I usually prefer retro style games more, but that's more because the majority of big name games are pretty similar, and have been for a few years now. There's so much money required to make big name titles these days very few people seem willing to take a gamble and develop something different than the usual big sellers (parallels hollywood here). Really though I just like good games, if a game works/is good Im happy, I dont care if its 2d or 3d, retro or new. In regards to the idea that audiovisuals take preference to gameplay these days though I'd have to disagree,... typically a modern game has quite a large development team, the people doing the graphics are different people than those doing the programming, who are often different people to those that are doing the game design. I have to disagree about racing games too,... I love the old style sega sprite based racers in the arcades (turbo outrun in the arcades is one of my fav. games)... just a shame that the amiga's efforts are mostly pretty crappy (lotus is ok, if not great), even the c64 has better sprite based racers.
Just my 2 cents
p.s. There's lots of good new homebrew/indie retro style games out there. I even found a website dedicated to remakes of old classic amiga games
