God, you know what really sucks?
Now we have these widescreen TV's, and they would be absolutely perfect for horizontal side scrolling shooters. But of course, 2-D Shooters are basically dead. Yeah, you can play the old 2-D side scrolling shooters on a widescreen TV, but I'm talking about if they actually made a horizontal side scrolling shooter with widescreen TV's in mind.
Like if it was actually programmed in the 16:9 format to take full and total advantage of the 16:9 screen ratio. I can't think of any other genre that would benefit more from a 16:9 Widescreen TV, than a 2-D horizontal side scrolling shooter.
I know that there is new R-Type game for the PS2. Does anybody have this game? Does this game have a 16:9 widescreen mode?
And I'm not talking about some crappy E.A. Sports widescreen mode, that is nothing more than window dressing. I'm talking about a mode where the game "actually" really takes advantage of the 16:9 screen.
That would be sweet if 2-D shooters were still alive and well today, and they were made with 16:9 TV's in mind. It would really be sweet.
It would actually change the way the game was played. You would be able to see that much further ahead, and it would change the way you would attack.
It would have been interesting to see how developers took advantage of the 16:9 ratio in their game design.
Oh, well. I guess one can only dream.