Before I start, I am not trying to flame Heavy Rain.  Despite my complaints and even my bias against QTE's going into Heavy Rain, I really liked the game.  No matter the outcome of this topic, it is a good game.  This is simply me being curious, having the game on my mind, and not being able to sleep.

Now that that's out of the way, I'm just curious about something-- can you play Heavy Rain on an SDTV?

I got to thinking about that question in another thread and I'm assuming it's like Dead Rising where there are parts you just can't read the text or see the QTE prompts.

Has anyone here actually tried playing the entire game on a SDTV?

I assume those would be hard to read but the only reason I ask is because I haven't heard anything about that.  I assume people would be making some sort of stink over it if it were true and there are parts where I just can't see it not being true.  Even on my 42" HDTV I had trouble seeing some of the prompts because they were too small or shaking all over the place and I just can't see how you would see that on an SDTV.

So that leaves me with two answers:

1. The text is hard to read on SDTV's but most people play on HDTV's now.
2. The text is not hard to read.

I just can't really believe either of those.

The text was once in a while hard to read on an HDtv for me especially those ones that "shake" or were just obstructed through one thing or another so I'm sure it would suck even more on an SDtv, I think they could have done with more colours or something for the text because they were annoying at times.

I think their SDTV is broken. My friend's was broken. We would play PS3 and xbox games on it and everything was blurry. But on my old SDTV before I got my HDTV we could see the text fine. Chances are, something is wrong with the TV.

i would hate playing star ocean 4 on a sdtv, i heard the text and menus are balls

On a what?

Can't you just change your PS3 settings to SD (576, is it?) and find out for yourself?

Nah cant be done

The SD standard is approx 576 lines (varies from country to country) but the standards are all interlaced.

I'm pretty sure their is no option for 576i on any console.

semi-off topic.
I'm starting to dislike qte's.
playing Dante's inferno for instance where i spend so much time looking for the promts that i miss the best part - the gore and carnage that's actually happening on the screen

I suppose it can't be helped in a game that relies heavily on qte - like heavy rain, so my sub-question would be: do the qte's get in the way of seeing whats going on on the sreen in heavy rain?
I'm still waiting for it in the post dammit.

On topic, i hope to never have to lay eyes on an sdtv for gaming again. eeew...

I played the demo on an SD tv. I liked most of it (wtf at idiotic movent controls though) but I won't buy it until I get an HD tv because I had to sit 3 inches from the TV to almost see the text. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference of the floating buttons as well, it was more like random blobs floating around the character and most of the time I just pressed random buttons and hoped for the best...

When I got it I played at my GFs house on her 19" HDtv, but through scart.... so basically on an SD tv.

The Front buttons were pretty damn hard to read (L1/R1 etc) but the buttons and pad shakes weren't impossible. I got through the first bit just fine then went to sleep. Was miles better on my 32" 1080p set.

With regards to the QTE taking away from being able to see what you need, I think its quite the opposite with heavy rain. The icons appear on where the action is happening so it always seems to draw your eye to the key points of the action.

For example, dodging a punch requires you to press triangle, the triangle appears on the guys fist and moves with it until you are out of time, or if theres a clue on the table the corresponding button hovers over the clue till you press it and so on. Works really well. :)