>>54341>Were old games better?Yes.
>I think there is just something “magical” about old games, like someone’s great ideasYes. Also someone's wish to make an adventure - and a good one, one, that player would enjoy. A whole experience. Not just some separate attractive things being put into overall bland/intentionally unattractive environment, mixed from some typical blocks almost without direction. Vision of something cool/beautiful/fun, that covers all aspects of it.
Modern games are made by people, who first and foremost try to push a propaganda, then put it into any form most people would try it while spending as less money as possible. The goal of many modern developers is not to make an adventure for the player (while maybe putting some morals into it), but to shove "our ideas are correct" first, adventure is optional. Modern videogame industry would've turned into powerpoint presentations about modern views of some minorities factory if not for the fact that players still somehow want at least some interactivity (and can't read anything longer than a twitter post).
Some modern developersgo further though - they try to "subtly" make all characters "on your side, with correct views" to look ugly and most "really bad, toxic, evil" characters to have relatively good looking faces to promote "beauty bad, ugly good" idea. Beware of such.