Am I the only one who got the impression that, starting from the late nineties, game developers decided to go for "shock value" instead of innovative new gamepl

Am I the only one who got the impression that, starting from the late nineties, game developers decided to go for "shock value" instead of innovative new gameplay mechanisms? Those beautifully detailed animation sequences Sarkeesian presents, of scantily-clad women being slain, are so far from what I remember from my childhood (early nineties)...