Rare has confirmed that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts' unclear text on standard definition televisions will not be fixed. The issue came to light following the release of the demo last week and now Rare states that the issue is "too expensive in terms of time, resources and money to alter."

SDTV haters aside, let's accept the fact that this is a serious oversight on par with Dead Rising's tiny text. Adding insult to injury, CVG points out that Xbox Live Arcade games must be playable, which includes text being readable, on a 14" SDTV. Too bad Microsoft doesn't seem to hold its first-party retail games to that strict standard.

source (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=201084)

Hopefully people will not buy a broken game that a company flatly refuses to fix.

i know when i had my sony 32 in. crt tv. dead risings word were incredibly hard to hard ( partly why i bought a new lg lcd tv) :)

lots of games have that prob now, Fable2 txt is ridiculously small on my 35" sony SDTV.
Looks great on my 24" Samsung TOC HDTV Monitor.

this game isn't even worth 40 bux, i dont like it.

I say everyone goes into their closets gets out a copy of one of RARE's old games.....yup you know which game I am talking about.....GOLDENEYE. Yea so dust that cartridge out pop it in and pick oddjob. Learn how his skills....and then Go out and use those skills and destroy every banjo kazooie game so we never have to remember this piece of shit game.

goldeneye was the best game ever!!!! i remember the gold gun, 1 hit kills man the good times

Any chance I had of buying this game are gone. I got a headache trying to read the text in just 10 minutes with the demo. I think I might just dig out my old N64 and play the original.

the original was great because it was different at the time...but i dont know about this one...


The text issue doesn't really bother me though, ive been so spoiled by HD that I refuse watch/play anything in SD. I just wont do it.

goldeneye was the best game ever!!!! i remember the gold gun, 1 hit kills man the good timesToo easy. Grenades were my favorite. Pull the pin, then hold on until just before detonation, then throw. :D

psh, remote mines rule
i used them as sticky bombs, loved the shortcut to detonate in mid air without going to the watch

Rare to fix Banjo text size for SD TVs

According to this Mundorare article, Rare’s volte-faced on the Banjo SD text issue, and has now said it will be fixed.

“It has come to our attention that people are experiencing subtitle readability issues with Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts on Standard Definition TVs,” said Rare community boss George Kelion.

“We would like to assure you that contrary to earlier reports, we are aware of the issue and currently working on a title update to be released within the next 30 days that will fix it for those with Standard Definition TVs.

“We’re committed to ensuring all fans of the franchise are able to have the best experience possible with Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.”

So calm down, all you SD TV-owning Banjo-buyers. You shall go to the ball.

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/09/rare-to-fix-banjo-text-size-for-sd-tvs/

I love the old ones, but I plaid the demo, not my kind of game. You don't even fight evil monster things and find the jiggys. I just wish they'd go to the old way.

Rare won't fix SDTV Banjo-Kazooie text issue

Wow, that's gonna piss off...like, 3 people.

GTA IV: everytime I get a text message I have to get up and walk to the t.v. to read it

I was playing the demo last night on our 42" and I was really annoyed by the relatively small text size.

If they don't fix it for everybody, I'm out, which is a bummer since the game is one of the only of its kind on the 360.

if you read like three or four column up you'll see rare responded and is fixing the text issue