I've just gotten a lot pickier as I've gotten older. It doesn't help that I haven't had a ton of time in recent years to really play much, but I've noticed most games don't really have anything interesting like they used to.

I blame capitalism. It seems video games are following Hollywood's plan on rehashing things, uninspired sequels, and just trying to make the most profit at the expense of quality.

Try them, you won't run out any time soon. Yeah there are rarely very recent games that went as hard as Resident Evil Village and some of the remakes and such, next big ones are Silent Hill 2 remake which...idk about it, we'll have to wait for it to come out to see how it turns out but I'm already skeptic and GTA 6.

Because most of the games past like 2017 aren't anything special if they are not sequels to the OGs, idk why is that, but since then they really started ruining some of the big titles with pointless sequels(Assassin's Creed, FnaF etc) unnecessary updates(cough ARK cough), and turned horror into a laughing stock. That's why I stick to the OGs mostly pre-2017 along with good sequels of them.

I feel the same. I only play very few games anymore for this reason. Most of the games I play are very niche because they at least try to be unique. Like Fates of Ort or Dust Riser for example. I also tend to play a lot of open source re-implementations like OpenRCT2, OpenMW or Augustus (Caesar III).

Game stores are flooded with crap that tries to appeal to the widest possible audience, which makes it really difficult to find actually good games. Even most Indies only produce slop. Nintendo used to make really interesting games back in the day. Still have my GameBoy and 3DS with some of my favorite games, so at least I can still enjoy those.

It's not you. Me as well. I noticed almost every AAA game is full of slop. Indies are no better (especially on Mobile)