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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts gets text-enlarging patch

by Griffin McElroy on Dec 21st 2008 4:00PM

A recent patch

lets you make the

text bigger in

Banjo-Kazooie:

Nuts & Bolts.

Source

Tags: banjo-kazooie, Banjo-Kazooie-3, banjo-kazooie-nuts-and-bolts, Microsoft, Microsoft-Game-Studios, rare, small-text, text, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (65)

Targeting old people now?

Yup

*reloads*

People actually bought this game. LOL Wow!

It's actually a good game.

And no, they were targeting SD screens, but it's still a welcome change.

Was this the guys who had no plans to make their text readable on SDTV's?

+1 for doing it
-1 for lying

I think that was Capcom.

Its a new strategy, tell your customers there won't be a patch so they don't get their hopes up...then unleash the patch so that they are very happy.

They also said there won't be a new Killer Instinct....

Dead Rising.
Enough said.

Valve did it, Valve did it!

Remember how they said there will be no more TF2 updates until 2009?

Come to think of it, they're the Simpsons of Video Gaming.

The actually retracted that statement and said they would fix it fairly soon after the original claim that they wouldn't.

They didn't lie. They just saw how much bad publicity they were getting so they changed their minds.

Rare developers on their forums *always* said they were working on it being fixed. The spokesperson was simply wrong.

Comes as no surprise. HDTV's shouldn't mean HD-exclusivity when the market clearly indicates that SD is still #1 (not in sales, quite clearly, but all the ones that were bought in many years, and probably won't be replaced until they break)

Never seen the game, yet I prefer larger fonts overall.

What I have seen was my friend demoing me his Xbox360 with number of games. The games pretty much demanded you sit one meter (that's 3 feet for illiterate) from HDTV to be able to read anything on screen: font are way too small if you want to have comfortable distance of 3-5 meters to your TV.

It's not about HDTV vs. SDTV, it's about plain accessibility. Font size must be adjustable.

What does literacy have to do with knowing metric to english system conversions?

Remember when games allowed you to change text style and size and color and scrolling speed? Yeah, those were the days.

other then PC's has that ever been true?

Pokeymanz? :O

THIS IS VERY GOOD NEWS
NOW I CAN ENJOY THE GAME

wait, did you say text enlarging or yelling?

Nice Pussy

Hey Baby.

This article is exactly as long as it needs to be, no unneeded padding. More articles should be this short.

Then the whole site would become as boring as watching grass grow. The only reason i even come here for all my gaming news is because of the hilarity of the site and the fact i can get most of my gaming news in 1 place.

I come here for the charming posters.

Well yes, I appreciate that the articles and posts here are quite well written. But do you ever feel like there was humour in a piece of news that wasn't really needed. I don't know, like,

PRINCE OF PERSIA DELAYED BY TWO WEEKS.
Prince of Persia will be out a week later due to a logistical problem.

Done. What more needs to be said about this? sometimes I feel like the bloggers of the sites I frequent think that they are obligated to make me giggle. It's a nice bonus but it gets a bit much.

Also, isn't it ironic that a post on short posts was so long? like rayeeeayn on your wedding day almost.

hmm... where's Fernando?

Screw that, Joystiq has the best writers and the best posting community.

If I wanted to read witless, boring, misspelled posts about Japanese porn, I'd read Kotaku.

Still, I hate how they spend so long typing up those long fancy posts, they easily get outnewsed by Kotaku.

As much as I hate to say it, for a network that has over seven copy-paste-ready sister sites, I really hate having to feel 'lucky' if I get more than four newsposts over the weekend. Seriously how much effort would it take to literally copy-paste news? Or if you care about giving author credit, just write 20-30 words max( like you did here) then redirect to X3F/PS3F/WiiF...

wait, kotaku has japanese porn?! why am i reading this site??

Now how about we actually test our games before releasing them in the future, please?

I know. One of the reasons Valves games are so solid is they have extensive testings by regular people who play games. All it would have taken is one guy at home to call them up and say, hey. I can't read anything. FIX IT.