Fascinating Blog Entry about Hollywood and Video Games

[feilong801]

Check out this link:
http://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/04/hollywoods_bloo.html

This guy wrote an interesting blog about so called convergence.

But what's interesting to me is that, while I agree with his premise that games do NOT need to be about Hollywood (I believe they stand tall as art on their own, without the need to emulate that industry), I disagree completely with the reasoning that brought him there.

He seems to say that all a given art form can be is some sort of low level stimulation (in the case of games, the player interacting with a system). He, in my opinion, overreaches when he starts comparing the movie "300" to the video games converging with Hollywood debate. It is only his opinion, for instance, that 300 is only about the low level images of muscle bound Spartans. Yet he freely admits that some people walk away from that film having took away totally different things than he did.

Anyway... anyone have some thoughts on this?

-Rob

[Michael D]

Yeah, I absolutely believe in convergence, not just between games and movies, but of other mediums, as well, such as music, books, the internet and television.  If you think about it, convergence is what's resulted in the growth of many different mediums by delivering them to the followers of others, one example being internet users who can read books online.