Rare says they will not fix text in Banjo

[Final-Fan]

Final-Fan said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

Final-Fan said:
OK, ZenfoldorVGI, what about this word-of-mouth scenario?

"The game is fun, but I can't read anything so I sometimes don't know what to do. I wish I knew what people were saying 'cause I bet it's interesting."

I have to disclaim that I haven't played B&K (never got the N64 game, don't have Gold) so I don't know how illegible the text is and how critical it is to gameplay. But it sounds like it's pretty bad.

Now the above hypothetical scenario is hardly THIS GAME IS SHIT but it's far from a ringing endorsement. I could definitely see people deciding to get some other game based on that.

What was the word of mouth for Carnival Games?

As for the game, it's comparable to Mario Brothers.

As for the "but it sounds like it's pretty bad" part, I'm sure it is if you have a SD TV. However, I'd imagine it is also over-blown. Everything, ever, on a gaming forum is. These are the people who obsess over .1 point score differences from IGN.

I'd imagine a casual or child might notice the text being small, if they play on a SD TV, but I doubt it would ruin the game for them. Like I said, this is more of a slap in the face to core SD gamers, than anything. I'd imagine those screwed over gamers would want to see justice via bad sales and reviews, but if this games gets bad sales and reviews, it will be because the game was poorly made and/or marketed, not because of a font issue...

What was the word of mouth for Carnival Games?

At this point both of us are just speculating about things we don't know.  You don't have an SDTV (apparently) and I don't have a Gold sub... oh shit I just realized I can get access to the demo.  I'll let you know whether the text is just annoying or a HUGE problem tomorrow.  I have 20/15 vision and lots of experience reading text including blurry text so if I can't read it it's pretty well fucked.

On my 36" SDTV it is hard to read and blurry but readable.  I'm a fast reader and I couldn't finish many of the text boxes in cutscenes before they changed and it is due to the text being hard to read.  I am very annoyed by this. 

There is some text in the game smaller than the speech text and this is unreadable.  I believe the speech text would be effectively unreadable on a 27" SDTV or smaller (not sure about 32") and this would pretty much make the game unplayable on those TVs.  Unless you're the type of guy who plays Japanese import games without understanding Japanese.