Well 1983 was 8 & Commodore 64 & pets if mem serves was strong… Or at least was by Grade 2 or 3.
Consoles even with the release of Nes & Sega Master system didn’t really compare as good vs Arcade versions of Games.
Ie Super Mario, Alter Beast & Golden Axe. Arcade flavors were better.
Had a Atari 800XL with 2 Happy Drives. I bought out a BBS with over 1000 titles. Those were the days 
Its a pretty old question but there is my answer :
Because most of them are indy games, made by a couple of programmers if not lonely.
And also because you lose a lot of details since not many hmd can display detail, small ones. So they focused mostly on “fun” instead of the “whaow”.
True. I am hyped for MOH Above and Beyond!!!
Can’t wait, i will be great!
Besides rendering all those pixels anther reason games look older is because most have small teams or even one person designing a game in 6 months to a year where AAA titles have a couple hundred people working on it for 3-5 years at a cost of over $100 million ($250 million for GTAV). It’s a catch 22 in that Rockstar won’t make a full original VR title until the VR user base is muchl arger… and the VR user base can’t grow until Rockstar (or equivalent developer) makes a full original VR title. I personally can’t enjoy pancake games anymore after living inside the worlds Fallout and Skyrim this year.
yes i also can’t get back to flat 
I tried Contractors a few times, but no servers…(???)