Hi Damien AND ALL. Thomas and Clemant have done a pretty excellent job of covering this, so I won't have a whole lot to add here other than the suggestion that you maybe spend some time listening to some gaming videos on youtube, there are all kinds of them out there, this may give you some ideas as to what games sound interesting to you. As others have said the fighting games seem to be the easiest to pick up and play, although yes there is definitely a good amount of memorization and/or writing things down especially at first. Fortunately there are some really excellent mainstream gamers here who may have already done a lot of the legwork on this for you. For example, yohandy, definitely one of the mainstream gamers on here fairly recently posted a complete writeup on the character grid in superstreetfighter IV. This is important because especially when you are first learning the game it is pretty essential that you pick the same character each time and work on learning that character's moves, each character has different moves and things. Without such a writeup or sighted assistance to tell you which character is which there's no easy way to tell without actually starting a fight.
One more thing I will add, although I absolutely love mainstream gaming myself I will definitely say it is not for everyone. Not everyone has the patience or the time or the energy that one needs to put into learning these things. I make no secret that I am just an ok mainstream gamer not because I can't learn them but just because I don't have as much time or energy as I would like to put into them. I intend to get better and I will, but it will just take a while. If you want to find out whether or not this is for you, in other words if you want to get your feet wet before spending too much money, because this does cost what I call a significant amount to get into, one possible option is to buy a slightly older system such as a ps2. There are lots of good games that we can play on the ps2 several of the mortal kombat games, one or more of the tekken games, at least one Soul Calibur title, probably some of the streetfighter titles although I am not sure which ones as well as some sports titles if that is your thing and more besides. Ps2's can be had pretty cheap and the games are very inexpensive. So if you have absolutely no experience in mainstream gaming and you maybe want to give it a try without laying out a huge amount of cash this might be a way. I hope this is helpful, feel free to write me either on or off list if I can answer any questions. Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Damien Pendleton Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:50 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Mainstream gaming Hi, I have seen a lot of discussions on this list about mainstream gaming, particularly most recently Wii Bowling. How can blind people play mainstream games? I used to have a Playstation many years ago and I could never get the hang of playing the games because of the small amount of audio that is involved. If I could have some tips and perhaps a list of games that are playable by the blind that would be very much appreciated. Also which console is best for such games? Thanks. Regards, Damien. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
