03-24-2012, 06:11 PM
Claiming video games as art is questionable, in my opinion, at least as a general statement. I agree that some video games can be art, but those "games" are little more than interactive novels. The story is what drives the game, not the gameplay. For example, Planescape: Torment, or Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit.
Mass Effect is driven by the story, yes... but that story is driven by choices. In the other games, choices are important, but not nearly to that degree. ME3 isn't an interactive novel. The plot is altered so much by the things that have come before, and the endings are all the same... whereas in the other games, the plot is more or less the same, except for the ending, which is different depending on what you did during the game.
If ME3 is art now, then it is already "art by democracy", and I don't see how altering the ending changes it.
Mass Effect is driven by the story, yes... but that story is driven by choices. In the other games, choices are important, but not nearly to that degree. ME3 isn't an interactive novel. The plot is altered so much by the things that have come before, and the endings are all the same... whereas in the other games, the plot is more or less the same, except for the ending, which is different depending on what you did during the game.
If ME3 is art now, then it is already "art by democracy", and I don't see how altering the ending changes it.
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