Shadowrun returns and Dragonfall are surprisingly good games. I think the game would have been better with some videos and at least few talking characters rather than just the text, but this way it does seem more nostalgic retro-game.
Lots of references to the setting of Shadowrun and the previous games. The main character from the SNES Shadowrun, Jake Armitage, is an NPC in Shadowrun returns. Funnily enough, the earlier game began with him waking up at a morgue, having been thought dead, and Returns has the player wake him up when he is sleeping at a morgue...
Dragonfall takes place in Berlin, which is a welcome change. Nice to see more than just Seattle in a Shadowrun game. Dragonfall also has a rather interesting mistake (or a weird joke) there is a NPC who served in the Finnish military during the Eurowars and mentions that Russia invaded Finland from the north and the west.
...That must have been a wild flanking manouver.