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Accesbility for hearing impaired?

MarclMarcl
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
This doesn't actually affect me directly, but I felt strongly enough about it to comment ...

** Potential spoiler**

There's a puzzle in the first monkey island game that requires you to listen for certain things happening. Am I missing something or would you be completely screwed with this if you have a hearing problem? I have subtitles on and they didn't cover this.

If so, that's seriously not cool and you should really think about these things. If I'm wrong and there's something I'm missing, then of course I take that all back...

Comments

  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited July 2009
    Very few people have bad enough hearing not to pick up on sounds like those.

    Most hearing impaired people have trouble hearing high frequencies, giving problems with speech etc. But I think it should still be possible to distinguish the few sounds in the forest there.

    However - it would be nice to have an option to subtitle those sounds as well - the problem is it would pretty much give away the puzzle.
  • hansschmuckerhansschmucker
    edited July 2009
    Maybe the floor textures could be changed to actually show footsteps of the given animals (OK, so it won't work for bees, but I'm sure we can find a good replacement as well).
  • TheMandingoTheMandingo
    edited July 2009
    Very few people have bad enough hearing not to pick up on sounds like those.

    Most hearing impaired people have trouble hearing high frequencies, giving problems with speech etc. But I think it should still be possible to distinguish the few sounds in the forest there.

    However - it would be nice to have an option to subtitle those sounds as well - the problem is it would pretty much give away the puzzle.
    How about people who are deaf outright?

    Yeah it is a good point though, they should put the subtitles there. Maybe something like "jungle animal noises", and then when you're close to a particular path, the subtitles would change to "bees buzzing."
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited July 2009
    Armakuni wrote: »
    However - it would be nice to have an option to subtitle those sounds as well - the problem is it would pretty much give away the puzzle.

    They wouldn't necessarily have to lump it in with the regular subtitles, they could put in a special "hearing impaired" mode or something.
  • fpostmafpostma
    edited July 2009
    I was thinking about the turn puzzle at the end, but the jungle does indeed have an audio puzzle as well. IF those were to be subtitled someway for deaf people I'd prefer that be done in a separate way to the current subtitles. I use the current subs to catch all the spoken lines, but rather not have stuff that somewhat spoils the game.

    Then again, blind people will ONLY be able to play the jungle part... :)
  • DangerzoneDangerzone
    edited July 2009
    Most movies as of late have 2 subtitle options... just the dialogue, and another for ALL sounds.

    Perhaps this could be employed?
  • Dan2593Dan2593
    edited July 2009
    Marcl wrote: »
    This doesn't actually affect me directly, but I felt strongly enough about it to comment ...

    ** Potential spoiler**

    There's a puzzle in the first monkey island game that requires you to listen for certain things happening. Am I missing something or would you be completely screwed with this if you have a hearing problem? I have subtitles on and they didn't cover this.

    If so, that's seriously not cool and you should really think about these things. If I'm wrong and there's something I'm missing, then of course I take that all back...

    Why are they playing? The subtitles don't make it clear who is speaking and the humour comes from how they say it. If you can't hear is Monkey Island for you?
  • BadwolfBadwolf
    edited July 2009
    I wouldn't really say the humour comes from how it's said. Otherwise Monkey 1 and 2 would be a laugh free zone.
  • LeakLeak
    edited July 2009
    Dan2593 wrote: »
    Why are they playing? The subtitles don't make it clear who is speaking and the humour comes from how they say it. If you can't hear is Monkey Island for you?
    What kind of a question is that? :confused:

    Who's speaking is rather evident by the person that moves their mouth on the screen. And why not just ask "If you can't hear is <insert any movie here> for you"?

    np: As One - Your Hand In Mine (B12 - B12 Records Archive Vol. 2 (Disc 1))
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    Dangerzone wrote: »
    Most movies as of late have 2 subtitle options... just the dialogue, and another for ALL sounds.

    Perhaps this could be employed?

    Great point!
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