05.02.2010 - Terrence Marks:

I had a brilliant idea.

Roger Ebert says video games aren't art. I say he's wrong - you can scroll down to see the exact details of how I said it.

Rather than engage him in Internet Debate (which is like regular debate only pointless and with image macros), I'd do one better. The best form of revenge is living well. So I'd find out what games were art - by my definitions - and play through them all.

The first part of the plan was to make a list. There were a lot of games I've already played that I think count (Grim Fandango, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Twilight Princess, Planescape: Torment, Starcraft, Star Control 2, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and a number of games that I own that I'm meaning to play (Ico, Beyond Good and Evil, Planetfall, Monkey Island 1-3, Final Fantasy 6, Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, most of the Super Mario series).

So I was going to ask you which games I should play, then go through and play them. Heck, maybe see if the rest of the internet wanted to get in on the selection process. Write something up, send it around to various gaming sites, and see if they bite. I write a slice-of-life/romance comic strip with anthropomorphic characters. There aren't going to be many times that slashdot reports on what I do.

I'd play through the games and review them. Maybe film something. Tell you how awesome they are and why. Celebrate the high points of gaming.

Then I realized exactly how long it would take me to do this. It'd be awesome. And I'm going to play through those games sooner than later. But someone ought to do this right, and I'm not that guy. That's why I wrote this up - in the hopes that someone else will. So, brilliant idea, out there for the taking. Want it?