| Sorry for the OT post, thanks for creating a new thread, Fable.
Just to repost the part that was about computer games:
Regarding computer games in general, I think their characteristics as a media makes the qualify as art easily, in the same as as film does. This is however merely theoretical. Computer games still have several steps to take to be art, there are several missing factors, but it could be included if one wanted. In the same way as I don't view "Rambo" as art, I don't view PS:T as art, but if someone defines "Rambo" as art (rather than "entertainment", which I view as a separate category from art), I would argue that that position would have to include PS:T as art, too.
However, from what little I know about video games, I think that if there is any computer game that really could qualify as art, it is not PS:T but Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
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