Oh he was good. Perhaps he doesn't stand out quite as well today as he did in the past, but he was good and once you get a handle on the language, the plays are genuinely entertaining.
I can't say I'm a fan of his though - I generally don't like plays, instead preferring non-fiction and history books. I recognize the fact that he was an incredibly accomplished writer, and that the literary world has benefited from his works. There's a reason why so many cultures and nations have translated Shakespeare into their native tongue. Hell, China regularly puts on Shakespeare's plays, as does India. He's famous the world over.
But even I think some of the fanaticism and adulation that surrounds Shakespeare to be at little creepy at times. He was a good writer, but some are determined to enshrine him as "BEST. WRITER. EVER." Who the "best" writer is, is an entirely subjective thing - personally, I think "The Origin of Species" is better than Hamlet. I think Brave New World is better than MacBeth. That doesn't mean I didn't like Hamlet or MacBeth, but I have found literature I enjoy more than those two plays.
To some people, Shakespeare is the greatest writer who ever lived, and I think it's nice that they get such enjoyment out of his works. But I'm not in that camp. I get more enjoyment and enlightenment out of other texts. That doesn't mean it's wrong to enjoy Shakespeare, oh no, but it also means that it's not "wrong" to not "get" Shakespeare. Plenty of people don't "get" Shakespeare or like it, or can relate to it.
As one gets older, the appreciation for things like Shakespeare grows. Most Shakespeare fans are almost certainly older than 35, although it is entirely possible to enjoy Shakespeare at almost any age (above 10), as my sister proves. She read all of his plays by the time she was 13, and still read them to this day, and still loves them. But in general, young people don't and can't relate to Shakespeare, and there's nothing wrong with that. Plenty of older people can't either.
I appreciate Shakespeare's plays, but I'd rather read a good history book.