Modern video games haven't been as appealing as of late, maybe I haven't ran into some good indie ones. But You can only inovate so much in video games, innovation, creativity, new concepts are all important, but if the game is buggy and doesn’t perform well or run smoothly then why bother? Old games usually dont have any problems with gameplay, they have a problem with graphics, which in my opinion don’t really matter because at the end of the day it’s a video game