Do Developers think all Console owners have 50" TV's?
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Text should never be a problem, no matter what definition, and what size your TV (well...to a point). It's text, make it readable. That shouldn't be hard to do.
I finally have an HD TV (32 inch. Don't care to go any bigger because I tend to move a lot and this size fits in my car very well), but still have to creep up on some menus. Developers: if you're going to err on text size, err on the side of too big rather than too small.
I finally have an HD TV (32 inch. Don't care to go any bigger because I tend to move a lot and this size fits in my car very well), but still have to creep up on some menus. Developers: if you're going to err on text size, err on the side of too big rather than too small.
Or we'll switch to PC gaming. I watch the Disney Channel and White Collar. That's not a whole lot of TV. Why would I spend $500 on a TV when I could get more games? Or a doll?Sephychu said:
Mass Effect 1 on an old a$$ CRT (old curvy thing) tv.
I couldn't tell what half the things poping up said or what the finer details of the mini-map were.
GTA IV on the same tv.
I didn't realise that the 'friend' thing was a thumbs up and down. Always looked like a plus to me.
In comes a 23" HDTV: "Holy crap! I can see!"
So yeah, I've had that problem and it does suck.
Not only for older tv's but what about gamers will less than perfect sight?
If I, with 20/20 (best) vision, can't tell what done things are, what about gamers with sight issues even with a huge tv?
I couldn't tell what half the things poping up said or what the finer details of the mini-map were.
GTA IV on the same tv.
I didn't realise that the 'friend' thing was a thumbs up and down. Always looked like a plus to me.
In comes a 23" HDTV: "Holy crap! I can see!"
So yeah, I've had that problem and it does suck.
Not only for older tv's but what about gamers will less than perfect sight?
If I, with 20/20 (best) vision, can't tell what done things are, what about gamers with sight issues even with a huge tv?
I always assumed it was Sony trying to force everyone to buy HD TVs =P
I have noticed the problem myself - in fact it plagues me, because I own the shittiest CRT in the world. Seriously, I've had better TVs in motels. But you do the best with what you can when you move into your own apartment, right?
Still, it does annoy me. Can't they just make it big enough to read *without* an HD TV?
I have noticed the problem myself - in fact it plagues me, because I own the shittiest CRT in the world. Seriously, I've had better TVs in motels. But you do the best with what you can when you move into your own apartment, right?
Still, it does annoy me. Can't they just make it big enough to read *without* an HD TV?
I don't think it's the size of the TV that's the problem, but the definition. I have a 32" standard-def "box" and I can't read crap when I play Mass Effect 2 on it. But on a 32" HD-TV there's no problem whatsoever.
I got my flatscreen out of necessity, not because I had money to blow. The old SDTV was inscrutable; text was unreadable, objects blended into each other, and everything was muddy. All games looked exactly the same.
Luckily, the vastly improved visuals of the new HDTV were totally worth it, and actually improved my skill with pretty much every game I owned, since I could see what the hell I was doing for once.
Luckily, the vastly improved visuals of the new HDTV were totally worth it, and actually improved my skill with pretty much every game I owned, since I could see what the hell I was doing for once.
i had this problem, then I upped from the box I was using. it REALLY clears things up. but I know what you mean, I played WaW on m old TV... white font on a black background... ugh...
Prototype possibly was the worst for this, that font was ridiculously small, and I had to get up everytime I learned a new move and squint at the screen to figure out what buttons to press. Mass Effect 2 is almost like that, depends on what you're reading
Wow. I was just ranting at my TV about this yesterday (due to a borrowed copy of Transformers: War for Cybertron -- the text was so painful to decipher, I forwent* the menu-style tutorials [why menus?] in favor of muddling through on my own).
I remember looking up the Dead Rising problem online and finding I wasn't alone in my frustration trying to read it on my 13-inch TV/VCR combo. Eventually, I got a projector. At the time, my living room was really long and the largest interior wall had no doors in it. Ahh, Mass Effect in 80-inches of DVI-level clarity! Now, I'm using my step-dad's 27-incher and I've been questioning the quality of my eyeglass prescription. Glad to see I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. Just a 10% increase in text size would have kept me from groaning in frustration.
* I was going to say 'eschew', but I constantly worry about those with limited vocabularies, then I thought 'forego', but the correct tense would be 'forwent', then I decided I was both over-analyzing the situation and playing to the least common denominator, which only makes things worse in the long run. Then I realized I could have just said 'skipped' and mentally rolled my eyes at myself.
I remember looking up the Dead Rising problem online and finding I wasn't alone in my frustration trying to read it on my 13-inch TV/VCR combo. Eventually, I got a projector. At the time, my living room was really long and the largest interior wall had no doors in it. Ahh, Mass Effect in 80-inches of DVI-level clarity! Now, I'm using my step-dad's 27-incher and I've been questioning the quality of my eyeglass prescription. Glad to see I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. Just a 10% increase in text size would have kept me from groaning in frustration.
* I was going to say 'eschew', but I constantly worry about those with limited vocabularies, then I thought 'forego', but the correct tense would be 'forwent', then I decided I was both over-analyzing the situation and playing to the least common denominator, which only makes things worse in the long run. Then I realized I could have just said 'skipped' and mentally rolled my eyes at myself.
