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The little things we take for granted! Wholesome Moments
This is by far one of greatest reviews I have seen. ❤️❤️❤️ I can only imagine how happy she was.
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u/Kongpong1992 Feb 04 '23
That’s so sweet do we know what game it was so they can get credit for doing it and I could check it out?
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
Grounded on Xbox
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u/NihilisticThrill Feb 04 '23
Grounded is so mindful of inclusiveness it is really impressive. I love that they have an arachnophohia slider for my friend, and don't they also have a colour blind mode?
Just a thoughtful team, nice to see.
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
Yes and you can make the spider look like a ball. It truly is an amazing game!
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u/NihilisticThrill Feb 04 '23
Yeah I played with the settings once and almost left the spiderball cos it was so funny! Awesome game, I wish I could find more players
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
Pm me! We try to play but we get stoned and get lost 😂😂
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u/NihilisticThrill Feb 04 '23
Ah I would but I saw you play on Xbox and I don't have one one! Just PC. :(
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
You can play on PC as well
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u/SplitOak Feb 04 '23
It is much, much easier on PC than console. I started on PS5 and had to switch to PC. Like night and day.
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u/Leboy2Point0 Feb 05 '23
Do you mean you played other games on PS5 before you switched? Grounded is an Xbox/PC exclusive.
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u/blueeyebling Feb 04 '23
Can I try to join with you? I play on Xbox and have covid. Kinda losing my mind. I haven't talked to a person in like 9 days lol
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
Sure shoot me a message
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u/maxikcat Feb 05 '23
Just wanted to thank you for sharing your decision to play together. It made me feel like the world is a less lonely place today :)
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u/chamorrobro Feb 04 '23
What if I have arachnophobia AND ballphobia? 🥺 Sike, but definitely gonna look into this game because I love any company that values accessibility c:
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u/BushidoBeatdown Feb 04 '23
The company is Obsidian by the by, most known for Fallout New Vegas among other games.
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u/yeteee Feb 04 '23
And pillar of eternity ! Not enough love for classic rpg from editors these days, but they do it, and well !
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u/HarryPottersElbows Feb 04 '23
Right? To still be awesome so long after making New Vegas is incredibly impressive. Grounded has been on my wishlist for a while just cause the gameplay looked amazing, but the developer's inclusive nature makes me want to support them that much more.
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u/yeteee Feb 04 '23
To still be awesome after making neverwinter nights 2 is impressive would be my take.
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u/Iampr0vidence Feb 04 '23
Just a heads up, it’s free on gamepass as are all of Obsidians games since they were purchased by Microsoft. Grounded is worth every penny of its price a doubly so for free if you already have gamepass.
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u/aidsface4wp Feb 04 '23
And Knights of the Old Republic 2, one of the best RPGs , sequals and pieces of Star Wars media ever made.
Obsidian doesn't get anywhere enough love.
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u/ovalpotency Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
kotor2 falls apart after 20 hours or so, but I'll never forget mind tricking a random civilian to give me all their money and leap to their death. or what I did to atton (the starting homie/bro companion) as an evil love interest, I completely broke him into a subservient slave. it's the only star wars game that dares to explore the potentials of evil and why it can be alluring. it makes sense that they also made tyranny, which is like lord of the rings if sauron won and your character is a general of his army.
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u/Ben_Kenobi_ Feb 04 '23
Tyranny was great too. They're one of my favorite devs if not my favorite, too bad they seem to be taking a break from crpgs. Outer world and grounded are both still good, but their crpgs are some of the best games of all time IMO.
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u/Crismus Feb 04 '23
I thought they were working on a 3D pillars RPG at the moment. Some sort of open world real-time RPG.
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u/Active_Umpire4935 Feb 04 '23
And KOTOR!!!
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u/DessertTwink Feb 04 '23
Most importantly, if you ask me. KOTOR II is one of the best rpgs I've played alongside the original from bioware
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u/satanrulesearthnow Feb 04 '23
Holy shit it's Obsidian? Well there's my explanation as to why it's good, is it still the same team that made FNV?
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u/teh_drewski Feb 05 '23
Not really. The lead dev on Grounded joined after they shipped F:NV. Obsidian is a pretty decently sized developer now, they have a lot of teams.
But it's still like the same vibe of company I guess?
