No Dead Rising text patch
Capcom rules it out.
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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/squints
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it's why i gave up still life on xbox
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It was.
The text is perfectly readable.
Note to Capcom: How about a patch that shuts Otis the **** up?
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Do the Japaneese have an agenda against Europe or something!?!
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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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are you blind? as you must be - it's perfectly fine. Oh and I bought my HDTV as I'm not supported by parents like most people here it seems. Oh yeah I must be in the 360 demographic - 25-35 year old with disposable income... durr
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Im still gonna get a HDTV soon though...
EDIT: Oh! but what about a patch to sort out the bloody pathfinding?
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Most annoying thing in a game for a long time, fine have the moron "talk" at you but not being able to fight at the same time makes me wish there was a smash Otis in face with sledgehammer option.
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Get a job, buy a new telly, move on.
Or sit closer to the screen \o/
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So true
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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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Oh and thanks for the advice Mapster...but sitting closer doesn't help a great deal
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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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Wow. Can I touch you?
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Capcom are the Sony of game design. "It's not broken, it was designed so that the majority of people think it's stupid and fucked."
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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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Well i'm using the component cable that was shipped with my Xbox360.
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Buy a VGA cable.
INSTANT HD
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Buy a VGA cable.
INSTANT HD
Erm, if i wanted to do that - i'd play games on my pc.
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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.
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Don't talk to me peasant.
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I'll get ChromeMud to send them an email to explain how great they are.
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*deep breath*
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Binoculars? Microscope?
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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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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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How could you put smelly on ignore? He's so entertaining!
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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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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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It's an 18 game though - how little is little? I think that it's intended audience can read the font fine - i can with my standard 32".
I'd rather a patch to fix some of the pathfinding....
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Um - Access your watch, press up and down on the scoops, select the one you want to know about, and watch the bottem of the screen. there will be scrolling info on where to go and what to do.
All major scoop info (that you get calls about) is here. I never got lost or confused with this feature
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you could have a boardroom "make game for HD and sod the SD, legally they cant sue us and they should buy on" = Hitachi - Panasonic - et al with Microsoft all on the Golf Course happy clapping the extra business their companies make each other.
"or"
it was shoddy production process inc developer faults of the small text. LOOK at the boxes surrounding the text. The black transparent area can easily fit a larger text font size into it. I have a small 20" Flatscreen new telly and can just about make the text if im quick (maybe i have good eyesight) but i know sometimes i cant and miss it. Im lucky that the TV is quite new and has good brightness etc... but the single pixel text is either a coprorate decision to boost HD sales OR bad developing.
Simple as.
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Just play the game, it's marvellous, I actually dreamt of zombies last night :/
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So basically you either get a HD-TV of forget about reading the text in the game... they can have my copy back, arrogant tw@ts.
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If that's the case then the game is still perfectly playable. Just bring up your watch and you get all the scoop details in bigger text scrolling across the bottom of the screen.
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Unless, in some bizarre twist on the "my dad is bigger than your dad" theme, you all want to have a wanking contest over who has the best eyesight.
I just hope non of you work in an opticians.
"You don't need glasses. Just move the chair forward a bit you lazy c*nt".
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It's the severity of the moaning, you would think that ALL the text in the game was unreadable.
Like I say, with the simple workaround it's a non problem.
Also, one last point!
When the phone rings and the words are scrolling I can't read the words because I'm too busy dodging zombies! So, even I have to go and check what was being said with on the watch screen.
It's such a non-issue, it really is.
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Yeah it is better, thats what I have, but it doesn't change the fact the text is still small. I can pretty much read it fine, but my girlfriend can't. I assume that anybody that has less than perfect eyesight also can't.
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I've gotten very bored of the game so may take it back and complain about the text size so I can get something else that won't end up damaging my eyes.
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Oh sure, I'm not disagreeing that its a minor point. My specific issue was that when someone says the text is hard to read, others were saying "no it isn't". No one seemed to be embracing the fact that everyone is viewing the game through a different set of eyes on a different TV in a different room. It just seemed ludicrous for anyone to dismiss the comments of others on the subject without any basis whatsoever.
