Keen observers on the official Rez HD forums are up in arms about the output of Rez's standard mode on Xbox Live Arcade. Instead of scaling the game to widescreen, the title outputs its standard signal to a 4:3 aspect ratio. While some are calling it the biggest meh of the year by saying the Standard Mode is supposed to output as 4:3, forum comments reminded us that Rez always scaled to fullscreen on the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. The worst offender seems to be playing Rez on a standard definition television where black bars are visible around the entire image. This may or may not be big issue but we all remember that some people really care about those missing pixels. We'd be wondering what happened too but we're a little busy taping multiple controllers to our bodies.[ThatGameCalledRez.com forums. Image via flickr user Pryii]
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2-06-2008 @ 2:40PM
Pyrii said...
Anyways, I only made the pictures to illustrate the point people were trying to get across because some people weren't getting it. Personally, I prefer HD mode, but the nostalgia of SD mode is hard to resist sometimes.
But my main worry and reason for taking the pictures and slightly outrage is that this is happening far too often, games companies are forgetting that not everyone has widescreen TVs or even have Hi-Def and we've seen games unplayable in standard Def and leaving 4:3 screens as an oversight. This behaviour needs curbing.
2-06-2008 @ 6:56PM
violenceinhd said...
It looks like all you did was change the dimensions of the monitor's screen using the actual physical buttons...
2-06-2008 @ 4:17PM
Royale said...
I started playing the standard version... and then realized it was the same but with suck graphics and quit and started up the HD. Why would they even include the old version? Who's gonna play it... really?
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2-07-2008 @ 2:50PM
HaMMeReD said...
There is 2 versions, rez-hd and classic.
I have a solution that should work as well, hookup your xbox with crappy cables (svideo or composite) and scale it to widescreen with your tv.
That's about as authentic as it gets for rez-classic.
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2-08-2008 @ 4:26PM
Neuromancer said...
Yeah there's a good solution for all the bitchers and the whiners. Too bad they don't have a coaxial adapter for the 360, that would make it look even shittier!
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