I've been thinking lately that within the next gen or so graphics will become virtually invisible, meaning there will be no technical limitions and therefore game's graphics will be limited only by the developers imagination.

Now imagine you are just starting to play games at this time, seeing as you know nothing other than good graphics, are you unfortunate because you won't appreciate they technical greatness of these new games or lucky because you can just focus on which games actually play well.

 Conversely if you are a relatively old gamer like myself, do you consider yourself lucky because you witnessed the progression of games through all their various guises over the years or unlucky because we can still be wowed by shiny games.

Thoughts? 

as longas the games are good I think we're all lucky tbh.

Hmm, probably the ones able to get laid.

But more seriously, I think those that have started this generation are the luckiest, as gaming companies practically bow to the whim of every consumer. Never have games had such a wide spread of genres. 

I think we can all count ourselves lucky that we live in a time where video gaming has become a part of life. It's easy to forget that it has been around for such a short amount of time.

I have to agree with MontanaHatchet, as long as you're with hot women. They have to be hot.

Branko speaks well. It's easy to forget that videogames are so new to our world. How lucky are all of us that they were created within our lives so we can experience them?

Then again..here's another question to consider.

Who's the lucky person..the one who grew up with videogames and gets to play them, or the person who never had videogames in his life (before videogames existed)?

Videogames do take away time we could spend doing other things..as well as the internet. Do you guys think we're the lucky ones that we have videogames, or do you think the lucky people are those who lived in a time without videogames?

I know that all of you (or at least most) are going to say that us gamers are the lucky ones..but it's just something interesting to think about. I wonder what all of our lives would be like without the internet and without videogames...most of us would probably lead very different lives.

I honestly think the gamers who are not aware of console wars and things of that nature are the luckiest. I remember playing Super Mario World and Ocarina of Time, having the time of my life and not having to worry about something big happening with an opposing company.

Oh of course, that's why one out of every three games seems to be a FPS.

 Very true, while video games are very entertaining they can make us lazy and often replace physical activity and time we could be spending outside with friends and family. So like you said there is a flip side.

the luckiest gamers are those that didn't have to play the horrors that where gaming in all the years since inception to the big crash.