/v/ - Video Games

>>15530967

>I sold all my PS2 shit as a teen to buy a PS3 like a fucking poorfag chode.

Why? Even if you were poor, if it was the original release of the PS3, pricy as fuck that it was, the backwards compatibility could help deal with the NOGAEMS period a bit, just like it always helps make the transfer to a new generation of console (until late anyhow PS4 isn't backwards compatible with anything but the meager selection of PSN-sold PS2 games). Even if you needed to make that six hundred dollary-doos, ditching games, at least ones you'd loved, for it doesn't come off as smart, especially when the launch library is shit. Though I figure it's more a factor of what shit you enjoyed goes for/how well it sold in the first place

>But lately I've been buying back everything i traded in.

Should either just get an HDD set up with a fat PS2, or if you've got a 20/60gb model fat PS3, CFW it to be able to load stored games via the PS2 chip. And that's if you don't just emulate (though PS2 emulation has its problems).

>i recommend any horror enthusiast pick up a copy for something quite special.

Not at current prices I wouldn't recommend doing so. Though obviously just downloading an ISO doesn't have that issue.

>What games have you revisited from your past that ended up being better than you expected?

Honestly didn't have many games growing up to have to have sold for others to begin with, and the fact that if I did want to try a new game I'd have to sell most of what I did have for it kept me to a niche of about two series total, because at least I knew I liked them (at the time, anyhow). Am happy though that the PS1 Spyro games still hold up pretty damn well, both in terms of gameplay handling and visuals (the latter not being able to be said of every 3D PS1 game). It's nice to have something to fall back on when in a funk and still have it be something you can go back to without much trouble.

>>15530967

>Buying

You know you can pirate PS2 games, right? No shit you're so poor being so dumb.

>>15530999

I'm talking Uk prices, for some reason its 10-15 times the price in burgerbux.

>>15531106

I guess that make make enough sense; I know Yakuza 2 used to be anywhere from $20-45 cheaper in PALland compared to NA because of some unsold shipment turning up or something, and the PAL version of Blood Will Tell for whatever reason isn't anywhere near what the NA one goes for, for reasons I'm unclear of.

>>15531148

by and large PS2 stuff in the uk is still cheap, i would go so far as to say right now its the second cheapest after PS3 games due to overproduced units. But PAL is obviously made for god knows how many countries compared to NTSC which is like a dozen or less. We still have the (((collectors))) buying up all the NES games with ruskies hiring immigrants to scour flea markets to destroy copies of 'their investment games' but PS2 is still sound. Even on places like amazon where i got RE outbreak file 2 for £1.99 which is like a childrens menu mcdonalds hamburger.

>>15531169

Interesting. PS2 here in the states is still pretty cheap overall, but it's got a handful of really badly priced games, which makes it feel strange to see the same ones from PAL for significantly lower. But I'd still rather not have to deal with the issue of plenty of games not having gotten a native release out there, if I lived there (which I suppose is a small problem compared to other goings on out there).

>>15531192

The only significant one i know of on PS2 is Rule of Rose which like Parasite Eve we never got purely because they refused to rate the game. For PE its because one scene takes place in a sperm bank, for RoR its because it shows kids beating up a retarded kid.

He called himself a chode.

ahahahahaha

>>15531204

>they refused to rate the game

I'd thought the only games banned like that in the UK were Carmageddon, Manhunt 2, and Omega Labyrinth Z

>For PE its because one scene takes place in a sperm bank,

Do you seriously have a law against showing that there, or was it a case where differences between ESRB and PEGI would have bumped it up more than Square cared for (though even then Parasite Eve is rated M here to begin with)? If so, I guess that makes more sense than trying to figure out why they couldn't bother with Chrono Cross.

I'll trade my left testicle for the case and manual for haunting ground

>>15531424

If you live in AZ, I saw what might be a complete one at the Bookmans in Mesa recently. Think it was $100 plus tax, which is still kind of bad, but if it were complete you could probably just recoup some of it by selling the extraneous disc on its own. Would be nice if maybe VGP or whatever that canuck online vendor is named could convince Capcom to give the game a reprint, the way Sega cleared Yakuza 1 and 2 last year (as well as 3 and 4) to be stocked through them. And unlike most of the Yakuza reprints, asking $50 for a reprint Haunting Ground would actually be a substantial drop in price compared to complete used copies.

Do not cut one of your balls off over vidya.

>>15531424

it seems to be the gen where nobody kept cases, maybe normalfags put cds in sleeve binders more at that time?

