Aesthetics Idea

Reading a paper at the moment on if games can be considered art, one of the arguments against it is that the success of intrinsic goals are not judged on their aesthetic merits. So i thought: why not? Then i realised, there are games out there that do that. Games such as downhill snowboarding games, skateboard games, motocross games. Albeit they are all sports games, but why couldn’t we integrate these game mechanics into something like a beat-em up, where the goal isn’t to knock out an opponent but get the best looking combo hit. There are many genres where this mechanic has not been explored and i see potential for it. Just my thoughts on ‘paper’, nothing more.