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(Vice) 'Avengers' Shows How Subtitles Are More Complicated Than Just Text (Patreon)

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2020-09-25 15:41:41

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2023-12

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This week, I spoke to Vice’s Waypoint about Marvel’s Avengers, and their implementation of non verbal subtitles.

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'Avengers' Shows How Subtitles Are More Complicated Than Just Text

Screen shot courtesy of Square Enix. I often play games with subtitles on, and noticed that in Marvel's The Avengers, the game also has something it calls "closed captions." With closed captions flipped on, the subtitles go far beyond purely dialogue, and begin to describe the action occurring on the screen, too.