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u/SimmaDownNa Feb 04 '23
Sike
It trips me out that this word is really just hanging in there in our cultural awareness. I hadn't heard it since I was like 14? and then all the sudden in the last few years it keeps popping back up in my life again and again.
e: I mean I get it. It's got it's own niche. It's a lot easier than shouting "I'VE FOOLED YOU!" I'm just saying it's been an interesting thing to observe.
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u/FullyRisenPhoenix Feb 04 '23
It’s meant to be “psych”, and yeah, have been hearing it a lot more recently. Takes me back 30 years 😂
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u/Racoonspankbank Feb 04 '23
It's funny cause the kids don't even know how to spell the slang. Syke is the slang term, a sike is a small river gully or ditch.
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u/KittenVicious Feb 04 '23
It's psych - like "I psychologically tricked you"
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u/SimmaDownNa Feb 04 '23
This might actually be the first time I've ever seen the word written down.
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u/Beautifulwarfare Feb 04 '23
You can make the ball have more legs but less spidery. A scale of how much you want it to look like a spider is there lol
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u/ThePheebs Feb 04 '23
Is it having a player retention problem? Just hearing how thoughtful the developers are is making me want to check it out.
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u/Qwearman Feb 04 '23
I love that it doesn’t change another person’s even though you’re in multiplayer. I was in co-op with my brother across states and had to ask him what the spider looked like to him. The floating ball still terrifies me, but it’s because of the size lol
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u/Keara_Fevhn Feb 04 '23
I’m such a wimp, like even with the setting turned fully on I’m still scared of it just because of the KNOWLEDGE that it’s a spider lmao
Floating angry ball is definitely better than plain ol’ spider tho
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u/Qwearman Feb 04 '23
saaaame lol. I prefer to watch Evan and Katelyn play the game together (their YT name is "Evan and Katelyn). Turns out when the game fully came out they added wolf spiders... No amount of toning down the skin on those balls makes their lunges less scary haha
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u/Keara_Fevhn Feb 05 '23
NO SERIOUSLY, the jumping fucking terrifies me. One of our bases is apparently too close to the wolf spider under the tree because she constantly harasses us if we spend too much there, but we’ve put so much work into it I can’t just abandon it 😭
Hopefully enough exposure therapy will get rid of my fear LMAO
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u/iDudeX_ Feb 05 '23
I felt like the ball was scarier than the actual spider. Maybe I’m just scared of bugs in general cuz even the gnats scared the shit out of me
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u/ThatOneWeirdName Feb 04 '23
Colourblind is something most games seem to be getting better at (how button remapping isn’t universal already will forever mystify me though) but the arachnophobia setting and, if I’ve understood the screenshot right, they have voice to text for deaf people? is great and outright amazing respectively
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u/Shark7996 Feb 04 '23
I love that they have an arachnophohia slider
I remember a long while back someone made a mod for Dota2 that turned Broodmother (a spider character) into a big frog and I thought that was the kindest thing even if I didn't need it myself.
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u/Blooder91 Feb 04 '23
The guy in charge of character design in League of Legends has arachnophobia, and he approved Elise (a human/spider shapeshifter) without even seeing the sketches.
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u/ErraticDragon Feb 04 '23
There's a mod for Skyrim that replaces Spiders (with Bears), spider eggs (with pots of honey), etc.
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u/137-M Feb 04 '23
Accessibility options are a pretty big thing in indie games. There have been so many great advancements made through them that are getting more and more common in AAA games. And even games based entirely on bringing the experience of certain handicaps and differences to everyone. Really cool space to be part of and keep an eye on. Many yotube channels have made videos about this, some have recurring video series too.
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u/SplitOak Feb 04 '23
Really wish they would add an age slider though. The game, really is very dexterious in that you can parry and do special things while fighting. As I have aged; I cannot keep up with it. I just don’t react like my son does (he’s 20 I’m well over 50).
Having a slider that lets me increase the reaction time to get a parry or something like that would be great. Or make it so as you play and miss more and more parries it slowly pushed out the delay. Honestly as gamers age; this may be more and more of a problem, where they can’t enjoy games as well.
Been struggling with Elden Ring because of this as well.
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u/AMlightMT Feb 04 '23
Try to craft ladybug armor and unlock the Parry Master mutation (tough when you struggle to parry admittedly). Both will increase the perfect block window for you. Crafting a shield and sticking to one handed weapons can help as well. Good luck!
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u/SplitOak Feb 04 '23
Already done that. It helps a lot. But honestly games need to start thinking about this for older gamers. The wave isn’t here yet but in 20 years it will be. And I’ll be in my 70’s with even worse reaction times. Lol.
