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Justagamer on 07 February 2014
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JoeTheBro said:
Justagamer said:
Zekkyou said:

They want it to be a "cinematic experience" or some shit :P


It's strictly for performance. It's a custom resolution, the tv may be displaying all 1080 Lines, but the ps4 is not. They could do a 1920x 200 if they want to, and have huge black bars, and maintain the clarity without stretching the image. Let's be real here.... If they could, they would fill the screen. The game looks good, so they obviously are making compromises in screen res. and to prevent it from getting blurred further by stretching the image (upscaling) they maintain a 1 to 1 pixel display this way. I think it's smart. But again, if they could fill the entire screen at 1920x1080 they'd have done it. Let's not fool ourselves here, it wouldn't be less cinematic, seriously..... Sigh.....


That's a very narrow minded view.

Next are you going to tell me black and white movies are still made only because color cameras cost to much?


Ok, so now black bars = more cinematic.... Got it. The 500,000+ pixel savings has nothing to do with it. So to you, 16:9 is less cinematic than  2.4:1?  For movies it depends on the camera, whether it's a wide angle or not, for games?  Not so much....  They said it themselves in the tweets.... The added performance is a bonus, implying they have done it both ways. I'm not bashing the game, looks pretty great to me. I'm just saying how I feel about why they're going that rout.... And black and white is an artistic choice, hardly a good comparison. 

Im honestly glad they chose to go this rout vs stretching the image. I wish more companies would do this. It's a great compromise. They maintain the overall image quality while only cutting off a little portion of the screen. It's not like they are creating the game with a wide angle camera after all. 

I stand by what I said, if they could've filled the screen they would have. During cut scenes sure, I guess it could be used for them. But during gameplay? I'm hardly thinking while I'm running around a game world "wow, this would be so much more cinematic with black bars"...  It's for performance, in my humble opinion.....