I’ve only played the Wii version of FF2 and I thought it was pretty good. The controls feel weird but when you get used to them it’s not too bad. Maiden of Black Water is definitely the worst one. It’s okay but feels like it trips over itself by trying to be both scary and horny and mostly ends up feeling vapid and silly.
the older ones seem to have that thing where the final save point is beyond the point of no return, so if you don’t have enough film and healing items then you’re screwed
I think all the chain thrift stores stopped taking CRT TVs a couple years back, but maybe things have looped around now that more folks are looking for them.
Yeah it depends on the individual store. It pays to ask the manager if they have any in the back. People drop them off and they just sit there until they are recycled, but they might sell them to you if you ask. It’s how i got my two crts for less than $5
i think fatal frame 2 wii only has the re4 ish follow camera which seems like it would… remove kind of an essential aspect of the games mise en scéne (same w/ a 1st person mode imo)… also the 1st 3 games have been undubbed for ps2 which seems preferable certainly
that is exactly what I was thinking when warning against the Wii one. Just seems like it negates a bunch of what was good in the original.
clock tower games aren’t actually very enjoyable to play are they
I enjoyed about half the stages of Clocktower 3, but 3 is a very different beast than the earlier games.
The original clock tower is a good time, just a simple horror adventure with obtuse puzzles and an extremely brief play time (like 40 minutes max to get an ending)
Am I crazy or does music and sound sound better with my ipod earbuds plugged into my xbox controller than through my laptop headphone jack?
I am over here like just trying stuff because it like sounds better fellow.
onboard audio outputs are generally more noisy because of proximity to all the rest of the electronics on a motherboard. laptop form factor can make this worse iirc
i’m not sure how the xbox controller handles digital to analog conversion but i could see it sounding nicer if your laptop was particularly noisy
external audio interfaces (assuming you have a spare usb slot) can remediate this issue
Has anyone used an M.2 SATA SSD to 2.5” IDE adapter in a PS3? I just hooked up a slim of unknown provenance and I want to put Tokyo Jungle and some other stuff on it but before I spend too much time hacking it (still possible if it has a 4.83 firmware, right? It’s a CECH-2101a model) or whatever I want to do what I can to make sure the hard drive doesn’t crap out on me
My DS3s have been untouched for so long the gooey analog sticks have seemingly congealed into something that isn’t sticky 
While playing OlliOlli World on the PS5 I seem to have an issue with the touch pad and rarely even the home button registering a press and interrupting the action, is this likely due to me grazing the buttons with my fingers while not noticing or is this a known issue with the controllers?
This is a silly question because the PS3 uses SATA drives. For some reason I had it in my head that they used PATA 
Which unnecessary new remake should I play? (I’ve never played either original)
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edit: sorry, I accidentally erased one vote cuz I was trying to fix my bad poll syntax!
i finished neither original but i remember dead space as resident evil 4 draped on the skeleton of a system shock 3 (albeit not as fun as that implies)
the last of us is a pointed alternative to dead space because it’s very consciously focused on violence in a way i find tiresome post-mgs3 (just realized i categorize the last of us and undertale together in my head x_x)
Dead Space is just a bland whatever, TLOU is the banner carrier for a dead end artistic movement.
Hmm, maybe I should have included “neither” as an option.
Dead Space is a good game with great art direction and nasty gooey things. The Last of Us did not need a remake and the remakes unlike this Dead Space one, doesn’t have any changes to it. They added things to the Dead Space remake that seem like smart extensions. TLOU is a great game but this remake is a huge cash in. Just play the PS4 version if you wanna play it again.
oh yeah I would have clicked that in an instant
the problem with dead space is it really doesnt have like, encounter design… for smth so obviously indebted to re4 they kind of left out one of the biggest parts of it… more evidence for my case that only fromsoft really Got that game