Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[Alex Ros]

Kinda interesting conversation about what is a game and what is not. If you don't mind the intrusion into conversation - I would say it's just a matter of genre. Similar to the movies, where we have melodramas, adventures aka Indiana Jones, horror movies, etc - but all of them are still movies. Nobody's saying that slow art-house horror movies like... hmm... the Shining for example is a less movie than... ooh... Terminator. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't mind. But I believe it's not about what's game and what's not. It's all just about different genre. No?

To me games are for entertainment...

But what is entertainment? For some people it's running around and shooting. For example for me personally that's boring. Yeah I'm serious. But Dear Esther was INCREDIBLY entertaining for me personally, while lots of people were bored. So it's also a question what is objectively an entertainment? And I don't know the answer. I'm mean I can tell what is entertainment subjectively, but objectively... I don't know, I don't know. Who knows?