Hi all. Yes I am still around, just have not had much time to read the stuff on here lately. As most of you know my mainstream gaming experience though fairly extensive is pretty much limited to consoles. The only things I will mention here are that, unless you have sighted help around pretty consistently, there are indeed going to be many of the newer mainstream titles that you will not be able to play very well. In general these are games where you as the main character have to do a lot of exploring, finding items, solving visual puzzles, etc. These kinds of obstacles will unfortunately eliminate many of the big roleplaying and strategy titles that a lot of your sighted friends are playing unless you happen to have friends who are willing to sit there and help you play the games which is not real common. There are exceptions to this of course. For instance I enjoy playing around with the PS3 title "Heavenly Sword" because of the really amazing sounds and ambience that are in the game, plus the fact that although you cannot complete it by yourself, it is possible to get pretty far in the game by trial and error.
Having said this, I should point out that with a lot of patience and trial and error, we can learn to enjoy many mainstream titles. The game categories that I've known blind people to have the most success with and have had success myself are: fighting games such as the Tekken series, the Mortal Kombat series, and other similar games. Next are sports games such as baseball, football, boxing, wrestling etc. I should point out that I'm not really into sports myself and so have not devoted the needed time and effort to learning any of these. Lastly are the rhythm games like the Rockband and Guitar Hero series and similar games. With all these available for most consoles and to some degree for pc's as well, there is no reason why someone who is blind should not investigate mainstream gaming provided you have some patience and a willingness to spend some time working with them. I could be much better than I am at the mainstream games I have if I was willing and able to put more time into them but that just isn't the case for now. Nonetheless I enjoy my mainstream titles at least as much as my accessible ones and in fact tend to play them more often. Game on. Tom On Sep 29, 2011, at 5:46 AM, john wrote: > Hi all, the recent conversation on mainstream games has gotten me > thinking about the experiences I've had with them. I'm curious to see what > kind of experiences you guys have had, whether it be how you play a certain > game, or what you do to enjoy it. For my part, beyond the novalogic games I > mentioned earlier, I've found a lot of mainstream games entirely useless. A > prime example of this would be the lego star wars series by lukas arts. > Believe it or not, the first two games in that group were in mono. Anyway, > I'd like to here about what how you play mainstream games, or what kind of > things to do to better understand them. I'd be interested in any strategies > you use to help improve access ability. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
