What year are you from? Because last I checked all of the current browsers have options for magnifying the viewport and/or the text.
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How come "increase text size" isn't a standard option in all games?
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Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to force sites to respect font settings on mobile.
CTRL+Mousewheel is your friend.
Edit: Also appears to cheerfully override whatever resetera does.
Chrome certainly has text size options:
Some sites don't respect that option and apply their own sizes (Resetera included) but others do, and for the sizes that don't respect it, Chrome has the (inelegant) workaround of per-domain zoom settings.
Forgot to mention I use a tablet so the desktop options don't work sadly.
Yeah if the text size option could be brought (back) to era that'd be good too
From my experience I would say 99% of gamedev (not just QA) uses 24" panels. They have been around a long time, they do 1080p (or 1200p) and they work perfectly fine with a DVI or HDMI cable. Gamedev upgrades at the speed of business, so if it works... That being said, 32"-65" TVs are more common in studios now thanks to X1X/PS4Pro, with living room style viewing spaces on occasion or in meeting rooms. So it's up to developers in general to flag these issues and use minimum specs to get games up to basic readability. (Alex Neonakis of Naughty Dog did a great presentation with some specs)
I didn't talk about contrast in this thread since it's not the topic, but for sure, contrast is a big issue that affects text readability. The front line for both size and contrast topics right now is subtitles - something I'm researching a lot lately - because it's the easiest and most obvious to fix. But solving only subs leaves some other UI areas completely untouched, so it's equally important to solve contrast for those as well. We have some colorblind developers in the studio but ultimately this is where it helps to be part of a bigger company that can do usability testing.
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Alright, I'm an idiot. It's in the main menu settings, which are different from the in-game settings.
God of War had to hack it and it was a menial change
I have meh vision and think this shit should have to be standardized by -someone- much like movie subtitles are but on the tech side theres a bunch of reasons why you cant make everyone do the same thing. Every engine and every game has very different ways of displaying text so its not a "I forgot to press the "make it bigger" button"
I have meh vision and think this shit should have to be standardized by -someone- much like movie subtitles are but on the tech side theres a bunch of reasons why you cant make everyone do the same thing. Every engine and every game has very different ways of displaying text so its not a "I forgot to press the "make it bigger" button"