Hi. First of all, though I'm not a big fan of cursing either, I agree that we should have accessible games that are other than just E-rated. We're blind people not perpetual children, therefore those of us who are inclined to play adult games should have the option of doing so. Now that wouldn't be me, but I know it would be some people.
Secondly, what I'd like to see, pun strictly not intended, is, rather than a separate console for the blind, new games that were both fully visual and fully audible simultaneously. That way, they could be played by both blind and sighted together. I'm curious to know. Has this ever been tried? To my mind, this has great possibilities for furthering efforts at integration. I love audio-games, and it's great that we have them. But, and this is strictly my opinion so please nobody take offense, but I fear that there is a bit of a danger of ghettoisation if we think only in terms of designing auditory games for us ourselves. Does that make any sense? ----- Original Message ----- From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: audyssey: game console thoughts >I too would love to see some of those popular console games translated >over. I have a PS2 and I get a kick out of using Grand theft auto: vice >city. putting in the various cheats for weapons and tanks and such and >creating general havoc to all those unsuspecting pedestrians. I am not >able to see the screen so that is about the most I can accomplish on that >game. > As for cursing. I am not a fan of it. I don't like it in my house so why > would I want it in my games? Of course I don't have to buy and play the > games that have cursing, but then the developer suffers as well as the > buyer. I think if a game requires cursing it should be an option to be > turned on and off.GTA in it's defense isn't as bad as some other games I > have played and it isn't cursing for the sake of cursing. This is how > those characters are supposed to talk, more or less. But I must say, > that if there was an equally similar, good game like GTA that didn't > curse I would go with the other game. > > Lastly,it is too bad sony can't make the playstation for the visually > impaired. They could call it "sound station" and instead of hooking it up > to a tv, it could be hooked into a giant fifty six inch speaker. Of course > I would insist on the brainjack and immersion into the matrix, but that > might be for the playstation four., lol > > allan > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
