Yeah that's a pretty common phenomenon. It's the same reason why most of the top posts on r/art are photorealistic art, and not works that make you think or feel something. Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking photorealistic art or anything, but for stereotypical Gamers and redditors it's all about the technical achievement and difficulty involved in creating something, not the narrative or how it makes you think or feel.
It's kind of funny that when g*mers say videogames are art they mostly mean they can post a screenshot of a landscape that resembles a Thomas Kinkade painting and then talk about how beautiful it is.
I think and also know from my own experience that to many people (especially men) feelings are icky, uncool etc so they just like the art that the romans did or art that's about beauty, which is easy to appreciate.
Yeah that's a pretty common phenomenon. It's the same reason why most of the top posts on r/art are photorealistic art, and not works that make you think or feel something. Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking photorealistic art or anything, but for stereotypical Gamers and redditors it's all about the technical achievement and difficulty involved in creating something, not the narrative or how it makes you think or feel.
It's kind of funny that when g*mers say videogames are art they mostly mean they can post a screenshot of a landscape that resembles a Thomas Kinkade painting and then talk about how beautiful it is.
Making a game look like a Thomas Kinkade painting would be a pretty neat accomplishment for non-photorealistic rendering and also fucking hilarious.
The fairytale land in the Blood and Wine DLC of The Witcher 3 comes awfully close!
I think and also know from my own experience that to many people (especially men) feelings are icky, uncool etc so they just like the art that the romans did or art that's about beauty, which is easy to appreciate.