/vr/ - Retro Games

Not sure if this belongs on /v/ or /vg/, but you guys seem nicer than /v/, so I'll post here.

What do old games have that modern ones don't? Is it just nostalgia, or is there some fundamental difference between how we made games then and how we make them now? For the longest time, I thought that I was just kinda growing out of games as a whole, but then I bought some PS2 games on a whim and I had a total blast with them. These were games that I had no nostalgic connection to before playing them, yet I felt like a kid again when I booted them up. This sort of rekindled my hobby for gaming, and I'm finding that most things 7th gen and prior is still appealing to me, but anything past that isn't (with certain exceptions of course). What's going on here? You guys got any thoughts?