say that making a good game is an art.
See above. You cannot just assign completely arbitrary statements as to what can be objectively defined as "art", which is clearly what you are trying to do.
Good, I am glad that you are amused, but the fact is that today´s homosexual fans of BioWare games should be now treated equally as the heterosexual, which they are. So far that I can tell, trans people´s desire is to be the other sex or gender or both, which is already included in the games by the character creator, it´s not their desire to be something in betwen, that´s why so many of them has a problems with their psyché aswell with the real life functioning, thus here with the avatar creator they have a luxury of being somewhere else instead of undesirable reality.
Whether or not homosexual fans are treated fairly is up to those fans to decide, within reason. So far as I can tell, there are clearly some individuals interested in this idea, or this discussion would not be happening. I personally agree that it would be a waste simply because such players can role play the transition independent of additional content, but I do not rely on frivolous and erratic statements on fairness via tyranny of the majority -- nor am I making unfounded statistical claims without accurate numbers to back it up.
But back to the point,
Yes, back to the point you keep on missing.
there were those ancient times, when games were just an entertaiment, when none cared if there is gender or sex and everyone was just playing the game, nowadays however the word as a game means to be an indoctrination device for telling to people how to think and behave instead of being entertaiment.
You mean the ancient times in which people were so excluded and disenfranchised that you never heard others' complaints? Now that you are being forced to hear them because they are tired of such treatment and that inconveniences you, I guess they their arguments now invalid, right? Because you can't be bothered to address these issues on any intellectual means, suddenly these games are an "indoctrination device?" One of the many purposes of art is to be thought-provoking and to share a point of view, it is called rhetoric and it is present in most art. Your arguments are so thoroughly riddled with fallacies I can't help but laugh.
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