“Somebody had started a conversation about how Doom 3 wasn’t subtitled at all, and they wondered if somebody could help,” says Kimball. “People started posting on the board with really insensitive, nasty things, saying that deaf people shouldn’t be playing Doom because Doom is all about sound and atmosphere.”
Check out the article for how the mod team dealt with this. Pretty cool!
I’m not (yet) hearing challenged, disabled or whatever the “PC” term is, but I can completely appreciate the effort in this area. I’ve become a huge fan of subtitles as I either have trouble keeping up with all of the dialogue going on or the accents.
That and either myself or the wife are making comments about what we’re watching.


