22nd March 2006, 4:57 PM
I see. FEAR does look pretty nice though. I suppose I should check out those textures more closely. Still, more PC games are desiging textures for higher and higher "minimum resolutions". It has been a while since I saw a game that even humored 640x480, but yeah too many are still trying to support 800x600. It is nice that a lot are starting to support the wide screen resolutions, but unfortunatly in the PC world they have yet to standardize a specific aspect ratio. It's stupid though, because nature already has a good standard. They should just go with the golden rectangle, FOREVER. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rectangle I see no reason why they should even mess around with anything else. Just stick with the aspect ratio of 1 to 1.6180339887498948...(and it goes on like this, I think there's an accurate fraction for it though). Anyway, once those engineers finally do standardize the golden rectangle (and I hope that's the case, since we'd never need to change it I'd think, and it would likely be what a lot of alien species would also have decided on considering how often it seems to be used in nature, or at least it's analogues), I'll be using a quality PC moniter for my 360 needs. Also, a Golden Moniter would be infinitely scalable. Something like that would be nice.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)