Re: Last of us 2 blind accessibility announcement
Seconded!
I just wonder how we'll get access to this stuff in the first place.
With MK11, deathrattlehead had to make a guide telling us how to do it, and he could do that because he's the guy that mostly made it happen.
With this, it's all up in the air for now at least.
I could see two ways this would happen.
First; my least wanted way
You boot up the game and a message appears on screen:
"If you can read this, follow these instructions."
Below that, a button code or some other obtuse thing would be written that a blind person would have no way of knowing to do.
My wanted method, though Soney most likely wouldn't let happen.
You boot up the game and it checks if you have TTS enabled and activates the blind preset from the get-go.
I do realize that TTS is only usable here in the states; for some weird reason; so we'd still need another method for others to access it.
If this works as good as they say it does, and the industry
takes notice, we blind gamers could be on the cusp; okay several years out; of being able to play any new game without issue.
PS; Liam, your info regarding PS4 discs is a little off.
The base 1.0 game; or in some cases a later version (See SF5); will be shipped on the disc.
When you put the disc in your system, it instals whatever version of the game is on the disc, but you still need to install patch data from the web.
The bad thing is that no matter if it's digital or not, patches don't overwrite the base game, so you need much more space on your drive to store/update the game, as you need three times a patch to install it.
Example, when updating street fighter 5 arcade edition which is version 2.0, to champion edition version 3.0, you need to download 33.5 GB of data, but since the ps4 needs to extract, validate and consolidate the patches, you actually need between 60 and 90 GB to install it.
Once installed, the patch only takes about 15 GB or so.
I know this because my system kept bugging me that their wasn't enough space to update the game, and I had a sighted person come in and read the storage screen to me before I freed up enough space so Soney could do its thing, and I had more than enough space to hold the patch's reported size.
So I updated my disc and all problems vanished, as I now need a vary comfortable 165 MB from the web if I ever need to uninstall said game.
Once all is instaled and working, your disc is; as you said, just a fancy key...
Well, that was long; longer than my actual message, but I just wanted to set the record straight if you ever got a ps4.
And yes, multi-disc games are gack in style, see final Fantasy VII remake, the Last of Us Part 2, and Red Dead Redemption 2.
Later!
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