I've created a message with about 10 items on it to select from, problem is that some of the message items go off the screen because each item is placed horizontally to one another rather than in a list vertically like in all past games... Which designer thought that was a good idea!?!?

Is there any way to get the MessageBox items to be in a shopping list style?

So the message box is like this in game

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Opti <-- edge of screen cut off

I want it like this:

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

Or perhaps I have to buy a really large monitor?

Yeah, it's gonna make it tough to make huge options menus. Encountered the same problem already a few times even with a 16:10. Imagine http://i.imgur.com/xPBTt.jpg on a 4:3.

No, not really. The buttons are center-aligned, so you could make their text captions shorter, or you could make conditions to eliminate the invalid ones. There shouldn't be many circumstances where the player has 10 ways of answering 1 question. You could also switch it from a message box to a conversation. Conversation options are listed vertically, but then, you'd need something to have a conversation with and that makes it less versatile.. You could also make it so that it has fewer options, with the last button toggling forward\backward between a list of message boxes.

Perhaps this could be changed with a GUI mod? I just check through 16 pages of mods at the nexus under the "user interface" category and nothing... ugh.

Except when you have a cheat/dev menu or something similar. Its so silly.

You don't design a website to scroll left to right do you? No it goes up and down...

Yeah, would be fantastic if there ware a parameter for Show() that let the buttons be listed from top to bottom. It's not just a dev/cheat menu that will be off the screen and sometimes making the button text is at the expense of it being indicative of what pressing the button does.