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I don't know how many people are going to agree with the premise, let alone the choices, but lists are always worth a good argument. Games Radar has assembled a list of 25 gaming equivalents to Citizen Kane from the movie world. Two single-player RPG get a spot - Ultima III and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The latter gets nominated for (wait for it...): pioneering "semi-open-ended Western RPGs disguised as fully 3D quasi-action games". Here's the intro:
More information.When talking about the idea of videogames as art, it’s become increasingly popular to lament that the medium doesn’t yet have its “Citizen Kane.” Seemingly everyone, from industry luminary Ian Bogost to film director Guillermo del Toro, has sounded off about how games either need, don’t need, or will soon receive the masterpiece that will force the medium to “grow up” and be accepted as an art form by the mainstream. But while these deep thinkers pontificate on the need for a medium-defining masterpiece, we’d argue that the game industry has already produced one. In fact, it’s produced a whole bunch.