Roger Ebert -- Critics Are Critics

So, Roger Ebert recently outlined why he feels video games are not art, and why they never will be. Check it out here.

I appreciate what he is trying to say. I can even overlook his need to compare video games to baseball and Mah Jong. The problem is that he wrestles so hard with the idea of defining what art truly is (despite claiming to not really care about a solid definition) that he doesn't seem to realize that art has a lot more to do with human expression and the need to communicate something in a way that is largely impossible through any other means. I'm not going to argue here that games are art, but I can say I hope Mr. Ebert just leaves the subject of video games alone in the future. It's pretty clear he has no interest in truly sampling the medium to actually give his opinion some sort of first hand validity.