The standard problem

As much as I love them, unfortunately there are times where I feel shunned by video games. Money is a drag so this leaves me a little behind of everyone else in terms of the latest technology and gadgets.

I’ve yet to jump that fence and see how green the grass is there in the HD quality world. I haven’t really fussed over gaming visuals since I moved out of my original hometown, where I had access to a gaming PC; flicking all settings to high resolution, high details and the like.

While the XBox 360 and it’s games still do well to make my gaming heart explode with joy, there’s always going to be a few particular things that anger the beast inside of me; when games are clearly made for HDTV.

A frustrating situation when I often find myself sitting closer to my ‘normal’ TV squinting as my eyes, trying to guess by the shape of these thin, blurred in-game text. There are a few number of games that I truly wanted to enjoy but I couldn’t have pleasure without pain.

Dead Rising was the first title to curse me with this and for ages I’d have to look up a guide to find out what I was meant to be doing. It tends to be the text that causes the main problem and I still have troubles in my gaming leisures today. What upsets me the most to raise this issue is that recently I can’t enjoy my favourite game, Street Fighter IV, properly. Unfortunately, I can’t read the character command menu in training mode which infuriates me immensely.  I stumble across the name of a move I need to learn for part of an execution, combo or link up and so I need to refer to the command sheets but when I get there I can’t read what is what!

Believe me I look forward to my future with high definition but until then, give me some alternative to in-game guiding text so I can at least get by and progress. Or somebody get me a HDTV!