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[phoenixmadder]

I ordered the game a few days ago and it arrived today, a few hours into it and it's going onto ebay. The game is unplayable on a SD television, the text is minuscule and coupled with the horrible font and transparent panels that the text appears in it is almost impossible to read.

 

In a text heavy game like this I can't tell what is being shown  (especially when text leaves so quickly), even pressed up to the television I can't read the text during the War Room segments.

 

I know I'm going to get a lot of 'get a HD TV' comments but they are selling a game on a console that outputs in SD and should be playable as such. Absolutely disgraceful

[AlanC9]

At the very least, the box should say that it requires an HDTV, sure.

[ampora]

A lot of people are having the same problem. Myself included. Hopefully they put in a patch to fix the font :c

[HozzMidnight]

I had no idea gamers still had, and used, SDTVs.  Get an HDTV, it will change your life.

[Sylentmana]

I ordered the game a few days ago and it arrived today, a few hours into it and it's going onto ebay. The game is unplayable on a SD television, the text is minuscule and coupled with the horrible font and transparent panels that the text appears in it is almost impossible to read.

 

In a text heavy game like this I can't tell what is being shown  (especially when text leaves so quickly), even pressed up to the television I can't read the text during the War Room segments.

 

I know I'm going to get a lot of 'get a HD TV' comments but they are selling a game on a console that outputs in SD and should be playable as such. Absolutely disgraceful

Its not disgraceful.  HD is the new format and SD TVs are out of date. It makes sense that they would make the game for HD. You may as well complain that companies don't make games playable on Windows 95 anymore for all the sense it makes.

[Campolius]

Dragon age 2 was the same, that was actually the reason I bought a HD TV. Man I have to ask though, what are you waiting for? You have to be the only gamer with a SD TV lol I am not trying to be mean I am just curious, you can get them fairly cheap now and will massively improve your gaming experience!

[DuckSoup]

Unplayable full stop, it seems. 

[FKA_Servo]

Pretty sure the problem was there in ME2 and ME3 as well.

 

I'm sympathetic to this, but at some point you really do just have to move on. You can't buy laserdiscs anymore, you can't get 8 tracks, anymore, and eventually, you're not gonna be able to run new games on SD televisions. It's bound to happen.

[Etragorn]

Even running a 360 or PS3 on an SDTV is a crime. SD gaming died with the PS2, Xbox (the original), and the Wii.

[Incunabulum]

OK, let's stop beating up the guy for his hardware.

 

The bottom line is - if the game won't work on an SD TV - IOW *requires* an HDTV to be playable - then the specs should indicate that.  They don't assume that I have a minimum level of graphics card, RAM, OS, or CPU - all that stuff is explicitly placed showing what the minimum specs are.

 

I don't think this is a *deliberate* 'law doens't say we have to so screw you' situation, just an understandable oversight.  HD *is* pretty much the norm, SD is marginalized, and they probably didn't even think to test it on an SD monitor.