What is the benefit of playing game at 1920X1080?

[ivangela]

older games before widescreen took over you would see more on the screen based on resolution ( half life or any pre 2000 game) . now they auto scale to fit everything in basically in any resolution .

haha, my experiences were mainly with Half life and its derivatives, as I always had this tiny 19inch monitor and a friend had something WAY bigger and it always p*ssed me off he could see so much more of the game.

More recently I've been playing on a 36 inch TV so I don't really play at higher resolutions to compare.