I don't have that problem. In fact I have the opposite problem. The more realistic something looks, the more bored I am with it and more prone to call it out on stuff. Just had this conversation earlier this week, I spent more time making one character on Dragon Quest IX then I did on Fallout 3 and Oblivion combined. Even though those latter games have more options; the chibi Dragonball characters are more fun to make.

But I digress, I have no problem digging out my Nes and SNes and Genesis and playing those. And I don't know what you mean by
(and on modern televisions, even PS2-era games look pretty awful).
cause speaking Genesis, playing many of the Genesis collections for the PS2 on Modern Televisions don't really change anything. Although I think I'm just blind to it, cause my friends all point out how much clearer something is and it all looks the same to me.