Because my tower still very much does have a blue ray dvd burner and i have another couple in my parts cupboard
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internal bluray drives are still stupidly priced, and i want one so bad.. but at least I have a DVDRW
I bought mine years ago before everything went to shit
Same
Yup.
I haven't had a CD player in decades but I have an old copy of a Bon Jovi record that the first love of my life gave me. Literally every time we were ever in the car together a Bon Jovi song came on the radio. Pretty cool.
I have a big-box, unopened copy of Midtown Madness that I got a couple years ago. I had a MM2 box too when the game was new but it's been lost to time. And a bunch of non-big box games like NFS MW 05 (and 12), Halo 2, Driv3r...
God, I miss big box games.
When you got all kinds of cool shit in the box, without having to pay 200 dollars to get them? Pewter Figures, Big Maps, Minature Replicas of items, and all sorts of other shit.
I still have a DVD drive in my desktop PC. I don't use it that much but it comes in handy from time to time.
I also have one in an old laptop that I have set up near my exercise bike. I use that one pretty frequently to watch old sitcoms while I work out. Just bought the Scrubs Season 1 box set from a thrift shop.
Is there no way to use them?
A common problem with older games is that the DRM isn't compatible with modern computers. Necitating the need for a crack anyways.
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I still have my fallout 2 manual. It was a 60 page ring binded notepad with all sorts of game info.
/me: Glances at the two ODD currently in use and three more in my shelf. Oh.
You can still play UT online, like 20 players are on.
I have a whole bunch of old towers I've accrued over the years, and family audio CD and DVD collections. Now hard drive space has become a premium for the backups, but I bought a whole bunch of powered SATA to USB adapters and a PCIe slot USB hub for my desktop. Had multiple CDs backing up at a time using every disk drive that still works. ExactRip, configure the drive, and then just swap out discs as needed while I worked from home.
Haven't moved on to DVDs yet. CDs are easy, you just use ExactRip to rip to FLAC. Haven't figured out a general use way for DVD ripping yet, especially because whether I want the special features backed up or not, or multiple audio streams, depends on the disc.
Was Baldur’s Gate 2 pretty good? I loved BG3 and Divinity 2(? Original Sin)
I never got super into BG2 but BG1 I go back to every 5 years or so. It feels like a DnD campaign, it's comfortable, and I like how brutal the combat can be if you roll in unprepared
Very different game (if you've played the pathfinder games, it's a similar feel).
Honestly, my memory is too rose tinted to offer an honest review on bg1 and bg2... They were amazing for their time, and have aged well in my elderly opinion.
They're less dialogue driven than bg3 (planescape torment will scratch that itch), and a bit less forgiving, but they're damn good fun!
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Laughs in external USB 3.5" floppy drive
Some old people hoard cats, others funk pops, me? I hoard old game discs
I thought it was just me lol
real
Haven't kept any of them, because i digitalized them ages ago and never was someone who had any attachment to physical media, the content mattered for me. I preferred digital storage as soon as it was feasable.