On. Sometimes I can't hear shit 'cause the background has too much noise or I can't tell what they're saying by words. It doesn't take a whole lot of space on the screen anyways.
Games that don't have any subtitles kinda tick me off. Namely Assassin's Creed.
I tend to watch them with them on because I sometimes can't hear everything that's going on. This just reminded me that my father gets furious if he sees that the captions are left on for TV or a movie. I have no idea why and he never attempts to explain when asked.
Grand Theft Auto IV is a great example of needing to turn it on. Although the Serbian might only last for a couple of seconds, it's intriguing to understand what are they really talking about.
Off if it's a really cinematic game, with exception to GTA4. I can't decide if I the bilingual characters need to be understood or not so I go back and forth. Niko tossing an insult I don't understand kind of adds to his fish-out-of-water feel and I can't understand Badman and Jacob with subtitles on anyway. Once in a while though, I feel like I totally missed something and only got the gist of it. I don't know if it's intentional or not.
Wow thought I was the only one who did this! Yah on for every game I play every thats one of the first things I look for and i'm incredibly pissed if a game doesn't have it cause a. i makes it easier to follow along and b. what if I become deaf tomorrow what the hell would I do then! My favorite subtitles are half life 2's subtitles cause it decribes even sounds while I found really thought full!
Depends on the game. On if it's something like Oblivion or Fallout that I can read faster than it's spoken and skip faster. On for GTA4 mostly because of the non-English translations.
I always use subtitles for games, there are times when you have terrible voice actors that can't even read their script properly and you have to figure out what they said. However you have no idea because you didn't have subtitles on.
Subtitles are always on for me so I can understand what everybody is saying more clearly except for in some cases like Bioshock where I turned it off because it was useless, the text either came up way to early or too late
I prefer subtitles on in games and films simply because I like to soak in the full extent of the writing. No matter how hard I listen, I'll always miss something.
I don't like subtitles in games where you have a thousand soldiers all shouting the same thing, filling up half with screen with text.
Off, I prefer a more cinematic experience, but again there are exceptions.
Games like Fallout have too much voice acting and it takes forever to get through certain conversations. I can read it far faster than they can talk, so it just becomes annoying. For standard cut-scenes, etc though, I like it being like a movie.
" Games like Fallout have too much voice acting. "
Haha, you don't hear that very often. I'm a big fan of BioWare games and their amazing voice work but sometimes its just not worth listening to NPC #56249 talk about his/her ex when you could be out there saving the galaxy.
With movies, unless the language or dialect is hard to understand I try to turn them off, but with games, sometimes less attention is given to the audio presentation. I've had too many games where the audio mumbles or certain characters have bad pronunciation, so I figure it's safer to switch it on at the beginning and wait to see how things pan out. If it's exceptional, once in a while I'll shut off the subs.
On. Force of habit, mostly. Since in most cases the default setting is "on" I just leave them on. I glance at them during scenes because there are times, especially during battlefield conditions, where it's hard to make out your instructions. In those cases, it comes in handy.
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