Video Games as a Form of Art

[Arjahn]

I think that games that can really capture your feelings and make you feel how the characters feel are art. For example, in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, I cried at the end and I was dying to see what would happen next, and I felt relieved when my Bulbasaur (Who was my Pokémon) ended up returning to the Pokémon World.

Then again, I do enjoy lots of Pokémon games anyway, mainly because how they can make you care for a cluster of pixels as if it was a real pet, like how I grow attached to Pokémon with nicknames (like my Female Unfezant called Audrey, named after a character in a BBC drama who looked like a pigeon) and even how I just like Pokémon based on their designs and how these designs themselves just give the Pokémon personality. I'm looking at you, Blaziken, Sceptile and Feraligatr.

There, that's my life story over. XD

ONE: Spoiler tags for those here who haven't played the beauty of Mystery
Dungeon.
TWO: I sort of agree here, the Mystery Dungeon series has surprisingly fantastic and immersive stories, and those can really pull you into the games.
CONFESSION TIME: I've never cried at any TV show or movie, and only twice to videogames. First was actually during the Mystery Dungeon ending (seriously guys, that ending is fucking depressing), the second time was near the end of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days at the point where

Spoiler

Xion fades/dies, just the way it was played out was really well crafted. Here's the scene, although honestly without getting into the story of the series it's not nearly as moving.

That also being said, the art debate is still a grey area, as apparently if games aren't art, they can move me more than anything considered Art can. You be the judge, imma go replay 358/2 Days because I hate myself.