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So, Roger Ebert seems obsessed with convincing everyone who will listen that video games are the lowest form of media and if you enjoy them at all, you are a fool. 
 
Obviously, everyone here would disagree with that.
 
Now, he's got a " survey" on the Chicago Sun-Times website about whether you would prefer a great video game or Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", with his point being that anyone that would prefer a video game is a fool, and he intends to prove this by having a survey to show how many people agree with him, I guess. 
 
From his Twitter:
"I'll say it again: Only a fool would value any video game over "Huckleberry Finn." There. I said it again."
 
I recommend everyone in the Giant Bomb community take his "survey". You can find the link here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7VJD7JW 
 
EDIT: 
For the record, I picked video games because I did not enjoy Huckleberry Finn, and I have enjoyed countless video games. Video games have contributed to the quality of my life, where Huckleberry Finn has not. There are in fact dozens of books I would prefer over Huckleberry Finn. The survey is not about perceived "cultural significance", it's about personal preference.

Do I have to sign up to make it count? :s

I find it interesting that as a film critic, he uses a book to try and prove his point.

" Do I have to sign up to make it count? :s "

You are a fool if you pick video games over Huckleberry Finn.
 
Still, I'd pick a majority of video games over the movie Avatar, although the cultural importance of Avatar is only slightly below the impact of video games, where video games are a spec of dust compared to actual art.

" I find it interesting that as a film critic, he uses a book to try and prove his point. "

I VOTED VIDEO GAMES! 
 
 
DO I WIN!?

I voted video games!

well he either does have a point trying to prove, or felt that he's become irrelevant to the world today, and this is his desperate attempt to get today's youth's attention 
 
either way, im not interested :)

Books are for dorks XD 
 
Am I doing it right?

His poll makes no sense. It's like saying that anyone who would rather get raped by an elephant than win a million dollars is a fool. 
 
Comparing apples to oranges. I don't think Roger Ebert is a douchebag, he is an intelligent man, but polls like this are beneath him and are completely pointless.

" @Damodar said:

" I find it interesting that as a film critic, he uses a book to try and prove his point. "

And as a person who likes video games, you're missing his point and so reaffirming his point. "

Apples and oranges. This is a pretty retarded poll.

I don't care enough about Ebert's opinion to follow a link, let alone click on a survey.
 
Am I missing his point? Proving his point? Either way, I really don't care.

I like Roger Ebert. I like him a lot actually. But this whole "war on video games" just seems weird. I'm not sure exactly what Ebert is trying to prove here. It doesn't seem like this survey proves anything more than "HEY! I'M RIGHT!" or "YOU'RE ALL FOOLS, YOU FOOLS!"
 
That being said, this whole "games as art" debate is completely uninteresting to me.

It's sort of a dumb question.... I mean, Huckleberry Finn exists and I appreciate it - and perhaps there are games which are or will be held on equal footing with it. Why can't we have both? Both have their place  and in all mediums there are low-brow and high-brow forms of expression.  How would Ebert answer the following: 
 
Which would you appreciate more: 
 
A) A Harlequin Romance Novel 
B) Shadow of the Colossus 

I own a Huckleberry Finn, it's great.  But I read it years ago and haven't touched it since.  Right now, I'd rather a great game.
Does he mean for the first time?  The book, but then you wouldn't know it the book was any good.  Video games are visual and social, I can know if a a game is good by seeing someone else play it.  So taking a chance on a book people tell me is good or a game I know I want to play - I'd have to go with the game.
 
I don't understand his survey.  It doesn't really make any sense.
Is there anything else to it but poll choices?  No paragraph explaining it?
 
Also, you could take the video game option being a nameless "Great video game" as an example of how little Roger Ebert knows about the subject he won't leave alone.

Someone make a  Huckleberry Finn adventure game!

I like Roger Ebert!
 
But he is old and infirm and really confused about vidja games.

Done. Voted video games.

A great video game. Oh, you mean like BioShock? Or Final Fantasy Tactics? Or Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu? Or the Zenithia Trilogy? You know, games with fantastic stories that break free of that old saying, "good story for a game." I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Ebert, you are seriously fucking wrong in more ways than you know.
 
Also, Penny Arcade.

Problem is, that the majority of people are Idiots, so wouldn't you want the book to win the poll?

And i doubt that Ebert has played enough games (if any?) to have any credibility regarding Video Games.

 he has to talk with a computer ha ha

Huckleberry Finn is not a good book, if he put up a book that I actually found interesting then yea, i'd choose that. On average, I find I get a hell of alot more enjoyment from a good book then I do a good game, so Ebert may be right on saying (alot of) books are better than a videogame.

