The addition of accessibility features like subtitles for everything is great and I’m of the mind that it should be enabled by default. However, I personally find subtitles, especially closed captioned subtitles, really distracting and it pulls me away from the story. I appreciate being able to disable them for cinematic cutscenes, but I would like to be able to disable them for in-game cutscenes as well. Hell, I’d be cool with disabling them throughout the game seeing as NPC dialogue shows up in the chat window anyway.
I understand that it’s a very subjective thing to be distracted by, but my personal dislike is because of situations like:
- Closed captioned when a character is just grunting or making non-verbal noises.
- The pacing of a character’s performance being somewhat ruined because the subtitle has their entire dialogue in it and doesn’t take into consideration dramatic pauses.
- Spoiling off-screen reveals by having the name of the character who is speaking in the subtitle box.
- Having an amazing looking scene being covered by a box with some text on it that I’m trying to not look at.
I really struggle with not seeing the subtitles and if I have to put effort into not looking at them. I hope I’m not alone in this 
