Disclaimer: I know I’m dredging up a long dismissed argument from 10 years ago, and discussing it in all the same tone as people did back then, despite everyone having moved on. My core thesi…
I mean one point the article OP posted brings up is the fact that Ebert was confused as to why gamers gave a shit about his opinion in the first place. He was a film critic, not a video game critic. Might as well ask his opinion on the best way to cook a steak or stock investing or the March Madness point spread. He was never an arbiter of what’s art and what isn’t and he made that point himself. People shoved garbage like Bioshock Infinite into his face and insisted it was proof that vidya is art, which is kinda like showing someone True Lies to convince someone films are on the same level as literature.
I can’t blame an out of touch boomer for being out of touch and not getting a new art form he had no interest in to begin with.
I mean one point the article OP posted brings up is the fact that Ebert was confused as to why gamers gave a shit about his opinion in the first place. He was a film critic, not a video game critic. Might as well ask his opinion on the best way to cook a steak or stock investing or the March Madness point spread. He was never an arbiter of what’s art and what isn’t and he made that point himself. People shoved garbage like Bioshock Infinite into his face and insisted it was proof that vidya is art, which is kinda like showing someone True Lies to convince someone films are on the same level as literature.
I can’t blame an out of touch boomer for being out of touch and not getting a new art form he had no interest in to begin with.
Ugh, I was tired of Bioshock discourse before I ever even played it.