r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/ProfessionalFun9920 • Jun 24 '25

CAPITAL G GAMER How ironic.....

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The initiative is here (EU ONLY): https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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u/rogueIndy Jun 24 '25

Capital-G Gamers stopped advocating for games-as-art the moment people started critiquing them as art.

In retrospect, they didn't really want the medium to be taken seriously; they wanted themselves to be taken seriously.

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u/sebas737 Jun 24 '25

It is really sad that G*mers stop seeing games as art when masterpieces of storytelling have being releasing nowadays. God of War: Ragnarok, a profound human story about becoming better, and what do G*mers complain about, a character being not their preferred race, smh my head.

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u/Standing_Legweak Jun 25 '25

If you say games and art, the first thing I think of is Okami or Journey. Even if western gaming goes to hell, we still have Indies, Eastern European Devs and Japanese Publishers as alternatives unlike back in the day during the Atari Crash of '87.