I have some vacation time on Friday so I’ll take my PS4 to GameStop to trade in (since they sell sports cards now I’ll get some packs with store credit). Once I got a gaming laptop I was spending more and more time playing games on it to the point where I was only using my PS4 to watch streaming. Now that I have chrome cast I really don’t have a need for it anymore. I’m officially in the PC Master Race. I’ve always bought Sony since I was a senior in high school and my dad said if I got a PS1 he would buy my first game (terrible deal since he bought Riven).
My main reason for getting a gaming laptop was that I couldn’t get quest mods in PS4 Skyrim. Now, if I ever come across a PS2 I’d happily buy that again but I saw one at a game store with 5 games for 700. From now on it’s Steam for me. I think I may do a playthrough of old Sierra games as well
Nice, Most gaming laptops should be able to emulate up to PS3 pretty easily. They can even emulate some PS4 games now.
Not a fan of PS3 emulations. I've been trying to emulate infamous on my deck and it just lags, I tried on PC and the same issue.
First two infamous games were great. Of course they fucked up the third one with a soy millennial hipster protagonist, and now the franchise is in limbo. Classic western dev.
To its credit, I don’t recall them leaning too heavily on racial grievances with that protagonist, who was native American. I imagine if that game came out now it would have been WAY more obnoxious. But it has been 10 years since I played it.
The "evil" ending of Infamous 2 is still one of the best in gaming. The entire standoff with Zeke, after an entire game of his redemption arc, is one of the strongest emotional gut punches I ever got.
I went from feeling awesome that I killed the nigger, who I hated the entire game to the point where I almost just went Good to avoid her, to just feeling like shit about everything.
All in all shockingly good writing in a game about a gravel voice guy with lightning hands.
It depends a lot on the specific game. Demon’s Souls I can get to run better than hardware for example. There’s patches and tweaks for pretty much every game, so if you mess around a little you might have a better experience.
I played Demon's Souls at 60 FPS on my steam deck. Great experience.
Truly the way Mika Zaki intended
Drakengard 3 literally runs better than hardware, to a point where its not even a question whatsoever and getting it operational was one of the earliest tasks for PS3 emulation.
https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
Following the steps on this site I got Demons' Souls to run well, but that's probably the most emulated game for PS3. I'm not sure if other games are as well supported.
Cool! Are the games easy to find? I really wish I would’ve just kept my ps2. Such a great console
Yeah I usually go to Vimm’s Lair. they should have pretty much every PS2 game you would ever want. PS3 games take more tweaking but depending on the game and your hardware you can have a good experience.
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I picked up a PS2 slim from a pawn shop, bartered them down to thirty bucks for the system, two memory cards, attachment cables, and a controller. Great purchase.
It is shocking to me that I haven’t felt any desire to buy a PS5. I was all in on everything up through the PS4. Even had a PSP Go and Vita. But when the headline game for the PS5 was Demon’s Souls, which I’d already played on the PS3, they lost me.
Same reason I didn't buy the latest Xbox. No console exclusives. There is nothing special about those consoles now. They are just overpriced streaming and blu ray/ dvd playing machines. Nintendo and Steam are the only ones with actual games now.
Yea the only upcoming games I have any interest in are Sims 5 and Elder Scrolls 6. I have Inzoi and I’ll have to see how ES6 is before I get it
Astrobot was the only time I ever felt any desire to have one, and that's because I absolutely love that genre of game and its not as common as it should be anymore. And because of the theme of it, it will almost never be ported elsewhere unlike most PS5 games.
But owning a whole expensive console for one game is retarded. And instead of slowly building up a plethora of exclusives to tip that over, they instead just started porting them to Steam anyway.
Get titty mods for skyrim or you are missing 90% of the skyrim experience lawl.
If you get a strong enough PC or laptop, you can emulate everything up to gen 7 with little effort and a lot of downloading.
I know emulation doesn't feel quite the same, but some of those older games are expensive as hell. And some arcade games can only be played this way now unless you live near Galloping Ghosts.
Not a bad idea. It would take me forever to get a PS2 and then get all the ps2 anc ps1 games I want. I’ll look into an emulator. Where is Galloping Ghosts?
For emulation I recommend using retroarch and vimm.net to download images.
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Somewhat close to Chicago, about 20 minutes outside it, iirc. They're in a suburb. Brookfield Illinois I think.
I mention that place because they have almost everything. When I went they had just over 600. Their website mentioned they have 885 arcade games now. Including rare and hard to find ones.
They're all free to play, you just buy time to be there for a few hours or the whole day. It's worth going if you're in the area.
Wow! There are some classic arcades where I live that cater to 80s and 90s kids so they usually combine it with a bar and grill. They have a lot of games but nothing like that.
