I believe that for a game to be art it has to first be timeless. As in, picking it up and playing it now will still have the same effect on a newcomer as picking up and playing it then.
All the games I've mentioned, plus more, have aged beautifully. Picking up the original Half Life, it felt aged and awkward to me. And not in the 'This is so fun I can get past it' way.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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