Hey there.
So I have sunk quite a lot of hours into this game, though never truly finished it as I keep re rolling. I just wanted to suggest something that likely will never happen, but I can ask, and is something I wish more games did. I might go on a little explanation rant here, and I apologise for that, but it hits a sweet spot for me and I sometimes wonder if game developers these days even think of things like this, from my point of view. part of me feels like maybe I’m being a bit demanding and selfish, but part of me also feels that if I struggle with this, there must be others too. Or maybe I really am the only person in which case, sucks to be me.
So I have dyslexia. It varies from person to person but I’m sure most people know or have meant somebody who has it. I also love a story. I struggled so much with reading growing up that I didn’t read books, but instead watched a lot of movies and played a lot of video games. The problem is more and more I now find in games that the story (or snippets of) are all written down only. Hell in some games there’s no voice acting at all, and I can understand why, it costs money, but for somebody like me it actually makes it harder to even play. There’s nothing as frustrating as wanting to play a game you know you’ll enjoy, but you struggle so much to read the text on the screen it burns you out before it even starts.
Now I know GD is hardly a story driven game, and that’s OK. I also know that you’re not a big triple A company so my suggestion/feedback may not be viable money wise, and that’s OK too if that’s the case. I don’t know how much voice acting costs. You do however have snippets of lore across the game that you find, and even get xp for. Great! The problem is… I can’t physically read any of them. They are lumps of text (for me anyway, as I mentioned dyslexia affects different people differently so don’t come back with “my friend’s dyslexic and he’s fine with it”), in a small, thin font. Now for me to read anything longer than 2 sentences without my brain frying and the text literally blurring into a black fuzzy blob in front of me it needs to be…
something like this.
Not exactly viable in a game, right? So after you did some small bits of voice acting of the sort of main quest npcs It made me very happy. Instead of having to ask my boyfriend to read something over for me, or more likely ignore it completely and just look at the objectives bar and blindly follow that. I could just listen, and it was grand! I don’t care if it’s not the best video game voice acting in the world ever, it saved me a headache and for the first time I actually found out what the npcs actually said.
Now I guess this brings me to my main point (sorry for the text. I use voice to text software and it just writes stuff down as I talk). Could we do the same for the little lore entries we find? Something like in D3 where it plays as you carry on playing would be fine. Perhaps in the journal page on each entry there could be a little button to press to hear it read to you, rather than it being auto read, so for those who don’t want to hear it they don’t have to. My other option is to collect them all one day and then have the boyfriend sit there and read them all out to me one by one which I doubt he’d be too thrilled by. So some voice acting would be nice… or maybe you could just send over some fancy chocolates I could use to bribe him with to read them to me.
TL;DR: More voices please!
