Yes. It can be. If someone doubts it, then they can take a look at Bioshock. Amazing game.
I figure I’m past that.
It’s much easier to play armchair fantasy football game development.
Ah, do it as a hobby then - go indie and accidently make the next Minecraft in your spare time 
Or just nudge a multi-billion dollar game to do stuff 
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10/10, 
This. That said, they are a form of entertainment first and foremost. I’d really prefer not to attract any sort of crowd interested in them as an art form
ofc. games like red dead have beautiful graphics and games like borderlands have a completely different kind of art style that makes each game different and likeable
You can consider anything art, or nothing art. Art is in the eye of the beholder. So if you think a video game is art, then you are correct. If you think it isn’t you are correct.
To each their own.
My parents can’t see why I like the Witcher 3, despite I am playing on the most scenic scene in the entire game
While I can’t see why my dad likes to hear Bolero music. At all.
So yeah, art is in the eye of the beholder, it really depends on taste and biases.
all games are art. now whether it’s good art for many games is subjective lol
There isn’t that much difference between art and entertainment though. Can you come up with any example of art that doesn’t entertain?
Art it self is subjective. If it weren’t subjective, it probably wouldn’t be art.
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“the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination”
Video games are absolutely art and you can play a game artistically too. There are infinite ways to express or apply human skill and imagination but it’s all subjective since there is no standard for art. Your situation sounds like an argument of self importance where someone wants to believe their art is more valid than yours. It isn’t.
Because Blizzard has a large number of people who will play their games regardless and because it had an obnoxious oversexualiztion of the characters and because it was called a spiritual successor to games like quake and TF2 which have long since died out but still had a large fanbase devoted to the games wishing they would resurface.
Both games and clothes can be art.
However, I’d prefer my games and my clothes to not be art.
Perhaps I’m just a simpleton but, the more artsy or smart something is described as being the less enjoyable/useful I tend to find it.
Of course games are art, but only a few games are masterpieces…
So are movies, and they are considered art…
absolutely, its just like theatre, or comics, its telling a story with thematic scenes, the only difference is this is interactive
Art is in the eye of the beholder. So yes and no. Depends on the individual.
That’s part of it. But there are stylistic choices added to this game versus others. Blizzard didn’t gain only blizzard fans. That’s just not how it works. And it is much more commercial than any other product they have. I have co-workers with dva reaper and mercy merch and they have no idea. It just looks cool.
Style, character clothes… It all creates an image in a video game…
I suppose that’s fair, but I’m still salty that Overwatch killed Battleborn