Re: Audio description
@assault_freak Yep I'm more wondering if there has ever been an example from audiogame land, rather than from mainstream gaming
In mainstream though there are often gaps in cutscenes that could lend themselves to an optional audio description track.. long scene-setting panoramas etc.
Take the intro cinematic for Halo 5 for example, if all you have is the audio then most of this is just meaningless random bits of gunfire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvn1k6__yTc
Here's the full transcript of the video, obviously a full transcript is too much detail to be able to fit in, but some trimmed down bits out of this could well be suited to an optional audio description track:
Fade in to Jameson Locke's helmet, lying on a seat inside a Pelican's troop bay.
Cut to the Microsoft Studios logo.
A rotating cylindrical holotank lowers from the ceiling. It activates, displaying several holographic photos of destruction on several human colonies.
Cut to the 343 Industries logo.
Lasky briefs Fireteam Osiris.
Cut to the Pelican bay. Members of Fireteam Osiris are looking at the holotank. An additional screen appears on it as Thomas Lasky begins his transmission.
Thomas Lasky (Video COM): "Fireteam Osiris. Over the last 72 hours, five colonies have experienced identical events. Massive destruction, Forerunner in origin."
Olympia Vale stands up. A 3D portrait of Catherine Halsey appears on the holotank.
Lasky (Video COM): "Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey has managed to contact us."
Edward Buck scratches his chin.
Lasky (Video COM): "She claims to have information on these attacks."
Holly Tanaka passes an M6H magnum to Vale as they look at the holotank. Another screen appears on it as Sarah Palmer joins in.
Sarah Palmer (Video COM): "Halsey is currently in Covenant custody on the surface of Kamchatka."
Locke stands up as the holotank shows battle plans for Kamchatka.
Palmer (Video COM): "Your mission is to insert behind enemy lines, retrieve Halsey and bring her back to Infinity."
The hologram of the Kamchatkan mountain ranges disappears, and a Sangheili hologram replaces it.
Palmer (Video COM): "Be advised. Dr. Halsey is accompanied by Covenant supreme leader Jul 'Mdama. If you have the opportunity…"
Locke: "Understood, Commander."
Lasky (Video COM): "Good luck, Spartan Locke. Infinity out."
The holotank shuts down.
Locke: "Tracking gear online?"
Vale activates her Artemis Tracking System.
Olympia Vale: "Affirmative."
Tanaka grabs her helmet from the overhead compartment and approaches the center of the Pelican.
Holly Tanaka: "Say, before we make this jump, anybody want to say a few words?"
Buck stands and picks up his M45 shotgun, cocking it and holstering it on his back.
Edward Buck: "I figure if God can hear how scared I am, so can everyone else. Locke, you buying the first drink when we're done?"
Locke: "You ask, you buy."
Buck chuckles. Locke turns to the others.
Locke: "Fireteam Osiris, the light is green."
Locke turns around and opens the troop bay door. Vale and Tanaka put on their helmets and jump. Buck smiles and passes Locke his helmet before putting on his own helmet and jumping off the Pelican. Locke puts on his helmet, turns around, and jumps. He joins the others in the sky. Cut to black:
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Fireteam Osiris descends into battle.
Open to the four Spartans in free fall. Covenant starships are massed beneath, engaged in battle. The Spartans zoom through the fleet, passing enormous corvettes, carriers and other warships, aiming for the mountain range below.
Locke (COM): "Comms check."
Tanaka crashes into a Banshee, which explodes near Buck. He narrowly dodges the explosion while Tanaka's energy shields flicker and recharge.
Tanaka (COM): "Comms working fine, Locke."
Locke (COM): "Copy that, Tanaka."
A Forerunner mountain platform is shot down and shatters.
Buck (COM): "Spartan Buck online and ready."
Vale (COM): "Spartan Vale online!"
The Spartans pass the crashed ship, "flying" close along the mountain slope. Thrusters on their suits control their fall.
Locke: "Weapons free!"
The Spartans orient themselves feet first to land.
Buck: "Contact!"
The Spartans tuck and roll upon hitting the ground, propelling their freefall momentum forward. They rush down a mountain slope into a snowy valley filled with Covenant infantry and vehicles.
Buck and Vale fire into a Sangheili Zealot and Unggoy Storm with their shotgun and assault rifle, while Locke leaps ahead and ground pounds a Wraith and two more Zealots, overturning it and stunning the Sangheili. Buck and Vale finish them off while Locke lands and takes out an Unggoy with a Needler.
Buck and Tanaka leap into the air and perform two ground pounds, blasting away more Covenant. Tanaka shoulder-bashes, a Sangheili and Kig-Yar, smashing them both through a boulder which shatters on impact.
Locke shoots away a Kig-Yar while Tanaka fires her SMG, jumping onto and over a Wraith. Her teammates join her in picking off Covenant, some chasing them in floating vehicles. A Phantom floats ahead of them and fires at the Spartans with its chin mounted turret. Flying low to the ground, it scrapes a hill, and Vale uses its momentary confusion to leap onto its open bay doors and rush inside.
Vale knocks two Kig-Yar aside and charges at a Zealot and a Warrior. Both swing their energy swords at her, but she jumps onto the Zealot's arm and forces its blow into the Warrior, damaging its shields and briefly stunning it. The Zealot is then pushed into the Warrior as Vale turns to face the Kig-Yar. Vale punches one of the Kig-Yar in the face and shoots another with her pistol. She kneels to make the charging Zealot trip over her, then stands up to fire her pistol repeatedly into the Warrior's chest and head. She then kicks it and a Kig-Yar out the Phantom, the latter screaming as it falls.
The two hit the ground, Buck running over them as he takes out an Unggoy and a Sangheili with two shotguns blasts. Locke keeps pace to his right, and they leap off a cliff into the Covenant below. Buck ground pounds a lance of infantry, and Tanaka grabs an Unngoy by the face while firing her assault rifle at a Kig-Yar. An Unggoy wielding a Needler lunges at her, but Tanaka catches it, throws it behind her, and shoots it away.
Promethean constructs can be seen fighting the Covenant now. Ghosts rush past firing at Soldiers and Knights, while Phaetons battle the Phantoms overhead. Locke leaps over a pair of Ghosts and pulls the driver out of one of them.
A Phantom, the one carrying Vale, flies low and crashes into a Phaeton, wrecking both vehicles and killing the remaining Zealot onboard. Vale jumps out and uses her SMG to finish off a Soldier. It disintegrates into orange and grey ash.
Vale: "Heads up!"
The four turn to face behind them, seeing one of the Blockade Runners crashing at the peak of the valley they're in. It hits the ground and begins sliding toward them, bringing an avalanche with it.
The Spartans turn and run from the incoming starship, Vale picking off a KigYar and Buck finishing off a Soldier and Zealot. They run down the increasingly steep slope as fast as they can, but the crashing ship is coming closer.
As they approach a sheer cliff, Locke lands and rejoins them. Fireteam Osiris assembles and leaps off the cliff with the burning wreck behind them.
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