Video Games as a Form of Art

[BumblebeeCody*]

I think a game can be considered art, such as Journey or Dear Esther, but something like Call of Duty...I think not.

How comes? It's a just as a valid as game as any others.

Well, you got a point there, I can tell what you mean.
But still Call of Duty is another FPS game where you pew pew a lot and things go BOOM which I like a lot I won't lie! Now when it comes to Journey or Dear Esther, these are games that are making you ponder in thoughts if you get my meaning.

I think a game can be considered art, such as Journey or Dear Esther, but something like Call of Duty...I think not.

How comes? It's a just as a valid as game as any others.

Fair point, but I just personally think that CoD lacks the depth to really be considered art. But hey, I'm no genius, it very may well be art.

And thus we have the biggest problem of gamers when it comes to art and CoD being bland.
I'll tell you now, the only reason I play CoD is for the single player campaign. I haven't played CoD in 3/4 years but I generally find myself invested in the story. It may not be historically accurate but the themes that it brings across are generally thought provoking. Playing through certain scenes in the CoD world war series does give you a decent idea of what the environment was like, the areas that were fought in and generally teaching you about some of 2 biggest wars in history.

Once they moved the series to the future they used current world affairs and politics to make a story. They used what effects/has effected us such as terrorism to create a story of government mistrust and backstabbing on it's own people(Bombing London or shooting an airport full of Russian civilians so the American people will call for war(very much like Iraq)) . The Mario series could only hope of actually telling a decent story for once.

But bashing CoD is the cool thing to do today or not considering it art when games like Shadow of Colossus use the same bland colour scheme.

I also question the whole point of games being art. I've read through all of this thread and if the game has a good story it's considered art despite the fact this thread should then be called "are games considered a good medium of telling stories like books or films?"
The initial posts states that games are just more than graphics, yet most of the games suggested a being called "art" because of their graphics like Okami or Zelda. But that's what this thread is trying to say they aren't. It also proves that a game should be taken into considering because of it's graphics whether the story is re-used and un-inspiring like Zelda or well done like Shadow of Colossus, but that falls under games being able to tell story and then if so, we can't have CoD being mentioned because I'm just going by the idea that "CoD sucks".