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Are games art? Some are. I'd absolutely be willing to say that Shadow of the Colossus is art. There's also a lot of indie games that I'd consider art... Trauma comes to mind, as does Limbo and Braid. The original Deus Ex is art--it's not a game, it's a first-person-perspective sociology essay.
Most games, though, aren't art. They're fun and dirty entertainment, like a pulp sci-fi or trashy romance novel, a spy novel or an oldschool comic book. Do I think this is a bad thing? Not at all. Not everything has to be high, incomprehensible, mind-tweaking ARRRRT. Some things can just be fun.
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