But still...

[eternal_rena]

I've just tried my 360 on the new HDTV. Well, it's actually not the same HDTV I was talking about the other day, but a different one. This TV actually replaced the original TV that was at where my game consoles were all setup at. I dunno what the heck my father was thinking, but that day when I was checking the TV in the living area for HD plugs, I was just commenting to him about how the TV had HD cabling and I can play my 360 on it and how small the text was...

Then when I came home from work the next day, I was surprised to see a HDTV (32" widescreen also) had replaced the SDTV that was at where my gaming consoles were set up. I was like "What the hell" and he told me he went out to buy one, and I was like "What" to myself and "You don't want to work anymore and you bought a HDTV? I can always just haul my 360 into the living area to play it there, the internet problem can be solved easily..."

Then he said he donated the old TV to charity and I was like to myself "Okay...at least that wasn't a bad thing but still." and told me how much it cost. And I was like "At least it ain't too expensive nowadays to get a decent HDTV but still." Well, I for one am not going to dictate how he wishes to spend his money but still...

So now I have both my 360 and Wii plugged into the new HDTV. No more cable switching /o/ I'm still using SD 480i on my Wii since for the Wii it's more than enough, and set it to widescreen. Can't plug in the PS2 slim, though there is another AV slot where I can plug it in, there is not enough space at that area to set up the PS2 slim also (I can't possibly have it sitting on top of my 360).

I tried Star Ocean: The Last Hope out today on my 360 using the HDTV at the gaming area and I was like O_O, and wow and everything at the graphics and I can actually read the text clearly T-T It was a nightmare trying to read the text on the old SDTV when I tried the game out on the day I bought it. The text was SO TINY DX It's because of the text size that's why I never sat down and really played the game, so it's been sitting in my games storage box for more than a year but I can play it now /o/

Now I want to play Tales of Vesperia in all it's glory.

Comments

[yaminokaitou.livejournal.com]

You poor thing to have to have suffered through that game in SDTV. I played Vesperia once on a SDTV and swore I would not do it again. HDTV just looks so much nicer.

Luck you that your dad was willing to shell out the cash! Most of my consoles are still hooked up to a fifteen inch TV my folks bought eons ago for my birthday. The Wii and 360 have to share my parent's HDTV.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Well, he's also watching TV using it since my mother watches TV in the living area so...

Tales of Vesperia wasn't so bad on the SDTV compared to Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I could read everything for ToV no problem except for the enemy name when I brought up the target select. That one was too small to be read. SOTLH was ugh. My eyes are dying T-T

[yaminokaitou.livejournal.com]

I actually meant SO when I posted that, but for some reason I didn't write it. I've never had the opportunity to play SO on a SDTV, so I can only imagine how bad it is. My friend bought that game when it came out and I refused to play it at her house since she only has SDTV, so I had her come to my place for our SO outings.

Did you get the opportunity to play Eternal Sonata on SDTV? How was that?

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've played Eternal Sonata on an SDTV before. I've had no problems with the text, they always had been large enough, but the lack of widescreen view caused the battle field to be slightly cut off at the sides, though doesn't affect much of the game, but having the gauges at the side cut off...

[yaminokaitou.livejournal.com]

There's no full screen option? Oh, Eternal Sonata, you depress me. XD

[hikari318.livejournal.com]

Oh I can totally relate. Played PS3 ToV on a small TV and it was hell (especially because small kanji = impossible to read). Then I got a HDTV and went "woah, I can understand what they're saying!".
Enjoy your new TV ;)

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Haha. At least the text when I was playing ToV 360 Eng wasn't so bad, but for SOTLH, it was hell, so much so that I didn't even want to play it.