I just got 1 working and got a 4k mod and most scales okay except for the dialogue holy shit. Why were PC games so obsessed with having the smallest text ever. One of the best things the "consoleifcation" of PC games ever did was making text readable in any situation outside of eyefucking a monitor - ThreadSky

patstaresat.bsky.social • 113 days ago

I just got 1 working and got a 4k mod and most scales okay except for the dialogue holy shit. Why were PC games so obsessed with having the smallest text ever.

One of the best things the "consoleifcation" of PC games ever did was making text readable in any situation outside of eyefucking a monitor

Reposted from Kris Wolfheart

trying to find some way to scale the UI and subs so people can read them was super fucking annoying when I did 1 and 2

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goldenkaos.bsky.social•112 days ago

You say that, DA2’ text was so small as to be unreadable on my TV

demondraye.bsky.social•113 days ago

The was the entire experience of owning a Steam Link back in the day, nearly every game shrunk the text and UI, even fucking Doom

hatok.bsky.social•113 days ago

I feel like 1080p is the biggest culprit for tiny text, I remember so much text in PS3 games being illegible because I was still on a tiny CRT because it was all built for max resolution

andalsome.bsky.social•112 days ago

I remember feeling like I was insane when I first started nodding Skyrim and there were like 1000 mods to make the HUD elements smaller. I guess people wanted it but fuck if I could figure out why.

punchgroin.bsky.social•112 days ago

Baldur's Gate 2 has aged like a fine wine. (You can also mod the ever loving shit out of it if you want a remix)

I still think it's maybe the most perfectly structured and paced "open" RPG ever made.

punchgroin.bsky.social•112 days ago

The game is 50/50 side and story. The story is structured so that you can continue the main quest when you feel like you have the resources for it.

Each side quest is about the length of a movie and you are handsomely rewarded for them.

punchgroin.bsky.social•112 days ago

They even put some very for real superbosses into the game that you are encouraged to clean up in the last chapter.

For one of them, Keldorn *literally* says "maybe we should fight this guy later."

itsallfunky.bsky.social•113 days ago

Wouldn't this be a byproduct of "consolification" though?

Like the UI scales for big 4K tvs instead of small monitors

happenstance22.bsky.social•113 days ago

I had a similar issue playing F.E.A.R 1 recently. The text is literally for ants

maxradical.bsky.social•113 days ago

it's insane going back to games from this era and finding how many of them just dont have subtitles at all. im pretty sure there's no subtitles in any halo game before 5.

datara.bsky.social•113 days ago

It's more like the tv/monitor industry decided they wanted the biggest screen ever.

nanabi.bsky.social•113 days ago

I had to use a mod that made the dialogue text bigger lol, unsure if it works with whatever 4k mod you're using

juliosmaxwell.bsky.social•112 days ago

Man I remember the days playing Fallout NV on the PS3 and only finding out later that the loading screen is a roulette wheel.

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