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Halo: Reach |OT7| What are They to Say Now?
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Hydranockz
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Forge hasn't really been detailed for the other maps besides Timberland.Homeboyd said:
Headlong and Hang 'Em High are speculated to have large palettes I do believe.
Slightly Live
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Homeboyd said:
I don't recall any CEA maps having full FW palettes like Tempest. Unless I missed something obvious.
Barrow Roll
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That's mostly subjective, but please elaborate? I'm curious about your reasoning. I game on a 42" HDTV while I sit on my bed and it's pretty fantastic.MrBig said:
Thagomizer
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Sai-kun said:
*googles*
...This pleases me.
Slightly Live
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Barrow Roll said:
This. I game on my 42" plasma from a lovely reclining position. No input lag at all and plenty of good times.
It is absolutely subjective and depends on your set up (and playstyle/current game), but the optimum gaming set-up is to sit a little more than a meter or so from your screen so that you can easily focus. That means with the bigger screens you have to unfocus to view HUD elements and other things rather than being able to take in everythingBarrow Roll said:
This is from my own experience and the opinions of some others, and not something I have researched.
Slightly Live
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Ramirez said:
Yup. I used to run a regular gaming event a few years back and had to park up the xbox on some old small CRT televisions.
The difference was jarring. Can't go back now that I have all that screen real estate.
Barrow Roll
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That's how I feel too. I did a lot of research to find a TV with little to no input lag. Once I decided on my set I brought my 360 to Best Buy and just asked if I could plug it into the floor model to test it for a bit. They had no problem with that I tested a few different games on there for like half an hour until I was happy with it. I also play games that require much stricter timings and faster inputs than Halo on it with no problem at all, and I'm very sensitive to input lag. You just gotta find the right set.Slightly Live said:
Thagomizer
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MrBig said:
A meter? I sit 5 feet away from a 32'' and that is a comfortable distance. I just tested going closer and I feel like I'm sitting on top of it.
Slightly Live
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I'm already in the middle of listening to this.Tashi0106 said:
I can never listen to just one track of Katamari. =P
Barrow Roll
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I just sit farther back, my bedroom layout kind of demands it anyways. No problems here with focusing on everything on screen. Plus it's comfortable as hell for watching movies.MrBig said:
At work we have a 19" or 22" LCD that I can game on. Just gotta sit closer like you would with a computer monitor, no big deal.Ramirez said:
You know it. If I'm dropping a couple hundred bones on a TV you bet your ass I'm going to go nuts with the testing. They wanna make that sale so I doubt anyone would give me shit for that.Ramirez said:
THRILLHO all the way baby.Plywood said:You two:
On a 22" LCD over here.
They didn't give me an MLG Pro discount when I bought my TV so that's probably true.TrounceX said:
StalkerUKCG
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TrounceX said:
Strongly disagree.
Thagomizer
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MrBig said:
Yeah, a meter is kinda ridiculous. At that distance, I can see the individual pixel lines, even when the TV is turned off (1080i) and I imagine it's even worse on a larger screen.
Slightly Live
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Tashi0106 said:
If you can, hunt down a copy and get totally trashed. Drugs, booze, hookers - whatever does the trick for you and some pals. Then play the game for the first time with a bunch of folks.
Unforgettable experience.
So, the only thing remotely useful I've heard so far is talking about input lag. Is that something that is actually listed in the tv stats?
I assure you I totally enjoy my current 42" television now, I don't really sit terribly close when I am playing... maybe 4-6 feet or so?
Plasma it is!
I assure you I totally enjoy my current 42" television now, I don't really sit terribly close when I am playing... maybe 4-6 feet or so?
kylej said:
Plasma it is!
Devin Olsen
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making shit up makes your posts useless.TrounceX said:
I play on a 50" TV and do perfectly fine. If your TV has input lag that is your fault for buying a cheap TV. Do not blame the TV size.
ncsuDuncan
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I sit about 3 or 4 feet from my 46" LCD. Just to the right of it is my 26" PC monitor, which I play BF3 on while the TV streams Netflix shows. (When I play Xbox my PC streams Hulu stuff.)
Today I discovered Kevin Butler (Jerry Lambert) was in a season one episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
Today I discovered Kevin Butler (Jerry Lambert) was in a season one episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
Thagomizer
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Sai-kun said:Mostly good for text messages/emails
Unfortunately, my phone is a Samsung Sunburst (AKA super-cheap piece of shit) and it doesn't let me set message tones
The Librarian
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Serious?kylej said:
I hate CoD. How dare it beat out my beloved Halo with such force. Le sigh.
lybertyboy
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So much wrong with this post. Though arguments over TV technology usually turn religious in nature.Letters said:
The Librarian
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I have a 42" 1080P TV at home.
Can't remember if it's plasma or whatever. :/
Can't remember if it's plasma or whatever. :/
Slightly Live
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Reverse wang-substitute measuring contest.
I think we've hit a newlowhigh point.
I think we've hit a new
FyreWulff said:This is because K-Mart never left the 90s and they don't know what lines are yet.
This is the setup I'm going to be anniversaring on:
God how do you keep your setup so clean? Mine is so dusty and there are so many cables running on and behind my desk. My mixamp and splitters and such for my stream make my setup a cable nightmare. I also have my 3DS dock up here and some shitty pc speakers for when I don't feel like using my PC 350s. I was just going to take everything off and clean it all up the other day because all the dust but it was such a daunting task, I said fuck it lol. I'll do it at some point though, maybe take more photos too.
Beautiful setup btw.
edit: I've been playing Halo on small TV's for years now. I played Halo 2 on a 27 inch Tube, then Halo 3 on a busted 23 inch tube until I got my Acer monitor. 22 inch. Now I play on an Acer 23 inch. I can't go back to big screens. I played in a tournament once in Halo 3 where I was forced to play on a projection screen while my opponent was on a monitor. Yea, I lost. lol
ncsuDuncan
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If you want to talk about a cable nightmare...Tashi0106 said:
- Surround sound speakers for TV
- Surround sound speakers for PC
- Surround sound headphones to swap between the two
I buy like 2 or 3 top of the line TVs per year on my search for the definitive flawless one. Can't ever get myself to like the look of the few wildly acclaimed plasmas I give a chance. The white peak is always lacking. Full array local dimming led-backlit LCDs all the way for me from now until the next big thing, the best ones have very bright white, pitch blacks and excedingly accurate color, alongside the usual pop and sharp pq of lcds.lybertyboy said:
Slightly Live
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Letters said:
2-3 per year? Feck, what do you do with them all? I bet your bathroom has a few too at that rate.
One side effect of owning a home built in 1940 is that none of the rooms were built with a large television in mind. So a 32" is literally the largest any room can optimally support, because you can't get comfortably far enough away from one bigger. So I use a 32" set, which is just right for the den. Any larger and it would be face-filling.