Anyway, I agree its a minor problem. As mashum said, that bloody phone ringing situation needs a kick up the pants for sure. When I answer the phone I can't do anything. I CAN'T EVEN JUMP! The only way to get back to the ever more popular activity of "not getting eaten by zombies" is to switch weapons.
AND THEN when Otis returns once more, with his squeaky ringtone of annoyance +2 (seriously, did they spent a month on the train network recording ther most annoying ringtones they could find), he wastes yet more vital seconds of my life by telling me off for cutting him off in the first place.
A very very enjoyable game, but in the style of GTA and Hitman (most recent HM release not withstanding), some seriously annoying flaws that test your patience from time to time.
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All game fonts are bitmap based.. So what if it looks pixelated - as long as you can read it!
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Why does the amount of text matter? We want the size changing, not what it says.
Change the calls to the font renderer, surely they have a scale in there. Change the actual font its self.
There's no reason why the dialog actually needs to change, the amount of it is totally irrelevant.
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Either thats complete bull and they are just lazy or they have some very, very crappy method of coding.
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There are far, far more SDTV users than HD and they can't be bothered to support the majority?! Dead Rising is the game that makes me most want a 360 and this news is very disappointing.
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Why are developers still coding for people to sit 5ft away?
Saints Row is another example of text being presented badly to the player, some of the text is light grey in a tiny font. Tis stupid.
I hope developers start to sort this sort of thing out soon.
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My telly is just fine for the odd reasonable 360 game (there aren't many) and fine for watching tv shows and films. I ain't paying 700+ quid for a tv the same size just to fix some bloody blurry text.
And yeah, i don't live with my parents, and yeah i earn more than most of you, and yeah i'm a stingy git.
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The worst ones are those gamers who are making it harder for other,less well off gamers. Imagine the lone single parent mother with 2 kids and simply 14" TV or 19" job with one job working all day to get them a 360, then work extra for the £50 and then having to face problems like this?
She has no say if her kids want it so forget the smart-ass comments. Funnily enough theres a lot of people like her in the world...
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I'm seriously considering taking the game back now because if I have a wireless controller I don't want to have to be sat on top of my tv to read the text, I want to be able to sit back at a distance, get comfortable an play... seriously this game give eye strain.
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This is what makes me laugh - people spend £300 on a 'super console' and then play it with the worst connection possible on grandma's TV. I work in a shop and the amount of 60HZ only games we have returned is borderline daft, buy a TV that wasn't made before 1995 will ya.....
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The fact the games are 50quid so you PAY MORE and expect a better service on bad game design bugs (or indeed the corporate back scratching of Msoft/Capcom/HD manufacturers) it still doesnt change it.
You know the worse thing the bigots on here get to me for? This will be a benchmark on future issues like this. If nothing gets changed mark my words its a green light to the rest of the publishers to get away with whatever they want.
Sort.it.out.Capcom
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Easy workaround. Period.
Now lets stop all this moaning....
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You don't really need to know what Otis is saying in any case. Otis is a jerk. He should choke and die.
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I'm one of the lucky ones to have one, but the writing is still really small and the only reason I can read it is because of the sharper higher definition picture. If I'd spent £40 on this game without a HDTV and couldn't read the text I'd be contacting Trading Standards to see if they could do anything, as Capcom are making no attempt anywhere on the packing to state that you need a certain piece of equipment to fully utilise the product other than a 360.
I understand that the whole 'next-gen' thing is high def orientated, but I can't think of a single other 360 game that is so blatently made for a £600+ TV. This never happened with any of the other media formats or steps up in games console generations. The whole pull of consoles over PCs is that all games are equally accessible to all regardless of equipment as long as you have the base system. Capcom seems to be making an attempt to piss all over that.
And the lack of sympathy from Capcom over the whole problem stinks to honest. It amounts to "Yeah so what, we made it for expensive HDTVs. So either change your settings to widescreen and make the game look fucked, or take a loan out and buy a new TV".
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