In 30 years kids will play Unreal or HL2 or Doom3 and say 'wow look this stuff looks soooo old.

I think some of the old games still have a certain something, bit like cg in film, great graphics can make game developers very lazy. But they are history, not games like we have today. I wouldn't have thought kids would have many good things to say about them - they were not there when they first came out and very few of them have a sense of the past or where todays games came from, nor do they care.

A lot of the wow factor has gone out of gaming, now for most kids it's just about how many fragz you have and telling people how much they suck. The instant gratification generation; if you disagree with them you suck too.