Video Games as a Form of Art

[gamemaster1991]

There are many different types of "Art." Let me list a few in a spoiler tag so I can get to the Video game point.

Spoiler

Art, as most of us know it, is pantings. We all know that this a good painting:
and we know that this is a bad painting:
but they are both considered art.
Music is also art, which makes people like Queen, FUN, and Justin Timberlake the same thing as LMFAO, Ke$ha, and Rebecca Black, because they make music.
Movies are also art, which would make Jackass the Movie, Birdemic, and The Room equal to The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, and Citizen Kane

So what makes Video Games not art? I do know that a bunch of things we play is not what I would call art, like Mario, Sly Cooper, Mortal Kombat, but what really makes these different from Toy Story, The Brave Little Toaster, and Saw. We have games that are made to tell a story and meant to be art (Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, and (maybe) Portal) but there are many that fall by the way side when it comes to "Class" (Kane & Lynch, need I say more). I don't see why it could not be art. We could always say no and just go watch Spring Breakers, the Kane & Lynch of movies, since it's so artsy.