I have a son that will be 5 in September.

We play all types of games together.

Games from all eras too.

One thing I've noticed is he doesn't say ANYTHING about how a game looks.

Never a comment about good graphics or bad graphics.

Is this because he's still so young OR has the gaming landscape changed?

New games get released every year that are made to look like they're from the 80's  or 90's

I had this thought when I was playing Life of Pixel with him.

He didn't seem to understand that the graphics were "old" looking on purpose.

I think this is wonderful!!!

A game is great IF a game is great.

Graphics be damned.

I know I'm a bit old in a gaming sense, considering I starting gaming on the NES back in 89

So what do you folks think?

Is graphics prejudice soon to be a thing of the past?

Or will we always "think" pretty graphics matter?

We'll always think pretty graphics matter, a nice art style can age very well. Good clean graphics from the NES era are more then playable. But there are many old games that are just painful.

I hope so. I'm 17 and I grew up with games like Mario 64, Pokémon Gold and Ocarina of Time, even though those games are not from my "time" so to speak. If a game has beautiful graphics I consider it a plus, but it's not really essential to me. I played Earthbound for the first time ever this year and had a blast.

Graphics bias is still a thing, especially amongst people my age who have grown up on 7th gen consoles. You're raising your kid with games that have variety in graphics. I had an N64 for a lot of my life, so I've been conditioned to see beauty in old graphics, as well as in modern games. I think it's about what you've been conditioned to seeing.

Preferences are something you acquire over years. To know what's good you have to first see what's good. That's why cavemen didn't complain about slow amazon deliveries.

Believe it or not, I too was once satisfied with PS3 graphics and fps. Then I got a PC and now I can't go back even though I wanted to.

Ever since the ps2 I don't care much for graphics - as you say, they become secondary to the other aspects of the games. However, early 3d games have age bad tho. I can hardly play certain PSone or N64 games because of how the look.

Somehow 2d graphics are ageless. I still love how nes/snes games look.

And the next sentence bashing the graphics of shooters because of their dominant color. Could be seen as hypocritical.

why does it bother you that people pay so much attention to a game's graphics? it's not your money they are using to buy the games THEY LIKE.

Doesn't bother me at all.

I want people to buy what they want to buy.

What I'm saying is, I don't disregard a game because of bad graphics.

I like games if they're fun.

:)