If you've tried the Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts demo (now available on the XBLM) and played it on a SD television you may have noticed that the text is Dead Rising itty-bitty small. Heck, HD television owners claim the text is rather difficult to read. And if you think team Rare can / will fix the small text issue in the retail build of Nuts & Bolts, then you're sadly mistaken because no text embiggening will be done.
Rare community manager George Kelion informed CVG that "this is an issue that doesn't look like it will get changed," confirming that "the text you see in the demo will be the same as that which you find in the retail version of the game." Our advice, get an HD television, a new pair of reading glasses or sit seven inches away from the screen. No more, no less.
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11-05-2008 @ 3:58PM
bigjrussell said...
Demo was terrible.
Also, LOL at "No fix planned for small Nuts...."!!!!!
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11-05-2008 @ 3:58PM
Paul S. said...
I haven't had the chance to play the demo of B-K yet, but I'm surprised this is even an issue. The original 2 games had fairly large text whenever there was dialogue... so why didn't they stick with the same style for the 3rd game?
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11-05-2008 @ 4:08PM
haukke said...
played the demo on my hd and sd had no problems reading the text.
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11-05-2008 @ 4:19PM
NvM said...
Yeah this pissed me off.
It'd be different if Banjo has voice acting, but ti doesn't and alot of the charm is lost.
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11-05-2008 @ 4:53PM
Ghede said...
Time to do a cost benefit calculation!
Ok.
Cost: Several hundred dollars. +60.
Benefit: Play a game.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Yeah. Not doing it. I was looking forward to this game too.
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11-05-2008 @ 7:53PM
flameofdoom666 said...
its +40.
11-05-2008 @ 5:41PM
Paustinj said...
F that S
This game will be unplayable for me.
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11-05-2008 @ 6:12PM
robotoid said...
like everyone has said:
too much text. goes by too quickly. and it's too small. that's not a nice combination at all.
I had high hopes for this game because I loved both banjo games, but after playing the demo, besides the problem with the text, I didn't find the vehicle gameplay as interesting or compelling enough to keep my attention and entertain me for long. I think it's not really that easy to pick up and play like the past games. (and it doesn't help that so many great games are out right now and still coming).
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11-05-2008 @ 6:35PM
ryan said...
This sorta depends on how far away you play games from the TV right?
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11-05-2008 @ 6:49PM
BobTheElephant said...
I played the demo on a 26" HDTV, if I put my back against the opposite wall(which is where I normally play games)-about 12' it was tough to see however, when I laid down on my bed it was no problem(8')...
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11-05-2008 @ 10:21PM
Lord Hennessy said...
So why is it that all of these people with "HD" consoles are bitching because their outdated TV's can't handle the task? If you have an SDTV, trade in your 360 and get a Wii. Nintendo doesn't care about visual fidelity. Besides, you can get smaller HDTV's for the friggin launch price of the 360 nowadays.
From Walmart.com
Vizio 22" Class HD LCD Television
$297.00
Was $327.00
Vizio 32" Class LCD HDTV with Digital Tuner,
$497.00
Was $527.00
These Tv's aren't on par with mine.... but if you hav SDTV still... you haven't room to bitch.
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11-06-2008 @ 8:29AM
magicmoo said...
I'm guessing your TV size must be on par with your arrogance.
Anyway, there's absolutely no excuses for developers to put text this small in their games. On the other side, not everybody is able or willing to spend 500$ on a TV just to be able to read some damn text.
Seriously, how hard is it to check if your font size is readable on a SDTV? This should be part of certification.
11-06-2008 @ 3:49PM
tDI Hennessy said...
Seems to me that if anyone here is arrogant, it would be the people with "HD consoles" that complain that the picture isn't perfect on their obsolete tv, and furthermore expect developers to adjust everything to account for them. There are plenty of consoles (ps2, xbox,wii) that are recent consoles that nobody has to worry about HD content not showing up well on their SDTV's. Don't expect developers to spend more time and MONEY when you can't be bothered to drop $300 to upgrade upgrade your obsolete gear. You don't hear me in here bitching because my PC is only 6 months old and can't run Crysis do you?
11-05-2008 @ 11:28PM
themizarkshow said...
a lot of games seem to have that issue. On Dead Space it was impossible to read any of the textlogs I picked up while playing at home on my parents SD tv. And although you can argue that stuff wasn't "vital" to completing the game, it did advance plot and give you a better idea what was happening and why.
I think that with the technology just moving more towards HD stuff, we'll see more games using it to push people to buy the newer tvs/monitors so that their gaming experience is how the developers want it to look/feel.
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11-06-2008 @ 5:02AM
DarkStar said...
I had absolutely no issues with text in that demo. The size was perfect. I was neither playing on a HDTV nor on a SDTV, but on a 20'' LCD computer monitor connected with the original VGA HD cable.
And I'm also weird, cause I can read the text on that screenshot. But I agree this would be too small.
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11-06-2008 @ 8:33AM
SadisticHam said...
So lets get this straight, the text zooms by at an unreadable rate, it's to small and they don't plan to do anything about it?
Alright, no buy from me. Keep your game, i can seriously afford to be this picky with so many games coming out.
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11-06-2008 @ 11:11AM
Ujn Hunter said...
Serves you right for buying another crappy* RARE game! :P
*Note: The only game made by RARE that I consider to be any good would be the original Viva Pinata... nothing else they EVER made was good. Not even GOLDENEYE! Goldeneye was only good because no one had apparently played a single PC FPS. :)
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11-06-2008 @ 11:59AM
eavaillancourt said...
what I have to leave an unwanted comment.
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11-06-2008 @ 12:01PM
CABALLOTE said...
I did notice the small text in the demo. Asking myself, "do they actually expect me to read that throughout the whole game?".
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11-06-2008 @ 12:41PM
Chris Thomas said...
My TV is big enough to make it easy to read. Who reads video game text anyways? Really?
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