I guess people berating mobile games as "not real games" isn't a thing people do on Mastodon.
Is...is this heaven?
@Nezchan
All games are games. Judge each on quality and technical skill, accounting for limitations and purposes of the platform.
@TheDistinction @Nezchan I remember gaters trying to explain to me what constituted what a real game was...usually when bitching about Gone Home or something. How this became a thing of importance to them is a perplexing and pathetic mystery. Can I interact with it? Is it fun to me? It's a game!
@OldandConfused @Nezchan
Well I believe that 'walking simulators' like Gone Home etc are in the line between games and art. There are interactive art exhibits that are gamier games.
@TheDistinction @Nezchan I definitely view walking sims as games. Or as walking games. If people want games to be possibly viewed as art, saying a game is more like an artistic expression than a game seems counter productive to me. But I am not an intellectual. I play a lot of them and they usually amuse me, so they are games.
