Skywolf09 said:
Well sometimes I rent/buy a game they turn out to be bad games and im gonna get my moneys worth of time wasting from them even if theyre horrible because im certainly not going to get a refund.
Why are we so obsessed with HD?
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Well sometimes I rent/buy a game they turn out to be bad games and im gonna get my moneys worth of time wasting from them even if theyre horrible because im certainly not going to get a refund.
I do play games in HD, just not constantly, and have set my settings up to 1080p and really can't tell much of a difference. If anything, everything is much brighter and the text is far more legible, but not particularly "better". In trying to play Tales of Vesperia in HD, I couldn't stand it more than half an hour because it was too damn bright - a bright desert sun turned into a stupidly bright blinding light. Playing Mass Effect 2 in HD just makes it more shiney as far as I can tell - as with Bioshock, Brutal Legend, Saints Row 2, Resident Evil 5, Geometry Wars 2, and most every other game I own. Any visual improvement is really quite lost on me.mrpmpfan said:
Granted, MY television isn't the greatest, but even in watching a friend play his PS3 on a fairly new television, I couldn't find much, if any, difference. inFamous and LittleBigPlanet looked just as normal as I'd seen it otherwise, and equally as good as when played on a much smaller, standard television.
[sub]Maybe I'm crazy :O[/sub]
I wouldn't say crazy but your eyes might need to be checked out at your local eye doctor. In HD not only are colors more vibrant, text more clear, but there are other big differences. If plugged up correctly like through HDMI or Componet with Optical Audio cable you also have improved surround sound. The graphics have higher res textures where you can see skin texture and sweat. I don't know if you ever played Oblivion but the game was near impossible to play in the dark cave sections unless you were playing in HD.9NineBreaker9 said:
I am saying when you get a chance to a test. Plug in your Xbox 360 into your HD set and set the settings to the highest possible. Play 10-15 mins.
Then go under settings>video and set it to 420p and replay the same 10-15 mins. If you truly don't see a major difference I have no idea what the issue is but most of us can see a huge difference.
An article here on the escapist says that 42% of owners reporting problems with the 360 is an improvement. That's not just bad luck, that's almost even odds. Xbox 1 was unstable as well, while Gamecube was stable. Yes, those systems had some good exclusive titles (a lot of them) but it's hard to get any lasting appeal out of equipment that you have to replace over and over to enjoy the games for any length of time. Nintendo may have gotten things wrong, but their console has always been the most stable one on the market. Of course that's not hard to do when your competition is Sony and Microsoft.Quiet Stranger said:
Well, at this moment I am using my 32 inch 1080p HDTV as my computer monitor, so I am in full support of being obsessed with HD.
I never knew what the big deal was about HD. Then I watched Watchmen on Blu Ray.
Now I pretty much buy all my movies on Blu Ray. The intro of Zombieland was utterly amazing in HD quality.
HD really is a big improvement on image quality.
Now I pretty much buy all my movies on Blu Ray. The intro of Zombieland was utterly amazing in HD quality.
HD really is a big improvement on image quality.
Well I will admit Nintendo has been in the business for much longer so they know what they're doing (when making a console's hard drive....the stuff inside the console so it runs well and is Stable) but how was the first Xbox unstable?Kyrian007 said:
HD has become the industry standard for television manufacturing. If you bought a CD player, and it just sounded like a cassette tape, most people would think it was a waste. I have a nice television, and I would like to accentuate my purchase is all.
I like HD because it improves the overall experience, but if the game itself is essentially bad *cough*Halo 3*cough* then pretty graphics don't at all make up for it. Graphics aren't a central element of a good game, and are far too emphasized. Recently I've been playing Creeper World and having tons of fun despite it's grid based terrain and browser-game graphics, just because the gameplay itself is good.
It stopped reading discs after 2 months. All I'd even played was MGS 2 Substance, KOTOR, and Ninja Gaiden. I only bought it (new) after my PS2 stopped reading discs. The used $60 Gamecube I bought still works to this day, I've never had to send it in or replace it. I still think that PS2 and Xbox are superior to the 'Cube in many ways, but its hard to enjoy them now that they don't work anymore. And now in this generation of games its shaping up the same way.Quiet Stranger said:
The only difference I ever notice between HD and SD is words on the screen. It was extremely difficult to read in Mass Effect 2. I'm not buying a new TV just for that, though. I guess it might look better overall, but I wouldn't notice unless there is a side-by-side comparison. Games still look awesome on my 34" SDTV.
The reason I DO want a new TV: mine is so freaking bulky and I've moved four times in the past year.
The reason I DO want a new TV: mine is so freaking bulky and I've moved four times in the past year.
I guess if I had a good gaming machine I'd care more, but high graphics= You can't play, for me so... I'd rather get 60fps and see pixely images and play the actual game, than zero and have a pretty start screen.