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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Capcom has ruled out patching Dead Rising on Xbox 360 to increase the size of the on-screen text, despite complaints from people playing the game on standard-definition TVs.
"Dead Rising was optimised for HD and we offered some suggestions for SD TV owners," a spokesperson for the US arm of the company told 1UP.
"[But] due to the amount of text and size of the patch necessary to change the text, a patch isn't possible for this issue."
That's a bit of a shame for those of you without the requisite equipment. Dead Rising uses some pretty titchy fonts for its radio messages and mission details, but it appears as an unreadable blur on most non-HD TVs.
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McBradders
13/09/06 @ 09:05
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Perhaps Capcom can give me a few hundred quid towards my new TV instead?
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All those people who are playing DR on a small telly but own a larger SD set should hook it up to that. I was playing the game in my bedroom, on a crappy little thing, and I got tired of squinting at the screen. I hooked up the 360 to my 36" set to see if it was any better.
It was. The text is perfectly readable. Note to Capcom: How about a patch that shuts Otis the **** up? |
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"due to the amount of text and size of the patch necessary to change the text, a patch isn't possible for this issue"
Surely it's just the case of changing an integer, then increasing the size of the text boxes…? I’m sure they’re still happy to take the money of unsuspecting standard TV owners, maybe they should indicate on the box that it is not designed for them. Oh, and not everyone can rely on Mummy and Daddy to buy them a HDTV... ;) |
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http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=206
So true :)
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nickthegun
13/09/06 @ 09:24
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The very minimum is a good (not beko or any round goldfish bowl shit like that) 28" Widescreen running through the RGB socket. My friend and I have the 32" and 28" inch version of the same Panasonic, both connected via RGB. I can just read the text on mine (32") sat closer than I normally would and he can *just* make out the text sat a few feet away, but sometimes it appears too quick to read as it takes a second to get your eye in. For example, escort missions seem ok, but it took him ages to do the photo challenge as he kept missing instructions.
So, anyway, like I said, a good 28" widescreen RGB connection is the barest minimum. Otherwise the fault is gamebreaking and you will probably only be able to do the main missions. |
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The text is too small even on HD, still decipherable for me on the big telly but still insignificant looking and obviously unreadable for some. The entire mission delivery method is a problem with Otis and his obsessive calls, I don't know if it could be possible for Capcom to patch their way out of that.
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CountStiltzkin
13/09/06 @ 09:34
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I hope this does not become an issue with other games released by capcom (or anyone else for that matter). It is very frustrating. The whole point of a console is to standardise the format so all games play the same across the board - why should SD users be punished? For such a superb game made by such a good developer I've been left with a very sour taste.
Oh and thanks for the advice Mapster...but sitting closer doesn't help a great deal :D |
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Yes, but it wouldnt be much more than just a font change.
To be honest, this is fucking shocking if you ask me - and part of the problem of the way that developers make games for the 360 (develop at the high resolution, then the hardware automatically scales down for lower resolutions). PC games have been allowing for different resolutions of font for different screen resolutions for years. This is inexcusable, i dont care how good the game is. I'm not about to pay a couple of grand for a new tv to justify playing it properly. |
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There is absolutely no reason at all why they couldn't have included a text size option. They're just blindly (lol!) acting as if there's no problem when clearly there is or they wouldn't have needed to put out a statement saying they're not going to do it! The size of the patch is irrelevant, you can download demos of over a gig on Live, a text patch is not going to be very big at all. Sounds more like to me the game is designed in such a way that it can't be patched. Good job Capcom.
All you people saying there isn't a problem, here's a newsflash for you - Some people may have worse eyesight than you! I really like the game and the concept but their ignorant attitude makes me want to return it.
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The_Programmer
13/09/06 @ 10:01
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"If HDTV was a requirement, why ship the console with standard-def AV cables? "
Well i'm using the component cable that was shipped with my Xbox360. |
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AtomicBanana
13/09/06 @ 10:21
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I could read it fine on my 10 year old, SD 32" TV. And this is with the crappy non HD cables that came with the 360. You DO NOT NEED A HD TV and NOONE IS FORCING YOU TO BUY ONE.
*deep breath* |
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Eighthours
13/09/06 @ 10:24
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"Dead Rising was optimised for HD and we offered some suggestions for SD TV owners," a spokesperson for the US arm of the company told 1UP.
Binoculars? Microscope? |
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Its not MS - it's capcom.. Although I guesss MS could put in restrictions to insist all text is readable at all resolutions on all games.. Whether or not sony insist on this is another matter too.
but it's MS's requirement to make all Xbox 360 games start at 720p and then downscale or upscale to 480p or 1080i that's why some of the Xbox 360's launch titles looked either downright ugly or not much different from the Xbox on Standard TV's. Not saying that Sony are any better with these terms or conditions, Sony is encouraging devs to hit 1080p afterall.
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Although it SEEMS a trivial change, I can imagine lots of reasons why it's not.
Most likely, their Font system was rushed, and cellotaped into place, and now it's really not that adjustable - it's rigged to work at just one size. God knows it's not exactly the most enjoyable bit of coding you can do. Or perhaps their font is tiny and bitmap based, so if it grows any bigger, it'll just look pixelly. Or maybe the developer behind it is on holiday, or left the company, and now his code will take 3 months to decipher? |
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The font size issue should have been picked up and addressed during the testing stage. Surely Capcom test their games on HD and standard definition TVs? It's small even on my 26" HDTV; I can read it fine but ideally it needs to be a little bigger to make it more comfortable to see. What's so difficult about including a larger font for standard definition TV users and a smaller one for HDTV users?
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Its not MS - it's capcom.. Although I guesss MS could put in restrictions to insist all text is readable at all resolutions on all games.. Whether or not sony insist on this is another matter too.
although i agree this problem is Capcoms's responisibility, it was also clearly missed by MS quality control. Does this mean that neither MS nor Capcom do, or will, test games for SD as well as HD? |
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What gets me is lots of people are going around saying games need to be made more accessible, to reach a wider audience. Nintendo have dsigned whole consoles around the concept of being accesible to everyone.
Meanwhile developers are refusing to make small accomodations while developing their games that effectively rule out a large number of people that already want to play their game. Darren - yes, If this was on an Xbox they would likely have had comments at submission about unreadable/difficult to read text and possibly have been forced to change it. |
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