Is the New Patch's text size on the inventory screen jarring?
TenYaiba
Member Posts: 212
I've just been free enough to try my hand at the newest patch and the first thing that happened was that the numbers on the quick bar and inventory screen jumped out and punched me in the eyes.
Maybe I'm just being a bah humbug curmudgeon, but I liked my tiny numbers. Then again, I'm playing on an enormous screen, and not a tablet. I can understand that those numbers would be better on smaller screens where it's hard to see the itty bitty numbers. Does this bother anyone else or am I just being an old harrumph?
Maybe I'm just being a bah humbug curmudgeon, but I liked my tiny numbers. Then again, I'm playing on an enormous screen, and not a tablet. I can understand that those numbers would be better on smaller screens where it's hard to see the itty bitty numbers. Does this bother anyone else or am I just being an old harrumph?
- Is the New Patch's text size on the inventory screen jarring?120 votes
- No, It's not an Issue.29.17%
- Yes,18.33%
- It should be a toggle option.52.50%
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Toggle or even better options for various sizes would be great.
I wouldn't mind a toggle option in case I play with different platform/resolution/display size.
The UI improvements were the main reason I wanted the game, as stupid as that sounds. I was really hoping for a completely re-tooled interface, but ultimately the "improvements" fell short for me.
Frankly, I don't understand how anyone previously unfamiliar with BG would know would the previous text size said. It was way too small IMO.
I understand that some players like this new font, but there are many others that really prefer the previous one. "Enable/disable larger font" option would solve the problem.
It's honestly really bothering me, I understand that for the smaller platforms it would get really hard to see, but the size affects my experience a lot more than I thought something so simple and peripheral would.
The feel of the game has changed. The small thin elegant font left a lot of room in the image blocks, with these huge Playskool(TM) numbers I honestly find it really annoying. I can read the old numbers, I don't need gigantic bold baby numbers to try and match the shape of arrow into the monster shaped hole. I like the other UI changes, but these humongous numbers are plain up bad in my opinion.
Currently the text is far too big.
Before, it was a bit too small, but I prefer the small text version.
I like the proposed solution to scale it down from huge to an in between size, smaller than it is but a little bigger than the original tiny numbers. (The original tiny numbers were fine with me too.)
1. the size of the font;
2. the digits look pixellated.
The former is subjective whereas the latter is objective. The devs have just scaled up an antialiased bitmap font which result in the digit looking pixellated, obviously because the pixels of the font at its original size are just blown up.
Thus before discussing what size is right for the font, I reckon the devs should create a vector font so that they can then get high quality bitmap fonts at any size by rasterising the said vector font.
Honestly I was shocked. There is a smooth and vintage elegance about BG and its GUI, and for me this breaks it all. Even on a small laptop screen. The previous numbers were a bit too small, so maybe a middle-ground could be achieved.