Let’s stop giving a shit what Roger Ebert says about video games, and art, OK? We’ve tried like hell to make him into a punching bag and neither he nor the rest of the world gives a crap for the fact we choose to feel so insulted every time he says something about video games.
Roger Ebert is a very smart man and a very sharp and entertaining writer who just happens to think very, very poorly of video games.
This year, famed film critic Roger Ebert said games could never be art – a mistake he later admitted. While Ebert might not be a fan of games, that doesn’t mean he didn’t used to play them obsessively .
This past April, film critic Roger Ebert wrote a post called “Video games can never be art” that carried dogmatic statements like this:
Roger Ebert did a brave thing today, a terrible thing today: He admitted that he was wrong and said he has no plans on rectifying that.
“I was a fool for mentioning video games in the first place,” writes the famed movie critic. “I would never express an opinion on a movie I hadn’t seen.”
Did you know Samoa Joe is an excellent pro wrestler? He is. But if that doesn’t win you over, perhaps his recent Tweets about video games will. Spoiler: He doesn’t side with Roger Ebert in the games-as-art debate.
Film critic Roger Ebert sometimes uses his powers for bad. But this time he is not.