https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/our-rainy-protocol
It looks like instead of doing the sensible thing like most of the game based anime do and animate the characters properly they managed to do some poorly put together FPS project that looks like it was taken right out of a playstation 1 title. It's ridiculous because the anime itself looks like it has well done characters and everything but they're all acting like this guys some l33t gamer and it's just them running around hip firing at character models on the screen LOL. It's polygon journalist levels of gaming.
There's a lot of good shit dropping and it feels like I'm having an anime buffet this winter but just be warned there's some really bad stuff too. If anyone wants to watch a game based anime that isn't an RPG there are way better options.
I don't think the medium has really advanced in a linear sense. That isn't to say nothing good has come out since then, I just can't get into the million "My Teenage Daughter Got Sucked Into An MMORPG and Has Become the Endgame Boss!" animes that have clogged the catalogue, nor can I watch an anime in a highschool setting at this point. Or really any anime at all.
I'll come back to things like the third arc of Samurai Horror Tales, Paranoia Agent, or Mononoke with my nostalgia intact.
Most of what I like is basically non-existent and esoteric at this point.