CGPGrey's new video is VERY relevant to the debate

You're being sarcastic but this has honestly convinced me to stop bothering with this bullshit.

If you want the plain English translation of my sarcastic quipping, it is as follows:

"I have no idea how to solve this mess so here's a joke to make us all feel better for a seconds."

Now that that's out of the way:

My problem is not that there are people who want to turn games into art. My problem is these people seem incapable of doing so without looking down their noses and sneering at people who just want to be entertained and challenged by a game's mechanics. They spend their time decrying games a puerile, immature and childish. They complain about the 'saturday morning cartoon' vibe. They hold up their tastes as the intellectually, morally, culturally superior. Anything to avoid accepting the fact games are, and will always be toys.

To quote C.S. Lewis:

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Personally, I am of the opinion that people who want to focus on narrative in games have made mistake and are in the wrong industry. I don't recall who said it, I think it may have been a Bioshock developer, but they said something along the lines of "I'm trying to tell a story but the player can just turn around at any moment and look the other way, or walk right past everything. That's incredibly frustrating to me.", and all I could think when I heard this was 'You should be making movies'.

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