The black background box for subtitles is visually jarring compared to the polished look of the rest of the UI - I understand the need to make the white text easily visible, but slapping a big dark box around it is like looking at an MS Paint cutout pasted into a carefully photoshopped sunset.
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I don't get why game developers have such a hard time designing good subtitles. This is a big problem in a lot of games and only very few actually have nice subtitles. DVDs have solved this problems 20+ years ago, why not just do the same?