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Majority of gamers play with subtitles turned on (gearsrealm.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For instance, Assassin’s Creed Origins had subtitles turned off by default and 60% of players turned them on.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate how they're almost always off by default and you usually can't turn them on until after the opening scene. I have them on whenever possible for both games and watching TV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IMO every game on first launch should solicit these options:

resolution
vsync
subtitles
brightness
colorblind/accessibility options

Most times going into settings are to change one of those options, so why not quickly let the player set them all at once on the get-go? There's a 99% chance at least one of those options will need to change for the player/machine needs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

+ volume

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This has definitely gotten better in recent years. You can almost date games by whether they have subtitles by default or if they provide some prompted settings for that sort of thing on first boot of the game.