Interview Titan Quest Q&A at 1Up

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Titan Quest

There's <A href="http://www.1up.com/">an interview</a> with <a href="http://www.titanquest.com">Titan Quest</a> developer <b>Randall Wallace</b> over at <a href="http://www.1up.com">1Up</a>. Here's a bit of fun from it:
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<blockquote><b>1UP: Whether videogames constitute art -- in a similar sense to films -- has been a popular point for debate. How do you see it?
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Randall Wallace:</b> Art grows out of a vibrant, everyday-person culture, from the common people rather than from the elite class who think of themselves as superior and sophisticated. Of course videogames are art! They represent a creativity and vibrancy and innovation that used to mark the music business and film business. This is not to say those areas are dead, but they sometimes seem stale compared to the energy of games.</blockquote>
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Maybe at some point that was true. However, if painting worked the way video game development worked these days, there'd be the Mona Lisa and twenty dozen other paintings of ambigious expression, fat women with very little variety.
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[HoodRich]

So maybe he hasn't played any current rpgs. That's probably a good thing. We might get something different, interesting and well written for a change this time around.

As for art? Maybe something like that colossus game for playstation. When you have an industry with super mario soccer and gta: thug life it's hard to call it art.
Was there ever a video game renaissance?

 

[MacBone]

Re: Titan Quest Q&A at 1Up

Randall Wallace:</b> Art grows out of a vibrant, everyday-person culture, from the common people rather than from the elite class who think of themselves as superior and sophisticated. Of course videogames are art! <blockquote>

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That's completely untrue. Only the common people can create art? What proletarian nonsense!

 

[Shinan]

Well... to be honest there probably was a Mona Lisa and then a hundred people who made either straight copies or just similar fat women with strange smiles.

Of course in a couple of hundred years only Mona Lisa will be left.