We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.

SO HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT.

There's this one dancing minigame in Zelda Oracle of Ages, that pretty much requires sound (to know when to start, primarily). I wish I could brute force it, but it costs rupees every time I play. OH AND ITS REQUIRED.

And since I'm profoundly deaf, whoops it looks like I suddenly can't proceed, until I find a hearing person willing to play this for me.

Disgusting. It's kind of an older game, but not that old. I am of course referring to the PlayStation era, when pretty much every game suddenly felt like subtitles were too much effort, and also vOiCe AcTiNg HyPe!!!!. Spirit Tracks was even worse, as there was this pan flute thing, and for whatever reason, I could not pass it, even after like 100s of retries. (there's visual input, sure, but I still can't pass, leading me to believe that the visuals and the audio are way off. if you know a "trick" then id appreciate knowing it as well.)

Audism appears to unfortunately infiltrate the video gaming world and sneak up on me when I least expect it. For example, Assassin's Creed (the first one). No subtitles for the cutscenes. It's why I'm boycotting the series, at least until they fix that (they won't). Sure, I could look at a transcript, but it's the principle that matters.

I am, however, grateful that subtitling videogames has become commonplace these days.