/vr/ - Retro Games

I played some Dark Souls 2 on my PC CRT tonight.
Findings:
1. The brightness slider actually works on a CRT, instead of the dragon always being visible.
2. Flawless widescreen lets you play in true 4:3 with no letterboxing.
3. Dark Souls 2 in 4:3 on a 19" CRT gave me a strange feeling of remembering playing N64 games on my old 19" TV back in my old bedroom, specifically Shadows of the Empire and the Zelda games.
4. Sometimes I fool myself into thinking my usual LCD monitor looks pretty good, but nah. The black level of the LCD just cannot compete with the CRT. The CRT which was made in 1995.

I shot a video but my camera crashed when the battery ran out and didn't save the recording. I've played Dark Souls in 4:3 before on this monitor but this just reminded me how good it looks. I've pretty much made up my mind now that I'm going to track down the largest HD CRT I can get my hands on before prices start going up or there's nothing left to find. I know the sought after models are the Sony super fine pitch televisions, but I think I'd rather get one of the larger non-SFP CRT HDTVs that were made, I know they at least made some up to 38".