Not again! Small text in Lost Planet multiplayer

Posted Nov 24, 2006 at 9:03PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Capcom, MS Paint
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Interesting commentary. Can't read what you're commenting on, though.


We thought this problem was buried with Dead Rising. Well, the dead issue has arisen again, this time with one guy's experience in the Lost Planet multiplayer demo. That's the screencap from Angry-Gamer.net above this readable text, complete with Angry-Gamer's angry gaming MS Paint-drawn commentary, as well as Angry-Gamer's angry p*t@-p*t@ every seven words or so.

Aren't Lost Planet and Dead Rising both published by Capcom?

Well, at least the important text to see - the ammo count, life count, etc., are readable. And the Angry-Gamer writer did say that the single-player was "phenomenal. Awesome. Not a problem." He did think so, so badly of the multiplayer, though (we don't share his sentiments, although our eyes also hurt from trying to read small text), all because of some text he can't read.

Certainly not a reliable assessment of the game, since he can play the game fine without having to read the small text, but we'll agree with him that the small text absolutely bites big wind (especially since that looks like a scoreboard or something). We dunno what the TV was, but the guy claims it's not any better on HDTV, either. Aren't Lost Planet and Dead Rising both published by Capcom?

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2006-11-24 21:39:24
Lame!

This is why Capcom now sucks. I won't even bother buying any games from Capcom anymore. The only good game they made last gen was Phoenix Wright and I won't even bother buying the next Phoenix Wright game. Capcom sucks!
by - 2006-11-24 22:22:25
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hehe. my brother pointed that out to me when i was playing yesterday :)
by nightshade15 - 2006-11-25 01:10:07
I'd hafta say

Even on a HD-TV, it is kinda small, but I can read it easy due to the fact that the size of my screen is 37''. anything below that might be a bit Fuzzy.
by - 2006-11-25 07:06:23
Who the ***** cares

Spot complaining. Its so retarded to think you have a right to complain at all if you're not playing on a HDtv. 360 is a next gen system. If you wanted to play on your old pos you can go play xbox 1 some more.
by - 2006-11-25 08:08:08
!!

Well I think that developers should think about how the game looks on certain screens alot more. Maybe all it takes is an option to increase the size of the text/fonts to the games....
by - 2006-11-25 08:57:11
***** off

"Who the **** cares"? Ask the 70% of 360 owners who don't have HDTV yet, fool!
by - 2006-11-25 11:18:09
go hidef (buy a vga cable and hook up to a monitor)

quit crying over small text and go buy a vga cable and play it on your monitor. after seeing my 360 games on my 20inch lcd i realized i was missing alot of detail (not only the small text). Rising dead had same problem and they aren't about to change, even though they have acknowledge there's alot of people crying over this issue.

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