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BioShock's Widescreen Pissing People Off

What's wrong with this picture? Well the normal area shows what the BioShock demo looks like on a widescreen monitor. The red areas show the extra space added when the game is played in standard 4:3 ratio. This is not how widescreen is supposed to work. Instead of slicing the top and bottom off of the image, widescreen should allow players to see more on either side.

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DJ - 853 days 16 hours ago

1 - A lot of Movie Studios did this with

DVDs; they chopped off the tops and bottoms of their standard ratio DVDs and relabeled them as "Widescreen". I wonder if there were performance issues that prevented them from implementing true widescreen.

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PS360WiiRocks - 853 days 16 hours ago

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DJ man I feel sorry for you. You got a disagree for a absolutely 100% true comment. Alot of my DVD's are marked widescreen and cut MY widescreen TV in half, it's bull. As for performance issues I don't see why 2K would have any problem making the game run in true widescreen, that wouldn't make much sense.

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Funky Town_TX - 853 days 14 hours ago

1.2 - Only DJ

This guy has never played a "AAA" (whatever that means)game on his PS3. I never had that problem on the demo. Then again it was the demo. Also the reviews said nothing about it. Hey DJ maybe the PS3's "performance issues" are keeping it from running Madden, NCAA, NHL, All pro football at 60 fps. I don't do this much but for some reason I don't like DJ. I'm sure he is a good guy, but it's something.

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mistertwoturbo - 853 days 1 hour ago

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Funky Town TX, the PS3 is more than capable of running the game at 60fps. It's just propaganda to ensure the PS3 fails. And don't be too quick to pull the "oh you're a PS3 fanboy!" card, as I own all 3 consoles and enjoy each for they're own merits. TECMO did a rock solid 1080p@60fps for Ninja Gaiden Sigma, and that's they're first PS3 title. So EA and they're misleading "excuses" about not knowing PS3 hardware is all BS to me.

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aiphanes - 853 days 16 hours ago

2 - Man this sucks. I was really going to buy this game today...I will wait.

How did this get pass the final testing of the game? Why come the reviewers that not see this problem?

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G_CodeMonkey - 853 days 12 hours ago

2.1 - Don't let it stop you...

I've been playing all afternoon, until I had to pick my kids up from school, and I haven't even noticed it--definitely too much good gameplay, but I'll check later. gCM

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Dukester101 - 853 days 16 hours ago

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I dont know why you would "hold off" or "wait" for the game. You do realize that they can fix this in an auto-update. If you really want the game, and can get it... get it.

They'll fix it via an auto-update, and nobody will complain any more.

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SpenserTracy - 853 days 16 hours ago

4 -

:-)

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xaphanze - 853 days 3 hours ago

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people are retarted on this website,they disagreed on a smiley LOL

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Sexius Maximus - 853 days 16 hours ago

5 - I'm not sure about this.

The demo's widescreen was GREAT. I doubt this would have changed between the demo and the release.

I guess I'll find out for myself when I get off work.

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DrPirate - 853 days 16 hours ago

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On the PC version, I haven't come across this. Then again, I don't play in widescreen.

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DrRage77 - 853 days 16 hours ago

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so if we didn't even notice this in the demo, then why are people making such a fuss of it all of a sudden? im sure it will be easily fixed through a patch, but if not, people didn't even notice anything about it and played through the demo saying it was the greatest game they played, and now that someone mentions this, all of a sudden people are like "man, now i am not gonna buy this game"...kind of lame...

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ThaGeNeCySt - 853 days 15 hours ago

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Well said.

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razer - 853 days 14 hours ago

7.2 - because

gamers are a biggest group of whining cunts on the planet.

They are never happy and when they are not gaming, they are complaining about gaming or something else..

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AngryTypingGuy - 853 days 12 hours ago

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Gamers sure are whiny and finicky. Many are just plain geeky. I JUST got a Samsung 40inch LCD at 1080P, but I'm not going to whine. I'm going to play the potential Game of the Year that is BioShock, and hope for an update.

Let's think about this people: some of you are going to pass up a game that's getting 9.4 - 10 reviews because the FOV is the same in widescreen and 4:3? Insanity folks, INSANITY! That's what I say.

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SmokeyMcBear - 853 days 16 hours ago

8 - ...

how could you fix this.. would you just put the black bars on the sides of the screen?

ok for those that disagree, um not really sure how you disagree with a question but anyways, how would you fix it, since its native 4:3 ratio...

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Ugly American - 853 days 16 hours ago

9 - My question...

How do you even figure this crap out? Go into the game and keep switching back and forth between the two screen formats? If somebody didn't tell me, I wouldn't have noticed. And in fact, I STILL don't notice. There is a good chance that I am mentally retarded.

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SpenserTracy - 853 days 15 hours ago

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HAHAHAHAHAHAH the funnies comment all day. I laughed so hard i actually cried. Kudos 2 u man LOL

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pacific1 - 853 days 16 hours ago

10 - pissing people off?

this is probably the best game ever made so far, not a big deal

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Ignorant Fanboy - 853 days 13 hours ago

10.1 - I agree, who is pissed off after playing Bioshock.