This is one that could easily be handled and help older people a lot.
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u/ccattbbugg Feb 04 '23
Just found this in Satisfsctory last night too. Let's you turn spiders into kitties
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u/LuchadorBane Feb 04 '23
I don't mind the weird satisfactory bugs, but having them be shitty jpegs of cats is just too funny to not do.
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u/Lucifersasshole Feb 04 '23
Yes and it's not often games have colorblind mode with sliders. Most games think we are all the same...
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u/Stony_Logica1 Feb 04 '23
Not only does it have a colorblind mode, you can choose between a bunch of different UI color combos for both day and night, and discover more by exploring. Great game.
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Yeah I really love the games that try to be inclusive to everyone they can. It has to mean alot to those people ❤
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u/Kongpong1992 Feb 04 '23
Awesome I actually just downloaded that off gamepass a few days ago but haven’t fired it up yet
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
You should definitely check it out! ❤️
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u/hotterthanahandjob Feb 04 '23
I just finished it! Word advice, PEEP all the bugs ASAP. get them catalogued, because you'll kill enough as you go along to get the Peepr mutation, which is OP.
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u/My1stNameisnotSteven Feb 04 '23
Good looking out.. Devs like this should be rewarded! I’ll set the box to download by the time I get home..
Idk why inclusion is such a tall task, but welcome to Earth 2023 smh
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u/RollerRocketScience Feb 04 '23
I should have known. Hopefully it wasn't a wolf spider.
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u/Taco-Dragon Feb 04 '23
sigh I really thought I'd made it out and was able to play something else, but I guess not. Looks like it's time for me to go put another 200 hours into GROUNDED. I'll see y'all in a few weeks.
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u/not_the_settings Feb 04 '23
For anyone playing this game aline: turn off the weapon degrading and the structural tech. Much more fun this way :)
This game really has multiple players in mind or a ton of time to grind. But the game is still challenging (yet you don't need to farm repair tools en masse) and you can just build a mega build by yourself
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u/evildonald Feb 04 '23
Wait! You can turn that off?
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u/not_the_settings Feb 04 '23
Yep! Way more fun this way even if it breaks some of the balancing.
I also took out the food spoiling.
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u/chazwhiz Feb 04 '23
Ha, I wondered if that’s what it was! I’ve been playing the past couple of weeks and the spiders are no joke!
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u/Doctor_of_Recreation Feb 04 '23
The guy who plays the doctor/professor is also Flynn Rider in Tangled! I don’t play but my son does; he loves it!
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u/emmytau Feb 04 '23
All Microsoft games try to be considerate about stuff like this and they will only get better.
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u/Millerboycls09 Feb 04 '23
Real talk, Microsoft has done a ridiculous amount in terms of developing the kinds of accessibility options that 99% of people never even think of
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u/icecoldteddy Feb 04 '23
They even have a customizable accessibility controller.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adaptive-controller
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u/Prudent-Investment-9 Feb 04 '23
I remember when these first dropped, I had a customer come in pickup a few games. Then he blankly stared behind me and asked what it was. Dude when I pulled it over to show him, his face LIT UP. He was so excited he bought one and left so happy. I didn't understand why he basically floated out the store til he came back the next day with his disabled daughter and let her pick the games she hadn't been able to play before. She told me she watches her parents play some of them, and her dad had modded a flightstick and and old keyboard for her to use to play stuff (which meant the games he picked up the night before were things he knew would work with her setup.) But even then that had limited applications for her, so her parents had to play most of her games and she walked them through what she wanted to happen. I was shocked, but Microsoft definitely got me more on the ball about accessibility after that exchange. One of my favorite memories working retail, little things like this mean so much to so many. (That girl had a love of open world adventure games like Grounded, I'm glad she gets to enjoy these things more than before with this controller.)
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u/bauul Feb 04 '23
I was once present for a talk by the guy who designed the adaptive controller at an event for autistic children. Absolutely fascinating speech, he is clearly an absolute expert in accessible gaming and was so passionate about it.
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u/SnuggleMuffin42 Feb 04 '23
What impressed me the most about these is that they were going to be a net loss from day 1. Nobody would ever even break even on them. They are losing money on every sale. But they still went on with R&D and production to make it happen.
