alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 19 hours agoInspired by the success of games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, French president Emmanuel Macron declares 'videogames are part of our culture' and announces a new international gaming festivalwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1413
arrow-up1413external-linkInspired by the success of games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, French president Emmanuel Macron declares 'videogames are part of our culture' and announces a new international gaming festivalwww.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squaresoyslurper2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·16 hours ago videogames are part of our culture I don’t get what that means. Was there a threshold of french video games that needed to be met before it could be considered “part of our culture”?
minus-squarePromKingJosh@tarte.nuage-libre.frlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoI think he wanted to legitimise video games as on par with traditional media like movies and books. As in “are video games art?”
minus-squareSylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoYes actually, most people working in and around the French ministry of culture are extremely snobbish about any art form more recent than film.
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·16 hours agoI think he means that the other way around, he’s trying to remind everyone that France does have video game companies (Ubisoft for one), not that this is a new thing.
I don’t get what that means. Was there a threshold of french video games that needed to be met before it could be considered “part of our culture”?
I think he wanted to legitimise video games as on par with traditional media like movies and books. As in “are video games art?”
Yes actually, most people working in and around the French ministry of culture are extremely snobbish about any art form more recent than film.
I think he means that the other way around, he’s trying to remind everyone that France does have video game companies (Ubisoft for one), not that this is a new thing.