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Posted 23 February 2009 - 08:18 PM

http://www.cracked.c...-as-modern-art/

According to this article these 10 games should be considered art, and I would like to see Yatzee's opinion on the matter. Low and behold Psychonauts is #1 on the list and cosidering he like that game there might be a very slim chance he'll enjoy one of these other ones as well...or verbally skewer them the way only he can...

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Posted 23 February 2009 - 10:41 PM

Shadow of the Colossus and Ico should have been higher on the list.

But other than that, I thought it was good.

(especially since Psychonauts is one of my favorite games ever)
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 02:57 PM

What a coincidence, I just downloaded purchased that game, and it's fucking great. I've never seen such creative use of metaphors and such clever ways to visualize a human mind.
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 03:06 PM

Damn you captains with your opium-like praises! Next thing I know will be me wakin' up aboard that blasted ol' pirate ship again.

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Posted 24 February 2009 - 05:26 PM

In all honesty, as much as I agree that all of the games he lists are excellent titles worthy of praise and that I'm really happy to see them get their profile elevated, the whole thorny problem of 'high art' pretty much makes the list worthless to me.

What is high art? How the hell do we define it? If I want to argue that Super Mario Bros. is an exploration of joy, then why can't it be high art?

He doesn't define 'high art' in any sense. Nobody ever has. It's a useless term.

Let's just flat out argue that games are art. Some are good art, like those he's listed. Others are bad art. Critics will disagree which is which. There's no defining line between the two categories.
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 06:27 PM

Which is why we (well, most of us) carry a brain inside our skull, to be able to make a difference.
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Posted 25 February 2009 - 07:52 PM

What about De blob? Not the Wii version but that german pc indie one... If anyone ever played it.
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Posted 26 February 2009 - 07:30 AM

I wish the contents of my brain looked like those.

My fav would probably be Grim Fandango. I'm not sure weather it would run on Vista, ofcourse. Most old games don't. I hope it does because I don't know anything about programing.

I certainly have to agree with Shiny games being in the list. I remember MDK. The sequel was certainly an improvement and fun as hell to play. But damn, it was hard.
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Posted 27 February 2009 - 10:18 PM

I'm quite surprised that Pathologic didn't make the list.
Oh wait... It's an obscure Russian game covered by just, like, two publications. And the most famous site that recognizes it is RockPaperShotgun.

*Meh*.

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Posted 28 February 2009 - 01:26 AM

Any ever played or even heard of 9: Last Resort?
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Posted 28 February 2009 - 12:17 PM

QUOTE (Ghello @ Feb 28 2009, 12:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Any ever played or even heard of 9: Last Resort?

Yes. It's good but it's not art.
Pathologic is art.
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Posted 28 February 2009 - 03:42 PM

It's a shame that no-one really considers indi games for these kind of lists. If I made the list, Iji would be on there somewhere.

Google Iji now, it's free.

It's definately a good list though.
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Posted 01 March 2009 - 09:02 PM

Iji? It was nice (apart from the tearjerker drama sequences that made me facepalm a lot), alien blasting is always fun, Abuse (anyone remember that from the elden days?) combined with System Shock 2, brilliant, but I didn't find it really deep.
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Posted 02 March 2009 - 01:57 PM

Not so many people notice the indie games or adventure games anymore.
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Posted 02 March 2009 - 02:46 PM

Ah, good old times, times are not as good now as they used to be back then, are they?

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