I know it probably sounds like an odd topic title.  This question is mostly aimed at older comic fans.
 
Maybe I'm just getting older, but some part of me seems unable to move on from the more classic X-Men formula.  From the more classic 90's cartoon team, from the individual outfits. From the issues of discrimination, from the old mythos of mutants existing as a minority in all society the world over.
 
Modern Marvel comics just seems to have dropped the ball for me on some level.  I just can't seem to move on from the glory days of X-Men's past. 
 
Anyone else feel kind of the same way?  When someone mentions X-Men to you, do you think of the classic costumes and older team, or the new? 
 
I'm firmly in the former camp.  As cheesy as some of the individual costumes were, they each gave the respective character a separate identity to me, and that is very important to me.

not really. progression is a wonderful thing. to paraphrase chris cornell about fans of the old soundgarden sound vice his new directions, "if you like the old stuff, you can always relisten to it." and i think that's what great about comics. even rereading my old trades is fun, and attests to their true worth as a story.  
 
"the only permanent is change" siddhartha gautama.

Hmm, maybe I should have aimed my question at older fans. =P

I completely sympathize with this feeling, but I have started to move on. 
 
Though I read new issues in the early 90s, to me X-Men was really defined in the 130-280 range of Uncanny - Claremont's expository writing, realistically drawn figures, long-term arcs for characters, controlled pace of new heroes on the team. I like that while status quo changed, resentments lingered, and there weren't many shock-deaths and random comings and goings. I feel like the classic cartoon was totally in keeping with that style of X-Men, and it told the stories so well.
 
To me, the 300s and much of the 400s of Uncanny were mostly a mess - when I would see them at the time I hated a lot of the art , and I remember reading about some of the developments on comics sites and just cringing - that the characters had been completely ruined, forever.
  
I think Marvel made a savvy move with Astonishing, bringing in the themes and costumes older readers could sympathize with more. Even while on complete hiatus I picked up (and loved) Astonishing because it felt both old-school and updated. I have to believe that the success of that (as well as the soft reboot of House of M) influenced the main titles away from the repetitive, cartoonish vibe that didn't have as much long-term consistency, and towards the more mature long-term plotting we've seen for the past 50 or so issues. 
 
Do I love the new direction? Undecided. But, I do feel like I'm finally moving on from NEEDING the X-Men to be a certain way.

" @Serpent: I know what you mean I think the 90's Jim Lee/ Chris Claremont X-men have become the virtual crux of the X-Men continuity most likely due to the cartoon ever imbedding those images and that Blue and Gold team line-up in everyones minds I personally still see Cylops in the yellow briefs with the bigg goggle visor from the 80's because that's the X-Men I first fell in love with but I think the story has evolved in some ways sure, mutants are still trying to fight for equal rights, but they aren't running in the shadows like before they are in the forefront of the media, they have their own island, not some secret school and mutant issues are no longer dicussed with the same amount of venom and hatred they once were  I mean, there's still mutant hating groups of zealots, but they seem to be the ones hiding in the shadows now  "