I don't object to modern games as such, but I do feel that modern corporate games usually lack the heart of the classics from times when development teams were smaller. I would say that, largely speaking, the financial industry has taken over mainstream AAA gaming and made it more formulaic and predictable than it used to be. Indie games often still capture that magic of the old days for me though. Not all of them for sure, but a lot. Occasionally, a AAA game will to, but that's much less often.
As to the older games I love best, I think my favorite retro title would be 1995's Chop Suey for Macintosh computers. Chop Suey was about a pair of teenage girls who hallucinate after eating too much Chop Suey and explore their community in a daydream. It's mundane, but not if you get what I mean. I got into it when I was 13, which was the perfect age to try out that kind of a rebellious-themed title for girls and it's just kinda stuck with me over the years. The visual aesthetic looks handmade and very surrealist and it was also the first game I ever played that had a looping narrative structure, which was WAY ahead of its time! Some of the best point-and-click gaming ever made. Seriously. MASSIVELY overlooked title!
Other than that, Beyond Good & Evil and Okami are I would say my runners-up among the classics.
I guess you might say that I've always had a bit of a soft spot for greats that were/are never given a real chance.
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