When the first films came out, they were also regarded as cheap entertainment for the working masses, a dirty pleasure, but certainly not art. (I'm a snubby film student, that's how I know). So I think games have to grow into being considered as art much the way films have had to. Thanks for making a step in that direction with DeathSpank. And thank god big Hollywood studios still squirt out the occasional indy movie, too. Like The Burning Plain, great film. Or Fight Club, gotta love it. Basically a 70 Million $ experimental film. The budget to show a plane crash and exploding buildings, but with an interesting story you don't get in mainstream blockbusters nowadays. That niche should be fostered more.