[games_access] CC in Games, and Reid's proposal

[Reid Kimball]

Thanks. I remember editing the proposals to add in the distinction
between subtitles and captioning. I hope I did that because I meant to
after the feedback.

True, there are so many ways to improve CC for most media, (live
theater, music, TV, movies, games).

The four games are
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Sin Episodes: Episode 1

Pretty soon will be Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (October 10th)

Notice I'm not counting my Doom3[CC] mod. I'm only mentioning
commercially available games.

What's interesting is that Valve Software's Source engine provides
captioning for 80% of the games that are captioned (counting HL2:
Episode 2 to be released soon).

Deafgamers is great, I visit there often.

On 10/4/07, DJ Bono <ladysekhmet.dj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Read the proposal, I agree with those of you who felt the wordings were
> weak. Reid - You do need to describe the difference between subtitling and
> close captioning because *I* think the hearing people (meaning peeps who can
> hear. LOL), don't realize that subtitling and CC is two totally different
> things. It looks great though!
>
> You know what's really weird...If I could, I could go after the industry and
> slam the book on ADA law in front of them because I cannot enjoy their game
> without closed captioning and sue their a$$. Of course, no one have the
> ability to go after these companies.   Yes I think it will be the greatest
> thing to have CC in games and the ability to show it on the BOX..just like
> on DVDs.
>     More often, on DVDs that are NOT CC'd, it's subtitled...and yes, there's
> some stuff that gets lost, like ("Music in background", "beep booop beep")
>      I think the hardest sounds to record is any electronic sounds, like
> beeping. "Beeeeep" is very different than "Beep". :-)   Another thing that I
> hate is even when it's subtitled, sometimes I have a hard time telling WHO
> is saying what. Example - Grand Theft Auto: SA. Subtitles are great (but not
> so good when I'm free roaming hitting on girls or other people), however
> when there's a dialog, I occasionally have difficult time distinguishing who
> is talking.  They need to add...CJ: Rock on Dude, Smoke: Yeah brother!
> Something like that.
>
>
>      4 games ever in history??? Yeah, what are they? :-)
>
> I think I mentioned this a long time ago, but check out www.deafgamers.com.
> It's a great site to get an insight through deaf people's eyes on why the
> game failed and why the game succeeded when it comes to deaf gamers.
>
>
>
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