It's called a Barcade. There are two in Bremerton.
It’s a good idea. Ive been there a few times. Lots of fun.
Honestly, the one near the base is nice, but I prefer Quarters 2 blocks away. It's across the street from a really nice comic and boar game shop.
Don't trade in at gamestop they give shit rates, just sell it on ebay
Not a bad idea and would save me time
You're getting there :p get an actual PC and not a paperweight that struggles to wake up at times next ;D
Good point.
Tbh you're not missing much. Most games I play now came out years ago so a current top spec build isn't needed.
Don't worry so much about it; new AAA games are generally trash anyways. As long as your hardware can handle what you want to play, you're golden. And most of the greatest games are old enough that you don't even need a gaming laptop, they'll run on dirt-cheap used business-class ones.
Pc gamer here. I kept my ps4 for bloodborne and dragons crown. Otherwise, it was a huge waste of money. And ps5 somehow looks even worse.
Honestly, after watching gamescom last night, the industry is in trouble. They only make like five different games anymore, over and over again. When someone does step outside of that box, it’s usually to make some extra woke indie slop.
And the only game I’m still holding out hope for is Elder Scrolls 6 but that hope is dwindling. I can get it on Steam when it comes out. What happened at Gamescom?
The laptop jokes were done to death so I'll only add this :
Don't waste money you can't afford to waste. If you're happy gaming on your laptop, do that.
At some point there might be several good games you want to play, but can't on your laptop. Only then would I suggest you build your own PC or buy a prebuilt.
In either options, take time to get up to date with semi-recent CPUs and GPUs to avoid overpaying / getting scammed. And decide what performance level you want within your budget.
And do not get Intel CPUs. Not only is price/performance worse than AMD CPUs, Intel has been plagued with severe quality control problems starting with 13th gen CPUs.
We're talking ''your Intel CPU will rust from the inside-out'' quality control problems.
Oh and Linux not being garbage for gaming is a relatively recent development. You have to check if any of your must-have games are compatible, and you can always have 2 drives in your PC with one having Windows installed to boot into.
Cool, thank you for the info
I'm with you. Left PS I think in 2022, my PS4 still had some good value. It was clear nothing was coming. Built a PC in the smallest way I could with extremely modest components. Only thing I've done to it since is add storage. Currently have zero intent to upgrade it even after three years. I just configure the games to work and use a controller on a TV most of the time. Got a trackball for the rest of the time. PCs were running away from what I wanted in the days of new GPUs every six months, everything was KB/M only even if there was a console version, etc. but they came back and consoles just got worse in the meantime.
Still have my Xbox One X, but I never play it. I hang on in case I want to go in some old game. Also a Switch that I play slightly more than the Xbox. Contemplated the Switch 2, but probably not there either. Not any time soon at least.
They’re a good PS2 emulators that work well even for crappy PCs. I use PCSX2 on my laptop with integrated graphics and it doesn’t have any issue.
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You are burning money on gaming laptops. More expensive, less future proof and significantly less life expectancy than a desktop. Get a desktop pc. Gaming laptops are great at first, but the honeymoon will end.
I will when I get a house. Right now don’t have the space for the setup I’d like
Yeah I grew up only really playing Sony consoles. At the end of the PS3 era I started actually making my own money, though, instead of asking mum and dad, and then it was just a question of 'Why wouldn't I get a gaming PC instead?'. They're better at basically anything you care to mention, and they can emulate all the old games as well.
I don't think consoles as a concept are really long for this world. Maybe Nintendo will be creative and/or gimmicky enough to keep them alive?
Exactly. When I first saw Steam I was wondering how GameStop can stay in business.
You dream as a child of being the kid to own an Xbox, a Playstation, and a Nintendo.... then when you finally have the money to do it yourself, there are no games to play, no exclusives to focus on, and no reasons to spend so much more money than a PC. A modern tragedy
"laptop"
"PC Master Race"
Pick one
Regardless of that, welcome to PC gaming. It's much better than console gaming unless you're a midwit. Hope you have fun with it. Modded Skyrim is a must. And not the "modded Skyrim" you got on console. That's barely a fairies fart in the wind compared to what you can do on PC
I’ve been playing modded Skyrim for a long time now. Haven’t touched the vanilla parts in years. So many new quests. Ok, Laptop master race. lol
Honestly, I've never found it worthwhile to sell old consoles unless it was at Collector's prices. You will be getting a pittance for it unless it was released within the last year or so.
You already own it, and all the games you had for it. Keep it in storage until the urge strikes you to replay some of those, and save yourself the money of needing to rebuy it on PC (if its been ported). And modern consoles are fully functional entertainment centers as well, so you could hold onto it as literally just a DVD/Bluray player for your TV (important as disc drives on PC aren't standard anymore).
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