Quick time events are always challenging for me as well, and I’m someone who doesn’t even have a visual disability. Sorry to hear that you weren’t able to get past the episode. By giving you the option to increase the size of the subtitles, New Frontier helps both players with visual impairments and disabled gamers with hearing impairments.
PS4 THE WALKING DEAD A NEW FRONTIER SERIES
New Frontier is a solid entry in the series that improved its accessibility for disabled gamers with fine motor skill impairments by giving the player more freedom during quick-time events. Him being a character with no connection to the last two games, I thought it was an odd choice to have him be the focus this time around. I’ll admit that I wished they would have concentrated more on Clementine than the other new character Javier. It’s truly awesome to see the character of Clementine become older and a more independent person in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Whether or not this is an improvement is debatable, but it did seem like this was there attempt to have colorblind players have less confusion when reading the dialogue.
New Frontier changed it so that all subtitles are now a plain white regardless of the character. Going back to the subtitles for a moment, the last two games had a strange feature where each character’s subtitles were distinguished by different colors. On the visual side of things New Frontier offers a brightness scale for the entire HUD you can change. Although the soundtrack is nice, hearing it is not required to enjoy the game. You can also raise and lower the master volume in the options menu or the music volume separately to fit your preference. For example these are the sizes you can choose from: small, medium, and large. A new feature New Frontier brought to this game was the option to increase or decrease the size of the subtitles. What stops me from giving this a completely “Barrier Free” rating is the fact that during quick-time events, there are still some moments that require you to quickly aim the right control stick and press buttons repeatedly.įor gamers with hearing impairments there are subtitles. This feature makes action scenes a lot less stressful for disabled gamers with fine motor skill impairments. Whether or not this was intentional or a possible bug is unclear, but one thing is certain. This is a huge step up in accessibility options. I literally moved left with the control stick and the game reacted as if I pressed square. For instance, during a scene where walkers were attacking the game prompted me to press the square button. What this means is any of the buttons on the controller or even just movement from the left control stick will perform the intended action on screen. Interestingly enough, now during these events none of the prompted buttons are required to complete the action. However, New Frontier added something really helpful for dealing with quick-time events. Quick-time events are notoriously challenging for disabled gamers because they require timing, precision, and sometimes repeated motion. For dialogue choices and quick-time events you press one of the four digital action buttons. To interact with objects or people you press the X button. You move your character with the left control stick and aim the camera with the right. Admittedly, New Frontier doesn’t have customizable control options, but The Walking Dead games have always had very simple controls. New Frontier has definitely improved on its accessibility features since the last two games were released. Not only are the Walking Dead games accessible to most disabled gamers, but the games have universal appeal for those who don’t usually play video games. The first game in the series is one of my favorite games of all time. Ask anyone and they will tell you I’m a huge Walking Dead fan. If you’re not familiar with the series, they are episodic games that mainly focus on narrative, decision-making, and quick-time events.
Clementine and a new character named Javier. In the first game you played as a character named Lee Everett, in the second game you played as the lovable Clementine, but in New Frontier you will play as two characters. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier plays a little differently than the other games in The Walking Dead series. Clementine is back! She has become a hardened warrior, ready to kill more zombies than ever before.
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