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Hello and welcome back.
This week's topic on this channel is gaming.
The previous video on Monday that I did was all about PUBG and my experience
playing it for the first time as a deaf woman, so if you are interested
in that, I'll have the link and a card up here
as well as the description box down below.
But for this video, I am actually going to compare Fortnite and PUBG
and talk about their accessibility features.
Well, they're not really accessibility features, but it's just- bear with me here.
We're going to be talking about which is, in my opinion,
for me personally, more accessible.
Also, if you want to look at the video that I did strictly on Fortnite,
I will also have that link and a card [indistinct] and in the description box.
I have played Fortnite both without headphones
that was kind of the profoundly 100% profoundly deaf edition of Fortnite
and I have also been playing it, since I've been back in North Carolina
and have had access to good headphones, I've been playing it with sound.
And PUBG, I've only played it Sunday and that was with headphones.
Non-accessibility-wise, personally, I don't know what game I really prefer.
I feel like because I'm so used to Fortnite at the moment
and I'm just used to it, I've played it, I know it, I think I might
like Fortnite a little bit better, but in some ways I prefer PUBG.
Like, PUBG is a more realistic version and I like the way that it looks.
However, it is more... I don't know if I want to say difficult,
but you do put a lot more work into PUBG
because you're starting with...you got to go find a backpack for more stuff
and you can upgrade your gun,
whereas with Fortnite everything is just right there.
So, your weapon, it's all made, there you go, boom.
Of course, Fortnite is a little more cartoony.
It looks more like it's made for kids.
But hey, that doesn't matter to me. That stuff is not an issue to me.
Now, accessibility-wise, for me personally,
I feel like when I can hear something in both of these games,
Fortnite still takes the win because with PUBG,
if someone is shooting, I can't see them and I cannot really hear what
direction it's coming from and sometimes I can't even hear anything at all.
However, with Fortnite I seem to be able to hear most of the sounds.
In Fortnite I can't hear the chest,
I'm never going to be able to hear the chest.
It has that harmonious, very high-pitched angel singing,
which is not something that I can hear at all and will likely never hear,
so that's something on Fortnite... That just doesn't work for me.
So with PUBG, if someone is faraway or maybe to my left or whatever
and I'm looking around and I'm rotating,
trying to find this person and getting an idea where they might be,
I have nothing to let me know where they might be.
And that's what makes it a more interesting game than Fortnite,
which likely somebody is going to be building in Fortnite
because they're trying to get high, they're trying to get highER,
in the air, get that height advantage.
If I'm hearing a sound, if I'm hearing a shot, a very loose sound of a shot,
I can still look and I'm going to get an idea of where they are -
like are they north-west? - because I might see somebody building.
That's a little bit of an accessibility advantage
to me personally or anyone who is deaf that is playing the game.
And some things that I can hear on PUBG,
like when the red zone is happening,
if I'm getting too close to the red zone but I'm doing something else
and I'm too distracted to look at the map to see where it is,
if I'm getting too close, I can hear the bombs dropping,
I can't hear the difference between a car and a plane,
so that's a little nerve-racking, but I think at the end of the day,
if you hear something, you get into position
and get out of the way regardless.
Also, I think that visually, Fortnite is a little bit easier.
Now, I cannot speak for anyone who may be visually impaired playing this game,
but when I'm relying on my eyes
you can't really see a whole lot with PUBG
because there's camo and all of that.
Fortnite has camo, yes, but everything is so saturated,
it's so colourful, and something can be the opposite on the colour wheel
and then you'll be able to notice if someone is doing a little something.
If I recall correctly, Fortnite has subtitles
and I have them turned on, but I've never seen subtitles, come up.
I'm actually wondering if that is a Battle Royale
or if that's the Save The World thing and not the Battle Royale thing,
but don't quote me.
I don't have the Save The World
because I'm waiting for it to become free to play later on in 2018.
All you suckers that paid for it already. Ha!
With PUBG, I've no idea if there are any subtitles,
but I can't imagine, just like with Fortnite, I can't imagine there
being a reason for subtitles on PUBG because nobody is doing any talking.
Unless a bomb drops down and the subtitles pop up
and then go "bomb dropping".
But I've never seen subtitles pop up,
so I'm not really sure why they are an option.
I'm glad they are an option. Captioning advocate over here.
But I just haven't really seen why that is there.
Overall, I think that's pretty much it that I can say about that right now.
I feel like the games are kind of so simple that there's not really
that much accommodation that is needed besides maybe working subtitles.
If you want to ask me which game I prefer, I'm still so used to Fortnite
that I think I prefer that a little bit more right now,
but I prefer the way that PUBG looks
and I like that it can make the game a little more interesting.
I understand why people have their personal preference, so...
So that's my opinion on the accessibility stuff
and the personal stuff.
If you are a player of both Fortnite and PUBG and you have
your own opinion on which is better, leave them down in the comments.
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And I will see you later. Bye.