I'm using the new Twilight Princess one. I like it. It doesn't seem too big to me. Of course, I'm using 1024x768, I don't know about the rest of you. Every site's layout seems to be too big for 800x600 these days, so I've permanently switched.
Anyhoo, the only one around here who uses 800x600 is ABF. I understand he also communicates using smoke signals, and he runs his computer by pedaling a bike attached to a generator the whole time he is online.
Well, between the foraging for food and making fire with sticks.
I used to use 800x600, but it sucked so much that I switched to 1024x768 about five or six years ago. Seriously, anything else is just too big or too small. Some of those resolutions make me wonder who'd actually use them.
ABF, have you tried just adjusting the resolution and then going into the font options and setting them to large or very large? Things should easily be big enough for you to read then.
I myself have been considering "kicking it up a notch", against better judgement, to an even higher resolution. However, the next jump is going to require a boost in font size from my experimenting.
"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)
I know it just affects the text, but isn't that the main problem you had? It doesn't cause any graphical glitches, so I don't know what you mean by "look weird". It's an adjustment, of course it's not going to look the same as it did before. That's sort of the point.
"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)
Not sure how that makes sense actually. First of all, strawman (him not wanting to go to a higher resolution doesn't really indicate that he doesn't like new technology). Second, given your premise, how is a widescreen format "new technology"?
"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)
It indicates that he is averse to change, which he has admitted in the past.
Second, the widescreen format is a newer format than 4:3, in general, and the distinction is more considerable in the forum of home entertainment. I know that it has existed for a long time, but only in the past few years has it really caught on. As someone who sells movies, the full-screen format is purchased by old people who were dragged kicking and screaming into the DVD age, and by people who are simply ignorant (assuming, for instance, that picture area is lost in widescreen, when the opposite is true).
Why does this bother me, you ask? Because I don't buy movies that often, but when I do, it's obviously going to be in widescreen. And there's nothing as irritating as finding a movie I want, only to find that whatever place I'm in carries only the fullscreen version. It's the same reason I get irritated with people who insist on lower screen resolutions; it means that most websites are forced to cater to these cavemen, meaning that my high-res screen is filled with empty white when I view these sites.
Cavemen? It merely means a lot of people don't see the point in needlessly increasing resolution. I see no need to go beyond 1024X748 for example. At a certain point, it's just too small. For ABF, it reached that point quicker than for others.
"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)
No, of course I buy widescreen... well, I don't really buy DVD movies (just a few, most of the ones I have were gifts), but the few I own are widescreen.