Fallout Considered Modern Art

Post by **King of Creation** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:41 pm

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Yes, Fallout is considered as a prime example of modern art in gaming...at least according to cracked.com. <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/defending-t ... odern-art/" target="_self">Here's what they had to say:</a><blockquote>By drawing on the buttoned-down iconography of the 50’s and infusing it
with the paranoia and very real dangers of the Cold War era, the Fallout series presents a pastiche of an America that could have been. Traces of the boundless, wholesome optimism of the Leave it to Beaver
era barely obscure twisted, smoldering corpses of what may have once
been human. Monuments to our faith in the ability of science to “bring
us the convenience of the future, today!” dot a landscape made scarred,
barren, lifeless by that same overgrown technology. And all of it, set
to the uncomplicated music of bygone days, like vinyl ghost voices
blown on an irradiated wind.</blockquote>While the author mainly refers to Fallout 3, it's still worth mentioning.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:52 pm

This can be considered modern art, so why not.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:24 pm

yeah, modern art blows

Psychoul · Post by **Psychoul** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:53 pm

HAHAHAHA, ..

I guess if you catagorize fallout 3 as modern art, it sucks, because they can't catagorize in anything else. ...

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:03 pm

Time to download Grim Fandango

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:52 am

he just means art in general, not modern art per se?

much as i love a few games, i don't think there's any i'd consider art - at best they're really nice pieces of design in the way that a 747 or a good typeface is tbh imo. both the people i know who plan on making videogames for a living failed to get into design school, which may or may not have something to do with this phenomenon

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:48 am

the dark eye was close..there were a few other :artfag: games out there i'll have to remember

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:33 am

What's DAC though?

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:12 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:What's DAC though?

The Mos Eisley Cantina of the internet.

popscythe · Post by **popscythe** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:44 pm

Cracked content is all jokes, homies.

Jokes.

Like Cracked magazine.