How is entertainment defined? Video games may, or may not be, legitimate entertainment based on what defines entertainment itself. I’m not sure of it myself, really. The definition, that is. Recreational fun though, for lack of better words, comes to mind. I don’t think it has that many specific boundaries, not like you’re describing anyways.
Regardless, people play them for fun, no matter what is required, or not required. Generally, anyways. They’re considered as entertainment for the recreational values they offer, which use very similar elements that books or movies do. In the beginning, they added competition, which to many is entertaining. I think entertainment is vast, and has a lot of fishing hooks for different kindsa fish.
Okay so now games can be hobbies, obsessions and everything, but what form of entertainment hasn’t seen that. The core of it remains, games fit into the entertainment spectrum, whether they’re a story, or achieving high scores in days gone by.
I don’t quite know what relates everything, but if you look at things like board games or table top RPG’s (Dungeons & Dragons and the like) which are considered entertainment, video games have a rightful place in the spectrum. Mostly because I don’t really think anything specific needs to be applied to be called entertainment, as long as it adheres to what entertainment is. Whether that’s for profit or genuine fun having. Lol.
And fuck video games based on the Da Vinci Code. XD
But yeah, lots of games are hard work, but if people have fun through it and it catches on, such as many other forms of entertainment, it fits in. I hate chess because it’s too hard analyzing everything constantly, but for those who like it, it’s great fun.