If the OP says they play plenty of other games just fine under the same circumstances, it's obviously just a strongly opinionated dislike for one detail the game fails at in their eyes. It really doesn't need to be said, but people care about different things. It's just easy to ridicule the OP because of the dramatic (original) title and because they opened themselves to it by making a thread about it. Everyone just interprets it as "Come mock me for my terrible opinion!"
I'm sure if I played Dishonored and enjoyed it, I'd probably want the OP to give it a chance and not give up on it for such a "silly" reason, too. It's a shame when
any great game (I assume Dishonored is great) gets ignored because of something that wouldn't normally be considered to be a crucial part of the game by most.
That said, everyone needs to remember that text really does matter for some. It's crazy, I know, but there are people out there with poor eyesight or varying levels of deafness. Or they're just really into fonts. And, yes, distance can play a role, but like I said in the very first sentence, the OP assures us it's not his set-up or himself, but the game.
I would just say to not be so hasty, OP. Two minutes is way too soon to write off a game. You never know--you could end up liking the game itself enough to slightly forgive its text.
And since we're all sharing, my bad experiences with text in games have been MadWorld and Dead Rising on an SDTV. Way too small
Most recently, I'm not a fan of Corpse Party's font, which is kind of a boner killer for a visual novel, but it's not that big of a deal. The original Etrian Odyssey's was pretty bad, too.