Chopped for Natter:

• Also, the tendency to make the graphics a main selling point (disregarding, among others, the story) can most likely be pinpointed towards the PlayStation, which came after the SNES. Which is, of course, also an example in itself as the older fans grew up without pretty graphics and thus are more likely to shun games that concentrate on them.
  • The whole "they only care about graphics nowadays!" argument is completely invalid. Developers always cared about both graphics and gameplay, ever since the first steps of video game developing - they just do the better they can with the system they have. People fail to see that developers of SNES games were just as worried about graphics as any PS 3-game developer is nowadays. But the whole "Sprites" or "Primitive 3D" was commonplace at the time...and praised. (Even the first Alone In The Dark had rather stunning graphics for its time.) And even "Sprites" are yelled at on "next-gen" technologies when they're not used by Indie-Gaming developers, who get a free pass on this.
  • If game developers really cared as much as the Gaming Methuselahs claim they did in their generation(s), that is, not at all, then they wouldn't even use stuff like video cards&Drivers, graphics processing, and other such technologies used to display graphics or even enhance it. It's incredible how, outside of the gaming industry, only about ten or eleven of us actually acknowledge this.
  • Your Mileage May Vary. Why do a lot of (not all) modern games look so unnecessarily drab and dull compared to the low-polygon/pixel stuff from the early 90s?
    • Well that might be because you aren't paying attention. This effect is far less used than than most people think, being the exception, not the rule, and just some of the games that use it being overexposed. Not every game is Gears Of War.

Stop with the natter! This isn't a mass blog!

Would First Installment Wins be related to this?

Does this count as an example? -

In the "Copy Machine" segment of Dane Cook's "Rough Around the Edges" act, he hints twice this trope. The second hint is what caught my ear... "Any time that you were alive, you think that's the generation that is the shit."