>>15531479

Most cart based gens up to the DS no one kept boxes for, and with disc based systems, I've seen plenty of disc only, or manual missing, copies for a lot of systems (mostly online; stores here do their best to not accept disc only if they don't go for a lot). It does not help matters though that Gamestop is quick to toss extraneous materials to save shelf space, and I know they've at least been doing as such since the end of stocking for sixth gen. They'll probably have boxes of caseless Wii, 360, and PS3 discs in paper sleeves soon, if not already as they try to move what's left out faster. But overall, I still run across plenty of complete, or at least cased (bit hard to open each I see when stores here either tape or shrink wrap them shut, or store the manual with the disc behind the counter) PS2 games, and even with the occasional harder to find one at a stupid cheap price, I tend to get lucky with them, and 99% of the time, I'll only buy complete, unless I can fill out the rest easily through other resources (wasn't going to pass up PoR for $10 while a manual was on ebay for $5 at the time). What I find more baffling is running across current gen games that are disc only, or look like they've been through hell in the mere 2-5 years they've been out for. I suppose one's property is theirs to do what they want with, but is it that hard to actually care a bit for something you paid for, if at least for longevity?

But yes, I know one of my more normalfag tier friends just keeps the bulk of his games in a disc binder. But to be fair, he buys them like that, sometimes even in cheap bulk, rather than trashing his own cases and manuals.

>>15531505

anyone that trashes manuals is a a degenerate who consorts with beasts.

>>15531027

>bro just steal it

>b-b-but it was just 5 bags of jerky bro no moooommmm

I love when you fucks pull that shit in my store. Act civilized.

What's your store address so I can come in a rob it cabron

>>15530967

Been seeing that game everywhere since valkyrieaurora made a video about it

The Silent Hill games are still a gem to play.

>Recently purchased Haunting Ground

I was gonna call bullshit unless you were seriously dumb enough to drop $100 - $200 on a PS2 game but apparently the PAL version isn't nearly as bad.

PS2 games are pretty cheap in Europe. The downside is that lots of PS2 JRPGs were never released here.

Europe is Sonyland, I think the PS2 sold like 40 million + on the continent.

Just beat this game last night on my FMCB'd PS2.

Some of the puzzles were pretty bullshit.

FIONA A CUTE

>>15540825

Yeah in the UK the PS1 and Game Boy ruled the 1990's, i was 'that kid'who had the only saturn in town, one other guy had an N64 for smash and pokemon stadium/snap. But everyone had a ps1 and the ps2 was everyones first dvd player. the 360 had a minor take over till 2008 when the ps3 finally found its footing and xbones are worthless here, pawn shops have them literally stacked in towers in windows because you can't give them away.

All because weebs got the best horror and rpgs on sony and wiggers got 'muh fifa bruv innit'

>>15540883

best tits of 6th gen.

>>15540691

£13 on amazon on average which is 16 trumpbux

>>15540410

And yet it's sadly that mindset that's led to publishers skimping harder and harder on manuals, to the point you have to pay extra these days for anything better than a grayscale four page spread of the controller schematic in at least three languages, if not nothing physical at all in favor of just putting it on disc or in the form of forced tutorials.

>>15540905

>bruv innit

As a burger, I'm still a bit confused as to what that means. I'd guess "brother isn't it" but it makes little grammatical sense (which I suppose might be to be expected from wiggers).

>>15541041

innit is gutterspeak for "you know what i mean?"

sound.

>>15541053

How hard would it be for them to just replace it with a simple "right?" Even if "innit" is somehow a contraction of a longer phrase like that, "right" is even shorter is terms of syllables. Then again, I'm trying to apply logic to the illogical, I suppose.

>>15541874

i grew up working class in glasgow and use innit all the time, none of the bruv shite though, just grew up speaking slang i guess.

every day there is a new nostalgia thread, with such little variation that they seem generated.

>games you liked more the first time you played them but now not as much

>games which were rated badly but you liked them anyway

>games that you played once then went back to them and completed the second time

>games that you liked, then didn't like, and nos like

>games that you pirated but then bought

>games that you bought them pirated

>games you would like if they had been different

>games that you want a remake of

>games that were remade that you prefered the original

>games that were remade that you prefered the remake

>games that you wouldn't like if they didn't not originalise a remade remake

That each thread title starts with 'games' is also senseless. It is a forum dedicated to games.

>>15541041

you are correct.

init is from "isn't it", and it is from niggers as you astutely supposed, from niggers and pakis it spread to the other scum.

>>15542229

mods should update template list

>>15530967

>Haunting Ground

Somewhat related. RIP Gametrailers.com and their unmoderated video section. Had a lot of rare vidya videos like animation tests for Haunting Ground including the main girl in his alternate bikini top outfit. Great stuff that's lost forever.

>>15542229

>That each thread title starts with 'games' is also senseless. It is a forum dedicated to games.

>Upset a descriptive is used on a board dedicated.

Oh so now we treat the word like fucking voldemorts name? Fucking homunculus mongoloid, go enjoy your [ELECTRONIC IDIOM VECTORS] on reddit.