Re: Mainstream accessibility predictions
I like to picture ian laughing to himself, knowing about something coming down the pipeline but is unable to speak about it at the moment. Wishful thinking, I suppose. Heh.
I predict the following:
1. An Assassin’s Creed game will be fully accessible within the next 2 To 3 years.
2. The game NetherRealm Studios makes after MK11 will take a leap forward in accessibility and offer in-game TTS for, at least, main/pause menus including character move lists and multiverse events/towers..
3. Whatever Obsidian is working on will be accessible to a point.
4. Titanfall 3 will have a mostly playable campaign.
5. Next Killer Instinct will be fully accessible. Furthermore, I predict never being able to beat sightless kombat. Not a single match.
6. An indie developer will make an accessible turn-based JRPG type of game within 3.5 years.
7. Next Halo and Gears will have more than TTS for menus. More accessible gameplay in campaign without need for co-pilot.
8. Audio cues and directional/distance readouts for checkpoints will happen in a AAA mainstream game within 2 to 3 years.
9. An indie-made platformer will be shockingly accessible with use of audio cues and pitch in tandem with haptic feedback for effective and fun platforming. Sighted folk’s minds will be blown we can do speedruns as well as sighted gamers. I give this one 5 years til it happens.
10. Capcom will sell an Accessibility Bundle as DLC for Street Fighter 6 Which includes TTS for all menus except the character select screen. We’ll still have to memorize that bit.
11. Lots of high contrast modes for low vision players popping up from various developers.
12. Ubisoft is gonna run with it. Surpassing even Microsoft Studios.
13. The next tomb Raider game will have limited blind accessibility. And yes I realize they have stuff there for low vision in the latest game.
14. Someone from these forms is going to contact Vanillaware to let them know just how nearly accessible their games are and how a little of this and a little of that would make them fully playable .
15. The next Streets of Rage Will be playable, though not exactly accessible. But fully playable.
That’s right. Only #10 is a joke. Call me a dreamer, go ahead.
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