I am talking about games like, stronghold crusader, mount and blade warband (even though it was a buggy mess), tonic trouble, tetris, skyrim (but only thanks to the modding community that fixed it), minecraft.

Yes there is nostalgic involved that blurs my view on the past.

But the only modern games i can think of that are good are Kingdom come, the whicher 3 and Vampire survivor.

The problem is that nowadays we have thousands of games to choose from and most are garbage from AAA to most indie games. It's harder to get a good one. Even though there are probably more good ones than 20 years ago.