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Would you all watch a let's play channel like this? (self.Blind)
submitted by Fournote
So I don't want to generalize, but I don't know if watching people play video games is really something a lot of people on this subreddit enjoy. Hear me out though. I was thinking of doing a let's play channel on youtube where I play lots of old-school story-driven games like Japanese role playing games. A lot of them have really good stories, but there isn't any voice acting or anything like that. I was thinking of playing these games, but also reading the dialogue and providing physical descriptions of the characters and environments, and describing what's going on so everyone can enjoy them, not just people who can already play these games. Would anyone on here enjoy something like that? I grew up with these games and I want everyone to be able to enjoy them, not just sighted people like me.
Nighthawk321 3 points 7y ago
I would totally enjoy them. I often watch a lot of pokemon let's plays that have descriptive commentators. I'm blind, but I also do let's plays. Check out mine by searching Ross Minor!
Fournote [OP] 1 points 7y ago
Dude, I just watched your Mortal Kombat video. That's awesome! I guess I never realized how some games can be played with sound like that.
bhmode 1 points 7y ago
Do it man, you can come on our show and talk about it whenever you begin.
Fournote [OP] 1 points 7y ago
Wow, that sounds great! I've actually uploaded the first two videos. I'll upload one a day from then on. I'm going to be pretty busy over the next week or so and I'll be out of town for the weekend, but just contact me and we can work out a time to talk.
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fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
I would watch this! The woman who did The Guild had a let's play thing going on where she was playing strange Japanese RPGS a while ago, can't remember what it was called though. But she didn't always bother to read text. So I gave up on it after 1 or 2 of them.
Bonus points for doing it as a livestream, and taking suggestions over Twitter.
Speaking of, I'm still looking for a portal 2 let's play that doesn't suck.
Bonus points for doing it as a livestream, and taking suggestions over Twitter.
Speaking of, I'm still looking for a portal 2 let's play that doesn't suck.
AlexandrinaIsHere 2 points 7y ago
Sighted- surfing this sub because of a very creepy ophthalmologist visit -i have like 2 years to have a surgery if I don't wanna lose my right eye- which is actually my dominant and more accurate eye. Was here mostly to look for ideas on audio book apps, hard to not procrastinate surgery when I think I'll have nothing for entertainment post operation.
Note to self- do a let's play once I get home wifi set up. I'm not good at portal 2, but I think bad players are more entertaining on let's play anyhow.
Saving your post. Intend to dm with a link if/when done. Promise to read all text.
Note to self- do a let's play once I get home wifi set up. I'm not good at portal 2, but I think bad players are more entertaining on let's play anyhow.
Saving your post. Intend to dm with a link if/when done. Promise to read all text.
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
Well, as for audio book apps, Audible is fully accessible even without sight. So is TuneIn, and TuneIn premium has a large assortment of audiobooks. Depending on your country, you might be able to sign up for bookshare.org, and have text to speech read you there thousands and thousands of titles. The best app to use with bookshare, at least on IOS, is VoiceDreamReader. And that's just audio books. The YouTube apps are completely accessible, and there's lots and lots of interesting content on YouTube, even if you can't see the visuals. Ashens is a good example; mostly what he does is eat strange food, make fun of crappy action figures, and play old game consoles nobody's ever heard of. I've only felt like I was missing something in maybe 10 out of something like 500 uploads. But he's just one of hundreds of interesting youtubers I subscribe to. And then there are podcasts! ICatcher is my go-to app, and I subscribe to over 300 podcasts currently. Once you get through all that, there are accessible games on IOS and windows, hundreds of them. I'm completely serious when I tell you that if you go blind, entertaining yourself is going to be the absolute least of your problems. I'm totally blind, and I have more entertainment options than I could ever consume, even if I spent 24 hours a day listening to things, without ever eating or sleeping.
To get back on topic, I'll look forward to the let's play! I agree that bad players can be more interesting. What I meant by a "let's play that doesn't suck" is that every let's player I can find speaks over the excelent voice work in that game, and it makes me sad. The Portal games are the only games I've ever heard where the voice acting wasn't deeply, deeply substandard. Most games the voices just feel rushed or poor quality, like the developers only really cared about the visuals anyway, and good voice acting came in as an extremely low priority on the todo list.
Edit to add: well, the radio and commercials in GTA are a second game where the voice acting is OK. But it isn't nearly good enough to get on actual radio or TV. It's just "good for a game". Portal does a job that's miles better.
To get back on topic, I'll look forward to the let's play! I agree that bad players can be more interesting. What I meant by a "let's play that doesn't suck" is that every let's player I can find speaks over the excelent voice work in that game, and it makes me sad. The Portal games are the only games I've ever heard where the voice acting wasn't deeply, deeply substandard. Most games the voices just feel rushed or poor quality, like the developers only really cared about the visuals anyway, and good voice acting came in as an extremely low priority on the todo list.
Edit to add: well, the radio and commercials in GTA are a second game where the voice acting is OK. But it isn't nearly good enough to get on actual radio or TV. It's just "good for a game". Portal does a job that's miles better.
AlexandrinaIsHere 1 points 7y ago
You might like portal stories: Mel. People made a mod for portal 2, took years and made something the size of a full game. It's ten times harder than portal 2 so most let's plays spend time going ' is this broken? I think this room is broken' before finding the solution. But the voice work is nifty. Made as a labor of love by people who love the original. If I get set up I'd try to do that one a bit descriptively. Some of the awesome there is how, unlike valve, they don't highlight the solution.
I'm less worried I might go blind from the surgery than I am worried I might screw up the post op by being impatient and bored. I totally get that permanent vision loss = time to figure out how to run a smartphone etc- but before the surgery I need to be sure that reading things before I'm allowed to isn't a temptation. I mean- the longest Harry potter book, I read in 13 hours.
I'm less worried I might go blind from the surgery than I am worried I might screw up the post op by being impatient and bored. I totally get that permanent vision loss = time to figure out how to run a smartphone etc- but before the surgery I need to be sure that reading things before I'm allowed to isn't a temptation. I mean- the longest Harry potter book, I read in 13 hours.
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
Ah, fair enough. Explains why entertainment is your largest worry. I thought you were like "Oh no! I'm going blind; now how will I ever have fun again?" I admit, I did think that was an odd one. :-) So to give you a more useful answer: you can set audible (audible.com) up to continue to the next book when the first book is finished. So get yourself a bunch of books from audible, and a bluetooth with pause, next, and previous buttons. That way you can read without looking, and you'll never actually have to learn to use your smartphone while blind; just press pause, next, and previous buttons on your headset.
rkingett 1 points 7y ago
I watch lets players that read text and the like. Christopher Odd always does this and I also think he is a great player. I would so watch these, yes
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