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Font size on games these days

  • 06-03-2010 8:03pm
    #1
    Frankie5Angels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭


    Is there any way I can enlarge the font of, for example, subtitles in games? Bought Bad Co 2 there yesterday and the font for the subtitles is so tiny, I can barely read it! Same with that of the intro screen. I've found the same on Mass Effect 2 and on the menu screens for the likes of Fifa etc.:(

    Anyone any ideas? Using a 26" screen at the mo, but it's all still a bit small for my liking. Probably flogging a dead horse, but I said I'd try anyway!


Comments

  • #2
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    It's to do with the HDTV generation. If you have one everything is readable. Most games are in HD and have to scale down to SDTVs, when this happens the text shrinks too. Game devs just don't put an option in to make the text bigger.


  • #3
    Frankie5Angels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Frankie5Angels


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    It's to do with the HDTV generation. If you have one everything is readable. Most games are in HD and have to scale down to SDTVs, when this happens the text shrinks too. Game devs just don't put an option in to make the text bigger.

    Thanks, man. I suppose I'll just have to buy meself a HDTV now! The one in the living room has been knocking around a good few years!:D


  • #4
    mayordenis
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    It's to do with the HDTV generation. If you have one everything is readable. Most games are in HD and have to scale down to SDTVs, when this happens the text shrinks too. Game devs just don't put an option in to make the text bigger.

    In the case of Bad Company 2 in fairness I think it's very very small in the HD version aswell.

    I think going back to Dead Rising a fairly early xbox release and only the start of he "HD generation" was almost completely unreadable in SD.


  • #5
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I've heard people complain about that game in particular OP. Its kinda poor that they dont cater for people on smaller SD TV's.

    Some TV's have a kind of zoom feature but its not all that common and a poor solution.

    DeV.


  • #6
    Asmodean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭Asmodean


    Yeah dead rising was terrible alright. recently i found mass effect 2 to be very unreadable during the conversation choices.


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  • #7
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    WEll YOU MIGHT get a 720p only tv cheap in the shops, 720hd is fine for 360 games,or look on adverts.ie for sale.IF YOUR really on a budget a 22inch widescreen monitor, is 150 euro ,make sure it has vga interface.
    ANY vga monitor works on the 360.IF your buying a new monitor, one with 2vga, or dvi in is handy for pc gaming .When i was looking id see a few 720p tvs going in harvey norman.


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