I want to start by saying thank you to all the people who took the time to really put their thoughts out on the matter. If I quote each one, this post will be long-cat, but know that I read them in their entirety!
Which leads me to telling you all a story in response that kind of highlights my more general response to you all. When I was back in season 1 with the Wii U, I went on a bit of a nostalgia bender (and some of those retro games were even reviewed!). Some games really did stand the test of time while others... did not. For example, Chrono Trigger's first trip to the Corridor of Time STILL gives me goosebumps with that music! Super Metroid's music STILL made the adventure more interesting, and Norfair highlights just how "background" music has become, now (except in Genshin Impact where the music is actually top-notch!).
And that's the thing, I appreciate the nostalgia and enjoy it. But when I go back and play some of those games having spent enough time in modern gaming, there's both a comfort but a stark reality that things really are different, now. Some people find comfort in simple, known things, and even I can, too. The only difference is that I don't gravitate towards one or the other, I simply go with the flow. Modern gaming CAN be worse, but it CAN also be better. Retro gaming CAN be worse, but it CAN also be better.
Lastly, in order for the video to fit in 5 min, I actually REMOVED a section discussing modern gaming not being "broken" and "unfinished, buggy games" since I somewhat covered that by talking about bad games. Many modern games are VASTLY more complex and prone to more bugs, sure, but they're also fixable in ways that were never possible before. Many modern games aren't "unfinished" when you consider many retro games contained a FRACTION of that "unfinished" game's content for full price, and yet many modern games can have content continually added for YEARS.
If you're out there still thinking there's a one-way-or-the-other to this, you might just have the very era-bias you pretend not to have lol
