[General Discussion] Do RPG's Get Better With Age?

Over the past few weeks, I got into my older systems collections and just started going through some of the games I have. Hooking up my old Playstation (yes old, the model that had the port in the back where you could plug in extra stuff...like a gameshark) I started playing through various RPG's that I had. Various titles such as Xenogears, Suikoden I&II, Brave Fencer Musashi, Final Fantasy Tactics, the Lunar Games all brought me back to very fond memories but they even wanted me to keep playing them. In the last two weeks, I have finished Xenogears, Suikoden I and half of Lunar. So this got me thinking.

Are these good games that have gotten better with age? Or is the market of games nowadays such total crap that these games are the best that games will ever be? Thinking back, I remember when I would get a new RPG for Playstation. I could easily spend hours a day trying to get through it as fast as I can almost everyday. Once I got through a game, I would either start playing it again or go back and revisit some of my favorite moments on the various save files I would have. I honestly cannot think of that many games on PS2 or anything beyond that I have done that for. I did spend a little bit of time on Final Fantasy XII and Suikoden V but everything else was pretty much me going through slowly barely being able to pay attention.

Im guessing though that perhaps even PS2 games will improve with age. I cannot think of any titles now that I would really want to go back and replay but who knows. Even dating back before the Playstation era of RPG's, there is a mass amount of SNES and Genesis games that I loved. Phantasy Star IV and Secret of Mana give me very fond memories from when I was younger. Even games that I never played, I have taken the time to find roms and emulate them. I can easily sit there and play for hours, something that im finding I can't do with anything current.

Im feeling like theres one of two things happening here. Either its as I feel, RPG's get better with age...especially when you have shit games to compare them to....or RPG's have already had their highest moment in the time from of SNES till PS1 era. Either way, I myself was personally very surprised to find that I could be this impressed with games I have already played and beaten before.

Jam it back in, in the dark.