Current Events > Dear fucking god I hate modern video games and their teensy tiny text size.

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Their uncustomizable, minuscule text size. A giant tv, a giant screen, all that space, all that empty space, just wasted. They shove the writing into a tiny little part of the screen and the rest is just blank space. Who does that? I mean honestly. How is this something only I've ever complained about. Even if you sit just an inch away from the tv screen or monitor screen there's no way this doesn't at least grate you a little.

Posting the images here doesn't really show the true impact of such tiny font size because seeing them on a computer screen that's right in front of your face is much different from a tv screen that's a few meters away from the couch, which is my setup at least.



The worst part is they recognize the font is small because you'll notice they put the credits in comparably larger, much larger font. ffff







I can barely see that says interrogate from where I sit. Why even bother putting that text at all?



Why couldn't the entire game have font that large?





Look at all that empty space.



There are no words to describe this





I want to read bios about weapons and characters but they don't make it larger for those that want it.



The menu categories on the left are nice and large right? Why the fuck is the writing under "Jowai Resort" for objectives so tiny by comparison? What is this a text for ants?



"Gadgets" and the name of the gadgets themselves are in a relatively acceptable size, but why can't the description on the right be at least as large as the actual weapon name on the left.

And as a bonus:


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Get glasses
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Getter better eyesight. Or stop playing pc games on a big screen tv
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bro i fucking love Thomas Muller
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I'm surprised that modern games still even have text instead of being 100% voice acting

DuranOfForcena posted...

there's nothing wrong with the text sizes in any of

Read the second paragraph.
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KingWhiteKnight posted...

I'm surprised that modern games still even have text instead of being 100% voice acting

A lot of these examples are menus, which would be weird to have voice acted
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The only game I had an issue with was that Xenoblade game on the Wii U. That text was so fucking tiny
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Yeah, I sit right next to a 20 inch TV and still can't make a lot of things out.

And for those that say get glasses, my vision is uncorrectable so that's off the table.
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lightwarrior78 posted...

Yeah, I sit right next to a 20 inch TV and still can't make a lot of things out.

And for those that say get glasses, my vision is uncorrectable so that's off the table.

Yeah I just opt to put those on ignore since I don't bother with trollish, dismissive remarks like that. And while 20 in is rather small, even my tv that's nearly three times that at 56in still doesn't take care of the problem so I actually have to get up and stand right in front of the tv for stuff like bios if you can believe it.
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This was my complaint when I first bought a 360 and had it hooked up to my CRT

ever since moving on to HD never had a problem with small text
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Specifically bottom text which explains what the arte does

Imagine trying to remember what a given arte does mid-battle and trying to read that lmao

Not to mention the controls explanation on the right side
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An actual complaint I can get behind! My new setup has my couch and tv further away from where they were in my old house and the can't really be moved due to the layout of the room. So now if theres a lot of text in a game I have to sit on the floor like a child to read it.

SoundNetwork posted...

This was my complaint when I first bought a 360 and had it hooked up to my CRT

ever since moving on to HD never had a problem with small text

Did you play Dead Rising? I literally thought something was wrong with my game because the text was so unreadable. I was a broke college student so an HD tv was out of the question at the time
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Antifar posted...

KingWhiteKnight posted...

I'm surprised that modern games still even have text instead of being 100% voice acting

A lot of these examples are menus, which would be weird to have voice acted

That and subtitles, which usually accompany the voice acting
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The fuck is everyone saying "get glasses" for? Text scaling in many games is really fucked. I have glasses, a 55" TV, and despite being within the appropriate sitting distance for a TV of that size, still have trouble making out small text in certain games to the point where I end up just putting a chair practically right in front of my TV to play. It's annoying as hell and TC is completely right.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Specifically bottom text which explains what the arte does

Imagine trying to remember what a given arte does mid-battle and trying to read that lmao

Not to mention the controls explanation on the right side

what game is this? looks interesting.

Also I remember when the first Dead Rising game came out and the font was tiny as shit. People complained and they were all "get an HDTV"
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Also I remember when the first Dead Rising game came out and the font was tiny as shit. People complained and they were all "get an HDTV"

I remember that. I had a SD at the time and it was literally impossible to read the text, which meant you couldn't complete objectives
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I agree, text size is too fucking small these days
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A lot of these examples are menus, which would be weird to have voice acted

Lmao

To equip characters, press A.
To use an item, press B.
To check your status, press Y.
To hear these options again, press X.

...

Are you still there?
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Though with the right kind of game, having a menu that talks in addition to having text could be cool. Some of them talk when you select a menu item.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

saspa posted...

DuranOfForcena posted...

there's nothing wrong with the text sizes in any of

Read the second paragraph.

i have my PC hooked up to a 42" TV about 5 feet away from me which i game and browse on. that's what i'm looking at the screenshots on right now. they aren't even full screen and i can make out all of the text with less than no issues.

