[quote=Sable]Snark =/= trolling. To elaborate, I understand that some video games can be art (though I've never seen or played one that I'd call art), the idea that video games as an aggregated whole are art is silly. Video games are popcorn entertainment. Describing them as an artistic medium struggling to be recognized as such is a false outlook on the industry.Correction: I can think of video games that are art. Spec Ops: The Line and the original Bioshock are both art rather than simply video games, but they are art because they are art, not because they are video games. Point stands.[/quote]

And you got your movies like Transformers, no well story or character development. It's all meant for lulz and having a blast with explosions.

Just because some games don't take themselves serious doesn't excuse it from being art, otherwise movies, books, or any other art form wouldn't be seen as art either.

[quote=Sable]Why do you want video games to be considered art? What does the industry gain from it?[/quote]

Because it's an even stronger narrative tool than Movies because the audience actively engaged in the experience rather than simply watching it happen.
It make you question yourself, and look at things in ways that movies and books never could.