Let's just say that as a total we've been able to play more games than most
people expect... even my friends with low vision. Fighting games are
probaqbly boring only because you play against the computer... it's much
more stimulating to play against humans and delve into the meet of the game
which is usually more mental. Street Fighter IV, for example, has pretty
simple mechanics. But those mechanics build into longer combos and strategy
that can't be found in any other genre. But totals can play the majority of
hack n slashes to at least a certain degree. Many people are able to play
Ninja gaiden 3 without issue and are already close to beating the game, and
games such as Rock Band and some sports games are also playable. But that's
a whole other topic. lol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Wassel" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] what will it take for this community to learn?
I am not about to read 40 messages, so I will just comment on this first
one. I agree with Thomas on his points. While I don't play many audio
games mainly because I don't care for the content when I have other games
on my ps2/ps3 that I play more, I see it all the time with this community
that people aren't happy, that they bitch and moan about keys/cracks of
games all the time after a game is released, and even after it's been
released. However, you can't put the blind community at 100% fault. The
same thing goes on with sighted gamers. But since we are a relatively
smaller community it hits a lot harder. If you don't have a thick skin and
can just let comments roll off, you're going to quit. This is why I don't
develop. One reason is because I don't have the time to do it, the other
reason is if I did and started to get a whole lot of complaints, I know
I'd explode on somebody.
I've said it before. These debs go through a lot of work to create a game
for everyone to enjoy. It takes a while to code and find bugs and get rid
of them. I'm glad Jeremy has not quit his work because right now, he's
the only one that is making modern games for us. If he wasn't here, I
doubt that TRTR would've been made or any of the other games that are
starting to come out. The same thing happened with Entombed. That was
the closest that I've ever seen an audio game come to final fantasy. I'd
like to see more like that, however I know that that starts to get harder
because with more complex things you want happening, the more code you
need to put in/the more time you need to put into the game.
Another person who has been working with this for a while is Dentin. He's
actually put in code for us to make Alter better and easier to play. Not
only does he put up with sighted people bitching at him because equipment
gets dented or things are really hard, but he's putting up with the blind
community complaining when mush-z doesn't work. Hopefully most of those
messages get sent to the right channel but who knows.
I don't know if I'll read this thread after I send this message. But I'll
repeat what I said at the beginning of this reply. While we are a smaller
community, we can not put all the blame on the blind people. This kind of
thing happens on a much larger scale with the sighted players. However,
if we keep this up pretty soon you're going to have no one left who wants
to make games for the blind and then you all will start complaining about
how you all have nothing that matches up with what todays consoles have.
And whose fault will that be but your own? Not everyone can play todays
games on the ps3 or Xbox360. I know I'm having trouble with the little
amount of vision that I have. It's almost impossible for me to play
anything new that comes out because the print is to small for me to read
or I can't see what is on the screen. I know it's way harder if not
completely impossible for totals to play anything but fighting games which
I can not stand whatsoever. They just bore me after about 15 minutes. As
I said, keep it up and see what happens.
Mike.
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