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

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kingdrake2 posted...

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 :(.

finishing the vita versions?
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@kingdrake2 I don't remember any vita versions of r&c
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saspa posted...

@kingdrake2 I don't remember any vita versions of r&c

there's the trilogy on vita. only ones i know.
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Trilogy? You mean the original trilogy on ps2?
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i agree tc
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Alexanaxela posted...

i agree tc

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Appreciate it, I really wonder how this has not been brought up to developers en masse more often.
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I used to have a huge problem with this before I got glasses.

I couldn't sit close enough to the screen without it being too close, so everything small was extremely hard to read. Numbers especially annoyed the fuck out of me when the font made all 0s, 3s, 5s, 6s, 8s, and 9s look similar.
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Idk what these coke bottle glasses wearing dudes are trying to project, but yeah, that shit is tiny. And I wear contacts.
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Dooms text is pretty obnoxiously small.
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BignutzisBack posted...

Alexanaxela posted...

i agree tc

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I started noticing this with Witcher 3, it was the first annoying game like that for me, then it was Xcom 2, and then something else I cant remember.
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orcus_snake posted...

I started noticing this with Witcher 3, it was the first annoying game like that for me, then it was Xcom 2, and then something else I cant remember.

Witcher 3 has about the same text size as 1 and 2, so I'm surprised you didn't notice it 10 years ago with the first game.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

I used to have a huge problem with this before I got glasses.

I couldn't sit close enough to the screen without it being too close, so everything small was extremely hard to read. Numbers especially annoyed the fuck out of me when the font made all 0s, 3s, 5s, 6s, 8s, and 9s look similar.

You don't have to be visually impaired, even with 20/20 vision it's just downright uncomfortable to read such tiny text when you want to be relaxing on a couch.
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DoomSwell posted...

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.

@DoomSwell Wasn't it a Wii game though?
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I hate when they make the subtitles the same shade as 85% of the game so half the time you cant read it
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@saspa posted...

DoomSwell posted...

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.

@DoomSwell Wasn't it a Wii game though?

And? I'd say "modern" is anything not measured in bits.
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You'd think that with the console basically being a gen 6ish console, they would have the decency to put text reflective of gen 6's text size, the last gen with accept font size for menus, ui, hud, etc just all manner of text.

Also, I didn't think HDTV would matter since Wii used regular avi cables instead of HDMI?
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I agree.

Were getting too old to have text that small. At least give an option for larger font.
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It's neither an age thing nor a visual impairment thing; text really is that small. It just is. I noticed it 10 years ago when I entered gen 7 and been noticing it ever since; regardless of age.

Especially when I experiment and realize that the font in 4:3 and avi cables on an HDTV actually makes everything, from font to just the entire image on screen, much larger compared to 16:9 and HDMI cables, which shrinks the image on screen in order to put more images (which is stupid as fuck, I don't want to see more of something if it's smaller, I'd rather see just enough and then you know, tilt the camera or whatever for a pan scan if I want to see more)
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Which in turn, is also why I felt the "HD" gen was a scam. It basically just seemed like "shrink everything to make it fit inside the screen, from font to character models to the scenery" rather than I dunno, pixar quality cgi and utilizing superior processing power for better gameplay performance.
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