While Spyro Reignited Trilogy was met with positive reception upon its release, there was one glaring omission: the lack of subtitles in the game’s cutscenes. When asked about their exclusion around the game’s launch, Activision stated that “there’s no industry standard for subtitles” to the dismay of many. This whole controversy led DualShockers to discuss why subtitles
Subtitles
While not a video game for smashing your WASD keys, or flicking your analog sticks about, Yellow Subs Machine is a tool to be used with video game creation, specifically the Unreal Engine 4. This tool, launched today, is designed to aid developers with creating subtitles in video games. Created by game designer and programmer
When it comes to understanding the visual media I’m wanting to consume, subtitles help me follow the dialogue. Subtitles help indicate sounds I may not have been able to hear, they help me follow spoken dialogue. It’s not just me, they help other Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and even hearing people alike. When games offer subtitles that
Have you been locked out of Suda51’s classic action-adventure game killer7? NIS America has your back, with a new update for the Steam version adding English subtitles to the game. This new addition to the game will surely win over many who feel lost with the games original layout. The news went live via a Steam community
Being deaf, I’ve often made jokes about bad subtitles that are too small to read. Just in the past few years we’ve seen a few examples of how games have stumbled when it comes to implementing proper subtitles, such as Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus with its tiny subtitles that blend, or walls of text in Fallout 4.