me too, but i admit it's recency bias.
Nah not really, not for me at least. I mostly play games for a great interactive story, vs just pure “fun”.
I play very few multiplayer games. I used to enjoy co-op halo one and 2 in uni with friends, and local split screen multiplayer. Since multiplayer games all went online I’ve not really enjoyed many. Helldivers 1 was one I did, which was just great fun. Helldivers 2 just perfected it. So few games achieve what it does.
Like I personally loved games like death stranding, last of us, cyberpunk, or little weekend games like oxenfree, but they are focussed on their main thing being “fun”