For instance, Assassin’s Creed Origins had subtitles turned off by default and 60% of players turned them on. And in games that had subtitles turned on by default, only 10% turned them off.
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I never play with subtitles because I end up just reading them instead of looking at the animation. Obviously it’s important to have good subtitles available for accessibility though.
Few reasons why I turn on subtitles:
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sometimes the dialogue is kind of boring and I just want to read and hit “next line”
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sometimes it gives clues I wouldn’t hear like “hunter growling” or “witch sobbing” in left 4 dead.
sometimes the dialogue is kind of boring and I just want to read and hit “next line”
Yup. Cut scenes are boring. Most dialogue is pretty meh. Just let me get past it so I can do stuff again.
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I play with them on.
It’s not often that I can devote 100% of my attention to a game enough to play with the volume at cinematic levels and hear everything the way the devs intended
I’ve tried without and the audio balancing isn’t always great, on FF16 Clive is hard to hear because his pitch is so deep I miss nuances or words completely.
Also growing up with games before voices were normalized. Habits die hard
I’m deaf, so if I cannot skip cut scenes, I’d prefer them on.
