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What games do you guys like to play? (self.Blind)
submitted by jnpg
Are there specific genres that people with bad vision tend to gravitate towards, or do the games have to specifically be blind-friendly in order to be playable?
fastfinge 5 points 5y ago
If you're totally blind, there are a lot of web games (Kingdom of Loathing, Core Exiles, etc) that you can play. Also, most MUDs are accessible, because they're just scrolling text anyway. I tend to rotate between Alter Aeon, LostSouls, and coffeemud myself.
KillerLag 3 points 5y ago
Also keep in mind that it doesn't have to be video games people play. They have braille cards for card games, and adaptations for board games ( http://www.64ouncegames.com/ ). I've also met a few people who play D&D, and either use large print to track their stuff or use a notetaking app.
Marconius 2 points 5y ago
Fully blind here. I tend to play quick pick-up and go games on my iPhone like Dice World, the blindfold game series with Craps, Blackjack, Poker, and sometimes Trivia Crack when I can stomach their shitty interface and UX problems.

RS Games on my Macbook works quite well and has a good host of games to choose from, playing against bots or multiplayer with other blind folks.

I've used a combination of a Perkins brailler and KNFB reader to put braille on all my Cards Against Humanity cards so I can play with my friends. I hand coded an accessible website for Dominion, another awesome card game. I put braille on the cards and pull up my site so I can quickly listen to the card instructions while playing so I don't constantly have to bug people to read them to me. I also added braille to Exploding Kittens which is super fast and hilarious. My sighted friends figured out how to read the punched braille from the backs of the cards, though, so they were able to figure out what was coming. Also enjoy normal playing card games like Rummy, Blackjack, Poker, or Baccarat with a standard brailled deck of cards, or playing Uno with a brailled set.

I love listening to games that I used to play when I had vision. Using my photographic memory, I can remember all the locales and levels from Battlefield 3, for instance, and have even guided friends in while they played the game so I could listen to everything through my living room 5.1 system.
Ramildo 2 points 5y ago
There is a huge range of bad vision levels even in legal blindness. I've never had more than 10% of sight which would qualify me as legally blind in the US, however that lack of vision never prevented me from playing any kind of game as I could see color and contrast just fine and sit closer to the screen, at least until my vision started to deteriorate.

In any case, the game I played the longest was World of Warcraft, and one feature in particular that I loved about that game was the ability to customize the entire user interface using community-developed add-ons. Two examples of add-ons that I used were ArcHUD and Grid. The first transformed the health and power bars into concentric arcs for me and my target and displayed them at the center of my field of view, and the second allowed me to move the party and raid frames to the bottom center of the screen and to customize colorful dots and outlines to show me lots of information about every player in my raid.

Before World of Warcraft I also played a lot of The Elder Scrolls series, so I guess i just like fantasy RPGs with lots of spells, bows, and swords, but I gravitated to those games out of preference, not because of my vision.

Nowadays, as a fully blind individual, I no longer play any games because I feel that I'm losing way too much of the experience.
Terry_Pie 2 points 5y ago
If you're talking video games, these days I stick to Turn Based Strategy games (specifically Civilization V, I've posted here and on /r/civ about my frustrations with Civ VI - it's dreadful for someone with vision impairment). Personally turn based games, or games where you have an unlimited amount of time to make decisions (i.e. games where you can pause at any time, like FTL or Dragon Age) suit me best.

I do still do ARAMs in League of Legends with my yank mates though (sometimes I even do well, I got an S- with Dr Mundo the other month! I usually get C grades though, Bs in good games, and plenty of Ds). I also play Company of Heroes, but only singleplayer these days (I used to play 2v2 ranked a lot). I like shooters, RPGs, and MMOs too, but the first and third are a bit beyond my ability these days, and the second I've not got into anything recently.

Tabletop I play all the RPGs. They're great because you can do all theatre of the mind and your friends can read the dice for you, or there's probably a talking dice ap you could use too. I'm ever the DM/GM. I'm running Curse of Strahd at the moment (I'm retyping the whole book more or less, cutting it down though, so I can have large print, white on black, on hand on my tablet. I love tabletop RPGs in general though and own eight different games (two versions of D&D and Shadowrun, so technically 6 individual games) and I've a list of others to buy (top of the list is the Cypher system).

And I also play boardgames! I want to get a Braille labeler so I can make my collection more accessible. At the moment it isn't an issue, but I'd like to get the most out of it into the future. Some games I need help with (I can't tell green from grey, white from yellow, and orange from pink in Ticket to Ride for example), but I'm mostly ok on my own for now.

Edit: I thought I might add some more detail on League of Legends. Basically I stick to tanks and a few supports. I lose my mouse constantly, so I like and do best with champions that aren't point and click, i.e. no attack damage carries. So champions like Sona are awesome because I just move around and press buttons, aim my ultimate (which is easy to see because it is big) and right click things occasionally if possible. Or tanks where I just have to be in the middle of a fight doing damage from auras and aiming the occasional skill shot (they've large targeting things that're easy to see). I just want assists. If I get a kill, I'm doing it wrong. ARAMs are just silly, so while it is nice to win, we're not playing for sheep stations so losing isn't the end of the world.

B-dub31 2 points 5y ago
I’ve wanted to ask the same question myself because Ive been a gamer my whole life and it is one of my favorite hobbies. I have a limited field of vision and heavy visual static in most of my visual field, but have one good spot with only light static, but it is nearer to the top of my field at the 2 o’clock position.

I’ve been playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild lately. Since it’s mostly exploration and manageable combat, I do okay for the most part. I have a harder time with bosses, dimly lit environments, and when there a lot of particle effects going on (smoke, fog, etc.). I also have a hard time seeing item drops because they look like sparkles.

I honestly find myself playing older 8-16 bit games because the graphics are just simpler. Of course, things with twitch action or screen filling action are no goes now. EA Sports posts here from time to time and they really seem to want to make their titles accessible to the visually impaired. If you’re into sports, you might want to check them out.


BeardedJerry 2 points 5y ago
I typically gravitate towards fighting games like Tekken. But I try to play most kinds of games. Though not competitive or even online in some games because gamers online won't give a second thought to telling a person to kill themselves if they aren't good enough. I'm speaking from experience here.
Obviously I'm not totally blind or I'd probably have to find other kinds of games.
EndlessReverberation 1 points 5y ago
I play Texas Holdem poker online with dozens of other blind people. It's a great game weather or not your eyeballs work. I play on a site called Blind adrenaline, you pay for your membership every six months, or once a year, and then you can play for free. There is also a growing real money faction of games and players that you can participate with if your interested, no matter what country your in.
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