cjrgreen: I think the art direction has a lot to do with what they can or can't give you. They can't give you pixels that don't exist, and they won't give you a frame that doesn't suit their artistic vision.

Going from 16:9 to 4:3 does not give you an extra 1/3 vertical FOV unless the art was done in such a way that the game can render it and it still looks good enough that the art department will stand behind it.

eRe4s3r: A simple solution would be to unlock the vertical fov as a free setting in a config file so that stuff doesn't get cropped in 4:3 (ok, it does get distorted, slightly). From a technical standpoint this is trivial and has nothing to do with the aspect ratio or the art, or the gui ;) The current solution is exactly what everyone feared, they just fixed the AR but not the vertical fov - its the easy way out of a problem that had an even easier way out. Namely, to allow us to set the fov ourselves.

By the way, personally i think the fov is fine in 4:3 aspect

wader2k: re: haters

Ok, so I imagine that's why crossfininity and multiple monitor setups aren't working either. They don't want us to see more than they render on a typical 1 monitor system?

Wazjavi: Agreed. I'm fine with 4:3 for gameplay, but not for cutscenes.

I don't really get it, every other game I play typically uses 4:3 during gameplay, but switch to 16:9 for cut-scenes, so why can't this one?

Kibou: Every game that has proper widescreen-support is hor+ in 16:9, so if you use a widescreen monitor, your field of vision is enlarged to the left and right. Obviously, if you go from 16:9 to 4:3, you'll lose this additional field of view.

Having this enlarged field of view is basically the reason for buying and using a widescreen.

cloud8521: that is not a rule, and it does not work well like this, when a game was designed and when wide-screen gaming fist started games were made usually with 4:3 in mind so Hor+ makes the most sense as to add so no picture is lost but this game being designed in 16:9 it should be the opposite. anyway i dont believe that there really is a proper wide-screen. wide-screen sucks in my opinion and is just like taking 4:3 or 16:10 and just shaving it. the oly reason that people beleive that widescreen is better is simply because they were given better. and only though media. there is no such thing as propor way to deal with widescreen, the only thing that would happen is they put Hor- in would be widescreen gamer would whine over losing an advantage. and why should they have the advantage anyway they are cheaper, and not even PC standard.

cjrgreen: I'm not sure what to make of your claim that games should not be designed for widescreen. You mean games should not be designed to take advantage of the current and most popular technology? They should be stuck in the same windowboxed world as 4:3 television, and anything that has an artistic component calling for a wide screen should be pan-and-scanned?

This game was not designed with 4:3 in mind, so the demands to redo the whole artwork of the game to make 4:3 somehow better than pan-and-scan are just silly.