I love old games better ...

[JimmiG]

The 3D graphics are the worst, watching the diagonal lines twist around. objects are a cube with a photo of something on them. The graphics that are drawn are much better.
You can buy a lot of good 2D modern games.

Modern 3D games look really good and manage to hide the flat polygons behind shader effects, bump mapping etc. Plus the actual poly counts are pretty insane these days.

The worst looking ones, IMO, are PC and Playstation 1/N64 etc. games from the 90's. They just haven't aged well at all, and it's weird to think we were so impressed by those 3D graphics back in the day. The textures are blurry, characters have simple triangles for noses, square hands without fingers etc. Meanwhile, 2D/isometric games from the era still look fine today.

I've been playing games since the early 90's (C64, then A1200, then PC), and I actually think now is the best time to be a gamer. The market for games is so huge that you can always find something to suit your taste. The drawback is that you have to do your research online before you buy a game, because there's so much junk out there.

[JimmiG]

I disagree. Putting StarCraft 2 and BioShock to one side as modern day masterpieces I think without KickStarter the modern game industry would be devoid of ANY games I want to play. Elite Dangerous and Tower 57 had to be crowd funded and to get SEGA to release a sequel to the amazing Alien Isolation (or even a VR version) would require the same method of funding! No risks are being taken and only 4 million people paid for Super Mario Run so mobile isn't the new dawn either! RIGS was a great VR attempt and yet Sony closed the developer Guerilla Cambridge despite great promise. The exonomics no longer add up and the games are suffering unless crowd funded.

True there are a lot of very unimaginative, dumbed down AAA titles these days, but then again, there's crowd funding and Early Access now.
The funding and development model of games have changed thanks to digital distribution, but it doesn't mean the games are worse or that there are fewer of them. There *are* games like Elite Dangerous and Tower 57, after all. Game development is a lot more interactive these days, vs in the past when a new shiny box just magically appeared one day in the shelves of the local video game store.