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u/maybehelp244 Feb 04 '23
Microsoft party chat has voice to text for the whole party that can be shown real time
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u/proseamripper Feb 04 '23
Another grounded absolute win. They've done a lot for inclusion and adaptability. It's a game I'll never get tired of. It deserves all the hype.
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u/Ooops_I_Reddit_Again Feb 04 '23
Such an incredible feature to have in a video game that probably is rarely thought of. Needs to be a new standard
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u/SplitOak Feb 04 '23
Started off thinking it would be a lame little kids game but man it is good. My son and I are going to try and finish it this spring when he’s done with school.
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u/Itchysoreusdrop Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 06 '23
Ya the graphics tricked me. Didn't expect the the high damage and perfect block mechanics with it looking like that.
I've watched this comment go up and down in votes for a while, just to clarify, I like hard games. But I really think the difficulty on medium hurts it. It's a bunch of kids in a cartoony honey I shrunk the kids world. I think it would have been more popular if the default was somewhere between the current easy and medium, with the option for hard and very hard modes. I've seen a lot of people complain about the difficulty, bump it down to easy, but then there's no difficulty and it's trivial, and then they lose interest. Again, not for me, but it seems it's graphics and marketing is for the more casual gamer, kids, and family gamers, they start a game, then get wombo combo'd and one shot left and right.
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u/Stony_Logica1 Feb 04 '23
My friend and I are close to wrapping things up with it after about 200 hours. Game of the year for us.
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u/mynx419 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
This makes me want to check out this game now. How great for this Mother. Could I get it on the latest PlayStation? Sorry not a gamer.
Have a four year old and we play a few things together sometimes like hot wheels, I like to learn what he's playing so we can do it together, it's easier to play on the floor with cars etc but I'm learning.
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u/LongLiveRemy Feb 05 '23
Both games are only on Xbox and PC. They're also on Game Pass, which will allow ya'll to just play from your phones or any other device via cloud. Pretty cool stuff.
Game Pass also gives you a crazy amount of games for a monthly subscription.
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u/Markantonpeterson Feb 05 '23
Game pass and whatever the PS equivalent really are the future man. I remember renting games from blockbuster as a kid, had to beg my Mom to drive me then had to choose based on the box alone, and then only had a week or two to play it. Being able to play all these games via the cloud, in an instant without even installing is straight up magic. Allows me to try so many games I normally wouldn't, such as grounded!
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u/M1nn3sOtaMan Feb 04 '23
Thank you for posting this. It's so wholesome and definitely made me smile :)
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
Your absolutely welcome! I read it and just couldn’t help but share. As a mother I know this made her day!
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u/FearlessBasis8625 Feb 04 '23
Same!! As a child my mom would try & play games with me & she was terrible but I remember it. I remember us being together & having fun. I love that you & your kids will have similar memories. Beautiful. I'm gonna go call my mom. Again 🥰
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u/YardOk3549 Feb 04 '23
Even tough i died 😂
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u/ophelieasfire Feb 04 '23
I initially read it as “Dead gamer” and I’m amused that I was both right and wrong.
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u/MichaelsSecretStuff Feb 04 '23
I feel this!! My wife is also Deaf
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u/Lyuseefur Feb 04 '23
I'm hearing impaired and I play with deaf gamers. I can't tell you how many times I've simply left a game because of bad subtitles. There are so many audio cues in the game that are not subtitled or explained and it wrecks the gameplay for my deaf friends.
There are less and less deaf people now due to our understanding of genetics but an inclusive society is what makes us all stronger.
Deaf workers excel in noisy environments. Many of my deaf friends work at Amazon making good money. They're able to handle the environment because the noise doesn't bother them.
After they go home, they want to relax and good gameplay with subtitles is a big part of this.
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u/samtdzn_pokemon Feb 04 '23
I play Destiny and it's amazing how many sound cues I rely on that I didn't realize until I played last night with my headphones still plugged into my speaker. They're all minor things, and most of them also have an associated visual cue, like a screen flash when an ability resets or a floating buff icon in the lower left for something like Unstoppable rounds, but I rarely use those visual aids. It was a very different game experience having to constantly check the corner of my screen for something I normally relied on sound for.
