What is art? Some people believe art to be only things that you might find in a museum, music, or dance. Many other things are actually forms of art if you look closely at them. So, art is really only something that conveys what the artist is trying to say and pass on to other people through the interpretation of their work. There is one type of art in particular that tends to go unnoticed in the world, and that is gaming software. I am talking mostly about role-playing games (or RPG's) where you assume the role of a fictional character as you progress through the fantasy world. One series of games in this genre best suite all the reasons that I play games to begin with; this is Final Fantasy. Games have artistic expression, provide us an escape for our daily routine, and help us to understand how to better our own lives.
Some people may disagree with me that games are a form of art. I do not understand why this is though, considering most of the games that I play. Final Fantasy shows us just how much art is really involved in games. There are a total of XI Final Fantasy games and I own each and every one. Each one of them shows us a new step of epic proportions in the way that graphics are displayed in a game. The later games VII-XI have probably more art in them than an entire museum. Everything in these games are specifically drawn out to appeal to the storyline. In the original Final Fantasy's, based back in Medieval Times, had knights, dragons, magicians (or mages), and other things of that sort. The graphics representation of castles and small medieval villages are just phenomenal. There are many art books that have the drawings from these games as well as the computer generated graphics. Later in the series the creators went into a more futuristic setting and the graphics were out of this world, literally. The artistic integrity of Final Fantasy is a standard unlike anything I have ever seen in my life.
