/vr/ - Retro Games

It isn't, it's just that we're no longer the target audience. We grew up with arcade-style games, but slowly games became to be about delivering a cinematic experience, keeping a larger audience engaged that joined into the hobby when it became more popular, and replacing film.

Games are less about difficulty, repeatability, and due to the amount of effort and cost, a lot less about being innovative and personal artistic expression. That's why Japanese games tend to feel so great, they still need to appeal to people that are more serious about games, and the Japanese don't care about games being a filmic experience.