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Accessibility And Gamer Pride (The Jimquisition) (Patreon)

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2023-03-13 17:43:32
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2023-03

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Accessibility is all the rage these days, and that's a good thing. Well, unless you're a gatekeeping elitist, in which case you're feeling a different kind of rage.   

Let's have a chat about how accessibility is good for everyone, and why a game like Final Fantasy XVI enforcing "gamer pride" is a little bit silly.

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Accessibility And Gamer Pride (The Jimquisition)

http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition http://www.twitch.tv/jimsterling http://www.thejimporium.com Accessibility is all the rage these days, and that's a good thing. Well, unless you're a gatekeeping elitist, in which case you're feeling a different kind of rage. Let's have a chat about how accessibility is good for everyone, and why a game like Final Fantasy XVI enforcing "gamer pride" is a little bit silly. #accessibility #difficulty #finalfantasy #disability #thelastofus #trans #jimsterling #jimquisition #JamesStephanieSterling #games #gaming #videogames

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Anonymous

holy shit that spinning kick was insane steph! if ever you come to the west coast and do some shows, i gotta come see!

Anonymous

I will watch all the wrestling clips you have! Wish I could see you wrestle in person, but alas, I'm also on the west coast. I just.. really hate went people bitch and scream that accessibility features are cheating. I'm legally blind and I'll tell you, I have a hard time with old RPG's because I just start fast-forwarding through text because I just can't focus on reading a novel's worth of dialog in whatever eyebleeding font they chose. The World of Warcraft text was some of the worst. Don't like them or need them? Don't use them! There are some people who think that Dark Souls isn't enough of a challenge a recode the Donkey Kong Bongo drums to control the character.. there are people who do no hit runs. Set yourself challenges.. except.. that why they don't want easy mode.. because then they would use it because they don't _really_ want that extra challenge.. Why not turn on the accessibility options and blindfold yourself to see if that makes it any easier for you? Again, my theory is because.. they don't want to. They throw themselves at the hard game because everyone else is but if they had the choice of 'easy' mode, they'd go straight for it.

Crissa Kentavr

The rings sound like a great idea to add mechanical choices and then... wait, what, you can't opt for more of them? Ugh.

Anonymous

I watch a streamer called Projekt Melody. She has epilepsy. The amount of times I've seen her get excited for a game just to then be devastated that some part is flashy for no reason is unacceptable. It should be easy to disable the kind of flashing that is known to harm most epileptics. I watched her try to play Uncharted 4's first section blind with chat giving directions because the lightning flashing was so bad. Recently she broke down in tears because yet another game was needlessly flashy with no settings to turn it off. She talked about all the opportunities she's missed out on because she can't play some games. Cool collabs. Cool sponsors. All because a game would rather put in a legal disclaimer than a toggle setting. It's unfair. It's cruel. I'm sick of the assholes that say JuSt DoN't PlAy. That's bullshit.

Dylan Belcher

Two related issues, that get unreasonable backlash from the same types of GAMERS: Free time, and resources. Not everybody has 20+ hours a week to devote to a game, or an entire room in their spacious home devoted to gaming, with blackout curtains and monitor settings bound to Fn keys. But if you suggest that a game be less grindy, or have an easier or less grindy mode, or complain about the visual settings in a game (Binding of Isaac's Curse of Darkness is a bugbear for me), get ready for a chorus of "Maybe you just don't like the game/genre", "Why don't you just cheat in everything?", and similarly insulting and unhelpful responses. EDIT: I forgot to especially mention GAMERS who ardently defend THE VISION of the developers. :)

Anonymous

‘Gamer pride’ is an absolute oxymoron. Life us filled with things that matter (and are worth being proud of) and things that matter NOT. Offhand, I can’t think of any part of gaming that really matters. It’s a pastime, something folks do for amusement. It’s not any source of pride.

Jason Youngberg

IMHO The Gamers TM want to feel special and have to realize it doesn't matter and no one else cares. In the 90s I had the same sort of special feeling having "discovered" anime. I felt like I was part of an exclusive club that recognized this new (to me) form of entertainment and story telling (and the fan service). Then it went mainstream and I didn't feel as special anymore and eventually lost interest. It was fun while it lasted, but if I had to do it over again I don't think I would have made it such a part of my identity and just enjoyed it. I doubt I would have been interested for longer since I switched to MMOs. But I would have been in a better spot mentally. OTOH, over the years I have lost things I was passionate about until little remains and without that kind of fandom passion I feel less than what I was before. There's no fire in me driving me to stay up late working on a project just because. Is this adulting?

Crissa Kentavr
>>104046055

It's not an oxymoron because 'gaming doesn't matter'. If it didn't matter, would Stephanie do her show? Would anyone make games? It's an oxymoron because it's being used to demean having more people play games. Games are only meaningless if no one plays them!

Crescent Minor
>>104021032

You know ... I feel those feelings about skipping grind. They come from insecurity about myself having spent the grind time, being soothed by blinking lights and cheery sounds with time that I could have spent cleaning. I don't know if I should feel insecure about it, maybe turning that time into more work would be bad, but yeah, when you say aloud that you like the game but it doesn't have to take so much productivity away to be fun, it tweaks that, "It didn't bother me, I must be a lazier person than them."

Anonymous
>>104046055

Of course gaming matters to the people who make it their livelihood. In the lives of the vast majority of people, though, game skill is not a high priority. In my life, I have been proud of doing my best at my career. I have been proud of working at my education. I have been proud of my family. I respect Stephanie’s show because I value her opinion regarding which games are worth spending my precious free time playing. But I would never dream if being ‘proud’ to play them.

Dylan Belcher
>>104021032

I hear that. I feel the same when I'm playing a lot, I think it's because my parents treated VGs as a vice when I was a kid. To be clear, there is NOTHING wrong with liking a grindy game. I fire up Minecraft or a Dragon Quest when I need to shut my brain off for a bit, and can't handle the stress of something more difficult. The problem is always THE GAMERS, and sometimes (but not as often) the dev team, when they respond to legitimate complaints with derision, or the assumption that you're just bad at the game.

potato potato also another potato

Yoshida’s comments about accessibility and gamer pride are all the more bizarre considering ffxiv is actually pretty good about accessibility. For example, That color coded visual indicator thing for the hearing impaired Laura talked about in a different game a few episodes ago, is actually in ffxiv. On top of that you have extreme flexibility in the ui design, font size, control types, several alternative color schemes for colorblind folks, and so on, really strange 16 doesn’t follow 14’s example when it’s much of the same team.

potato potato also another potato
>>104054107

Yep, it’s that same thing you get with music “I liked them before they got big and sold out!” People are drawn to a sort of elitism they misunderstand as expertise