I’m sure most can remember Roger Ebert’s double talk on games not being art, and after much heat from gamers and industry big names alike, he reverted, stating the form of entertainment can “some day” become art. Well that’s his take, right? But for Junction Point boss Warren Spector, who is currently making Epic Mickey, Ebert just “doesn’t get it”.
He said this in a recent interview with Eurogamer.
“Videogames are just coming out of the period where I describe them as the medium adults don’t get. Roger Ebert is like the adult. He doesn’t get it.
Whatever medium adults don’t understand can’t be art. Eventually those adults go away and new adults take their place, and some other medium takes the place of the thing that everybody hates. We’re coming out of that period now. What Roger Ebert thinks is completely irrelevant.”
Yep, that’s about right, Spector. Ebert, I’m sure is regretting what he uttered back then every day he wakes up. Your mouth could get you into so much trouble.
More through the Eurogamer link up top.
