>>718518969
Because the reason 2000s games had that atmosphere is because of culture. Specifically, goth/alt culture in this case.
The internet killed all culture.
Rik Schaffer wrote the score to VTMB after doing time and couch-surfing whilst fighting a drug addiction.
Modern devs have nothing to say. They lived no experiences, they consume no media other than generic holywood/capeshit slop, they have no passion for anything.
How could you possibly hope for these people to produce anything with any actual individuality or real care put into it?