What game(s) do you consider art?

[Hekateras]

+1 for the Assassin's Creed series. Anything that can transport you so bloody accurately into the heart and atmosphere of a time and place hundreds of years ago - complete with lepers and plague doctors and all - is nothing less than a work of art.

By the way, here's a Flash game that particularly impressed me with its... artness. O_O

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/535768

 

[Triangulon]

Mirror's Edge - definately.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Lots of Nintendo games. Particularly Super Mario Galaxy and Zelda: Wind Waker.

 

[Austin Howe]

Well, every game is art, but these games are EXCEPTIONAL pieces of art, masterpieces, often f both design, and writing.

Metal Gear series (everything canon, so no Ac!d or Ghost Babel.
Legacy of Kain series (excluding Blood Omen 2. Decent plot, but not really up to series standard, and awful, horrendous gameplay)
Kingdom Hearts (the original)
Final Fantasy (VI through IX)
Psychonauts
Everything by Team Ico.

 

[DesertMummy]

Why has nobody mentioned Legend of Dragoon? So beautiful and worth the 4 discs to play it.

 

[boholikeu]

It's the gameplay aspects that are not art. I won't say interactivity in and of itself can't be art, but I have yet to see a game where this is the case. The gameplay is not integrated with the rest of the artwork.

This is actually present in a number of games, including:

Shadow of the Colossus
The Path
Passage
Okami
Braid

Games like HL2 and Bioshock, to a certain extent.

Countless small indie flash games.

 

[Hekateras]

Okay, I've held back this long, but dammit, I can't not mention Betrayal at Krondor.

Any game that can make you care for its characters so much deserves at least an honourable mention.

 

[Phisi]

Since no one has mentioned it and my full list will take half a page and half an hour to write, The Void. A spectacular game that I would recommend you look up if you don't know about it. If someone doesn't believe games are not art, refer them to it.

Here's the Steam link:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/37000/

 

[Hekateras]

If someone *doesn't* believe games are *not art*, refer them to it.

...In other words, what you're doing?

 

[Omey]

Fuck it, I'm linking.

http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories

Download it. Absolute masterpiece. Endpost.

Ya mate..
i hear that music in my dreams!

 

[Luthir Fontaine]

I really hate these talks...come on if a urine soaked picture of jesus is art pretty sure its up to the viewer if video games are art.

But for me prob mass effect