Just revisited Pyron's color hacks on md SF2sce, SSF2 and Final Fight cd.
Fuck me he's good, he really cleans up the muddy color palette of the original releases. His work is squeaky clean unlike competitor Lord Hiryu who just looks sloppy in comparison with his overuse (abuse?) of dithering. Don't get me wrong, Lord Hiryu is technically strong with the amount of color he gets out of the md but he lacks the artistic vision of Pyron. Pyron's palettes look restrained yet clean while Lord Hiryu's palettes look unrestrained and off: while colorful they're overly saturated yet strangely muddy and not 'clean'.

In Pyron's case less is more.
Pyron all the way for me.

Sweet Lord.

Point.

I'm almost done with collecting which is quite a statement from me. The last straw has been the manual-less Switch physical releases - even the ones by the tat sellers such as LimitedRunGames.  sigh.

Consoles keep the home costs sensible though. All very well having an up to date PC/laptop.

That's a fair point. The cost of controllers is not funny any more. And if you buy a switch you really need a second pair of joycons. £500 with a game for a Switch.  Then you need a pro controller if you want to play anything requiring a dpad.

Aye. I still like my collection.

But over the next few years I really need to think about what I'm going to do with it if the daughters don't want it.  I'll be 60 in 4 years and on the verge of retirement and I don't see me sitting in my games room after that. The last thing I want is it to gather dust and then scooped up by some house clearing cunt in 20 years when I'm in the ground.

The younger one has laid claim to the asteroids cabinet but there's been no other interest.

I won't ever get rid of it all as I intend to always play - I'm thinking of what my core collection would consist of.

Paid 2200 for the PC when it was top of the range about 4 years ago or so. Xbox One, PS4, Wii U, Switch, PS5 and Xbox SX/SS in that time. 

And I can play 98% of all games on those consoles, soon be 100% the more Sony port. Worth it, PC still a beast fuck a console.

I tried the higher end gaming pc and spec aside. I didn't find it as enjoyable as a straight up console. I'm old fashioned, I like the console under the telly and couldn't be arsed with a games room.

davyK wrote:

Smang wrote:

Exactly - essentially you're saying wait till the kid has grown up!

They are 22 and 23....

Ah well mine can't even walk yet so I'm going to take your advice!

Sony no longer have exclusive WipEouts or Tekkens (binning the former), nor Final Fantasies if that's your game. Team ICO's gone, and there hasn't been an Uncharted in six years.

They've had Astro Bot, The Last of Us II, Gran Turismo 7, and very little else. MS paid a fortune for all those other devs, but I'd say Naughty Dog is still the one they should be after.

Assuming I dont want to play around with having a PC set up somewhere else, whats the best model for getting a decent spec box that isnt huge sitting under the telly? Bluetooth Keyboards and Mouse are easy enough but the last PCs that resembled a series S were the alienware stuff and felt both over priced and under whelming.

I think it's only because I expect a sequel that I haven't sold my PS5.

Suppose I might have another go at beating my zone record in Omega one day.

I've basically abandoned mouse and keys wherever possible, and pretty much everything I currently play accommodates that choice.

hunk wrote:

This. Playing re7 now on an ancient 11yo laptop and it runs surprisingly well @720p/30. That and you also get the boon of emulation. Building a desktop gets u even more fps due to more wattage and better cooling but u lose portability. Controllers aren't really an issue as pc practically supports all console controllers. It's only ever a problem if you want to play mouse/kb moba's on your livingroom telly. Hopefully upcoming standalone steamcontrollers will fix that.

My laptop's 10 years old and it barely runs Chrome.

Also please for the love of fuck do not be using a spinny-disk as your OS drive in 2022. Please.

'Bout 4 on this laptop.