Yeah, and I'm an avid player of the X-COM games, and I wish those games should be remade better.

Also, I've played some notable adventure games like Rex Nebular, Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath the Steel Sky (though I cannot go on much on this game!), and when I've seen the controversial game named "I have no mouth and I must scream", I'd like to play that game due to its gripping storyline (word of mouth by other retrogamers)

Here's a little puzzle for you:

A couple of years ago I decided to fill two holes in my gaming history and played through System Shock 2 (released 1999) and Deus Ex (2000). I had never played those games, I was about 18, so no childhood nostalgia or anything. The stories they tell are alright, but they're game plots. Especially Deus Ex has some horrible balancing problems, they both look pretty awful (you know, the early 3D), the game mechanics are fairly simple and so forth.

But they both just hit me like brick in the head. I enjoyed them from start to end and even more importantly, they got me immersed, got me interested way better than any of the new games I'd played in a few years. I just didn't want to stop playing, I sank in and stayed there.

I've been trying to figure out what's causing that, but I can't really grip it. Not precisely. The best I've figured out is that when I play a modern game, I take the attitude that I'm here to be entertained, entertain me. Deus Ex and System Shock had some bad flaws, they were at points difficult in very stupid and seemingly frustrating ways (limitations of the game mechanics, for example), but I didn't care. I took it as a challenge. This game is like this, are you gonna beat it or not? I think you could say that the old games gave a feeling that they don't care if you like them, their purpose is not to make a pleasing experience. They create a world, put you in a situation, give you some tools and set some limitations and say "there you go, I hope you like what we made".

Somehow new games fail at this. Some of them are pretty difficult, often in a lot more sensible ways than the old games (I mention this because some people argue that it's just that old games were challenging, it's not that) and mostly I just find it annoying. A lot of them are straight pipes or rides where you just push forward through the one door that's not permalocked, but so were many of the old games. Some of the newer games create amazing open worlds, but that still doesn't do it. There's something (let's call it the X Factor) in those old games that just makes you look at it and think "let's see what this one is made of" instead of "let's see what kind of an experience they have prepared for me today", and I can build a web of related things around that factor but I can't point out the core of it.

I agree that it's mostly nostalgia but I can't really play anything post-PSone (minus Final Fantasy X, the newer Zeldas and a couple party games) so I'm definitely what you'd consider retro.

I am not sure if I can say the games were better (they were certainly rocking at the time) but I do know the system stability of consoles were better. Sure they didn't do all the stuff newer ones do but you didn't have to worry a red ring of death on your SNES...lol 

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The only thing I really preferred about gaming "back then" was the whole in home/local multiplayer thing.  I don't think it was until the PS2/GCN generation that gaming became a more solitary experience for me outside of Super Smash Bros. Melee.  Before that, whether it was co-op 2 player games on the SNES (heck I even liked that cheesy light gun ish aerosmith game on the SNES) or multiplayer with the N64 it was common for me or my friends to cycle around each others' houses just to play a game of Mario Kart 64, WCW v. NWO, Goldeneye and so on and so forth.  But that's all I really miss from the "old days" so to speak, otherwise I'm pretty okay with games now outside of paying upwards of $60 for a six hour experience in some cases; especially since I'm not a huge online gamer and so many games these days seem to make up the bulk of their worth when played online.