I guess you could try temporarily changing the system language of your console, to see if that affects the in-game subtitles. I always find it annoying when a game automatically picks certain language/subtitle options, based on your system settings, especially when they don't allow you to change it manually.

On PC, if there's no in-game option to change the language, sometimes you can go to the installation folder, create a back-up of your local language files ( audio & subtitles/localized text ), and then replace the files with the desired language version, such as English.

To just chime in here, now that is a bit of a problem, not having English subtitles, and also not being able to choose language if desired. Personally prefer to read, so if it's not, say, Bloodlines-level stellar, I don't really tend to bother with the voice acting. May listen or may not, may click to skip at times in dialogs since I read the subtitles faster...

On the other hand, yeah, a bit of an odd argument against the accent, when it does seem to be just a choice to make the speech more understandable to a wider audience.

Thanks for the tips! But sadly, my console is already set to English - it doesn't seem to have an effect here. Not sure whether one could try to create a faux account from an English-speaking country, but that seems like an excessive amount of hoops to jump through...

On PC, I have to do this every now and then - I distinctly remember two recently installed games from Gog had this issue, and messing around with the files did indeed fix things. I do think it's a bit of an oversight though on the part of the devs... (both of the games already had all the "correct" files in place, I just needed to "hide" the languages I didn't want it to use). I personally really dislike a game choosing the language based on location with no option to change it in-game.

Well, I assume they do have English subtitles but they are only available to English-speaking folks, or people from countries that don't have subtitles in their own language available? And again, I do not know how this works in the PC release (one might be able to fix it in the way CharlesGrey suggested).

English lesson!

Never ever ever ever use "female" as a noun when referring to humans unless you really want to say "cunt" and avoid a wordfilter at the same time. Don't even use it as an adjective. If gender is pertinent, use "woman" as an adjective: "woman gamer". "Lady gamer" works in a humorous context. Fictional sapient humanoids are also women: "elf woman".

On the other hand, do use "female" when referring to nonsapient beings: female aardvark, female tiger, female zebra.

An item for women uses the possessive form: "women's restroom". "Female restroom" would imply places reproduce by boning, which is perhaps true in Planescape but not real life.

English lesson! You're wrong. Just plain wrong. Read a dictionary. If you want to refer to everyone of the fairer sex, you could say, "girls and women and teenagers who used to be girls and will eventually become women at some point in the future", or you could just say "females". If you honestly believe that calling someone female is the same as calling her a cunt, you need to seek some serious psychological help.

...you're either an idiot or a pretentious thirdworlder coasting on daddy's slave trade money. In the latter case, try asking your nonslave native speaker butler.

Edit: Deleted the mary sue category and articles and my snarky comment.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/female

English lesson ended, it is not my problem when your language did not bother to have different nouns for female animals and female humans and instead made one term to specify both. If that itches you personally, that is not my problem.

Oh, right, it's a digital download game, even on console, huh? In that case, maybe it automatically only downloaded the German localization files, based on the location of your console/internet access point. If there's no option to manually download alternate language files, then I guess you're out of luck.

But that's one of those cases which prove that PC is often the better option, since it's so much easier to mess around with files and customize things to your liking.

Your laughably ignorant ramblings are comical. You can't even begin to comprehend the meaning of the word "female" and just go around hurling random insults at people. What a complete waste of life.

I loled.

Seriously, when did people start considering "female" as an insult? It's simply a term to define the gender of a person, just like "male", and there's absolutely nothing offensive or insulting about either, unless you choose to see it as such.

And mind you, depending on the situation and conversation partner, absolutely any word can be meant or interpreted as an insult. At this rate, I'm not sure I care to know how we'll even communicate a decade from now, if the "political correctness" craze keeps up like this.

You're exactly right. This russian wanker is clearly mentally unstable and has a grasp of the English language which is tenuous at best. It's also funny to hear someone who lives in a third world dictatorship use transference to project their situation onto others. Calling a girl a woman is factually incorrect, and in addition to being factually incorrect, calling a woman a girl is extremely insulting because it infantilizes her. There is a word which encompasses both "woman" and "girl", and that word is "female".

