[JRandomFreeper]

Excellent games are being made now,

Eve-online springs to mind. I've never been much of a gamer, but Eve is a good game, highly complex, challenging, and is reflective of whatever morality you bring to the game.

/johnny

[ctdonath2]

Halo is often lauded for complex gameplay, great graphics, and a vast story arc.
Portal amounts to a very engaging short story.
Half-Life 1 & 2 are amazingly enduring, still selling for "list price" after several years.
Silent Hill and others are noted as very effective horror.

I recently finished Daxter - not exactly high art, but reasonably engaging with little to object about.

In contrast, those "great games of the past" (care to name some? does anyone play them now?) were accompanied by such non-masterpieces as Liesure Suit Larry (moral corruption with a grin), Zero Wing ("All your base..."), and lots of really really truly forgettable (please, please forget) stuff.