Disclaimer This is going to sound like I ' m defending most gamers and I ' m not because most hate the types of games I ' m referring to . I do think that games deserve to be critically and academically observed like any other medium , but at the same time I feel like sometimes critics will look at the campaign for Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto and extrapolate to games overall . That ' d be similar to looking at just Rambo First Blood or Pineapple Express and extrapolating that to all movies . Great games with artistic merits that deserve critical praise are out there , but they definitely aren ' t the ones that do well at the gaming version of the box office . This is true for movies too , Whiplash definitely didn ' t beat whatever superhero movies were in theaters that year at the box office , but it did win several oscars .