Black bars

[Leg]

In 2024. Woah, so cinematic.

[micronauta]

In 2024 you must buy a ultrawide monitor Bro..🤣🤣🤣

[B1gD4ddy]

it's just terrible. imagine releasing a game in which black bars steal half of the valuable screen space. they didn't even implement an option to remove this rubbish. they also released a game in 2024 without an fov slider. it's unbelievable how bad this is.

[Thanatopsis]

It is terrible. It isn't that not having an ultra wide monitor is the problem. There would still be tons of wasted rendering on stuff that doesn't need to be seen. There's just so much empty space on the left and right. I'd rather have more top to bottom, more of the character.
I'm assuming it is like The Evil Within on the PS3 and XBox 360. It was a way to lower the requirements by only rending half a 16 x 9 screen. It was terrible and that was patched to give players a choice on better hardware.
I hope Hellblade 2 is patched soon. I'm an hour in and it is so distracting I'm considering getting a refund until it is fixed or there is a deep sale.

[T-Error]

I also suspect they this so the Xbox can handle the game. The first hour I thought maybe it's just the intro but nope. I distracts me too.

[Marsi4eg]

The most strange thing is that they DO have an aspect ratio option in PHOTO MODE! You enter photo mode and there you can select normal 16:9 format, but it's only used in photo mode though. Why restrict this in the game?

[Maaksa]

Заруинили всю атмосферу

[Gonsnakex]

I am not playing the game until there is a mod to remove them

[Rapscallion]

Originally posted by Gonsnakex:

I am not playing the game until there is a mod to remove them

Likewise.

[B1gD4ddy]

Originally posted by Marsi4eg:

The most strange thing is that they DO have an aspect ratio option in PHOTO MODE! You enter photo mode and there you can select normal 16:9 format, but it's only used in photo mode though. Why restrict this in the game?

photo mode even has an fov slider.
the game does not.

[Spardacus]

It mean bad optimization, less screen=Less triangles and transparency to calculate. Reminds me The Order, the PS4 game, only The Order (if i remember correctly) was a console launch title that served as a technical demo, Senua II is released almost 4 years after the Xbox series launch.

[KOOLCOO]

I actually like them XD

[Magic Tofu Cat]

you need 3 ultrawide montiors ok.. otherwise its just more widerder

[Raketenziesel]

Originally posted by B1gD4ddy:

Originally posted by Marsi4eg:

The most strange thing is that they DO have an aspect ratio option in PHOTO MODE! You enter photo mode and there you can select normal 16:9 format, but it's only used in photo mode though. Why restrict this in the game?

photo mode even has an fov slider.
the game does not.

This is the way, it's meant to be played. Photo mode decidely leaves that freedom to the player to find his own perspective, for the narrative gameplay they to choose to limit that freedom.

Artistic decisions are thing.
They also went for 30fps as target.
You want games to be takens serious as a form of art?


Fortnite is also notoriously bad to configure at non-default ratios yet it's not a point to rate the whole game.

The bars are not something warrating like 20% negative reviews.
This more an snapshot of the entitlement of players that the world has to bend to their setups, then about the decision the game desogmers made. Like complain a retro shooter is not using all my UHD megapixels to their full fidelity.

Also if this is about best experience, get an OLED in a dark room. It's not the "dark" bars that are annoying, it's the light shining through letterbox bars with LCDs thats' noticably distractive.

[Szalki]

Originally posted by micronauta:

In 2024 you must buy a ultrawide monitor Bro..🤣🤣🤣

Agree, the first model was released in 2008, wake up cave mans

[Good_day]

It really for whole game or only start?