I think that’s the ultimate. Classics had fewer things to work with so they (the creators) put...
Now, I’m by no means gonna say that all modern games are bad or all classic games are, uh, classics, but it seems to me that the paradigm of what a “good” video game is in the general market now is definitely different from before, a good deal of which being because of graphical advancements, I think. (And maybe changes in marketing strategies and perceived demographics. Stuff like that.) Don’t get me wrong, I know how much thought and effort goes in to a single video game (read: a crap-ton), but it does sometimes seem like modern games (or, at least, mass-marketed modern games) lack…depth? This is, of course, my personal opinion, and there are many, many exceptions to this, again, in my opinion.
What it basically comes down to is that I like a certain kind of video game (made of several specifications which I myself am not even sure of, which somehow mash together to make something I consider “good”). We all like a certain kind of video game. Sadly, not all video games will be that certain kind of video game.
My certain kind of video game just doesn’t mesh with what a lot of general culture thinks are video games, I guess? (Not nerd culture, they’re all up with the retro and stuff, yo.) What I mean to say is that I’m biased against war shooters.
(Though the perception that a game cannot be deeply engaging on a personal, psychological, narrative, or what-have-you level and also have “good” graphics by modern standards frustrates me a lot - these are not mutually exclusive, world! Then again, now we’re getting in to what people and gamers consider as beautiful - to one person, beautiful graphics are 256-color, high-detail polygons, to another it’s the sleek simplicity of 8-bit. And then there’s how far on the narrative sliding scale any given game should be, in a single person’s opinion. Should puzzle games have plots? Should games have stories of novel-like depth?)
Wow, words just flew out of my mouth (keyboard), there. I think I jumped between three different arguments, too. …I should get back to studying now XD