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Message: [QUOTE="AntonioDP, post: 191585, member: 35205"] I don't think they can be art. Don't get me wrong: it's not that I consider them to be inferior than other human artifacts, it's just that they do something different. Aristotle made a relevant distinction between primary arts and secondary ones, and that distinction can be seen in, for example, eroticism and pornography: the first one implies contemplation, while the second one... Well, you now what happens: it makes you want to participate. And that applies to videogames: they don't favour contemplation nor any inner exploration: we lost ourselves inside them, and they take control. I know this can be seen as a mere elucubration, moreover when videogames could be consider the ultimate Gesamtkunstwerk... [/QUOTE]

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