&gt; There&#x27;s some classic gems, to be sure, but they were also all we had.<p>Some stuff has aged, but some of the best games are in the past and have never been &quot;reached&quot; by any newer game. Ultima 7 is an example of such games - there&#x27;s just nothing that comes close to it even in modern RPGs.<p>For 2D platforms the best was made in the past again. All the newer Mario games are either too easy or uninspired, or both.<p>There&#x27;s a whole bunch of genres that has been completely a abandoned by publishers and devs for years (simulators, adventure games, RTS, even RPGs - sure we get Witcher 3 recently, but there&#x27;s really nothing much else on the radar, there&#x27;s too few of them now compared to how many we were getting back in the days).<p>It&#x27;s been many years that the main production money goes into making GTA, First Person Shooters, Open World games, Racing games and that&#x27;s about it. Of course the indie market is very much alive, but you can&#x27;t compare the level of contents made 20 years ago by large teams versus 1-2 folks making games nowadays.