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When will RPG's start taking advantage dual monitor setups?
mctricks
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A lot of people - especially devs - have two monitors. But I've yet to play a game, let alone an RPG, that actually takes advantage of the second monitor. Now I know it's possible to stretch the whole game across the two, but that splits the image down the middle and makes it borderline impossible to play. But what if things like maps, character sheets, and so on and so forth where on the second monitor? It would free up space on the main play area.
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As to "when"; when the majority of the gaming demographic has the disposable income and incentive to purchase a second monitor. Rather than just the hardcore demographic.
I would love it if, for example, Borderlands 2 kept my character menus on my second screen (maps, inventory, skill trees, achievements, etc).
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Indeed, I did hear that it did that. I haven't played it though.
Another thing that might be cool, although could be overkill, is a smartphone/tablet app that let you manage such things. This would even work for console games.
I'm honestly excited about a BL2 Wii U port in the next year or two. For one thing it'll probably have all the dlc, for another, putting all that crap on the gamepad screen would be godly.
Also a better two player local mode then splitscreen.
Isn't this EXACTLY what the WiiU and Ms Surfaces are going for?
What... this is a thing? Do you have a command bunker?
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that said I do video editing, programming, and modelling on my pc so multiple screens is nice, especially when I can have 1/4 of my screens being a game of choice instead of 1/2, that one doesn't work so well for actual work
Things are much different now. OS's at a very low level have dual monitor support. Most games will smartly load themselves on your primary display adapter (aka first monitor), but many games actually have settings that let you choose the adapter (Torchlight comes to mind).
Dual monitor is way more than a novelty now. I couldn't compute without it anymore.
Of course the solution is 3 monitors
I'm fine at home with my one 24" monitor, mostly because all I do at home is gaming and occasionally checking the news. I used to have a second monitor hooked up, but I didn't use it and it was just taking up desk space.
At work though, I've got dual 22" monitors and still feel cramped from time to time. I'd like to have one monitor just for Outlook, another just for Firefox / IE / Chrome, and then one or two working monitors for whatever other apps I'm using. Just had to spend a week away from my desk for training and had to work from my laptop's screen, and holy shit is it miserable getting anything accomplished on one screen.
If there were more games that supported dual monitors and actually made them useful, I would hook up a second monitor at home in a heartbeat. Having a second screen of information would be heavenly - a lot of RPGs, and a lot of MMOs could really use it. Eve really comes to mind as a game that felt super cramped on one monitor.