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u/FEBRAN07 Feb 04 '23
Trying to play pvp with no sound and getting dunked on because I cant hear people jumping is an experience
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u/cavitationchicken Feb 04 '23
So my question if you know any computer geeks:
Would an audio pass-through thing (that reads your computer's audio out) and feeds that into speech-to-text/cc, possibly with an overlay
With a visualizer option so you can read certain non-language sounds (like a chime or gun shot) if your tts/cc algorithm can't parse a particular thing, then put it on an overlay (think like steam or discord, but more invasive) that pops that text up on your screen, possibly positioning it directionally based on stereo audio data? (Ie, 100%left 0%right, 70%left40%right, etc) with transparency or flashing or whatever?
Does this already exist, and if not, could some open source nerds get on that? I'd offer but my code is trash.
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u/Roofofcar Feb 04 '23
Finally a game where the UI and text (after turning on the option) is large enough for my terrible eyesight!
I only installed it because someone in a comment mentioned lots of accessibility options, and I’m already in love.
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Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
I work with a handful of guys that are deaf. We work in a factory. A lot of times, the older workers who have their "opinions" (trying to be nice) about people who are deaf and treat them as if they were mentally challenged. These guys are just as capable as anybody else. With the hearing protection that's required, most people have to ask you to speak up anyway. These guys work 7 days a week and do jobs that nobody else wants to do then because they're deaf they're looked at like they're just going to be in the way.
I had never experienced witnessed that before I started working there, and it just blew my mind how many people I worked with were ignorant to struggle that people in the deaf community. They would teach some of us sign language so we could easily communicate with them without having to pull or masks down to read lips. I can spell with the alphabet, and know a handful of other phrases and expressions
Slowly, management started to see them as hard-working people just like everyone else in the plant. I would see people that I didn't think would be interested in learning how to sign were saying "hello" or "how are you" or a simple "thank you" when we passed people in the hallways and other people working with them on their lines started to sign as well.
As we gained new deaf employees, that same bunch are becoming highly valuable employees, as they can onboard the new employees that are deaf and walk them through what they are expected to do on their jobs, and the things that they can and cannot get away with this far as getting their phones out to have somebody use a note on their phone to ask something. (Federal law is strict in Food manufacturing on what can and cannot be near products)
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u/Initiatedspoon Feb 04 '23
How come your company seems to attract so many deaf peoples?
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Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
I think it's because the school for the deaf and the blind in Virginia is in the same county. So we have a pretty decent deaf community because of the teachers and their families and what not.
Edit it's also very loud in the plant and so hearing is not necessarily useful in all environments
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u/Initiatedspoon Feb 04 '23
That makes sense
Thanks for replying
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u/terminator_chic Feb 05 '23
It's also the "one foot in the door" thing. I was speaking with an HR person at a facility that had a very large refugee population. They hired one or two refugees who did good work and liked the way they were treated. They brought along more refugees from the local community, etc. Now refugees in the area know they can work there without fear of discrimination. They are able to communicate in their own language if needed, and the company loves them. It's win win all around.
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u/Glloomm Feb 04 '23
This weirdly made me want to cry. The push for accessibility options for disabled people, like the newer Xbox controllers and these subtitles, is something truly incredible.
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u/shaneo576 Feb 04 '23
Accessibility for the win! Love how more and more games are coming out with tons of options including neat things like this.
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u/MTRXPotato Feb 04 '23
Why are there 16 people who dislike this review? Lost all faith in humanity rn
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u/Xatsman Feb 04 '23
Only 1.5% of people sucking is actually pretty decent. Figure over 1000 votes you'd have a couple misclicks too.
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u/FaitFretteCriss Feb 04 '23
You lost all faith in humanity because less than a percent of them didnt like a post?
Thats a bit overdramatic dont you think?
If anything, this shows that an OVERWHELMING majority of people found it wholesome...
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u/alekbalazs Feb 04 '23
I would expect the disapproval number to be higher from people thinking inclusiveness is too political.
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u/Barbagrigio43 Feb 04 '23
Although how many games do you play with headphones on in which you sometimes 'wished' you were deaf. But it's really cool she can play with her kids. There's some kind of glasses coming out that translate vocals to a screen on the glasses that seems pretty great for the hearing impaired. Gotta stop worrying about the horrible sometimes and remember the incredible things that keep happening out there too.
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u/elgar33 Feb 04 '23
For those using a screen reader that can't get the text from the image, it says:
Deaf gamer review
Thank you, you have no idea how much it means to me being able to see my kids words on screen as they talk into a mic. I only wish other game helped me out a little. But SEEING "RUN mom a spiders chasing you" made me feel included, even though I died.
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u/deldge Feb 04 '23
I wish more games added subtitles for multiplayer. With games these days being co-op, it'd be cool to have live subtitles for players.
