"At the risk of going off the deep end of hyperbole, afford me just the one statement upfront: Why are gamers ashamed of their own hobby?
Now that the hyperbole is out of the way, let me more narrowly define and explain that statement. Among the gaming community there is a growing segment of people that fervently want video games to be viewed as an "artistic" medium, on the same level of literature, film and music. In video game message boards across the Internet, debates rage about this topic, and the argument is always made that "if 'we' (gamers) want games to be taken seriously, 'we' must do …" That ellipses could mean anything; that game reviews should be a "critique" instead of a "product review", that journalists should be more hard hitting with their reporting, that games should tackle complex social and moral problems, or that more games should try and evoke a wider range of emotions through its storytelling."
