u/Cautious-Control-419

no seriously they’re ruthless, brutal, actually intelligent/strategic and smart

i have completed HP1 2010 and Rivals i found cops brutal there too but not as brutal as HP2 cops like hell i cant complete normal Hot Pursuit race without restarting 5 times

HP2 cops dont just chase you, they hunt you. Changing the game theme to horror.

What do you guys think?

Suggest me PS2 games that will give me instant dopamine.

yes i might have ADHD but i do have short attention span

i like intense fast paced(not necessarily fast paced) but yeah games that gives me instant dopamine

i have

1. Burnout 3 and revenge obv
2. downhill domination
3. SSX
4. Midnight club
5. NFS HP2 (dont have to progress a lot i get intense races at first)
6. GOW and 2 (they are very very good but puzzles seriously gonna turn me off)

please suggest me more

• Build quality is not decent.
• Thermals issue if you dont clean your laptop every month.
• 5 and 6 and F2 keys stopped working, only works if i press some other key(sometimes btw).
• Fans died, making noises or sometimes js doesnt work.
• Has a weird lag everytime periodically (probably an issue with AMD laptops).
• Gave up on gaming (i shouldnt say this is laptop's problem, more related to how modern gaming sucks).
• Temporarily Screen Ghosting on borders
• Oh yes has 20% of chance the wifi adapter will stop working

I have been trying my best to convince myself that this laptop has some potential but in the end it just something that i have to babysit everytime for it to work

Really stupid comparison but my SLIM PS2 and Super Slim PS3 have not been opened for over decades and they have no thermals problem. Controllers still work without buttons or stick drift issue. Maybe im used to old electronics thats why i cant take care of my laptop

I know we have to take care of our electronics and clean them regularly but personally i cant just take care open up my laptop every month knowing that this will just rot again just after a month.

Personally i do NOT want to become part-time hardware technician just to play games or browse normally.

And psychologically once a device becomes unreliable, my brain starts treating it like maintenance work instead of a tool.

I was setting up an SMB/Samba server for OPL and trying to directly connect my PS2 to my laptop through Ethernet, but nothing worked. Windows wouldn’t even detect an Ethernet connection, so I genuinely started believing my PS2 LAN port had finally died.

For one last sanity check, I plugged the laptop into my router instead… and it still didn’t detect anything. That’s when I realized the problem wasn’t the PS2 at all it was my Legion 5 Pro’s Ethernet port dying 💀
I literally have to wiggle the cable around just to get a connection, and even then it barely works.

Honestly, this laptop has already convinced me it was never really built for gaming:

• terrible thermals
• fans started dying within 2 years(GPU fan died)
• constant overheating
• requires constant cleaning and maintenance just to behave normally

At some point I just gave up gaming on it entirely(due to many reasons, modern games being so boring, terrible optimization etc) and started using it mostly for productive/work stuff because the CPU is still decent. I genuinely don’t have the time or energy to babysit a laptop by opening it up and cleaning it every month.

Meanwhile, my PS2 and PS3 hardware are still out here surviving after decades.

Long live PS2.

I just want a cheap raspberry pi to setup SMB and directly connected to PS2, like the cheapest one i could find, but should have decent speeds. I dont wanna use that Pi for anything else at all just SMB directly connected to my PS2 not over router or anything, yes i dont even need wifi connection.

Please share recommendations.