Bioshock Widescreen: Mini Roundup

[demonicgerbil]

So, just to continue my string of posts while I'm all >:E and before I go off to play some game that actually works as advertised (like Astro Empires or Dawn of War or etc. and so on), I thought I'd drop a bunch of links here for people talking about the Bioshock Widescreen problem.

I already linked this one:

Now I'm sure that most people won't care about this. There is no real loss in play ability of the game as the cropping only removes part of the ceiling and floor. The main complaint is that rather than being able to see MORE, you can see less. 25% less in fact. Some people are so upset that they are actually saying that they will not buy the game until the problem is resolved.

The Daily Jump says "We want to see the stuff in the red too" and who can blame them? The game's freaking gorgeous. If only it did what it claims to do.

XBoxic covers this too, linking to a statement by one of the game's programmers saying: "You will see more in widescreen. We use a different projection matrix; there is no squashing or stretching of the image involved." So not only does Bioshock's widescreen not work like it's supposed to, they lie about it. It's okay though, they're aware of the complaints. I suppose so, the thread complaining about this has, at this time, 441 replies and over 100k views. It makes for bad PR, so you have to say something, right?

Just random links to linkify this post even more:
http://m.onstro.us/2007/08/21/widescreen-issues-in-bioshock/
http://xbox360truth.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/bioshocks-widescreen-format-is-a-cropped-standard-format/
http://www.gamingbob.com/2007/08/21/bioshock-widescreen-support-screwed/