Hi Juan, Regarding the game play; if you're already familiar with the Forza Horizon series? The game takes place in an open world environment in and around a fictional racing and music festival. In this version, the Horizon Festival is in Mexico. So the map offers many environments based on the various Mexican landscapes.
In the case of FH5, we now have spoken menus (with several caveats) and an Accessibility menu of options which allow us to independently play several portions of the game. Unfortunately, the game has quite a few rough edges regarding full access to someone without any sight but conversely, also allows us to really experience a lot of enjoyment and get a lot out of the game. I’ve posted before on the map so for more details on this, you may want to go back in the threads over the last couple of weeks on this. If you can’t locate the earlier messages, just let me know and I can re-post some of my earlier notes on this. Essentially though, even though the map is not technically accessible without sight, there are a couple of game features which make it somewhat usable for us. Also, the game as a GPS system and driving assists which allow us to independently drive from place to place in the game and take part in races. The full driving assistance uses the game’s own AI to drive our car for us. the skill aspect of the interaction that we have in the game is limited, in the sense that we don’t have a whole lot of control of our driving (when using full assists) but we are able to choose the amount of driving assistance we use and we also can override the assists to drive wherever we want at any time just by manually steering. So we’re not limited to just being a spectator as it were. The spatial audio is nothing short of amazing so we can be as active as we choose when it comes to racing while still letting the AI get us through the checkpoints during the race. Also, we can actively steer our vehicle out of situations where we may be stuck etc, or if we just want to go off of the GPS route. I often go off-road during skill songs to get points by drifting etc. Once I then let the AI take control of the car again, it will get me back to the road and the route that I was on originally. There are also stories in the game, which are made up of shorter, more guided activities which contain a lot of narration and description of what is going on and what we’re expected to do. Other folks may have more feedback here, as I’ve only done just a few stories but from what I’ve seen so far, just relying on the AI here is usually all that is required, but within that context, there are other aspects of stories that do need other interactions from us that we may be able to do. Overall though, since these are described so well, these scenarios are very cool and fun. There are unfortunately, way more menus that are not narrated than I’d like to see, but some of this can be gotten around anyway. So for now, I’m still very much supportive of this game and I think this really shows what just a few added features can do for us. -Especially for something like a driving game in this vein. Considering that this is a current and very popular game in this genre, for us to have the level of access to this that we do is seriously amazing! anyway, hope this helps and gives you some insights into this. If you need more specifics just let me know and I or someone else can respond. Thanks Juan and have a great weekend! Cheers! Cara > On Jun 15, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Juan Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am interested. Can you speak to the game play? How you manage to navigate > the game? > > Best, > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Cara > Quinn > Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 2:38 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: Cara Quinn <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] F1 Manager 2022 > > Hi Nick, > > Welcome to the list. I don’t post often but have been doing so a bit more of > late. > > I too love racing games and have just discovered that Forza Horizon 5 is > somewhat accessible, so this might be something you’re interested in. One or > two others here on the list are also playing it. > > it’s definitely not perfect (with quite a few rough edges) but with a bit of > persistance, it can be quite a fun driving / racing experience. > > If you’re interested and would like to know more, I can share more details. > -or someone else may chime in as well. Just let us know. > > Have a great day and enjoy the list! > > Cheers! > > Cara > > > > > On Jun 8, 2022, at 5:33 AM, Nickus de Vos <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm new to this list. > > One aspect of gaming I really miss since losing a lot of my eye site years > ago is sports, cricket, rugby racing games etc. > > Yesterday I came across this new title which will be launching later this > year. Note this is not the F1 22 game, this is a different game which is pure > management. > > I wonder if anyone know something with regards to the accessibility of this > game or similar games. It would be really awesome if developers can make > games like these accessible. > > Nick > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#125078): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/125078 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/91622538/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
