I personally am also more drawn more to the somewhat outdated still somewhat blocky looking games. These actually seem to be more emersive - to me at least than most of the newer games.
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The more realistic they try to make it, the more people will scrutinize it since it isn't quite right
This definitely seems true. I found myself getting incredibly irritated by Oblivion (graphically speaking) because I kept noticing things that "weren't quite right" where as I ended up completely immersed in games like Castelvania for the N64.
