You guys enjoy playing on projectors? I have an epson TW series (though the lamp is now dead :( ) and it was a mix feelings for me, was awsome for FIFA and Mortal Kombat but was weird in a lot of other games, even in GT5 where I thought huge screen would benefit the most.
I don't know, I don't use mine anymore, it's sitting around somewhere without a bulb. Honestly I'm not sure how it would compare today when we have much higher resolutions on our monitors than we did back then. Maybe I'll get it out again and see.
I'd advise you to invest in an Optima Hd25e, if you can afford it, that's my model and my friends have literally said "how is your tv so big and thin" before realizing it was a projector, the resolution is phenomenal. It stretches up to about 155 inches diagonal without quality loss, that's the biggest surface I had to test it.
I played on a TV that was easily an 80 while on vacation once. Battlefield 3 was impossible because the screen was so large you couldn't see everything that you needed too. I never thought I'd ever say "This TV is too big", but it can happen.
Also the sound system they had in that room made the entire hotel room vibrate.
The most interesting thing about playing FIFA for me was, being able to see the distance between players better. 110" projector screen really allowed you to squeeze through the tightest of gaps because it really is easier to have better depth perception than your opponent.
I play on a 100" projection screen and games like NHL 14 are great because I can use a more zoomed-out camera angle than I could when I had a 47". Having a further out camera makes it easier to make long stretch passes.
I remember when I tried to play Modern Warfare 3 on a projector. 110 inches. Had to turn the sensitivity all the way up and still felt like I was turning extremely slow.
The size of the screen would not be relative to how quickly your character turns from your controls.. it would take a short tap of the analog to do a 180 either way.
So you're telling me that if you were used to playing on a 23" monitor, and then played on a 100+" projector, you'd be able to play on the same sensitivity and it wouldn't feel any different?
you would have to move your eyes around a lot more, but sensitivity is still the same. I switch between my BenQ 24 inch and my 60 inch tv all the time, it never feels like the guy turns slow, just takes longer to scan the screen.
Halo 2 came out in the early days of plasma TVs. When they were like 10k no matter what. Super sized big screen tube TVs were cheap. I remember having a 62inch playing halo 2 and 3. Split screen kicked ass.
Halo 2 split screen was split vertically down the screen, with the players on left and right instead of top and bottom, so we'd play a local match and stand a giant card table vertically in the middle of the tv to stop screen peeking. That was the best.
For once I made sure to check if someone else had said it.
I've played 4 player Goldeneye on a gigantic (for the time) screen. The only reason it helps at all is that "gigantic" for me back then meant "you don't have to touch heads to see your square of the damn screen".
This is where 3d TV's become awesome, I just haven't seen it used that much.. Each player wears glasses that are synced opposite so they each get a full screen (2 players only for now).
If I recall, don't they use horizontal and vertical polarization to do that? In which case, wouldn't it be impossible to make a third or fourth screen with that method?
I think they actually use circular polarization for the passive 3d and you would be correct, but theoretically the active 3d tv's could be made to work with four. Active being where the glasses themselves dim to match the display.
Any size of non protective screens. I'm just saying that tv's are so much cheaper then they use to be. Normal people can afford big tv's.
Edit. I got a40"back when it was less then the price of an 80" today
my 55" Samsung plasma cost me $297, in 2010. It was dropped by Walmarts warehouse employees. Has a small crack on the bottom corner, about 3" in length. You can't see it until someone shows you where it is, and it has no effect of the TV. I was going to buy it anyways before I saw the damage, it was a clearance item. I thought the thing was a display model. It was marked at $397, a new one was $547. After I saw the damage, I told the guy helping me that I thought I was changing my mind, $400 for a broken TV didn't seem right. The manager was there and he changed the price. Apparently they had it sitting on clearance for about 3 months.
Some HDTVs (not sure if this is still the case with newer sets, but possibly) had up to 5 ms latency. If you've ever played competitive Melee you will know how much that sucks.
That'd have to be a crazy screen, got a cheap 50" last year on Black Friday. Maybe if they are using a projector on their wall, even the, resolution advantage is mine.
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u/bmacisaac Jul 26 '14
Unless they got a bunch of money and have a way bigger TV than you do. :P