ZylonBane wrote:Jonas wrote:Spore isn't even out yet, it may very well suck as much as The Sims.
Wow, Maxis would just HATE that.
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
Way to
completely miss the point.
EER wrote:Especially if it would be an economic failure of the same magnitude as the sims...
ET TU, ERIK!?
In reply to the rest of the art debate: You seem to think art cannot be entertainment and that entertainment cannot be art. You seem to believe that art cannot make sense or tell a good story or be a fun experience. You seem to presume that art can only be the sort of works that people with too much money will pay 10,000 dollars for.
I don't agree. I think I can be just as moved by entertainment as I can by the paintings of the old masters, and I think I can be just as entertained by a nonsensical Buñuel film as I can by a Hollywood blockbuster. I believe Edward Munch's
The Scream was just as much art before it was worth several millions as it is today. As long as we can't agree on the definition of art (and indeed this is
always the problem that comes up in discussions of games as art), we will not be able to agree on calling games art or not.