Comment by tialaramex
1 month ago
Art is the Unnecessary done on Purpose. It is clearly unnecessary to make video games, and yet people purposefully do it anyway. That's art.
Whether any particular game is good art is a different question. And that's part of why review is an interesting activity, there is a tremendous amount of this art, much more than there is say, stained glass windows or towering bronze sculptures - should we try this or that - the reviewer might help us to sift.
If you subscribe by that definition, lots of things and actions become art. You might live by it, but it will make communication with others difficult.
It's catchy but unusable in any serious discussion because it's frivolously extensive and ambiguous in the "unnecessary" part.
In a quarter century it hasn't done me any harm. I do not, of course, agree that the extensiveness is frivolous.