Enebias: It's not really about "modern" shooters as much as "big budget" shooters.
Speaking only of games released in the last 5 years, you should definitely try DUSK, Amid Evil, Ion Fury and Project Warlock - "retro" inspired shooters at their core but with all the comfort of modern games.
There are also demos for the upcoming HROT and Ultrakill.
Btw, I recommend you to never play the other nu-Wolfenstein, The New Colossus. It's ten time worse in terms of cinematics, there are about 3 hours of gameplay total (to be generous in the estimation), awfully design and inspiring painful cringe every second.
Well, I didn´t mean to say that I only like retro-style shooters. :D
Lately, I bought FEAR and Singularity, for example, which I yet have to play. I have bought a good amount of shooters here on GOG, although I haven´t had the itch for years. And yes, taking into account what you are saying, I think I will stay very far from that New Colossus thing. At least until after I play the 2 Wolfenstein games I already have, and see if I end up enjoying them or not now that I know what to expect.
Leroux: It's just a different style, open arcade-y FPS vs. linear story-telling FPS, and in both categories there are better and worse games.
Breja: This. It's not a case of "old good, new bad". There are different styles, and it all depends on what kind of an experience the devs want to create, and whether they a good job of it. Sure, Unreal is great, but that's not because it's old, it's because it's well made. And just as there were crappy shooters in the past too, there are good and crappy shooters now.
A game taking control away from the player and over-relying on cut scenes can be annoying, but likewise if I never again have to look for a "red key" it will be too soon.
The thing is, it was very unexpected to me. I didn´t know such style of shooters existed. I mean, how would I know that there´s a subgenre in the shooter genre that doesn´t let you play the game? A subgenre with as many cinematics as playing time. It makes no sense to me. And I like games to have cinematics. But, come on. What´s a game for? If I wanted that many cinematics I would watch a film.
And when I say "how would I know?" is because the most modern shooters I´ve played (yeeeeeaaaars ago) are FarCry, MOH Pacific Assault, the 2006 Prey, Doom3, etc. Nothing newer than the games of that "era". (I was stuck to an old computer for a good amount of years until recently). So, yeah, I might have kind of judged, unfairly, modern style shooters by the little I played Wolfenstein New Order. But, to be honest, now that I take a better look at other Bethesda games like the Dishonored series, for example, I wonder how spreaded that supermegacinematic thing is. Because by the look of the screenshots, those games might suffer from the same "style".
JakobFel: You should definitely give the Doom reboots a try. I love Wolfenstein, both old and new, but there's no denying that the modern games are more story-driven and cinematic than the old school ones. However, the Doom reboots don't really suffer that problem, especially in Doom 2016. They're basically old school run-and-gun shooters with modern graphics and some nice, added features that feel right in the spirit of the old school ones.
That said, I don't mind it either way. It just depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in the mood to just wreck the crap out of my enemies, I'll go back to old school shooters or the Doom reboots. If I want story-driven gameplay, I'll play modern Wolfenstein or check out a Battlefield or COD campaign.
However, in my honest opinion, the FPS genre reached its pinnacle with the classic Starsiege: Tribes. That game was literally flawless, its sequels were also great, and I still haven't gotten over how Hi-Rez butchered the franchise. I wish GOG would contact them to re-release the Tribes series here (they might have to exclude Ascend, which is always online and pretty dead anyways), especially since they already have them as DRM-free freeware on the Tribes site. Re-releasing the entire franchise on Steam and GOG would be something they could do and I'd honestly pay for all of them on both sites only because I love the franchise and want to show them that they should bring it back.
Oh! I would love to have at least Doom 2016 here. Just the OST alone would make the purchase and the feeling of playing it, worth the money and time.
I have some other shooters in my GOG library, and yes, when I decided to start playing Unreal Gold was because I wasn´t on the mood to play anything overcomplicated or engaging or time consuming. I wanted simplicity and I´m enjoying it. :)
Starsiege: Tribes, note taken. :D
I don´t think it is necessary for a shooter to have lots of cinematics to tell a good story and keep the player engaged to it. Max Payne would be a good example despite being a third person game.
PetrusOctavianus: I gave up on new FPS games with Quake 4 and Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault for the reasons the OP mentioned.
That's some years ago now and I expect things have gone both worse and better, AAA games continuing the trend, but there also being indie retro FPS games.
If the majority of big-gudget shooters or action games are like these new Wolfenstein games, and if indie games are the solution, although it is a good thing to have alternatives, there is a problem in the genre.