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[zyxwvu4321]

Metal Gear Solid 4. Got the PS3 bundle.

 

[Thoraxes]

For me, Soul Calibur 2 on Xbox.

(Not my TV)



Playing the game in 720p was a revelation in the potential of the coming next generation consoles. So crisp & clear. Only con was not being able to play it in a true 16:9 ratio.

What you say GAF?

The PC back in the 90's.

If it's consoles only, MGS4 was the first to blow my mind.

 

[Zwei]

Grand Theft Auto IV (360)

 

[revolverjgw]

Nm

 

[Loxley]

Call of Duty 3. Yeah.

 

[Madouu]

I'm surprised I don't remember the first console HD game exactly, to me it was a fantastic but natural improvement for consoles. That said, it was probably Gears of War seeing how it was one of the first games I bought for the 360. Finished it the same day in coop with my roommate of the time.

 

[MidnightScott]

Uncharted when I got my PS3

I barely played my PS3

 

[Phonomezer]

Sonic 2006

 

[danwarb]

Kameo. Pretty sharp.

 

[Reiko]

Sonic 2006

O_O

 

[TheGreyHulk]

Been a PC gamer, so I seen HD before...but on consoles, it was Madden 07 and saints row which i believe were my 1st 2 games on the 360.

Gears of War is what blew my mind though.

 

[Lingitiz]

Fight Night Round 3 was pretty impressive at the time.

 

[lupinko]

Gears of War

This.

 

[Neiteio]

Metal Gear Solid 4. Got the PS3 bundle.

Same. The wasteland of the Wii made me think I was done with gaming, but then I realized there are other platforms other than Nintendo. It was quite the epiphany to get a PS3 and find harmony in multiplat.

And then I got a gaming PC, and discovered Steam sales.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Sonic 2006

That probably made a bad first impression.

 

[Reiko]

On a console that I've owned, none so far (though I've been gaming in "HD" on PC since 2002 or so). Will be whatever Wii U game I decide to play first.

EDIT: Was Black on the Xbox in 720p? I thought I've heard that but I can't find anything at the moment. If it was then that would be the first console HD game I played.

I'm not sure. But I can confirm that Sonic Heroes was not 720p as advertised.

 

[Degen]

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online (PS3)

I went from playing it on a 22" CRT with mono sound and terrible color straight to a 32" LCD with HDMI that went in the same spot that the old TV used to be

the reaction:

"what? whaaaat?!"

When I saw the CG intro for the first time in high-def, I lost my shit completely. It actually took me a little while to adjust my eyes to the gameplay on a TV that different. Too much.

 

[Malo]

Gears of War and Saints Row.

 

[FOOTE]

Metal Gear Solid 4.

 

[chickdigger802]

I swear I had a hd spec CRT monitor ages ago due to dad's work.

Hmmmm. Don't think any game really. I had a somewhat good pc forever, and i just got a ps3 last Black Friday and it looks awful on my 1440p monitor. :/

 

[Ramblin]

Crackdown

 

[Majmun]

PGR3 and Kameo

I was blown away.

 

[Ahasverus]

Mine was RE5. My father while never a gaming enthusiast since Super Mario Bros has always enjoyed watching me booting up my new consoles for the first time each gen. I bought my 360 with Re5 and at the same time we used the HDMI port of our new 42'' plasma. We were both blown away, but my father was really really astounded; when gameplay started he grasped "Wait, are YOU playing now? You gotta be KIDDING me".

Then last time he was blown away by something was the begining of FF XIII-2

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

Bioshock on PC. I was wowed by the intro when you're swimming in the water.

 

[HawthorneKitty]

Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3 just 2 years ago.
My mind was blown once Chapter 12 happened.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Call of Duty 2 and Ridge Racer 6. I think PGR3 might have been there too.

 

[Kyleripman]

Viva Pinata

lol

Hey nothing wrong with that! Viva Pinata is a great game.

 

[Omikaru]

Perfect Dark Zero was my first HD console game, I'm ashamed to admit. That said, I'd been playing in 4:3 resolutions roughly equivalent to HD years before on PC.

 

[LAMBO]

PS3, and PC years before.

 

[RedSwirl]

Playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on my laptop in 1280 x 800.

Edit: Oh wait console. Before owning an HD console - playing a Call of Duty 2 demo at an Xbox 360 kiosk. I remember it because the TV screen actually caught my attention in the corner of my eye from a couple hundred feet away. First HD console I bought was a PS3 and the first game I played on it was actually The Darkness.

 

[CitizenCope]

Freedom Fighters on the original Xbox. 720p if I recall. I remember a friend came in while I was playing it and asking why it looked so good.

 

[RM8]

An absurdly boring F1 game on PS3. It was pretty, I guess.

 

[injurai]

Gears of War sold me on the 360. Haven't bought a game for that system since 2008. Great game though.

 

[airmangataosenai]

I think DOA4 was my first Xbox game, but I didn't get an HDTV until Gears.

 

[demidar]

Gears of War for me, though even then I lamented the lack of colour in that game.

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Grand Turismo 4 (PS2)

Photo Mode was too much for my early teenage brain to handle.

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

I'm not sure. But I can confirm that Sonic Heroes was not 720p as advertised.

Well I can't find anything about it being 720p so maybe it wasn't. I just recall it was boring and had a terrible framerate. Even if it was 720p it was not exactly a great introduction to HD gaming.

 

[LCGeek]

Xbox soul calibur 2. Remember playing SC on the dc with a vga box doing that jump in the same generation was totally sweet.

 

[SteeloDMZ]

GRID. Couldn't have been a better first game at that time.

 

[entremet]

Gears of War.

 

[Goldenroad]

Mass Effect

 

[neoemonk]

Resistance.

Because I dropped $600 on my PS3 and another $1000 on an HDTV in December 2006 and I wanted something to play on it.

I need to go back in time and slap myself.

 

[KageMaru]

I had HD games on the Xbox but didn't get an HDTV until this this Gen. So I guess I'll go with Condemned. That was the first game I played on my 360 IIRC.

 

[Cannon Goose]

I'd had a 360 since launch but had only ever played it on an SD TV. The same year I got a PS3 my dad also got a plasma TV for Christmas, so that was the first thing I hooked it up to and it looked fantastic! Also, the 360 had broken for the third or fourth time by that point, so there was no HD Xbox gaming until I went out and bought an Arcade to replace the launch Xbox.

Edit: Oh yeah, first HD PS3 game was Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

Strangely, Gears of War. I ended up not liking the game, though. At least I also had Dead Rising and Virtua Fighter 5.

 

[Sayah]

Tekken 6. The one and only reason I needed to buy a PS3.

 

[neoemonk]

I guess the first game I played in HD was Call of Duty 2 on the 360. My next door neighbor got it on launch day. Resistance was the first one that I bought however.

 

[H_Prestige]

Warhawk. That and killzone 2 dominated my ps3

 

[Big Papa Husker]

Gran Turismo 4 on PS2 - 1080i

EDIT: Reading about it, I guess it really isn't 1080i. So...

Probably Perfect Dark Zero on 360.

 

[TaroYamada]

I think the first game I played in HD was Valkyria Chronicles, and WOW, what a great introduction to HD visuals. It was beautiful.