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third in a trilogy

Kotaku continues to demonstrate they have no cognitive ability whatsoever in the conclusion to widescreen-gate.


So, yeah. I'll paraphrase the game developer's response: yeah we designed to the widescreen experience, and set up all of our assets with that in mind. But we had to deal with 4:3, right? So we had two choices -- letterbox, or just render the top & bottom portions you wouldn't otherwise see. We decided not to screw with the field of view, because you know what? The screen would look funny and pinched if we did that. We decided not to design to the 4:3 screen and then just add extra crap to the left and right because then you'd... feel like you were in a fishbowl.

I mean, guys, guys? You did notice that those TVs are different shapes, right?

My favorite response in the comments from the above link:

"The arm in the comparison screenshot keeps going in the 4:3 version. This would only make sense of the widescreen was cropped down from the full image."

Seriously, wow. That's brilliant, man. The man really stuck it to you by continuing to render the rest of the arm model so that it wouldn't look COMPLETELY STUPID in 4:3.

I hate people. Just wait until I release "I hate people episodes 1-3 -- a prequilogy."

For what it's worth, the claustrophobic feel of wandering around BioShock on a 16:9 screen is pitch-perfect. It's like some game designers, like, designed it.

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