to me, a 16-bit game without a chunky font feels wrong. thinner fonts feel like the mark of a fan translation to me, so it doesn’t feel as authentic. i don’t know!
IT’S NOT UGLY CHICAGO’S UGLY
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btw ff6 relocalization and its font owns 8D
i mean, disagreements aside i fully get having particulars about this stuff, hehe
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yeah, i can’t abide. it needs to be a bit chunky, otherwise, like i said, it feels “out of time”, or something.
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Exceptions:
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even back in the snes days i kinda felt like the chunky snes fonts were weird and disgusting looking when compared to what the japanese fonts looked like.
like, this is absolutely gross to me.
That’s not pretty, but I still think it’s better than the GBA font or even the FF6 re-localization font!
i’m about to just make a thread to talk about video game dialogue fonts, because it matters.
eta: also, i only like chunky fonts for 8- and 16-bit games. anything beyond that, and i generally like a thinner font.
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i like my opinions, but i also think it’s cool to care about this stuff in any case
i think … both fonts are good? the chunky font works better on a CRT TV that the viewer is a few feet away from, the thinner font makes the most of the GBA’s screen real estate and readability isn’t impacted as it’s at most 1 foot away from your face.
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Actually think I really like that font, moreso in dialogue than menu text. The closer spaced thinner style adds a mild elegance over the still nice but much more blocky usual Square stuffs. Seems familiar, curious if it’s lifted from another game.
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A ban unto all ye who turn the Dragon Quest thread into a Final Fantasy thread
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i find it really hard to talk about one and not the other lately…!
Out of 1270 something posts it is overwhelming!
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This is the best thread on this site, and it makes me happy. I love that y’all love Dragon Quest.
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I reinstalled DQXI and it’s a totally justified return. Immediately sunk a couple hours into it. I remember why this is my 2018 GOTY. This is such a great way to follow up beating DQ1. I get to directly compare the new and old.
Was genuinely surprised that I had quit the game right before SPOILERS Veronica’s death. Yeah, I’m actually still in Act 2. I had completely forgotten. Wow. I already have 50 hours in DQXI. This game is huge. I think it was a mistake to try and digest 100% of the experience in one go last year.
Maybe I’ll finish it, maybe I won’t. Act 3 seems so far off. But for now, what I have in front of me seems doable.
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the font in final fantasy five gba rules, i think i just get thrown off when i see smooth fonts in old pixel games
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i love this. i , uh, played through it twice and find myself itching to do so again (and a little frustrated at my lack of extra funds for a switch), but… like, it is that huge of an experience. it’s one of those games i might find myself calling my #1 goat at some point and/or another.
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Where V caught me off guard
I expected this to be wound like previous plot beats: stark though still touching, you get brisked along. But here they hung on the scene for quite a while, with the passage of time, seasons, etc. and our stoned statue hero lays facing the sky as years pass, we sit through a few minutes of music and nature. Really strikes that old jrpg, the tools need not be complex poignancy.
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I really need to get a decent PC so I can play PS2 V because it is 100% the timeline where VII’s graphics became a standard to aspire to.
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I’m sorry but chicago is a good font. a classic.
it was designed by susan kare who is incredibly powerful
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