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TopicCar free cities are descriminatory against disabled people
adjl
06/04/23 1:14:36 PM
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There's a very easy case to be made that not having accessibility option in games is discriminatory (especially easy ones like subtitles, volume mixing, and colourblind mode), but difficulty is a weird middle ground in that the difficulty is often such an intrinsic part of the experience that it's kind of unavoidable that some people aren't going to have the ability to play the game that way (whether because of some sort of formal disability or because they just aren't good enough). That said, it's becoming increasingly common for games to have an easy mode that's specifically intended for people to experience their stories even if they can't handle the trickier parts of the game, and that's overwhelmingly a good thing in every possible way and I do think there's room to hold developers accountable for their decisions to ignore that idea (like calling out Yoshi P's ridiculous "pride as a gamer" justification for FFXVI's ridiculously backwards way of including accessibility options).

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