" Someone make a  Huckleberry Finn adventure game! "

Huckleberry Finn isn't even that good of a book.  
 
You know, about a hundred years ago, when plays were still bigger than movies, critics thought that movies were the lowest form of entertainment, and that they couldn't be art. Roger Ebert is just a stubborn old man who's stuck in the past. Even his movie reviews aren't good anymore. It's gotten to the point where if I read a review of his, I go by the opposite of what he says (ie, he said that Kick-Ass was terrible, so I went to go see it, and it was great). 

This whole debate is so pointless. Ebert grew up in a completely different time and world than us, so it's not surprising that he would have a hard time accepting video games. It's so subjective that there's no point in causing an uproar about it.
 
He'll probably never come around to our point of view, and as long as he keeps bringing it up it's just going to incite the people who do appreciate games...I have no idea what purpose a poll like this could serve.

Internet surveys. Putting people in their place since the mid '90s.

 Its a good book, that Huck Finn. I don't think its a stretch to say a literary classic is tangibly better than most videogames. I think you're just raging again and want to create 100 alts to fudge up his poll because you're a jackass and have far more spare time than he does. And every time a thread like this pops up you validate his stance that games appeal to simpler people by acting like simpler people.

A Jason Statham movie
Glenn Beck's novel
Portal
 
Which is more "Art?"
The answer:  Roger Ebert is going out like a posturing asshole.

That's like saying:
 
"I think I'd prefer a turkey club sandwich tonight instead of a rib-eye steak."
 
They aren't the same thing, and calling someone a fool for eating one over the other makes no sense whatsoever.

If that makes me a fool then I'm the dumbest motherfucker that ever lived.

He has an opinion. Leave him alone.
 
Huckleberry Fin is kinda low end reading anyway.

Huckleberry Finn isn't even a good book.  
But in any case, I don't see the point of this survey thingy, unless of course there are some people out there who changes their minds because of what other people say. 
Oh god I hope those people don't excist, especially on a website such as this.. 
'Looks around' Oh, shit.. 

I'm waiting for someone who entered the thread called 

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" He has an opinion. Leave him alone.  Huckleberry Fin is kinda low end reading anyway. "

What's he doing? His opinion on shit used to make so much sense. Stop talking about books and video games, you understand neither, Roger! Stick to movies, please! 
 
Huck Finn's awesome, but how in the hell am I supposed to pick which one I'd rather do? A book everyone's already read, or a potentially new video game.  
 
Plus, sometimes I feel like reading, sometimes I feel like unloading a gun into some aliens or something. Consider my change of moods, I don't have to like the same thing all the time. 
 
Also, I want Roger to take his poll and make a sequel. Huck Finn Vs. Twilight. I'm sure he'll be real impressed with the results, give him a perspective on what reading for youth is at right now. 

" It's sort of a dumb question.... I mean, Huckleberry Finn exists and I appreciate it - and perhaps there are games which are or will be held on equal footing with it. Why can't we have both? Both have their place  and in all mediums there are low-brow and high-brow forms of expression.  How would Ebert answer the following: 
 
Which would you appreciate more: 
 
A) Any novel 
B) Shadow of the Colossus 
"

" He has an opinion. Leave him alone. "

"  Also, I want Roger to take his poll and make a sequel. Huck Finn Vs. Twilight. I'm sure he'll be real impressed with the results, give him a perspective on what reading for youth is at right now.  "

"  Its a good book, that Huck Finn. I don't think its a stretch to say a literary classic is tangibly better than most videogames. I think you're just raging again and want to create 100 alts to fudge up his poll because you're a jackass and have far more spare time than he does. And every time a thread like this pops up you validate his stance that games appeal to simpler people by acting like simpler people. "

I like Ebert for movies and trust his opinion there, but the conflict that has been going on between him and the internet fanboys is silly and so I am ignoring anything in that regard.  I am sick of the "Video Games are Art" debate and wouldn't care if I ever read anything about it ever again.

This crazy old man is at it again? Oh you!

Voted video games.
 
Chew on that, critic!
 
Oh wait...

"You are a fool if you pick video games over Huckleberry Finn.  Still, I'd pick a majority of video games over the movie Avatar, although the cultural importance of Avatar is only slightly below the impact of video games, where video games are a spec of dust compared to actual art. "