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If you want to see what this looks like in action, you can see it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcd6jEEKQU

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The blog post says small, medium, large, this shows about 8 different sizes, which is... even funnier somehow. The designers needed to see all the options in game.

I'm pretty sure it was just 3 sizes in III. Maybe once they realized they left it in, they decided to keep it a an Easter egg and fully committed to it.

A complete tangent, but I am reminded of a young man's wistful philosophical musing many summers ago in Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIhQllAP5uY

But why it's an ellipse? Surely that should be fixed first, rather than the size.

Widescreen support in ps2-era gta leaves things to be desired.

But... I don't remember it like that in SA on the PC at least. Weird. And I'm very sure III even had an option in the graphics settings to enable widescreen support, which was pretty odd. Why not just assume square pixels and figure it out from there...

SA on the PC and SA on the PS2 are very different beasts

The widescreen setting in the menu adjusts 3d rendering (and not even in the best way imaginable), a lot of other things are unaffected by it.

It was round in 4:3. The game doesn't adapt that well to being played in 16:9

I don't think it adapted at all to 16:9. It is just stretched.

Even PS2 games that had the option for widescreen sometimes left out things like menus and the HUD. It was pretty hacky, but I played PS2 on a 4:3 screen for years before I had anything else. Never seemed like a big deal.

It stretched the textures, but not the models. The models were the correct aspect ratio even in widescreen.

It seems that the scope is almost round in the video. It's slightly wider than it should be.

This particular video has been stretched, annoyingly.

I'm kind of annoyed they didn't standardise options for it on that console. Some games set it in the menu, others had a (bespoke) button combo you had to hold down while you started the game. Having a PAL system, it was interesting how hit or miss switching to 60hz mode was on various TVs, when EA racing games would prompt me about it.

The video is in the wrong aspect ratio.

this is hilarious!

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