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Bioshock Supports Next-Gen Tallscreen gaming !!!!!!!!

widescreengamingforum.com — Here's to Bioshock for making this possible without the use of difficult "hacks". As you will see from these screenshots, Tallscreengaming really emulates the human verticular vision. It really does a great job of capturing what we see with our top and bottom eyes.

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  • wierdaaron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+131Finally, a story on Digg about Bioshock! For about 7 minutes there I'd forgotten the game even existed.
  • danielce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+44Stop using ImageShack!
    F***!
  • Calypsoaf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41*looks at monitor*
    *looks at article*
    :(
    *flips monitor 90 degrees*
    :D
  • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40Tallscreen monitors: Finally, people with foot fetishes can enjoy movies even more.
  • superkickstart, on 10/10/2007, -0/+32When we will see the mighty combination of wide and tallscreen :o

    oh...
  • zdiddy85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Good read(s). I love the skull of Verticular Vision: http://fuchur.dyndns.org/nik/ts2.png
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26Um Bioshock still hasn't been anywhere near as annoying as the incessant blather about ***** iPhones. Ugh.
  • Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Half-Life 2 supports this as well.
  • alexhengen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17But now there's just so much left to the right and left sides of that tallscreen... if only there was some way to widen it... with some sort of wide kind of screen. Hmm...

    (and yes, the story is a joke)
  • v0yeur, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14i present to you
    SQUARESCREEN
  • zeixahna, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13sadly you are an evolutionary dead-end, soon to be replaced by those of us with vertically arranged eyes. sorry.
  • 7creature, on 10/10/2007, -8/+20Truly a glorious day in the history of gaming!
  • keitarofujiwara, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12***** ImageShack!
  • GMProspect, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10That's it, I'm turning my 80-pound 4:3 CRT on it's side from now on. 1024x1280 FTW
  • bbear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7In case your question is serious: no its not a joke. Bioshock developers made the game so that widescreen resolutions see less than 4:3 and tallscreen resolutions. Then they made a statement that tallscreen gaming was a design decision and not a bug. It's been on digg for a week now.
  • johnstar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'd personally like multi-screen gaming to take off. 3 monitors just makes sence, two for peripheral vision one for vert in center.
  • peleken, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Wait ... we've got top and bottom eyes now?
  • ndteja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I hate the imageshack pic with that damn frog
  • SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Image shack pictures are down, but this may help you get an idea of what they were:

    http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4499/tallscreenos0.th.jpg
    http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2214/tallscreen2or4.th.jpg

    It's the thumbnails of what the images were.
  • ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6'Multiple exclamation marks, a sure sign of a diseased mind.'

    --Pratchett
  • Hickeroar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I, for one, certainly wouldn't be interested in playing a game this way...
  • RyanWilliams, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5(read the article next time)
  • phoenixp3k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why do people still use Imageshack? Don't they know when ever we get there the image has been taken down! No spam, but just an alternative the guys from The Pirate Bay invented - BayImg, google it or something...
  • cotaskmemalloc, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9While I don't dispute the content!!!!, don't put !!!! marks after your headline!!!!! It makes you sound like a ***** tool!!!!!!!!!
  • Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Erm, you didn't get it did you? :P
  • kris33, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5BayIMG.com OFC

    Piratebay's own image hosting :)
  • chubbybubba, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Cool!... but when is someone gonna make vid glasses with 360 degree vision. That can't be that far off can it?
  • Waylander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Hmm, nevermind, there's some version on the second page apparently: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=109632#109632

    Coral-cached it too.

  • IcyStorm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4^ More like 4:5 if you go by how he wrote it...
  • scarystuff, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5wtf is sence???
  • smellytim, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4that guy seems like such an *****.
  • radix76v2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3more than three exclamation marks are a true sign of a deseased mind (Terry Prattchet)
  • jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Not only did you spam, you spammed a website with a goddamn retarded name.
  • macatak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4you're a joke
  • Bahimiron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Freak.
  • zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Nobody makes fun of Wallpa Perez!
  • starvingarvin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5http://wsgfmedia.com/uploads/paddywak/screenshots/bioshock/BT2.jpg
  • coyote1284, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you don't get the joke, you have no idea what Bioshock is about. I don't know how that's possible here on Digg...
  • GeorgeTuk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Who the hell Diggs this stuff?
  • chrismgtis, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8Top and bottom eyes? I don't know about you inbreeds but both of my eyes are lined up horizontally.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wait until someone plays Bioshock with their iPhone, of course it will be some kind of VNC but Apple fanboys will write it up like its actually running on the thing. Already happened with WoW.
  • naonao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Peter - Quagmire why were you going through my garbage?
    Quagmire - Well I was over earlier and I saw Lois clipping her toenails and I thought "Man I gotta get in on that"
    Peter - Huh.
  • alphex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2mirrors?
  • Waylander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Anybody mirrored the images ? Neither duggmirror nor Coral cache caught them.
  • STARTSOMETHING, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what can we use thats free and has unlimited bandwidth?
  • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Okay, so Bioshock was intentionally designed to be capable of tallscreen.
    Why? What do you gain in playing. It seems like the view that you might get if you were a horse with blinders to keep you looking straight forward.
  • daridave, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I knew it! This game was MEANT for the Nintendo DS! /sarcasm
  • dandonia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hi there i am a memeber of the "Terribly Wide And Tall Screens" Association, If you think this game should be abandoned based on the topic of this article please sign up and become a fully fledged member T.W.A.T.S!
  • brjahu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Here is the Youtube video about it... kinda of douche
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gk3A11YJBg
  • kelbear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I keep one 1680x1050 monitor for gaming. I keep the other at 1050x1680 for reading.

    I know you're joking, but portrait mode is pretty great. Most websites are designed to display top to bottom, not left to right. Like the website you're looking at right now.
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