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A misunderstood masterpiece of mainstream political art.
Johnny C:
Okami and Shadow Of The Colossus and all of those superb, unique, beautiful masterpieces are somewhat different from the cash cow that GTA represents.
mqarcus:
Well, that's because Okami is beautiful while GTA is provoking, and comparing these won't give anything. GTA made tons of cash being somewhat iriginal, violent and - a satire of popular culture, while Okami - is not.
Johnny C:
I suppose "Last Action Hero" is high art then.
mqarcus:
Of course ;D
Nah, but I guess you got my point. No one has ever done something like that before, not on that platform, and so on. I don't say it's art, I say it's good entertainment, and a little deeper than one may think.
Storm Rider:
I was actually more referring to the dismissal of video games in general as art, rather than GTA specifically. I'm not sure where I stand on GTA being called art. On one hand, it is genuinely funny satire. On the other, they've pumped out 3 games that are more or less exactly the same (5, if you count the two PSP spinoffs), and rake in obscene amounts of cash just because they're making games that let you beat up prostitutes. Nobody buys GTA for the humor, unfortunately.
What really pisses me off is how people say the thing that they like about GTA is the 'realism'. Sure, the game more or less lets you do whatever you want, but when's the last time somebody took a machine gun to an entire block of pedestrians, ran into a deserted garage, changed clothes, and got away without a second glance?
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