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In my defense, here's the thing: We have TWO HDTVs in the house.
But now here's the part where I embarrasingly admit I still live with my parents. :P One HDTV is in the family room and the other in my parents' room. So there's usually always someone watching TV in the family room when I'm home, so I'd rather just plays games on my standard def TV in my room.
Yes, I could easily purchase an HDTV, BUT I'm planning to move fairly soonish, so I'm balancing the pros and cons of buying one now vs. saving up more money for the move (possibly across the country), and also the annoyance of buying a new TV just to go through the annoyance of moving it with all my other stuff.
So that's kind of my point: Yes, SDTVs are dead and everyone should just upgrade. But there are still reasons for why lots of people haven't. Check out the BioWare tech forum -- there are a couple of threads full of people complaining about this same glitch.
Which gets to my other point: it's a shitty situation for people still clinging to SDTV, but I understand there has to come a point where the games industry moves on completely. But again: Can't they at least let people know their games won't work properly on SDTVs first?"
And I would call it a...review of the CONCEPT. Because that way, I can get away with not calling it a pre-mature review and maintain any kind of critical credibility."
And trust me, the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven is even more drastically different than with Blade Runner. It restores like 40 minutes of movie (much of it character development stuff) that the studio forced Scott to cut out because they were afraid the running length wouldn't let them show the movie often enough each day, and therefore hurt grosses. But the director's cut is really a great epic -- better than Scott's own Gladiator, if you ask me, but I'm aware I'm likely in the minority in that opinion."
And on the subject of Ridley Scott director cuts, Kingdom of Heave: The Director's Cut is also a great movie. For reals."
Seriously, how the balls is this thing a goomba: http://www.freewebs.com/footballthoughts/goomba.bmp
I get what you're saying about so-bad-it's-good, but I dunno, man...I just don't know. Maybe MK falls into that category, but Dennis Hopper as Bowser ranks among the worst ideas in the artistic history."
Also, I think many gamers consider the first Mortal Kombat a good movie because many of us watched it when we were a lot younger and still super into Mortal Kombat and convinced ourselves it rocked, and we haven't revisited it recently enough since. It truly was a bad movie."
But like I mentioned about reviewers probably no longer owning SDTVs, a lack of 3D coverage may also have something to do with a lack of logistics. It's hard for a freelancer to review (or otherwise cover anything to do with) a 3D PS3 game if they don't have the TV to display one. And you can bet publications sure as shit aren't going to be handing those things out to make the coverage possible."