That's cool to hear that they clicked with you more, despite the age of those movies when you saw them. I was 5 when Empire came out so I've been with it almost since the beginning.
Well said. One of the reasons I like the OT far more than the PT is the intimacy of the interactions and the economy of the visual storytelling. For the latter, it seems that Lucas would not have had it that way, if not for the budgetary and technical constraints of the time. So a large part of the appeal of SW for me is something Lucas did against his will.