Comment on What games are just objective master pieces?

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “Masterpiece” comes from the art world, and there are absolutely works everyone seems to agree qualify, such as:

  • The Mona Lisa
  • David statue
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

  It’s usually the best work by an artist, or at least the one that got them their recognition, and it stands out among other works in the field.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it’s the one that got them their recognition, it’s little more than arbitrary; luck, place and time; things that don’t have to do with how good the work is. Some “masterpieces” weren’t considered such until they were exposed to people over and over again, like The Mona Lisa at the Louvre or It’s a Wonderful Life on TBS. I’d have a hard time calling a number of games masterpieces that I didn’t care for, because this isn’t objective.

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• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think the word you are looking for is pedant.

    Better vocabulary will help get your point across better. Without also sounding like an edgy atheist teen.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s low-grade trolling, chill bro. They’re not serious.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A masterpiece could just refer to a piece of art from a master. It could refer to the quality of an engineering project, or the skill involved in the work’s creation. Are these not objective qualities?

  I don’t really think the Mona Lisa is a great image, personally (it’s a boring portrait), but it was masterfully done.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This gets trickier with games, because an experienced game designer can, for instance, look at the UI design and graphics programming of a Ubisoft open world slopfest, and say those parts were masterfully done (even if the overall game isn’t so fun). And, even the best of video games have bits of them that weren’t as good.

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right… So what game gets the most of those bits the most right?

      That’s how you start to separate out the best. Not that complex.

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Games are not Art, they are Games.

  Videogames can also be art, but they are also games and ‘games’ (note: not ‘videogames’) are not art.

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