I understand voting based on the game you, personally, like more, but when we're talking "best game of the generation", you have to take a step back and think about more than just what entertained you the most. You have to factor in the industry as a whole: where it was before this generation and where it's headed; the influence the games had, the ways they pushed the medium as art form AND entertainment.
Really, there's no point in me trying to convince anyone that voting for BioShock is the right answer here, because this is all just for fun. Yet...voting for Dark Souls over BioShock as "best game of the generation" is sort of like saying you think The Empire Strikes Back was the best movie of 1980 over The Shining.
Don't get me wrong. I fucking love me some Dark Souls and Star Wars, and I would much rather play Dark Souls or watch Empire on the average day. But...it'd be hard for me to argue that, say, Empire is the more "artistic" or "important" movie of the two, however one defines those things in relation to films. Empire is more ubiquitous and enshrined in popular culture, no doubt, but would you show it to someone to justify film as an artistic medium? The Shining and BioShock are experiences that, whether you liked them or not, stick with you and make you think about them when they're over.
Maybe a better way to say it is that Empire/Dark Souls iare art but not art-with-a-capital-A.
Eh, I probably should just go to bed and stop before I get in another situation on the Internet where someone thinks I'm trying to sound pretentious.
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