I also don't agree with the OP. Gaming is different today, I miss some things, true, but on the other hand games have advanced soooo much. It's really difficult to compare e.g. last Metal Gear Solid game to the original Metal Gear. The presentation of the story is so dramatic, touching and plain awesome - it's more than a game and it's great.
A gamer is a gamer - I can play UFO for hours on my Amiga and then go and play God of War and enjoy both. And graphics quality matters, it really does. The aforementioned GoW is really a pretty standard game, nothing truly innovative or addictive, but the graphics are simply so beautiful that I just like playing it, I like seeing what comes next.
