Small writing (Text, Subtext)

[Cedric Rolle III]

The writing is small in games. What the hell is wrong with these game developers? I can imagine the developers creating the game and straining their eyes. And to top it off. Sitting too close to the T.V. is bad for your eyes. Leaving only on option. Turning the volume up very high.I tried playing Halo 3 on a HDTV (really big) and it was still too small .Any advice on how to solve the problem industry wide?

 

[Lionsfan]

[sub][sub][sub][sub]I guess they think that everybody has a 50 inch HDTV just around the house. And to fix it, just complain a lot. I remember Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts had horrible text that wasn't viewable on a SDTV, and people just complained and they fixed it[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Kahunaburger]

PC gaming?

(In all seriousness, yeah, small text is stupid. No reason not to make that stuff scale.)

 

[Cedric Rolle III]

LMAO OMG that is my point. Thanks a lot how did you change the writing size?

 

[CAPTCHA]

Ok that was just an experiment. Ignore this post, thanks.

[sub]by the way the results are in. five subs is too many[/sub]

 

[BloatedGuppy]

LMAO OMG that is my point. Thanks a lot how did you change the writing size?

[sub][sub][sub][sub]You could always just quote him and see what he did.[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Esotera]

[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]I think it was particularly bad in Mass Effect 2, compared to the original Mass Effect - I suppose developers believe that as screens are getting bigger, we should use smaller text. And whilst that's correct for the majority of people, some of us still have very small/poor quality monitors. There should be an option to change it.[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Fleetfiend]

Text is pretty unusually small in games, but from my experience I usually can't read the text on many console games because they were intended for HD screens, which I don't have. I have a computer monitor that does better than my tv, but it's still pretty bad.

 

[Lionsfan]

LMAO OMG that is my point. Thanks a lot how did you change the writing size?

I dunno if you found out or not, but you just use [ sub ] insert text [/sub] with no spaces. And you can stack it on itself,

[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]But it tends to get really really small after more than 3[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Cedric Rolle III]

LMAO OMG that is my point. Thanks a lot how did you change the writing size?

I dunno if you found out or not, but you just use [ sub ] insert text [/sub] with no spaces. And you can stack it on itself,

[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]But it tends to get really really small after more than 3[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

Writing too small, please explain.

 

[Lionsfan]

LMAO OMG that is my point. Thanks a lot how did you change the writing size?

I dunno if you found out or not, but you just use [ sub ] insert text [/sub] with no spaces. And you can stack it on itself,

[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]But it tends to get really really small after more than 3[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

Writing too small, please explain.

The Escapist uses a bunch of posting commands using the [ and ] keys. Here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.198114-Escapist-User-Guide-to-Posting-Commands#6436211] is the forum guide to it, which includes things like making writing smaller, or centering it, or posting Youtube videos.

As for what I said? Like someone said, just quote me and it should appear near the top of the text box, but I said: "But it tends to get really really small after more than 3"

 

[evilneko]

Hmm. Must be a problem unique to the peasantry. Can't say I've ever experienced this problem.

 

[DustyDrB]

It's such a dumb problem. Just make it so we can change the size. Vanquish had that option.
I don't even read the books in Skyrim because it's so annoying.

 

[Cedric Rolle III]

Thanks a lot.

 

[BENZOOKA]

We don't really have that problem with PC gaming.
Sorry about that

 

[Fijiman]

Two games that I can think of that suffer from having stupidly small text are DeadRising and Gotham City Imposters. The way to fix having small, nearly unreadable text is for the guys in charge of in-game text to stop assuming that everyone has a projection unit for a TV/monitor.

 

[sky14kemea]

Thanks a lot.

[sub][sub][sub][sub]Quoting people to reply to them will also help you read the very tiny text. =P[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

Quote me to read the mystery!

OT: I sit pretty close to the TV anyway, so unless the text is insanely small, I can usually read it okay.

Though that doesn't mean I like it. =P

 

[bobmus]

Ow, my eyes. Screw this thread, I'm out!

 

[DustyDrB]

Two games that I can think of that suffer from having stupidly small text are DeadRising and Gotham City Imposters. The way to fix having small, nearly unreadable text is for the guys in charge of in-game text to stop assuming that everyone has a projection unit for a TV/monitor.

I played a demo for Gothic 4, and it was definitely the worst I've ever seen. It was make even worse yet because you need to use menus (for equipment, for quest notes, for crafting, etc) a ton.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

.Clearly your eyesight just isn't good enough to make out the small text. Furthermore, if you had to quote me to read this... Tsk tsk.

I can't say I've experienced this problem before... But then again I play on PC, and often sit far too close to the monitor anyway.
For everyone's sake though, hopefully they don't keep pulling this move on people. As mentioned earlier, I'd imagine even just having a simple option in the menus to set the font size would be greatly appreciated by some...