Posts tagged with: Deaf Accessibility
Deaf Game Review – Code Vein
Game reviewed on Xbox One Code Vein, the new Souls-like vampire game from Bandai Namco, marketed itself as a more “accessible” approach to this style of game. I think though, that Bandai Namco and I have different definitions of accessible, because while on the whole, with the ability to switch your play-style/class on the fly, […]
Deaf Game Review – The Surge 2
Game reviewed on Xbox One There’s a trend in recent game series of improving general accessibility and at the very least, improving subtitles. Nearly every sequel of every game released in the past two years seems to have taken note that a11y standards exist and at least try their best to implement them. Not The […]
Deaf Game Review – Borderlands 3
Hi everyone! It’s my first review here on CanIPlayThat and I’m happy to be here. I don’t want to bore you with too many details about myself, but a quick intro- I’m Michael, I work at Microsoft as a Software Engineer and I’m Deaf. I’ve been involved in the accessibility community for some time here […]
Deaf Game Review – Greedfall
Game reviewed on Xbox One I’ve been looking forward to Greedfall since its announcement however long ago that was. There’s nothing I love more than a new open-world RPG and reading its comparisons to Dragon Age just made me that much more excited. So then you can imagine my disappointment upon launching it and finding […]
Deaf Game Review – Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Game reviewed on PC Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a brilliant game that launched a couple weeks ago, somewhat quietly, on the Epic Games Store, and it’s brilliant. Both in gameplay and Deaf/hoh accessibility. In it, you play through evolution creating new neural pathways as you figure out how to do things and what you […]
Deaf Game Review – Gears of War 5
Review copy provided courtesy of Microsoft, game reviewed on Xbox One. Readers, you are about to see something I don’t think we’ve ever been able to do before in all of our years of Deaf/hoh accessibility reviews. What follows isn’t so much a review as it’s a series of “Look at all the things they […]
Deaf Game Review – Blair Witch
Game reviewed on Xbox One Blair Witch is a unicorn of a game, folks. It not only manages to be a horror game that doesn’t rely on jump scares (though there are some) to scare the hell out of you, but it also is the first horror game I can recall that was actually Deaf/hoh […]
Deaf Game Review – Man of Medan
Game reviewed on Xbox One and played in solo mode. This week in game releases seems to be an exercise in trying really hard to do the most in Deaf/hoh accessibility but missing the mark majorly. First Control, which offered some lovely subtitle options but little else, and now Man of Medan has done the […]
Deaf Game Review – Control
Game reviewed on Xbox One I think I might be the only person in the world not fawning over Remedy’s newest game, Control. I’ve seen many people talking about its marvelous accessibility, while I’m sitting here dying for the 800th time because aside from its one notable Deaf/hoh accessibility feature — subtitle size options — […]
Deaf Game Review – Wreckfest
Game reviewed on Xbox One Racing games are usually the easiest to review, save for the couple out there that also try to add story and therefore dialogue that needs subtitles, because they don’t really require a whole lot in the way of Deaf/hoh accessibility. This holds true for Wreckfest, a new racing/smash the shit […]
Deaf Game Review – RAD
Game reviewed on PS4 RAD is a rad new game from Double Fine in which you play as one of many possible children sent out by your village elder to save the world, with your fancy new body modified courtesy of the elder. Your new body allows the radiation to work in your favor, giving […]
Deaf Game Review – Remnant: From the Ashes
Game played on Xbox One. I only played in offline mode, so I can’t speak to how the multiplayer communication works. I love this game, folks. I love the way it looks, I love the way it feels to play, I love that it’s an end of the world scenario without the millionth iteration of […]
Deaf Game Review – The Church in the Darkness
Review copy provided courtesy of Paranoid productions. Game reviewed on Xbox One. Indie games have really been killing it lately with Deaf/hoh accessibility and The Church in the Darkness is no exception. In this game, you are tasked with infiltrating a cult (however you feel so inclined to do it) to save your nephew. The […]
Deaf Game Review – Solo: Islands of the Heart
Reviewed on PS4, review copy provided courtesy of Merge Games. I was not ready for this game, folks. Not ready at all. I started it up and aww, cute! I can be a round little cartoon person who struts around with their little backpack! AND just look at these gender options! They tell you from […]
Deaf Game Review – The Blackout Club
Review copy provided courtesy of Question Games The Blackout Club is a co-op horror game from Question Games that manages to do something incredibly rare: Scare the crap out of players without jump scares. The Blackout Club showed me what I already knew about myself in that if I ever found myself in a horror-type […]
Deaf Game Review – Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Good news, everybody! After 5 years and 3 games with subtitles that can only be referred to as an abomination, the folks behind the Wolfenstein series have finally come to understand that subtitles are actually supposed to serve a purpose. That’s right, not only are the subtitles in Wolfenstein: Youngblood not microscopic, they also now […]
