The first title to boast this feature will be Far Cry 2, due on Oct. 21.
The first title to boast this feature will be Far Cry 2, due on Oct. 21.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:01AM (Unverified) said
I'm fairly sure that subtitles have been on 90% of all PS2, Xbox, PS3 and Xbox 360 games. If not on by default atleast an option.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:03AM (Unverified) said
Or atleast the games I play. I often have them on as sometimes you can't hear the dialogue over the sound effects.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:32AM (Unverified) said
Assassin's Creed, a Ubisoft title which was *heavy* with dialog, offered no subtitle options whatsoever... making it impossible to play if you're hard of hearing. Surprising, considering the amount hype and money behind the game.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:43AM Centaur said
@TheSimplicity
Exactly. I was about to leave a comment about how nice it would've been to have subtitles in Assassin's Creed (especially nice for late-night gaming). Instead, I'm leaving this comment about your comment while still slipping in a remnant of my original would-be comment. How clever is that?
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Exactly. I was about to leave a comment about how nice it would've been to have subtitles in Assassin's Creed (especially nice for late-night gaming). Instead, I'm leaving this comment about your comment while still slipping in a remnant of my original would-be comment. How clever is that?
Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:04AM (Unverified) said
Or atleast the games I play. I often have them on as sometimes you can't hear the dialogue over the sound effects.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 12:03PM AwesomeTown said
I do the same thing. Not only because of in game sound effects, but also the sound of my fiancee talking on the phone.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:09AM (Unverified) said
hopefully they'll do something for colorblind gamers like myself
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:17AM BananaBoat said
I know why they are doing it (to prevent the inevitable lawsuit over accessibility) but it's nice that they are making it a standard. Even though I'm not deaf, I can still see this being a good thing for people that want to play at night when people are sleeping, and don't have headphones (yeah, I know, that market is probably slim, but whatever).
Good show Ubi.
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Good show Ubi.
Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:28AM Pureshooter said
Seems like a good idea.
(Seems like a good idea.)
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(Seems like a good idea.)
Posted: Sep 10th 2008 12:05PM (Unverified) said
Well this stinks. I HATE subtitles. Im surprised everyone else is for them. I dont want to see little lines of text to distract me from the game. My excitement for Far Cray 2 just went down 10% from this fact alone. If they are putting them in, they should be off by default and if you want them, you should have to turn them on like closed captioning
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 12:25PM nightmare452 said
I'm positive that this will be optional. I do hope they aren't obligatory, but I would prefer to have them on that not have the option.
This is merely a followup to the Assassins Creed problem of not including subtitle. So don't worry, this will almost 100% be optional, but now the are guaranteed to be there for those that want them.
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This is merely a followup to the Assassins Creed problem of not including subtitle. So don't worry, this will almost 100% be optional, but now the are guaranteed to be there for those that want them.
Posted: Sep 10th 2008 11:40AM (Unverified) said
Valve already does this with Half-life 2. Like when you fire a gun with closed captions on it shows [gunshot] or [pain noise]. It also offers regular subtitles.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 12:23PM (Unverified) said
Not sure why this is making the news, as many companies include subtitles de facto in all their games. Ubisoft just couldn't be bothered to do it in the past, and now that they're correcting that mistake, they're trying to act like they're benefactors to the deaf community or something.
Still, good thing they're finally catching up to the rest of the industry.
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Still, good thing they're finally catching up to the rest of the industry.
Posted: Sep 10th 2008 12:35PM (Unverified) said
This is excellent. Totally agree that Assassin's Creed should have had subtitles, as should all games - with the option to turn them on or off at will.
I found it very surprising that RE4 had no subtitles for the main game, but they did show up in the conversations with Hunnigan.
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I found it very surprising that RE4 had no subtitles for the main game, but they did show up in the conversations with Hunnigan.
Posted: Sep 10th 2008 1:34PM Boffo the Sock said
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?
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Posted: Sep 11th 2008 8:28AM (Unverified) said
No, nobody understands the words that are coming out of yo mouth, man!
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 1:41PM Desolation33 said
YES! About time. Being deaf, I have been disappointed so many times by Ubisoft for not putting subtitles into so many of their games. Great news.
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Posted: Sep 10th 2008 4:02PM (Unverified) said
This is good news. In The Sands of Time (GameCube version), the voices were at a much lower volume than the sound effects and music, and with no subtitles it was highly annoying.
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Posted: Sep 11th 2008 9:24AM (Unverified) said
Yeah, the decision to purchase a game is based SOLELY on whether it has subtitles or not for me too.
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Posted: Sep 11th 2008 11:19AM kaneda26 said
Well, I was gonna reply with an "OOOOH! ZING!" to roast chicken's comment, but then I realized that 'Deaf RaGe' could perhaps be the handle of a person that is, in fact, deaf, in which case, the decision for him to purchases a game actually would be dependent on whether of not it had subtitles.
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Posted: Sep 11th 2008 9:14PM (Unverified) said
THAT'S BETTER! yep good thing for UBISOFT put on optional on or off. Because like DVD/blu-ray had already NEW English SDH-subtitle 110% better than old closed captioning. Maybe other the company game need realize what valve and ubisoft have development English SDH-subtitle right now.
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Posted: Sep 11th 2008 10:03PM (Unverified) said
But I waiting for see downloaded movie without subtitle and XBL/PSN Multiplayer (online without subtitle) Why those Players vs Players voice (non-voice to players text) like pop txt msg? that's right? I need new feature option I told you joystiq! FAIR TO FAIR!
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