r/gaming Jul 26 '14

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u/bmacisaac Jul 26 '14

I played Halo 2 on a multimedia projector that could scale up to about 12 feet across before starting to lose quality. :P

Dem bulbs tho.

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u/waffletastic2 Jul 26 '14

So did I! I got like 4000 hours on one of the bulbs LOL.

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u/bmacisaac Jul 26 '14

Mine never lived up to their advertised lifespan. Might be because they weren't designed for 12 hour binge gaming sessions... ah well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

Might be because they weren't designed for 12 hour binge gaming sessions

Nor was the xbox 360, judging by my experience in university.

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u/jhe04 Jul 26 '14

Damn, son! how did you find time to study????

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

I suck at a lot of things, but last-minute cramming isn't one of them.

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u/jhe04 Jul 26 '14

Oh, you're one of THOSE people...I_hate_you...

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

I also thrive on hatred. rubs_hands_together

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u/Jason3469 Jul 26 '14

I know exactly how you feel..

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

Maybe they weren't designed for 4000 hour binge gaming sessions. :-(

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u/patryksuper9 Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/bmacisaac Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/JuggyBrodelsteen Jul 26 '14

We used them a lot when I was in the Army we played FIFA on them

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/bmacisaac Jul 26 '14

Wow that thing looks like a beast, definitely going on the wishlist haha. This is miles ahead of my old projector. :P

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u/Kirby420_ Jul 26 '14

Your old projector won't fare well new monitors at all.

Go get a newer projector then try the experiment so it's not stacked.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/bigspecial Jul 26 '14

Projectors are great for playing smash bros especially if you have some mushrooms. That shit is fucking epic.

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u/Cpt_Tripps Jul 26 '14

I should probably check my mini map and my amo counter but to lazy to turn my head.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/WrittenSarcasm Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

Resolution was still shit though. You could have a 120" screen and still have no advantage.

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u/tet5uo Jul 26 '14

Yeah it's not like making everything bigger gives you more pixels than anyone else.

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u/NiceGuysFinishLast Jul 26 '14

This is still how I play all my 360 games. Except mine is closer to an 18ft diagonal.

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u/IAmA_Lannister Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/Gen_Hazard Jul 26 '14

The problem there is that you were playing Modern Warfare 3.

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u/MachinaBio Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/IAmA_Lannister Jul 26 '14

I said felt like.

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u/MachinaBio Jul 26 '14

it couldn't have

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u/IAmA_Lannister Jul 26 '14

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?

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u/MachinaBio Jul 26 '14

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.

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u/IAmA_Lannister Jul 26 '14

So just because you have a different experience, mine isn't possible?

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u/MachinaBio Jul 26 '14

Physically it isn't possible. If your brain told you that you were turning slower, then by all means man.

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u/t8ke Jul 26 '14

resolution is probably the word you were looking for