We've gotten a number of emails from myopic, stigmatized gamers that Dead Rising has a bit of a blurry text problem. And in that regard, my homoerotic, velvet-swishing soul mates over at Gay Gamer have some bitching to do:

Dead Rising has the smallest text I've ever seen. I'm playing on a 36" TV and I have to sit on the floor up near the screen to see anything. I absolutely can't play for a long period of time because my eyes start to strain themselves and hurt. This has never happened to me with a game before. Is anybody else having this problem?

In all seriousness, even using component cables the picture is sharper, but the text is still like reading a font at size 12 from six feet away. There is no option to increase the text size - talk about stupid things ruining the game experience. I'm begging for a text size adjustment patch to be uploaded to the marketplace for download - oh, and for free! Look for our full review of Dead Rising as soon as I stop massaging my eyes to make the pain go away.

Which just goes to show that my mother's curious aphorism was right: too much wanking off to imagined gay video game characters will make you go blind. Florian Eckhardt

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