Is It Just Me?

[Monkeysicle]

Is it just me or do games today have smaller text then they did just a few years ago? I have a 360 and every game I seem to pick up for it has either text so tiny I can't read it on my non-huge non-hdtv or viewable text size on some sort of horrible background like white letters on a neon yellow background. Is this just me? Anyone else have problems like this one out of interest of discussion?

 

[Calobi]

Text is now formatted to be read from an HD source. For those without, tough luck.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

HD tvs solve this problem quite nicely.

 

[Nargleblarg]

In the original demo for banjo and kazooie nb the text was near unreadable for even my HD Tv and on a even smaller tv it couldn't even be recognized as words. But they did fix it in time for release by setting the backround black.

 

[megapenguinx]

Text is now formatted to be read from an HD source. For those without, tough luck.

This. While playing Prototype, I found it incredibly hard to read any of the words because of the text color/size.

 

[GeoPB]

Fable 2's text was completly off my screen. That's a bit annoying, but if you can hear then it doesnt really matter... so yes, it is just you.

 

[Calobi]

HD tvs solve this problem quite nicely.

But the problem is people shouldn't need to buy a brand new TV just to play newer games. That's why the newest systems still have Composite output.

 

[Kajt]

I don't think it has gotten smaller, but I have noticed that developers tend to make text unreadable due to the background being too dark or too light.

 

[darthzew]

Small text is getting more and more popular these days, it seems. It also has something to do with games being formatted to HD and all that.

 

[elitecrewer]

I would have thunk that it was due to higher resolutions being common (if you lower the resolution, text gets bigger), but the HD idea seems popular.

 

[Monkeysicle]

Well it seems that my suspicions were right for once on the matter that game developers design for hdtvs. What a dick move I think. But as said if you can hear what people are saying it is not much of a problem and most games do nowadays which is good. I guess this be a real bad time to be a deaf gamer with a low income.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

HD tvs solve this problem quite nicely.

But the problem is people shouldn't need to buy a brand new TV just to play newer games. That's why the newest systems still have Composite output.

I completely agree with you.

 

[Calobi]

I would have thunk that it was due to higher resolutions being common (if you lower the resolution, text gets bigger), but the HD idea seems popular.

Well, HD TVs have a higher resolution than non-HD, so it's really the same thing.

 

[Yegargeburble]

I would say you are alone in thinking this, as I do not usually have problems reading text in games, but then I remember Dead Space and its text logs...

I couldn't read any of them.

 

[dmase]

Yeah it sucks having next gen and no HD tv or cables. At least I have a decent sized tv to hook it up to on the smaller ones it has a purple ring around the edge and loses about a half an inch or more from the characters view.

 

[Lullabye]

Well it seems that my suspicions were right for once on the matter that game developers design for hdtvs. What a dick move I think. But as said if you can hear what people are saying it is not much of a problem and most games do nowadays which is good. I guess this be a real bad time to be a deaf gamer with a low income.

thats like saying that its a dick move to be making games for next gen consoles. its not a dick move. they just assume if you can afford a ps3 and some games, you can afford to get a hd tv....buncha dicks, as if my gaming wasn't expensive enou...oh, i see what you were getting at.