To be fair, there IS a valid reason that one may be concerned with the "games as art," or, more accurately, "games as expression" argument. This isn't the same as boring "art games" that really are pretty poor examples of both.Smeggs said:I could not give any less fucks about games being considered art as I do right now.
A game's first and only job is to be entertaining and keep me amused.
And games being overly pretentious sometimes gets in the way of that.
I'd rather gaming be considered a passtime for all eternity and get random gems of nonsensical violence with my artsy games than for every game to suddenly try to have some deep underlying meaning.
That reason is to give us a stick with which to beat back the Jack Thompsons, Hillary Clintons, and Mrs. Lovejoys of the world. It's a sign of the system failing that we even NEED to claim it, but that's the way it goes. That said, just because the OP has a stick up his pooper and doesn't see the "art" behind LC doesn't mean it's not there.
It's clearly a scathing, postmodern indictment of modern youth and its sense of powerlessness to fight a system that is stacked against them. With Zombies.
Not the best example, since the show actually took itself seriously. The 90s MOVIE, on the other hand, is exactly what you're looking for. High camp and self parody, and it's basically LC with vampires and an undead PeeWee Herman, instead of zombies.Therumancer said:Well, it can be done, it just takes better writers than they had for Onechanbara. If you look at say "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" that show went on for a good number of years and had a spin off ("Angel") and everything.