Posted by Joshi on Apr 17, 2010 twenty five to two am
Like you, I have a great respect for Ebert, even if I don't always agree with him, but I honestly feel the guy hasn't played a great many games and that's the problem. Unlike paintings or movies or music, where even if you've only ever encountered bad examples of them, you can plainly see that, if done right, they could be considered great art, with games, if you've only experienced bad examples of them, it's harder to believe they could ever have artistic merit.
Clearly the entire Adventure game genre has passed him by and for good reason, it's not as popular as other genres and he's not a gamer, how could he know about them. And I'm not saying that only adventure games could be considered art, it's just that the vast majority of FPS's and RTS and the like... aren't.
But he won't, and I won't begrudge him that. From what I understand he's still battling cancer and frankly, he's probably got better things to do than defend his stance on this. It'd be great if he actually played Monkey Island, at least just to get his stance on it, but I won't hold on hope and won' be too disappointed if he doesn't.
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Posted by Joshi on Apr 17, 2010 twenty five to two am
Clearly the entire Adventure game genre has passed him by and for good reason, it's not as popular as other genres and he's not a gamer, how could he know about them. And I'm not saying that only adventure games could be considered art, it's just that the vast majority of FPS's and RTS and the like... aren't.
But he won't, and I won't begrudge him that. From what I understand he's still battling cancer and frankly, he's probably got better things to do than defend his stance on this. It'd be great if he actually played Monkey Island, at least just to get his stance on it, but I won't hold on hope and won' be too disappointed if he doesn't.