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My name is Keith and I'm 15. I love Video Games and Music.
Some of my favorite games are:
Psychonauts
Bioshock
Resident Evil 4
Bionic Commando (NES)
Team Fortress 2
and Smash Bros
My Wii Friend Codes are:
System 0292 4657 1094 7977
SSBB 3737 9202 7546 (message me if you want to play.
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Gaming is hard to take seriously.
And that is a bad thing! On one side we have games that try to do new things and tell story in different ways that make us feel things. On the other side we have a bunch of idiots yellin' "BOOM! HEADSHOT!" into their mics all night long. Here are some games that are art. They have to be, I don't care if some soccer mom thinks of gaming only as Bejeweled on her cell phone. 
If that is art (I drew that, I know. I'm amazing) then these games are without question. 
Braid I love Braid so much. Every aspect of it. The graphics which look like a painting coming to life and the music is enchanting (in a non lame disney sounding sort of way). The story is very distant, but important, and arguable, kind of like art (see what I did there). But the mechanic is amazing. Being able to watch yourself go back, smarter from the experience with no consequences. Pretty powerful stuff. It's on XBLA for 1,200 points and Steam for I'm guessing 15 bucks as well, Pick it up if you haven't yet. 
Psychonauts Psychonauts most artistic thing I think about it is the absurdity. Your characters in this Summer Camp, it seems so ridiculous... but awesome. All characters are extremely developed and fun to talk to and made me laugh more then most modern comedy movies. Like... come on, pure entertainment that is daring and different. What's not to like? 
Flower I've never played Flower due to the fact I don't own a PS3 but you can just tell this game is art. Controling the wind and watching as pedals blow b-e-a-utifully and majestically jumps seems compelling. Can't talk much about it but, if I get the PS3 this year (price drop plz) I will be picking this up for sure. 
Shadow Of The Colossus Crazy thing is, I don't find this game fun. But I respect it. Kinda like not loving to stare at a painting but understanding why it is important. Most people I know can babble on about this game forever, about climbing on the giant enemy (not crabs) and killing the innocent beast. One day I will finish this game, and one day I will not go to see the movie coming out. Yeah, gaming, art. INTERESTING!
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
On books there are a lot of motivacional and suspense books ; on movies we have a lot of action , gore and sex jokes movies ;on photography we have a lot of starving africans photos; on paintings we have a lot of abstract for abstract's sake , still life and mountains paintings ;on music we have a lot of Chris Brown like BS and sexy pop music ...Get my ideia?
Games are games, they're meant as entertainment. Boom, Headshot games are necessary. Not everybody wants to sit down and contemplate what the fuck they just played. Sometimes you just want to sit down and blow some fuckers head off and sometimes you want to sit down and have a meaningful time with your games.
To blame games for not having a deeper meaning is just ignorant. It's fucking video games.
And we also have those dumb entertainement in other media , in every media we have ART and dumb-but-fun entertainemnt ...