But Hey, That's Just a Theory.... an English Theory
In our discussions on postmodernism in class, and how it developed from modernism, I wondered how the art form impacted forms of media beyond literature and the visual arts. More specifically, I wondered if postmodernism had begun to effect video games. As an art form that has existed for less than 40 years, video games have had less time to develop stylistically than most other forms of art. Additionally, for most of that 40 year life span, games have been more focused on capturing realism than on games as an art form. Their struggle to capture realism and the elitism displayed by the triple A video game industry parallels traditionalist art. We still see their influence today, as the drive to increase graphical power continues. We've gone from a series of pixels on a screen to full scale replicas of ancient Egypt in Assassin's Creed: Origins , who's simulations of how the pyramids were constructed actually led to real life archaeological discoveries. There are problems ...