| Video games have come a long way. baby, a | | | | is, if not art, then a beautiful |
| long way, indeed. And luckily for us gamers, | | | | represntation of what art can be. In it, you |
| the image of the suspender wearing nerd who | | | | wander vast, pastoral plains on horseback and |
| has to put his controller down every few | | | | tackle beasts of epic proportion all in the |
| seconds just so he can push his taped glasses | | | | name of rescuing your love from her somnolent |
| back up his nose has faded away. Because now, | | | | slumber (actually, she's dead.)Your only |
| even the cool, ruffled collared kids are | | | | indication of who your next foe will be is |
| playing games, as well as the loyal crowd | | | | from a ostensibly heavenly voice from the sky |
| that has been playing them since Battlezone | | | | that speaks in an awkward manner that sounds |
| and Frogger hit the arcades, making it a | | | | like somebody's playing a Yanni record |
| multi-million dollar enterprise.But sadly, as | | | | backwards.The landscape, music, story, and |
| with any fairly new form of entertainment, as | | | | character development (the protagonist, |
| gaming gets more popular as a genre, in come | | | | Wander, loses another piece of himself with |
| the naysayers who want to push it right back | | | | every majestic monster he meticulously |
| down its totem pole. And the most recent | | | | manhandles) are all as artsy fartsy as |
| attacker (passively, of course) of this | | | | something you'd be privy to seeing in a |
| upward movement is Roger Ebert, who gamers | | | | Norwegion epic, and it truly is an engrossing |
| have been crying foul at ever since he said | | | | experience that everyone should embrace.And |
| that video games will never be art.He claims | | | | like many other elegant games like Chrono |
| that video games will never be as worthy as | | | | Trigger, Final Fantasy and other magnificent |
| movies.Um, hello! Wasn't the same thing said | | | | titles, Shadow of the Colossus IS true art, |
| about movies when THEY first arrived on the | | | | And if somebody can drag Mr. Ebert away from |
| scene when compared with books? I'm sure some | | | | watching Mean Streets for the umpteenth time, |
| prissy, English chap with mutton chops that | | | | maybe he could find that out for |
| spiraled out of control and went down to his | | | | himself.Video games, like books, like movies, |
| ankles probably said something along the | | | | like, I don't know, Anime, will be accepted |
| lines of: "That new vulgar cowboy film all | | | | in time, just you wait. As long as there are |
| those degenerates are slobbering over at the | | | | examples like Shadow of the Colossus to push |
| nickelodeon cannot compare to the wit and | | | | it forward, they will eventually get there in |
| grace of Mr. Dickens. Forthright!"Films had | | | | time.Rich is a bum looking to be a writer. He |
| to gain the respect of the critics, just like | | | | enjoys comedy but will take anything as long |
| books probably gained the respect of some | | | | as his employer pats him on the head |
| ancient Egyptians who were just fine and | | | | occasionally and cleans out his cage when the |
| dandy with their wall murals of eyeballs and | | | | feces starts piling up. He enjoys reading, |
| weird shaped snake dealies that spelled out | | | | playing video games, complaining that there |
| utmost love for the pharoah.And while games, | | | | isn't a third Ghostbusters movie, and oh, |
| this gamer must admit, HAVE been lacking in | | | | yeah, writing, and would love to get a job |
| the story department, leading one to believe | | | | that's accomidating to those aforementioned |
| that they are not art but rahter just loud | | | | activities. Oh, and he's also a demon at the |
| explosions and prostitute killing, there is | | | | buffet table. Boy, howdy, he scoffs at three |
| hope.The recent game Shadow of the Colussus | | | | plates, I tell you, scoffs at it! |