5 feet according to google is only 1.5 meters, that's like nothing, not really proving your point. It's just that isn't really a good distance for me imo. I sit at least 3 to 4 meters away to really soak up the tv
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Isn't this a problem with non HD TVs
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I miss the days when VG text had maybe 8 characters a line

those were the days
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Specifically bottom text which explains what the arte does

Imagine trying to remember what a given arte does mid-battle and trying to read that lmao

Not to mention the controls explanation on the right side

Right? Thank you. Christ that looks like the kind of game I'd avoid on pure principle. It looks world of warcraftish (which people play on a pc monitor which is probably why you don't hear complaints about this rather apparent issue) but the designs like animeish, what game is that
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I agree. There's no reason for the text to be that small
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Gamer99z posted...

The fuck is everyone saying "get glasses" for? Text scaling in many games is really fucked. I have glasses, a 55" TV, and despite being within the appropriate sitting distance for a TV of that size, still have trouble making out small text in certain games to the point where I end up just putting a chair practically right in front of my TV to play. It's annoying as hell and TC is completely right.

Yeah pretty much. I remember in gen 7 I'd move a chair close to the tv but it's like, we shouldn't have to.
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saspa posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Specifically bottom text which explains what the arte does

Imagine trying to remember what a given arte does mid-battle and trying to read that lmao

Not to mention the controls explanation on the right side

Right? Thank you. Christ that looks like the kind of game I'd avoid on pure principle. It looks world of warcraftish (which people play on a pc monitor which is probably why you don't hear complaints about this rather apparent issue) but the designs like animeish, what game is that

It's Xenoblade Chronicles X. It had absolutely horrendous font size overall, so in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, all the fonts are fucking massive, and I love it
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This shit on Last Story is literately what made me buy a HD TV, I couldn't play it on my old CRT.
Couldnt read a single word.
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I do my computing on a 45 inch screen that's like two and a half meters away from my couch and I can see the text in the OP pictures just fine >_>.
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ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Get glasses

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This is another reason why I favor pc gaming on a monitor more than couch and TV.
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I remember trying to play Dead Rising on a CRT when it first came out lol shit was almost unplayable due to the text size.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

I remember trying to play Dead Rising on a CRT when it first came out lol shit was almost unplayable due to the text size.

god yeah capcom games last gen were absurd
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It was so bad in Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts theres a patch for it lmao

Also in TEW2 theres a puzzle where you use the image of an item to figure out a passcode to a door lock. Well the image is so small I had to get up off the couch and walk over to my 55 HDTV to read it.
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I feel like all of this started in 2010/2011

I remember Skyrim's text being quite small but maybe that's just when my vision started going to shit.
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LethalAffinity posted...

I feel like all of this started in 2010/2011

I remember Skyrim's text being quite small but maybe that's just when my vision started going to shit.

nah man it goes all the way back at least to Dead Rising
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xenoblade x was a massive offender
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ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Get glasses

topic should have ended at this
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Jiggy101011 posted...

ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Get glasses

topic should have ended at this

More like get binoculars.
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CapnMuffin posted...

Jiggy101011 posted...

ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Get glasses

topic should have ended at this

More like get binoculars.

Right? Thank you. I seriously can't understand these types.

With RDR 2 on the way, I'm dreading how microscopic the text is going to be. Read Dead Redemption last gen was already pretty small.
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legendarylemur posted...

saspa posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Specifically bottom text which explains what the arte does

Imagine trying to remember what a given arte does mid-battle and trying to read that lmao

Not to mention the controls explanation on the right side

Right? Thank you. Christ that looks like the kind of game I'd avoid on pure principle. It looks world of warcraftish (which people play on a pc monitor which is probably why you don't hear complaints about this rather apparent issue) but the designs like animeish, what game is that

It's Xenoblade Chronicles X. It had absolutely horrendous font size overall, so in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, all the fonts are fucking massive, and I love it

Huh, I should have guessed. And the audacity of nintendo to do that on wii u of all things.
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Look at this noob playing modern games without a telescope.
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I remember whne Dead Rising first came out and everyone was SUPER pissed because the text was literally unreadable on standard TV's
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Yeah it was a problem for dead rising, and from what I hear that banjo kazooie game on 360. I don't know why RDR has gotten a free pass, or really most of Rockstar games, or really most of western developed games since they're the ones that tend to be the biggest culprits of this (although japanese devs have caught up in having awfully small font). Has anyone played Witcher 3, or really just the Witcher series in general? Elder scrolls/fallout?
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Get an ultra 60 inch television TV set
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yeah I can only imagine how much more squished the font would appear as in 4k type tvs
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i have the ratchet and clank game, think the only thing stopping me from completing the set is finishing the vita versions first.

just have higher priority games to finish before it :(.
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