I've learned to curb that desire. When I played FEAR, I still though it looked hella good on my lowly Radeon 9800 Pro. I'm not someone that needs 1600x1200. In fact, most games I just set to 1024x768 because it's the resolution I have been playing with for years.
Unless I look for it, I don't notice the aliasing so it's not that big of a deal. FSAA also is moot for me. I do like anisotropic filtering though.