Forza Horizon 5 to offer a full sign language interpreter for cutscenes soon after launch

[Theorry]

Just noticed this and think its pretty big step. Its so good to see that more and more devs are taking accessibility more serious
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With this in mind, the team is excited to share we are also working on American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) support for cinematics in Forza Horizon 5. Coming soon, this feature will include a picture-in picture display near the bottom of the screen of an ASL/BSL interpreter during the cinematics in the game.

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Before people say. There is text?
Alot of members of the deaf community have a hard time following close captions. As with text alot of context and expression is offcourse limited or gone

 

[KayonXaikyre]

Damn that's really cool. I don't think I've ever seen this as an option in games before.

 

[TripleBee]

Very cool. I don't think I've ever even seen anybody try to attempt this feature in a game.

 

[Deleted member 5129]

Edit: NVM the OP covers it. I did not read the last sentence. Thanks!

 

[MouldyK]

More option is better.

Just like the prosthetics, Pronouns and "Voice 01" and "Voice 02".

And the way to can adjust text size! I need that in Sims 4 already, EA!

The inclusion and accessibility of this game!

 

[mclem]

That is a very impressive thing to include, kudos to the devs.

 

[ClamBuster]

yeah... why has this never been done before???

universal language, straight forward to record

more of this please game industry

 

[Kalor]

That's really cool. Horizon 5 is also one of the few games I've seen where you can add prosthetics to your avatar. Usually that's limited to more futuristic games rather than modern ones where you make yourself.

 

[AuthenticM]

Hot damn. Props on Microsoft for putting money towards this.

 

[MrCibb]

That's fucking awesome. Nice one.

 

[arsene_P5]

This is so cool! I am so happy more and more games add accessibility features and the innovations don't seem to stop.

 

[Krakatoa]

Very cool. I hope more games adopt this process.

 

[Hero_Select]

Way to go above and beyond, this is legit awesome

 

[SunBroDave]

I didn't think I could be more impressed by Playground Games, yet here we are

 

[Wereroku]

yeah... why has this never been done before???

universal language, straight forward to record

more of this please game industry

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There is no universal sign language. Wonder if they plan to do this with the other forms or just ASL/BSL.

 

[Mocha Joe]

Holy shit, this is amazing!

 

[Spiderman]

This is great stuff.

 

[Liquid]

universal language, straight forward to record

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Is not universal. Even in the same country, you can find some variants. Cool addition tho.

 

[Anjin M]

I appreciate the explanation as to why closed captioning alone isn't sufficient for everyone. This seems really cool.

 

[pahlke1]

I was pleasantly surprised with the character creator already. Also every clothing item can be worth by both body type…can't remember if that was in 4. Honestly kudos to Playground and Microsoft for supporting this

 

[CaptNink]

Wow - good on PG and MS! They are really doing a great job with accessibility!

 

[Gowans]

The setting to slow down the game speed is amazing also. Not sure if I've seen that before

 

[christocolus]

oh wow... PG games continues to impress.

 

[ClamBuster]

There is no universal sign language. Wonder if they plan to do this with the other forms or just ASL/BSL.

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ah, ok... something inside me always thought that 'sign language' had a universal logic to it's creation and delivery

i stand corrected... thanks for the heads-up

 

[Delusibeta]

ah, ok... something inside me always thought that 'sign language' had a universal logic to it's creation and delivery

i stand corrected... thanks for the heads-up

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I mean, they've announced the main two different signing dialects for English, I'd expect non-English speaking countries would have wholly seperate signing languages than American/British Sign Language.

 

[Secret Bambino]

Wooow, this is great!
Amazing work by Playground Games and Microsoft 👏

 

[z1ggy]

Im loving this accessibility trend in games, keep it up its amazing.

 

[RoKKeR]

Extremely cool.

 

[Deleted member 27751]

Microsoft have just been amazing in the accessibility space lately, what with the customisable controller board to options like this in-game. It is truly inspiring seeing developers and console manufacturer actually give a shit about human interactions that may be impaired.

 

[Corncob]

Very cool.

 

[ajoshi]

I hope they like the word 'family'

 

[ReBirFh]

Edit. Others already pointed there is no universal sign language

 

[ChangeTheLights]

This is just awesome.

 

[Humidex]

There is no universal sign language. Wonder if they plan to do this with the other forms or just ASL/BSL.

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Just ASL + BSL. Still, very cool to see it implemented.

Forza Horizon 5 will add on-screen sign language interpreters in a post-launch update

They’ll have American (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) support

www.theverge.com

 

[Trunchisholm]

This is seriously awesome. It's great that there are now so many first-party developers taking accessibility seriously.

 

[Grue]

Just wanted to bump this off the back of the Game Awards win.

What a dope addition. Hope more follow.