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u/buttstuff2023 Feb 04 '23
Seeing people with disabilities be happy that they are included always makes me smile. I'm reminded of the video of the magician doing a magic trick for a blind guy
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u/YesItChecksOut Feb 04 '23
That is awesome! The real sense of the word. In awe. Those developers deserve a cold beverage or two of their choice. It's that kind of thinking that changes the world.
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u/iliveincanada Feb 04 '23
What do they mean when they say “they can see their kids words on screen” Like is there a speech to text thing that picks up the microphone built into the game? Or? Really cool either way
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u/KinkyKittyKatt80 Feb 04 '23
Yes it uses speech to txt
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u/SplitOak Feb 04 '23
Also has text to speech. My son had his wisdom teeth out when playing this over the holidays. Him being able to type in something and have it spoken to me was great.
But honestly. The network connections need improvement. Whom ever was hosting it wasn’t bad but the other would lag sometimes. And the amount of random disconnects sucked. But still a great game.
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u/PM_PICS_OF_ME_NAKED Feb 04 '23
And the spiders are F-ing terrifying in that game. You get a legitimately visceral response to them.
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u/cloudfightback Feb 04 '23
Wait, is that a thing?! I’m deaf, and this would be a game changer. Holy crap, now I want this.
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u/PrincessNakeyDance Feb 04 '23
I really hope there is some proposed disability laws for video games soon. It’s so important and usually it’s trivial for the game developers to add in features that help out disabled gamers. There are games I love that I struggle with every time I play.
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u/HighVisibilityCamo Feb 04 '23
GOOD post, OP. Also thanks for letting us know in the comments what game it is. I'm off to support the good people at that game company. May all your hits be critical.
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u/frankkiejo Feb 04 '23
🥰❤️🥰 More of this, please, game developers! And as gamers age? Higher contrast words and bigger fonts, too.
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u/PoorMustang Feb 04 '23
This really isn't a little thing. Game devs go out of their way to do this and it's hard. Still no reason not to appreciate.
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u/adamh789 Feb 04 '23
As someone who's deaf in one ear, this kind of stuff is so underrated in the gaming community 😩😩😩
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u/mule_roany_mare Feb 04 '23
It’s too bad google glasses turned people off so terribly, we are getting to a point where they could be amazingly useful.
It’s perfectly viable to subtitle people as they speak. It would be obviously useful for deaf people, but just as useful for foreign languages. Or live translation of menus and signage.
The whole field of AI has been making a decade worth of progress every year for awhile now. It probably going to change society much faster than we are able to adapt to it, but it would be nice if we started exploiting the neat & cool qualities before the bad ones kick in & we lose 80% of jobs in less time than it takes to qualify for one.
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u/RealRotkohl Feb 04 '23
Wish more games had options for people with disabilities. For example, TLOU Part 2 had visual options for people with bad eyesight, which was the first time I saw such an option in a game.
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u/MikalMooni Feb 04 '23
Cool, amazing, wonderful, but what game is this? I don’t wanna spoil the wholesome vibes but someone has to say it. Why would you put a review like this on blast and not show us what game it was?
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u/cryptic-shimmer Feb 04 '23
Love this. My brother has one ear and I forget what game he said has like an aide of some sort, making it easier for him to tell when things are coming from his left side (his deaf side). The inclusion is nice!
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u/LivingUnicorgi Feb 04 '23
Awww! I felt a similar way when I found out that Fortnite has visual subtitles -- around the reticle, it shows you a direction and a little icon representing footsteps, gunfire, etc. For context, I'm hearing impaired (70/30)
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u/Adventurous-Brick936 Feb 04 '23
Just curious, how did y'all guess which game it was? There seems to be nothing in the picture hinting towards it, so how?
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u/nefarious_squirrel Feb 04 '23
Grounded is a good survival game. I think the constant thirst/hunger needs turn people off early in the game. Something like only 15% of people have made it to mid point in the game (Black ant lab).
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u/Still-Advertising452 Feb 04 '23
I love people that make accessibility a realty. I found a walker today that folds to cane size now I can get normal seats at concerts. So cool. People who invent things for everyone are angels on earth.
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u/boogiewookie76 Feb 05 '23
That's beautiful. Shame her kids couldn't stop her dying though. They need to git gud.
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u/EZkg Feb 04 '23
This is cute as hell. Also the spiders in Grounded are truly terrifying