Commercial success is not the sole factor in whether or not people take a medium "seriously". It's the effect it leaves on other works that follow in the medium.
Video games do have those works. For example, Quake was the Citizen Kane of FPS. Its influence is still felt today. There are movers and shakers that have their design copied and iterated, but nearly all of them used a Quake engine derivative and used its basic gameplay style.
Moviefags are extremely dumb
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Way to eat my image hotwheels.
Pretty much. If you find a genre or game that influenced future generations than that is pretty much the "Citizen Kane" of gaming. Making a video game to be played as a game. What retarded journos are trying to force the meme on are games that don't even come close to the title of such a feat. Might as well call a comic book with word count that almost rivals a book the "Citizen Kane" of comic books. When any "art form" strays from what makes it special in the first place it ruins what that art form is trying to express in the first place.
Citizen Kane in of itself is a fine film.
Granted, people make it out to be a golden example of art as soon as it came out, ignoring the fact that it was a critical and commercial flop almost on release.
It wasn't until a few years later that people actually realized the groundbreaking stuff in it (camera angles, lighting, atmosphere, etc.).
That being said, vidya doesn't need a Citizen Kane.
Nobody asks for the "Citizen Kane" of literature, stage theater, sculpture, or pornography. Yet, the "experts" and journos will constantly cry out for the "Citizen Kane" of vidya as if it should be treated in the same manner.
The piece that becomes the gold standard for vidya will come or has come, I'm not as versed in it as I'd like to be.
I don't know. I'd watch a citizen kane of porn just to see what that would even look like.
I'd masturbate to that.
Well those trips demand it happen.