Fun topic: Closer or further from TV?

[RCBH928]

I hope this is not considered a topic that is "crap" under the "extra" attention paid to quality posts on racketboy.com now days . Its just a topic for fun.

I never heard/seen this question being asked. Back in the day , TV's were small and you had to sit close up to pay attention for details. Now TV's are big, and people work on the idea that "the bigger the better" , I am not sure if I want to play SF4 with characters are as big as my wall.

But what is your choice, would you rather sit up close to a small monitor(maybe laptop) and play and pay attention to all the details. Or get a large TV and sit 5 meters away playing off your couch? Or do you think some games work better on larger TV(maybe sport games?) and others work better on small screens(maybe puzzles). Join the discussion .

[sakicfan84]

I hope this is not considered a topic that is "crap" under the "extra" attention paid to quality posts on racketboy.com now days . Its just a topic for fun.

I never heard/seen this question being asked. Back in the day , TV's were small and you had to sit close up to pay attention for details. Now TV's are big, and people work on the idea that "the bigger the better" , I am not sure if I want to play SF4 with characters are as big as my wall.

But what is your choice, would you rather sit up close to a small monitor(maybe laptop) and play and pay attention to all the details. Or get a large TV and sit 5 meters away playing off your couch? Or do you think some games work better on larger TV(maybe sport games?) and others work better on small screens(maybe puzzles). Join the discussion .

I do most of my gaming on my PC, so I'm up close for all of that. My room is also about the size of a coffin, so I'm pretty much forced to watch my TV up close too. I've always hated sitting far away though. it just doesn't feel right.

[superlarz]

I like playing on a bigger screen and sitting further away. Obviously there comes a time when you go too big. I really do not like sitting close to the screen, which is one of the reasons I never got into PC gaming as much as I took a liking to console gaming.

[MrPopo]

I've always been used to being close to my screens. As a kid it was the NES on top of the TV, so you had to be close for the cords to reach. Then it was the TV in the bedroom with a chair two feet away from the dresser. High school and college was all about the PC, so again my face is up against it. Now I've got a large HD TV that I sit about 7-8 feet away from (mostly due to apartment size). I've gone back to my parents' house a few times, and they have the same size TV as me, but it's at the end of a 20 foot room. It ends up feeling so small, and I feel isolated from the action. It was quite odd playing Metroid Prime 3 on their setup.

[wilsona26]

I play all my classic systems (32 bit and back) on my 29" crt. everything after that i play on my 62" lcd. Just something about playing games on the same type of tv like i did when i was a kid makes the retro experience seem that much better to me. (when i was a kid, 29" was huge!) But i am still looking for a wooden cabinet tv like they had in the late 70's to make it feel just right.

[t0yrobo]

I much prefer to sit closer. i usually play on a 13" (I think) screen. I mostly play shmups so it's nice to sit right up close anyways. But for multiplayer bigger is always better.

[Snickerd00dle]

i'm close up most of the time, especially with the ammount of rpgs i play, the text can be so small that if i were laying on my bed, across the room from my tv, i would not be able to see, and with titles like Lost Planet and Dead Rising(both capcom) using the smallest text imaginable, one almost has to sit close to see.


p.s. i love capcom

[Marspants]

I hate being anywhere away from the action so I keep a pretty close range. Also I like having the TV higher and tilted down if that's of any relevance so no neck strain, and Split-screen always equals "Bigger is better".

[J T]

I press my light gun to the screen when I play duck hunt.

I'm sorry.

[Dakinggamer87]

I like playing on a bigger screen and sitting further away. Obviously there comes a time when you go too big. I really do not like sitting close to the screen, which is one of the reasons I never got into PC gaming as much as I took a liking to console gaming.

Same here. I used to be a PC gamer but console gaming just caught on with me more..