[General Discussion] Can video games be considered art?

Yes, but I don't think a game has to be applicable to the term "artistic" as a film or novel or painting is. Even the most simple games, like Tetris or Pong, have an artistic quality to them. I consider the gameplay to be the artistic center of a game, and everything else merely supports or adds to that center.
This is not to say that a game can't be artistic in a more traditional sense, and some are, but they don't have to be for me to consider them artistic.
Plenty of people would dismiss this notion, plenty of people who'd like to think of themselves as progressive thinkers, but that dismissal in and of itself would deny that about them. They're close-minded and only open to what they've known before, what's established and safe to consider artistic.

Anyway, art is a bullshit term. It means nothing. It's so abstract and ridiculous people could argue about this for years and get no closer to deciding on something or agreeing. So let's accept that games are fun and leave it at that. Art, as a word, means nothing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.