I probably already mentioned this months ago, but I wound up getting a TV with a widescreen mode. It's a regular-size TV, the widescreen mode simply squishes the screen into letterboxed for widescreen-enabled stuff.
While it is cool, there's one thing that kinda irks me. Out of all the widescreen games I've played so far, none of them are completely widescreen-enabled. Sure now I have a wider view of the playing field, but all the icons and text onscreen aren't effected, meaning depending on whether the TV is true widescreen or not, all the icons and stuff look either squished or stretched. I think I've only played one game where the title was fixed to stretch for widescreen mode (Banjo-Tooie), yet the rest of the game's icons were distorted. Kinda annoying when you're playing a baseball game in widescreen, and all the players' pictures are distorted. Why doesn't setting a game to widescreen change everything? One would think that it'd simply be as simple as coding the icons and stuff to squish so they'd look normal in widescreen.
While it is cool, there's one thing that kinda irks me. Out of all the widescreen games I've played so far, none of them are completely widescreen-enabled. Sure now I have a wider view of the playing field, but all the icons and text onscreen aren't effected, meaning depending on whether the TV is true widescreen or not, all the icons and stuff look either squished or stretched. I think I've only played one game where the title was fixed to stretch for widescreen mode (Banjo-Tooie), yet the rest of the game's icons were distorted. Kinda annoying when you're playing a baseball game in widescreen, and all the players' pictures are distorted. Why doesn't setting a game to widescreen change everything? One would think that it'd simply be as simple as coding the icons and stuff to squish so they'd look normal in widescreen.
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