Expand / Film critics Roger Ebert (centre ) along with Gene Siskel look on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on December 12, 1986. (charge: Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal through Getty Images)
Update: two years back about Thanksgiving, legendary film critic Roger Ebert put off a mini-storm in video game journalism circles by shooting into his pillar and poo-pooing the moderate. With Ars employees off to the holiday season, we thought it would be interesting to resurface the investigation of Ebert’s critiques out of Ars contributor Jeremy Reimer. While there have always been several game-to-film duds from the intervening years (ahem, Assassin’s Creed), there has been no shortage of magnificent movie game storytelling (Her Story) or even Hollywood appearing to new names (Final of Us on HBO, possibly. This piece originally conducted on November 30, 2005 and seems unchanged under.
Roger Ebert, the famous film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of this syndicated TV series Ebert and Roper in the Films has thrown down the gauntlet on his own site by saying that video games won’t ever be as aesthetically pleasing as literature and movies. Ebert doesn’t think that this quality difference can be spanned, as he believes It’s a basic limit of the medium itself:
Whether interactive artwork can still be artwork is an intriguing question. Modern artists like Chin Chih Yang, that design interactive multimedia jobs in addition to producing”conventional” art, will likely let you know that if a thing is”art” depends upon just the artist and the viewer, rather than the medium itself. But, there are definitely more conservative artists who’d discount”interactive multimedia jobs” rather than being deserving of the term artwork. Obviously this debate isn’t a new person, nor is it restricted to games. Films and comic books equally fought (and {} ) to obtain the identical amount of admiration as conventional websites, like literature and plays.
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