Iucounu
Educated
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- Jul 4, 2023
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This becomes especially aggravating when trying to quickly buy something from say a Skyrim trader, and you have to listen to the same verbose greetings every single time. Or maybe you've missed an important detail in a dialog, and must listen to the entire voice acting piece again.If I can skip the spoken dialog line by line, and there's subtitles, I can just read the subtitles and skip ahead once I've read it. I play New Vegas, Skyrim, Elden Ring etc that way. Fuck waiting for voice actors to finish their lines I don't have time for that.
With written text you can choose your own pacing: read (and re-read) important dialog carefully, or quickly skim through unimportant/uninteresting parts. You're also saved from having to listen to potentially annoying voices, or having to watch the associated facial animations as the NPCs articulate their lines in your face.
Imagine that being able to read was considered prestigious at one time in human history, but is "low budget" in today's game development.