Why I love older games. ie retro

I was born in the 80's and raised in the 90's. So for a start I have very nostalgic feelings towards the consoles of this era. Even though my favourite consoles are of the early 00's the Gamecube and Playstation 2. The reason could be that these are the ones I took gaming seriously on. Finishing the games and even spending two weeks without sleep to finish wind waker. But why are these games to me better than games today.

Missing one from this series

With all the games that came out on the Playstation 2  (over 10,000 yeah seriously) the ones I played I loved and even carried on to play the sequels on the playstation 3 same with the gamecube to the WII. But the older games were still better. Mainly I believe that because more time was alloted to each game and the love went into them Nintendo has often be slated for being a kids game console.

Yeah this is for kids.

But that can be it's undoing when they to produce great mature titles like madworld and Eternal darkness: sanity's requiem, two awesome titles that didn't get the respect they deserved. They do now by collectors but they didn't. But when I play the PS3 or 360 I tend to go meh this is boring. Yet I can quite happily play Star wars rogue leader or metal gear solid 2 for hours. The game just enthralls me for hours the feelings you get from playing and actually finishing a boss is great. The fact that these games have never been replicated and still are enjoyable today the graphics may look old the games. Yet they are enjoyable and keep me entertained because the graphics aren't that good the gameplay had to be the draw. Unlike today where graphics are the big selling point.

Let's talk story most of the game had a basic plot with little storline, Link rescues zelda same with mario. Stop the nazi's in WWII or Demonic hordes in most First person shooters. Fantasy and Sci-fi rpgs were about saving the world or country (lets not go in to is Zelda an rpg). Stealth wasn't an option for games you shot lots of bullets, killed bad guys or raced cars again the gameplay was important not the story as such but we filled that in our heads. Because we didn't have much choice rpg's tended to fill in with cutscenes but still left alot out so much so even though we were playing game our imaginations was still being used.