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[Doug Heffernan]

For me it was Mass Effect 2. I bought it when it came out and played it on my old standard television and it looked horrible. The text was too small and the hacking mini games were impossible to play. Up to that point games such as Halo 3 and Fable 2 looked pretty decent on the old set but Mass Effect 2 was the first that I found unplayable. I had to shelve it until I upgraded. Couple months later I bought my first flat panel and Mass Effect 2 was of course the first thing I tried on it. The difference was huge, I then moved on to better looking games like Bioshock that really blew me away.

What was your first HD experience?

 

[Sapphire Dreams]

Gran Turismo 5 : prologue back in 2008 when I first got my PS3.

 

[Currygan]

COD 2 at 360's launch

 

[Zen_Arcade]

Gears Of War.

 

[Messofanego]

I only ever played them in game stores, like Fight Night Round 3 and Call of Duty 2 on xbox 360.

Then GRAW happened on my own TV. Everything changed.

 

[Apdiddy]

Demon's Souls

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Condemned

 

[MultiCore]

Mario 64, sir. (You said "On an HDTV") And then Gran Turismo 4 in 1080i mode.

But when I got my 360, it was Perfect Dark Zero.

 

[BigTnaples]

I don't recall the first game I played on an HDTV, but the first game I played in HD on one was True Crime: The Streets of LA.

Holy shit was a blown away at the time. Even on my 27inch 4:3 1080i HD CRT Zenith.

Featured here some years later..

Then upgraded to a Polaroid 37 inch LCD, followed by a 42 inch 1080p Toshiba Regza, and finally a 55 inch Samsung D8000. (That I just snapped a shitty photo of on my iPhone)

 

[Spitz]

PGR3 Xbox 360 launch day here in Germany on my just in time delivered 26 Dell TV

 

[zroid]

The first game I played on an HD television? Ummmm... probably Super Smash Bros. Melee. (the timing is about right)

The first HD game I played on an HD television was GT5 Prologue, I think.

 

[angelfly]

Mirror's Edge

I was very impressed.

 

[scy]

Dead Rising.

Kind of had to.

 

[Atolm]

Wipeout HD Fury...it was mindblowing.

 

[Barakov]

The first Condemned.

 

[Franklinator]

Probably Gears 1 at a friend's house. But the first time I played on an HDTV at my own house was Forza 2. Mind was blown both times.

 

[NBtoaster]

Far Cry 2. Kind of pretty, but the first game I noticed jaggies in

 

[Tagg9]

Viva Pinata. =(

 

[Tucah]

Halo 3? I want to say Halo 3.

 

[Dabanton]

CoD2

Game that got a lot of people including me to pick up a 360.

Having those samsung + 360 setups in the game shops was a very good move.

Halo 3? I want to say Halo 3.

TBH when I first put that one on. I was shocked and not in a good way.

 

[KurowaSan]

Gears of War. Glad it was that one.

Back then, the idea was to get a PS3 and then an hdtv, but it got delayed in Europe so the hdtv came first.

 

[Sojgat]

Battlefield Bad Company.

 

[drugstore_cowboy]

First console game was PGR 3, I was really dissapointed after playing on a decent SD CRT for so long.

 

[dankir]

Project Gotham Racing 3 on my 1080i 30" CRT on the Xbox 360 launch day. Can't believe it was so long ago.

I watched the intro on repeat for hours.

 

[Beren]

Enchanted Arms on PS3, it looked like a PS2 game i was not happy

 

[Durante]

My first "HD experience" was playing PC games on my Matrox G400 at 1600x1200. This was in last millennium.

The first game I played on a HD television was Lost Odyssey I think.

 

[Guevara]

COD4:MW

It was magical. I couldn't believe how great it looked.

 

[Pachimari]

I think it was Perfect Dark Zero, then Kameo at a Microsoft event before the official launch of the console.

 

[Heart of Black]

PDZ, unfortunately. It was the Xbox 360 demo kiosk we received at the store I used to work at.

I was so bummed how terrible it was and how awful the new Joanna Dark model was.

Kameo was pretty sweet looking, though I never played it at launch.

DOA 4 almost made me buy a system outright though, so much fun and the jump from DOA 3 felt huge.

 

[BigTnaples]

CoD2
TBH when I first put that one on. I was shocked and not in a good way.

Weird, Halo 3 looks orders of magnitude better than CoD2 in HD. Even if H3 is lower resolution by a bit...

 

[cuyahoga]

Technically speaking? Wii Sports.

Through actual component cables? Crackdown maybe?

 

[Minions]

MGS 4. Great way to start off too, even if everything else at the time looked horrible in comparison. (Except perhaps Wipeout)

 

[Goldenroad]

Dead Rising.

Kind of had to.

Yep. The second 360 game I bought was unplayable because of my sd tv at the time. When I finally got my Hd tv I went back to it only to realize it wasn't really worth it anyway.

I think the actual first game I booted up when I got my hdtv was GTA IV...and I was blown away.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Geometry Wars.

 

[gryz]

Fight Night Round 3, back when that was the only thing even worth seeing on an HDTV

I had no idea what I was doing when I got my first HDTV, it was a 27 inch 4/3 CRT that had 1080i in letterbox mode.

 

[ZeroCoin]

Pretty sure it was either Dead Rising or Gears of War. It was probably DR because I was so excited to play it in HD since it was basically unplayable for me on my old CRT. For anyone who doesn't know, the text in the game was way too small and basically unreadable if you weren't on HD. I ended up shelving the game until I got my HD set.

 

[OSHAN]

Kameo and Perfect Dark.

 

[shwimpy]

Uncharted.

 

[Sanjuro]

Super Metroid.

 

[Valkendorm]

Mario 64, sir. (You said "On an HDTV") And then Gran Turismo 4 in 1080i mode.

But when I got my 360, it was Perfect Dark Zero.

Playing GT4 in 1080i was my main reason for switching to an HDTV. I really wish for a GT5 version of El Capitan.

My first 360/PS3 HD experience was PGR3.

 

[Yawnier]

Motorstorm.

Great looking game in HD for it's time at the PS3 launch.

 

[Polk]

I think it was Amped2 (on 720p tv).

 

[Zakkath]

It was either Halo 3 or Mass Effect.

 

[Prine]

PDZ, PGR3 and Kameo

 

[EagleBurnn]

Call of Duty 2 on the 360

 

[cyborg009]

Red Faction: gurreila or Call of Duty: MW2

 

[Ty4on]

Project Gotham Racing 3 on my 1080i 30" CRT on the Xbox 360 launch day. Can't believe it was so long ago.

I watched the intro on repeat for hours.

So did I on an SD screen :/

 

[BibiMaghoo]

Burnout Paradise.

And it was glorious .

 

[joe2187]

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[djplaeskool]

Beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD