This is like talking to a brick wall. Look at the images again. The 4:3 is showing too much of the ceiling and floor. The aspect ratio is warped near the ends of the screen.

It appears that Irrational intended for the game to be viewed in widescreen, not 4:3. The aspect THEY want you to see is what you get from widescreen and 4:3 is warped, not the other way around.

But, if you want to continue arguing with me about it, go for it. I've played the game for about 6 hours now and I've actually seen it in both 4:3 and widescreen.

If the FOV is set to 110 (which is for 16:9) and 110 for 4:3, 4:3 WILL have more vertical view, but the sides will be warped. However, the correct FOV for 4:3 is 90, which if that was set correctly, then it would be missing the sides rather than having more vertial resolution.

If you wanted the 16:9 to look like the 4:3 then they'd need to set the FOV to around 130, which would then screw up the edges. 

The issue is that:

- in 4:3 you see 100% horizontally and 100% vertically

- in 16:9 you see 100% horizontally and about 85% vertically

How is this not an issue?

If the aspect ratio and FOV were correct in widescreen, it should not look like you are viewing the game from inside a knight's helmet.

I don't know why Gamespot said their is some freezing issue, I have almost finished the game and I never seen any issue.

One small problem: humans don't actually view in 100% square. They actually view in roughly a 16:9 ratio, give or take. After all, that's why they created that aspect ratio for movies in the first place...

And the game looks nothing like "viewing from a knight's helmet". It's actually quite appropriate for this sort of game. If it was Halo, yeah, I might want it stretched vertically a bit, but Halo is more of a vertical game. BioShock is not vertical whatsoever.

After reading the widescreen gaming forums and seeing many more screen shots the problem definitely is that the widescreen view is 'cropped' (ie, the FOV is way to low). What your mother said is right in this case, if you consider 4:3 to be h:v 100:100, then the bioshock 16:9 is actually 100:85. Really it should be about 120:100ish.

The impression they have over on those forums is that the FOV is around 75. As I said before, 16:9 should be nominally be around 110 and 16:10 should be around 100.

You guys are entitled to your own opinions but after playing halfway through the game in widescreen and testing it in 4:3, it's really a non-issue.

Breaking news: 99% of gamers are completely f*cking retarded. Is anyone *really* shocked by that?

DKII said it best:
"And why are those reactions surprising? We get plenty of fanboy explosions here over nothing all the time. ;> It's the stupid ultra-hardcore minority that everyone supposedly wants to cater to but is still never happy with anything."

I think how Irrational deals with this will determine whether they feel if this is an issue or not. They do need to address their fanbase though. If this is really a non-issue they will leave the game as it is. If they tweak the PC version and then change the console version, then the game was not how it was intended. I am not saying the game isn't great the way it is but there is a standard that widescreen TV owners expect.

do you guys even own a 360 ???? you get your games patched by request autmatically as soon the patch is released on the XBL.... a pb like that should take them like 30min to make a patch... then send it to MS which put it on the live... if they want to correct it... it should be out by the end of next week....WAOW I gonna cancel the game until it's patched... what a bunch of morons.... they don't even deserve to have a console and should get life