When I bought my 360 back in February, I bought 3 games with it: Burnout Revenge, Dead Rising and Gears of War. Fiance loves Burnout so she plays that, I love Gears and I kinda start playing Dead Rising. I lost interest relatively quickly because I didn't have an HDTV at the time and I thought it was just too much work for what it was. I am not at all a fan of timed escort missions. As a result of not being able to see all the detail in the game, I lost the main story a good portion of the way in with no reasonably backtracked save to use. I lost heart and quit.
Fast forward about 8 months.
I bought an HDTV back in the late spring and had many other games to play at the time. Dead Rising didn't even cross my mind. Then Halloween rolled around and I started looking for a good zombie movie to watch. Dead Rising caught my eye on the other shelf and I said "hey, I never did finish this one." I pop in the disc and am blown away by the fact that I can now read the on-screen text! Wow, that DOES make the game much more playable. I finished out the saved game I had so I could get an ending,learn a lot more about the mall and build up Frank's levels. I started a new game with a beefed up Frank, bad pun and just tore through the game. I saved a few people and took out quite a few psychopaths (scarier than the zombies IMO), but my main focus was the story. I finished the 72 hour mode and overtime mode, only to be very disappointed with the "true" ending. Am I the only one that felt like the true ending was not worth the effort it took to achieve?
Anyway, I certainly feel much better about this game now that I went back and took the time to finish it, minus the ending.