Video games are far too derivative to be taken seriously as art. People saying that with a straight face are suffering some serious Dunning-Kruger. Video games at least ought to produce examples of great design, but even those examples are few and far between.

The games industry is an aesthetic wasteland, and like many genre ghettoes, it is bound by negative feedback loops between an uninformed consumers and uncaring producers.

Video game curation is broken, reviews can't be trusted, and decidated gamers are far too inured to eating shit for their opinions to mean much.