it depends on how you define what is art. i bet that guy was talking about fine art( meaning that a great deal of personal feeling or opinion is being expressed with the art form) modern art, especially, is a vehicle for social and political point of view.
Unreal: i see where you are coming from and game arts in those games are really quite thought-out and delicate. but they belongs to commercial art, like illustration or graphic design. it is very possible that they are lacking of what i mentioned above since the purpose of them being made is for making money.
having said that, to say that video game can not be fine art is totally ridiculous. i do believe that if rich "fine" artists like jeff koon or hirst hired a bunch of people to make a game they will immediately go into museum. and that will dig up another very important argument about the definition of 'artist', given the fact that these guys are not even making the art physically, but create the idea and invest them money to their own art factories to produce the so called 'art'
Unreal: i see where you are coming from and game arts in those games are really quite thought-out and delicate. but they belongs to commercial art, like illustration or graphic design. it is very possible that they are lacking of what i mentioned above since the purpose of them being made is for making money.
having said that, to say that video game can not be fine art is totally ridiculous. i do believe that if rich "fine" artists like jeff koon or hirst hired a bunch of people to make a game they will immediately go into museum. and that will dig up another very important argument about the definition of 'artist', given the fact that these guys are not even making the art physically, but create the idea and invest them money to their own art factories to produce the so called 'art'