Purely aesthetically talking, I missed my GBC, had this one and it looked so beautiful, GBA was hideous with classic GB cartridges way too tall for it, I dislike GBA cartridges too, love classic GB cartridges, their floppy disks look, loved floppy disks, again as objects, because a lot of old stuff is obsolete and among all of this, there's a lot I don't care, N64 pads were awful, GoldenEye and Perfect Dark are great games, but what if N64 pads were actually good like XBOX 360 pad ? Because the way you play a game influe on how you enjoy it, we have enjoyed great games with bad pads, and some bad games could still be playable with good ones, even if there's no fun, so, what if Rareware has developped those 2 great games and even more of FPS on PC ? Because playing to Doom on consoles wasn't great, while on PC it was something, so if a FPS is already great on console...
I have one day to play more Dreamcast games, I love how it is basically an arcade console, at a time when arcades were still something, and before Dreamcast came, you would never have those graphics at home, and then it came and changed the game. Funny how hardware is nothing in success terms. Dreamcast was the most powerful, Nintendo behind it, and then PlayStation, and the greatest seller was the weakest in terms of power. I still remember how Soul Calibur on Dreamcast was beautiful for the time when it came out and still today. They were clearly in the future. What if we had Sega power, Nintendo multi and Playstation cinematics/adult content ?
Pocket consoles like magazines or cameras are no longer what they used to be now with smartphones you can have it all, and it's a great thing, but pocket consoles got something living room consoles haven't : memories. We all have memories for living room consoles, but it's even more specific for pocket consoles, as are kids when we had them that was a good way for parents to bring us in places where we would get annoyed. How much time could have been lost to bore ourselves if pocket video games didn't exist ? Plus video games develops imagination for some of them, and perseverance. Funny to think about past when hip hop and video games were always mentionned as a problem and nowadays everybody's in what yesterday was considered as weird, elitist or sectarian...
I succeed a few time ago to damage my 8Bitdo pad, and I never experimented a greater pad than XBOX 360's one, triggers and joysticks are on point, just not a fan of the cross
For what I remember, that was a good pad, problem with SNES' one was when it came to fighting games or to Asterix as you got some Track and Field (######) gameplay where you had to push the button very quickly...
Some games really have some special effects on us, never stopped loving The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle Game Boy version from 1989. It represents what I like in video games : basic gameplay but efficient, simple but smart, and still funny, nothing elitist but you got to think, and no worries, it would be challenging not discouraging. That's where good video games are : they manage to make you try and try again, while bad ones just don't deserve us to make efforts...
At a time, like many people, I thought freedom was a good thing in video games, but it's not always true, some linear aspects permit to tell a story and to keep your attention, the best is to have objectives, and then to have freedom about how to accomplish them. Maintaining us in some scenario is a good thing, but cinematics really exasperate me. The better games I played there was not a single one, or a few short ones. Linear, ok, but you got to be active at least. No need to watch cinematics or to be lost in a RPG game with too many things to do and not a single one to enjoy.
Video games I like are no longer to exist as cinematics seem to be the thing since a long time ago, and gameplay become more complicating, with games that want you to feel free giving you anything to do even if you don't care. I miss the immersion I had with The Ultimate Doom / GoldenEye / Perfect Dark, unique atmospheres...
Classic FPS with modern graphics, but not too many details for nothing : I'm in !