Im an older gamer(almost 30) and I cant appreciate todays graphics. It has no bearing on the games I play. I can still enjoy an NeS/SNES game while the new jacks cant play it because they think it looks like crap.

No. However am 16, but my first system was a Sega MegaDrive/Genesis. I am quite impressed with what I see today.

i'm 19 and i'm very impressed with what i see today.. but more so in cgi movies (or during cutscenes), because they have really evolved even 3d animation so much.. i remember watching shrek 3 and thinking about how lifelike the movements of all the characters were.. or if you look at wall-e.. that movie proves how good graphics/animation have become, given it was almost entirely a silent movie, and you always understood what was going on

You'll find much younger gamers don't even comment on the graphics.. they comment on whether they are having fun or not

I dunno if its already been said, but I don't think they can appreciate it. If the first games they have played are all high def, or at least PS2 graphics, then this is what they automatically thing "game graphics" are. They don't know about the Atari's graphics, which is what started it all

Man, I've been gaming for quite a while and I don't even appreciate today's graphics. For some reason I keep looking for jaggies, strange animation, blurred textures and bad shadows. I wish I can stop, but I can't help myself. I even see jaggies and blurred textures in real life.

I am 18 years old and have been playing video games since the days of the snes and game boy color. I can still remeber playing (and still play sometimes) the donkey kong country series, yoshis island and pokemon. (I grew up during the pokemon fad)

I skipped over the n64 and ps1 generation for the most part, although I did play super smash bros from time to time on my step brother n64.

Me and my brothers got a gamecube that came bundled with Zelda Orcarina of time and although it was an old game and had bad graphics we played it more than the actually gamecube games lol.

I got a ps2 after that and couldn't believe how insane the finalfantasy games were. and now I have moved on to the ps3.

It's sad I spent most of my life as a nintendo fan but I can't bring myself to buy a wii, the motion controls killed nintendo for me this generation.

I just made 18 quite recently, and in my personal opinion i noticed im not that stupid the jump imo from snes to gameboycolor to the 64 to the PlayStation 1 to the PlayStation 2 hell even the PSP alll the way up to the PlayStation 3 by playing games on just those great consoles alone you'll notice the epic jump in terms of story telling graphics AND gameplay aswell as many Other things.

Overall the answer is NO imo, we "Younger" gamers do notice and appreciate the jump from back in the day to now.

If for those who dont...are Old School fanboys lulz!

I'm over 30 and also started my gaming with the 2600. Obviously each generation of gaming has increased the visuals significantly but there's also huge advancements made within the same generation.

Super Nintendo: Super Dodgeball vs Super Street Fighter 2
PS: Battle Arena Toshinden vs Tekken 3

So, I think young gamers can appreciate the production value increase because it happens so damn fast. I will say that perhaps the younger generation expects quality visuals where the older crowd can still remember a blockier time and will consistently be wowed.

It seems to me younger gamers demand better graphics.

Maybe we can tolerate low-tech visuals because our eyes are going bad.

I am 18 and I've been gaming since the DOS games of PC. I still play the old DOS games and I can appreciate the graphics used in those games, and I also highly appreciate the graphics of modern games. I guess I'm still considered a younger gamer but my dad has had me playing games since I was about 3 so I've seen huge leaps in graphics since when I started playing.