RE: 4 Wiidition is still awesome

[Angrist]

I hate it when they cut from movies to fake widescreen. My Jurassic Park DVD shows less image than my VHS. Go widescreen!

Hm, thinking about the Jurassic Park suddenly makes me long to my family's home..... weird.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Null

wait wait wait, so the game always ran in widescreen anyway? just with the black bars on top and bottom, even if you had a normal tv?


(sorry, i've never touched the game yet)

i thought the issue was that you were saying the game isnt really wide screen, it just zoomed in on the full screen version, taking away some of the top and bottom of the picture.

the real issue your talking about then is just the resolution quality of the image?

No RE 4 doesn't run in widescreen on the Cube.
It runs in what I guess amounts to letterbox. It looks like a widescreen movie run on a normal TV but it looks that way no matter what TV you play it on. And isn't natively 16:9 I believe.

[Null]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

No RE 4 doesn't run in widescreen on the Cube.
It runs in what I guess amounts to letterbox. It looks like a widescreen movie run on a normal TV but it looks that way no matter what TV you play it on. And isn't natively 16:9 I believe.

thats exactly what i just said. the game is running in widescreen no matter what.

i didnt say cube version was set up to run on a widescreen tv.

but it has the blackbars on it. so no matter what, the image was in widescreen. i didnt know that. i thought the game took up full screen on normal tv's.

Originally Posted by Angrist

I hate it when they cut from movies to fake widescreen. My Jurassic Park DVD shows less image than my VHS. Go widescreen!

Hm, thinking about the Jurassic Park suddenly makes me long to my family's home..... weird.

very few movies do that, im not totally sure on Jurassic part. but this is true for little miss sunshine.

the movie is shot in super35 i believe its called.... so no matter what view your watching it as, your missing something.. widescreen chopped a little off top and bottom but you see the full left and right...... fullscreen chopped off from the left and right but you saw the full up and down.



kinda the jist of it.


im not sure if this was the case for jurassic park tho

[DeathsHand]

Some guy on the IGN board better explained what the Wii version does in 3 simple steps...

Step 1: Original Image

Step 2: Wii's 16:9 option stretches the image vertically.

Step 3: Your TV stretches the image horizontally to fit the screen

Resulting in a blurrier, jaggier, but larger image... Exactly what you'd get by playing in 4:3 with your TV set to "Zoom"...

What I don't understand is how so many different reviews could label it "True 16:9 widescreen"... Kinda lame... And misuninformeducating...

[Dyne]

But on the Wii, graphics don't matter! So there's that.

[Angrist]

Well, in Jurassic Park you can really see that they cut off the top and bottom when the Mr. DNA presentation runs. Near the end, they show a drawn dinosaur, but you can't see its head. It looks really stupid and I can assure you that you cán see the head on the VHS version.
The same with the scene where the helicopter lands. Now you can't see the spoof where the chopper is suddenly parked a few meters away from where it was parked in the previous shot.

I don't think Jurassic Park has extra material on the sides, like that picture you showed. JP was shot in 1993, I'm not sure if they knew about widescreen TVs back then....

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Dyne

But on the Wii, graphics don't matter! So there's that.

*scratches noggin*

[Null]

Originally Posted by Angrist

I don't think Jurassic Park has extra material on the sides, like that picture you showed. JP was shot in 1993, I'm not sure if they knew about widescreen TVs back then....

they shoot them for the movie theatre, not for tv. 1970's 60's 50's .. movies all are in widescreen without chopping off the top and bottom. hehe so thats not it.

maybe jurassic park just went cheapo on the cameras and decided to fake the widescreen.

[Angrist]

In Holland, they're selling the game for full price (€60, $80). -_-'

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Angrist

In Holland, they're selling the game for full price (€60, $80). -_-'

It's still worth it at that price!

[dirtycarpet]

Yeah this game looks sick, I was considering buying it because it's only $30. Does it have any kind of mode other than the regular campaign mode in it?

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by dirtycarpet

Yeah this game looks sick, I was considering buying it because it's only $30. Does it have any kind of mode other than the regular campaign mode in it?

Yeah, it has Mercenaries, which is like a game in itself, where you play as NPCs. And then it has Assignment Ada, where you sort of play Ada's mission in RE4. I think it has some other things too.

The main game is pretty long, though, for an action game.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Dyne

Yeah, it has Mercenaries, which is like a game in itself, where you play as NPCs. And then it has Assignment Ada, where you sort of play Ada's mission in RE4. I think it has some other things too.

The main game is pretty long, though, for an action game.

Assignment Ada is a mini-game where you play as Ada on the island (where the final part of the game takes place), collecting 5 virus samples and escaping...
It was in the original Gamecube version and every release since then...

Seperate Ways is the title of the Ada scenario Dyne was talking about... 5 new "Chapters" chronicling what Ada was up to during the events of the game... It was first released on the PS2 version, so this is the first time it is available on a Nintendo console...

Then of course, as Dyne said, there's the Mercenaries mini-game, though I'd hardly call it a game in itself...
And on a minor note, it has the third costume set and the special parasite-removal laser gun that were first introduced with the PS2 version...