First of all, there *is* a different noun in English for female humans: woman. I can't think of a single language that has the exact same word for female and woman, I guess there might be a few, but English isn't one of them. You have "mulher" vs "fêmea" in Portuguese, "mujer" vs "hembra" in Spanish, "donna" vs "femminile" in Italian, "Frau" vs "weiblich" in German, "femme" vs "femelle" in French, "woman" vs "female" in English. And this is only in the languages I know.

You people keep referring to dictionaries and telling us to go read one, as if languages consist entirely of vocabulary and nothing else. You seem to be forgetting about syntax, semantics and, most importantly, semiotics. Or, to put it simply, context; social and otherwise. And, taking into account social context, I'd say +90% of the women I know don't enjoy being called "females" and don't call that to each other. The roughly 10% that are left don't really care, but they'll find it weird when being addressed in that manner, and, still, they don't just go around calling other women "females".

I don't really care whether Mary Sue has a "female-gamer" tag (which, by the way, links to a lot of articles where the term can't be seen at all, instead being replaced with "girl gamer" -- a term you previously said is offensive), or if they published an article with "female gamers" in the title (even though it's nowhere to be found in the article itself), or even how The New York Times has an article mentioning "female gamers" a few times (mostly when quoting a dude from the "gaming culture scene", who is likely an incel neckbeard "male" completely unaware of how calling women "females" can be offensive).

Calling women "females" is dehumanizing; yes, they are biological females -- or otherwise identify as such, though that's a discussion for another time --, but we don't speak "biologese", we speak English (or what have you). And, true, any thesaurus will have human females among its description of the word female, but dictionaries alone don't define how one should speak -- in fact, contemporary linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive, so there's that, too.

Oh, my fucking god. Girls are not women, and women are not girls. Therefore, the term "women gamers" does not refer to gamers who are girls, and "girl gamers" only refers to women when an ignorant sexist bigot is infantilizing women. Pointing out the fact that both women and girls are female is not dehumanizing in any way. More than half of the human population is female. This should be extremely obvious to everyone, as should the fact that extreme right-wing fascist "political correctness" is pathetic, infantile, factually incorrect and offensive to everyone who has even the tiniest bit of intelligence, common sense and decency, especially people who are actually liberal and progressive.

When I saw Starmaker's post earlier I was about to reply with something starting with "This will open a whole can of worms." Decided to pass on opening it myself. I'd say grabbing the popcorn now, but... worms all over. Make it a tad difficult to enjoy munching on stuff.

So, while we're at it, here we go again:
- Humans are animals (unless you'll argue that the species belongs to a lesser kingdom, as we don't know of any higher ones, scientifically speaking) and they have sexual characteristics. As in, they have a biological sex.
- More specifically, humans are mammals (again, we don't know of higher class, scientifically speaking). The sexual organs for mammals are typically ovaries and vagina for females and testicles and penis for males, and humans are no exception.
- The above actually implies the existence of four sexes, depending on whether one has at least one organ of one kind and none of the other, at least one of each or none at all. One who has at least one female sexual organ and no male one belongs to the female of the species.
- As is with plenty of other species, there are different words used to refer to the male and the female humans, each category also split further depending on whether the individual has reached sexual maturity or not. In case of humans, the word for a female who has reached sexual maturity is woman, while that for one who has not is girl. (There is a language problem when it comes to the rare but existing cases of people belonging to the third and fourth sexes though. But here it's simple.)
- In the matter at hand, I guess one could use the weird phrasing "girl and woman gamers" or just keep it simple and clear with "female gamers". The wiggle room in that term is actually "gamers", if we'd apply it to other species that can play games, not "female". That's very clear and correct.
- If anyone is offended by a scientific fact, possibly related to them, being pointed out, they're the ones with a problem.

Me, as much as I resent the sort of things particularly the third term in the following list associates me with, couldn't argue against being called man, male, human, primate or animal. They're facts.

Now, how exactly did this thread get here, actually? :))