The never ending debate between anime-watching geeks is called "subs or dubs," or subtitles with original voices or dubbed with new voices. We take for granted that we have a choice. Ubisoft is thinking about the ones who don't.
In an effort to make games more accessible to the deaf or hard of hearing, Ubisoft will now include subtitles in all of their internally developed games.
"This commitment entails modifications to some of our game engines, as well as the inclusion of subtitles in the conception phase of game development," stated the company, according to GamesIndustry.biz.
Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia and
Shaun White Snowboarding will be the first titles to recieve the subtitle treatment.
That's pretty cool of you, Ubisoft.
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11:18 AM on 09.10.2008
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Thanks Ubi! I hope more developers follow the same path.
I have always loved playing Valve's games with subs on and constantly wondered why so many other companies don't bother with the feature.
Hopefully this will become industry standard.
I'd love to play Halo 3 or COD4 again in spanish.
Different language tracks would be cool, but obviously, DVDs get more of that kind of thing, because films and tv series take up less DVD space, than say any game.
More games should do this, and make games more acceptable to deaf folk. Bravo.
Also, a selection of sizes please.
Quote of the year.
In other news, words now used in more than books, forum posts. Un-subbed news at 11.
My wife, a sign language interpretor, will be pleased to hear this. Get it? "Hear".
I laughed. Loudly. I might have to make this my sig on the forums or something.