With the mega-hit Street Fighter IV now out on shelves, thousands - nay, millions - have eagerly bought the game, desperate to spam their Hadokens, or master their Akumas.
However, in leu of the release that spawned 2 million copies to be delivered to the US alone, it seems that the developers of this hit series has pulled a fast one on all those with their Standard Definition televisions. Again.
We all remember the Dead Rising incident, whereby most couldn't even complete the game due to the text being so unreadably small that in the mission text, they couldn't tell where to go without Google research. In some cases, this even caused minor headaches (which, from my experience in the past 2 hours, I can relate to...).
Ah, Capcom, you and your shady dealings! You had me all hopeful when I went to buy my copy of SFIV, to kick some ass, and take some names. But alas, from the title screen alone, I learnt that I was going to have trouble reading anything at all... You see, whenever I tried to read anything that wasn't fully capitalised, I had to put my eyes to the glass of the screen to even attempt deciphering the complexities of pixels that laid out before my, unlocking the power of the mystical Save File.
Looking at the combo list however... Excuse me while I do a hearty whistle to express my amazement at how tricky that was... Sure, you can barely make out what the move names are in the first place, but if you want to know how to do them, well fuck you! You're not worthy, it seems. And so, because of this, it feels like a whole portion of the game (the Challenge Mode) has been locked out for me, as I don't know how to pull off the combos I need to progress! And before anyone even thinks about mentioning Internet research and has their oesophagus torn out by my bare hand, I'd like to mention that a game that is on a console should not require computer research as a prerequisite for progression.
If I haven't already made my case clear, the text in Street Fighter IV follows the typical brand of Capcom text. Their motto as of late seems to be "HD all the way. Fuck the SD market, if they can't read the font, it's just an extra challenge!". Don't take me the wrong way, don't take this to mean I'm bashing the game. You need to be stupid to think that... No, this is more similar to watching The Dark Knight with tunnel vision. You can't actually see what's going on per se, but you still get that air of it being something truly spectacular...
PS Sorry for this late post... I've been really rather busy lately. I'll do what I can to keep y'all updated!
Monday, 2 March 2009
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