My bad, i forgot to check all the posts. now i see the situation.
i would recommend you, if you are still in this lair, indstr: marcher_kinn, Altar of storms, Backsteingotik, Shadow over Insmouth. Whiteroom, hrimfaxi’s map from turtlemap pack 3 and e3m5rmx from remix pack for something different but also very good. Arwop, if you play it on easy. All of them are astounding in all aspects and provide good combats with no unfair parts.
yes, i know, but let me add something else. At least from what surrounds me in real life, those two cases tend to merge a lot in the same person, at least from my experience, of course.
Most of the people that i know tend to follow mindlessly (in my experience, if you ask them for reasons, they don’t get past the clichéd answers or begin sorting incoherent words), like a sheep in the herd, the trend about graphic technology (not graphic quality) being the most important thing in a videogame, even though they played Wolfenstein3d or Alone in the Dark when they were released and even used an Amstrad, Spectrum or Commodore, … back in the days.
To summarize, that kind of behavior isn’t related to age, even though it has some influence.
That’s why i posed that option, because i see it a lot in real life. At first it surprised me a lot because i noticed this just some years ago, that’s why i investigated a bit, but nowadays i don’t pay attention to those comments as long i don’t see at least an individual thought in the middle of the clichéd phrases.
Well, just as you say, one example doesn’t prove a thing, but as we are with anecdotes, i can tell you one. Back when i was investigating this kind of behavior, what i used to hook up ‘‘recent technology graphics fanboys’’ was an old and unknown for them videogame, Sauerbraten, and use the screenshot with the biggest number of effects and one that were a bit dark. 100 of 100 success, even thought i only tested it with an small number of fanboys, so it doesn’t prove a thing 
. Showing them a video of that compilation of Darkplaces additions that roams in youtube works wonders too, even thought this choice of additions doesn’t look well, in my opinion. As long as you keep hidden the fact that it is Quake, they think it is a recently released CoD-like videogame, and don’t notice the brushwork.
you have a good point there, except in the case of fanboys of both extremes, were appearances and self-suggestion are everything.
They usually are games where it is accepted a certain type of graphics, but it isn’t primitive, they have lots of details and effects and are flashy on their own, like in platformers like the latest Marios or some indie games, like Retroblazer.
Don’t worry about that. Internet is filled with that enough to get anyone bored.
The best option here is reducing those occasions to the minimum, as the more you have, the higher the risk you have of becoming a ‘‘more than five years old videogames’ fanboy’', even if you weren’t at first.
When there is an extreme, the opposite one doesn’t take long to appear. It applies to lots of things.
So i prefer to not continue with this topic and focus on recommendations, even though i created it.