Flo_Evans said:maybe you should spend all that time buying games and systems and playing them looking for a better job?
sangreal said:Are you guys playing over composite or something?
yeah, but...op_ivy said:agreed. once again, this is just fanboys, er excuse me, game journalists, making a big deal over nothing.
I make over $60k/year. I also have two kids and a mortgage. Buying a $400 game console was a big, big deal in my house. I plan to buy a mid-size HDTV in a couple of years when they are in my price range.Flo_Evans said:maybe you should spend all that time buying games and systems and playing them looking for a better job?
future_pinoy said:"the amount of text and the size of the patch necessary to change the text" made it impossible to solve the problem.
future_pinoy said:hey, not all of us are rich like some of the spoiled brats here. Microsoft and Capcom should have taken into account how many 14" to 17" SDTV's are out there. High Definition will not be standard until 5 to 6 years from now.
Crisis said:Unplayable, my ass. I've got the game on an SDTV, and I can read the text. It could be better, I'll admit, but still legible. And I think they should issue a fix of some sort for the problem.
But why play a next-gen console on a crap TV? Why not put that money into a better display?shidoshi said:Maybe... MAYBE... different TVs have different quality levels when it comes to the displayed picture? That couldn't be the case, could it?
A photo of my TV screen is an exaggeration? That's what it looked like.duckroll said:I've been bitching to friends about the "unreadable" text on my SDTV too. So I was going to click on the thread and bitch, but..... MAN WHAT A MISLEADING PHOTO. There's no way in hell it looks like that on any decent SDTV. The text is small and pretty damn hard to read for me, but that's just a horrible exaggeration.
shidoshi said:Maybe... MAYBE... different TVs have different quality levels when it comes to the displayed picture? That couldn't be the case, could it?
Kobun Heat said:A photo of my TV screen is an exaggeration? That's what it looked like.
I figured everybody was just making a mountain out of a molehill until I dragged the 360 over to my old TV to see for myself. It's completely illegible.
shidoshi said:Maybe... MAYBE... different TVs have different quality levels when it comes to the displayed picture? That couldn't be the case, could it?
Game publisher Capcom indicated this morning that there is no solution forthcoming to the issues that cause their latest hit game, Dead Rising for Xbox 360, to be nearly unplayable on standard definition TV sets.
-jinx- said:For those who agree with the article's position: What would you think if Capcom had released the game with an explicit "HDTV strongly recommended" or "HDTV required" sticker?
I'm trying to figure out if the issue here that you didn't realize the game might be suboptimal on your SDTV, or that certain games might not choose to support SDTV at all. At some point, supporting SD resolutions is going to hold things back -- it wouldn't surprise me to see companies not even bothering to consider that section of the market as the generation goes on.
Oldschoolgamer said:This isn't computer gaming...
GhaleonEB said:I make over $60k/year. I also have two kids and a mortgage. Buying a $400 game console was a big, big deal in my house. I plan to buy a mid-size HDTV in a couple of years when they are in my price range.
-jinx- said:For those who agree with the article's position: What would you think if Capcom had released the game with an explicit "HDTV strongly recommended" or "HDTV required" sticker?
I'm trying to figure out if the issue here that you didn't realize the game might be suboptimal on your SDTV, or that certain games might not choose to support SDTV at all. At some point, supporting SD resolutions is going to hold things back -- it wouldn't surprise me to see companies not even bothering to consider that section of the market as the generation goes on.
The Faceless Master said:this is such a retarded oversight... if this were Activision or some other cool to hate company, there would be flames of death all over it, but because it's Capcom, they get a free ride...
sangreal said:This is what it looks like on my SDTV from closeup and far away. Annoyingly small, but not unreadable
I took the pics with no flash so its a little overexposed
-jinx- said:For those who agree with the article's position: What would you think if Capcom had released the game with an explicit "HDTV strongly recommended" or "HDTV required" sticker?
I'm trying to figure out if the issue here that you didn't realize the game might be suboptimal on your SDTV, or that certain games might not choose to support SDTV at all. At some point, supporting SD resolutions is going to hold things back -- it wouldn't surprise me to see companies not even bothering to consider that section of the market as the generation goes on.
Oldschoolgamer said:I can hardly see that shit looking at my laptop screen. Its all blured to hell and back... I doubt that i could see it, sitting on my sofa...
Anyhow...you still zoomed in onto the image. I don't know a lot of people that sit with their eyes glued to the TV...
No worries for me though. Soon as they get the HD set, i'm gettting...
Something lol.
sangreal said:This is what it looks like on my SDTV from closeup and far away. Annoyingly small, but not unreadable
I took the pics with no flash so its a little overexposed
For what it's worth, I agree...though there might very well be a fuzzy middle ground of "HDTV recommended" this gen.Greenpanda said:I think if the game basically requires an HDTV, some type of notification is definitely called for.
duckroll said:I dunno, I feel the Xbox360 is more like a computer than any other console ever made. Just look at the different SKUs, the shitloads of hardware accessory upgrades, games running 720p and 480p at different framerates, etc.
Where do you think the testers sit? In conference room 10 ft away from TV? Most testers are probably on not that big of screen but sitting like 1-2 ft in front of it...Wario64 said:Makes me wonder how this small font got past Capcom to begin with. You'd think at one point, one of the testers would complain about the small font
the free ride sure is in effect in this thread...duckroll said:Clearly you missed all the complaints on the Dead Rising thread and the threads all over the Capcom forums, the various Dead Rising forums, and so on. There is no "free ride" here. It's a ****ing stupid problem and everyone is pissed. The difference is that unlike a stupid lameass Activision game, Dead Rising is actually solid.
Are all the 360s going to explode next year or something? All copies of Dead Rising vanish into the ether? No. What they are going to be is cheaper if you put that money into a decent TV right now and start saving up for them, enjoying your current system(s) in glorious size and color as they were meant to..dmc said:You can't excuse this shit by saying 'your fault for not having a better tv' or 'you should buy a new tv before you buy a 360'. A 360 + a new tv = what, $700+? So you could save all that money, or you could just buy a 360 to use with your otherwise acceptable (if shitty) tv RIGHT NOW. It's developer oversight that means that a significant portion of gamers can't play an otherwise fantastic game. If they can't fix it with a downloadable patch (and, you know, fair enough if that's technically not possible) then they should try to fix the problem for future print runs of the game + let people trade them in if it's a problem for them.
the last time i checked every Xbox 360 comes with Composite out, and only some come with Component, and even with the Composite/Component cable, the default position on the switch is SD, so it looks to me like out of the box, 100% of Xbox 360 units display in SD... what is "meant to be" again?Aaron said:Are all the 360s going to explode next year or something? All copies of Dead Rising vanish into the ether? No. What they are going to be is cheaper if you put that money into a decent TV right now and start saving up for them, enjoying your current system(s) in glorious size and color as they were meant to.
DUDE... you're not a REAL gamer unless your HDTV does 1080p60 (over DVI/HDMI *and* Component) and you have a 7.1 DTS HD compatible receiver and audio setup...DavidDayton said:There is something laughably funny about this, and it isn't the folks complaining that a video game is unplayable on the kind of televisions that dominate the American market... perhaps it is the fact folks appear to be blaming gamers for not being "worthy" of a game plagued with a fairly large design flaw.
GhaleonEB said:No, it's not. YOU try playing the game when you can't read any of the in-game text.