I was in awe, literally stunned. The last thing I was thinking was anything bad. But I do play on a widescreen.

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PS360WiiRocks - 853 days 16 hours ago

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A sony fanboys bashing dream article. Flamers commence. Anyways how did no one notice this in the demo? I haven't tried it so I can't comment, but that's really weird.

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Panthers - 853 days 16 hours ago

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I dont see why Sony fans would love to bash this. Its not a big deal. Still an awesome game. I might get it for PC but I hate FPS on PC.

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PS360WiiRocks - 853 days 15 hours ago

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Because we have been hyping the review scores.

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Delive - 853 days 16 hours ago

12 - Maybe they like the 4:3 ratio better?

Who cares.

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davidadrake - 853 days 16 hours ago

13 - only in PC version?

If you keep reading the posts in the 2K forum, people say that the 360 version is fine, and that it only affects the PC version of the game.

If nobody would have noticed this, everyone would have still been just as happy with the game.

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PS360WiiRocks - 853 days 16 hours ago

14 -

"The game will render in full 16:9 aspect ratio, with no letterboxing unless your resolution is not true 16:9.

- Chris Kline, Lead Programmer, Bioshock"

"You will see more in widescreen. We use a different projection matrix; there is no squashing or stretching of the image involved."

weird he said that about the PC version.

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tplarkin7 - 853 days 16 hours ago

15 - We don't know if this is true, anyways.

I played the demo on widescreen HDTV (360) at 1080i. It was the most beautiful game I've seen. Some guy posts a photoshopped pic claiming widescreen issues, and we just believe him?

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DruePhoenix - 853 days 15 hours ago

16 - Big deal?

at least the proportions dont get all screwed up this way, I've noticed that problem on a lot of other games

at least they arent literally chopping parts of the screen off, so you cant see the health gauge!

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Si-Fly - 853 days 15 hours ago

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... PS3 version has widescreen confirmed, might have to wait for that instead :(

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MetalProxy - 853 days 15 hours ago

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most of his arm is missing how is that cool?

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xboxlj - 853 days 5 hours ago

16.3 - Si-Fly

Well you have a Long wait ahead of you.

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Mikelarry - 853 days 15 hours ago

17 - im

sure they would be able to fix this with an update

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MetalProxy - 853 days 15 hours ago

18 - :)

Looks like the PC version is superior. You can have your cake and eat it to.

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Mike Ox Big - 853 days 15 hours ago

19 - Wrong

I played the the 360 demo on Widescreen and this didn't happen....stop the lies!

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Si-Fly - 853 days 15 hours ago

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PS3 version is said to include full widescreen support, think i'm gonna wait for that, hopefully they'll fix the framerate issues that the 360 version has too.

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tonsoffun - 853 days 15 hours ago

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were you the reviewer on the SPD site?

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sticky doja - 853 days 15 hours ago

20.2 - Your a funny guy.

The game also has a framerate boost option, it turns up the framerate for a loss of pic quality, although I don't see much of a loss, and the framerate is top notch.

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razer - 853 days 14 hours ago

20.3 - hahaha

That was a good one!

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The Round Peg - 853 days 8 hours ago

20.4 - Um, read the forum posts at 2K

it's the PC version that's having this problem. The Xbox 360 version is fine.

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beavis4play - 853 days 6 hours ago

20.5 - round peg can't read

it clearly states more than once that the 360 version suffers from this problem as well. either you can't read or are a liar. which is it?

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darkequitus - 852 days 21 hours ago

20.6 - Si-Fly

you obviously have gimp c*ck are you nasims mother/sister?

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tonsoffun - 853 days 15 hours ago

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FFS, it isn't that much of a big deal. Get over it man. I understand that this could be an annoyance to some peeps, but come on, IMO, it isn't that big a deal - all this internet b!tching about it - just enjoy one of the greatest games ever created, a true masterpiece.

Does it break the game? NO

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Komrad - 853 days 15 hours ago

22 - no worries.

only a flesh wound!

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sticky doja - 853 days 15 hours ago

23 - I have the game

And it doesn't bother me one bit if they did chop off a little. I never would have known until I read this, either way the game still F'n rocks.

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Ahhhh - 853 days 15 hours ago

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@aiphanes - I'm sorry.. But you're crazy.

I don't think I'll care, at least not to much, I'm still gonna be curious and look around not just look at whats on my screen, so the only thing I'm gonna be missing is part of the wrench and so of the guys arm.. no biggie, IMO.

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Ignorant Fanboy - 853 days 13 hours ago

25.1 - I dont think so,

Someone with the ability to take a screengrab and post it would obviously be smart enough to know this. He obviously changed the settings, or how would he know the other setting didnt work properly?

How could he compare the two if he didnt change them?

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MvC Xtrm - 853 days 11 hours ago

25.2 -

Unibrow FTW!!!

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hydrog - 853 days 14 hours ago

26 - It is a big deal!

Look at the comparison pic in the link, widescreen is losing a lot of FOV!

http://forums.2kgames.com/f...

2k is looking into it as we speak.

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