On 6/16/22, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote:
Hi Juan,
Regarding the game play; if you're already familiar with the Forza Horizon
series? The game takes place in an open world environment in and around a
fictional racing and music festival. In this version, the Horizon Festival
is in Mexico. So the map offers many environments based on the various
Mexican landscapes.
In the case of FH5, we now have spoken menus (with several caveats) and an
Accessibility menu of options which allow us to independently play several
portions of the game.
Unfortunately, the game has quite a few rough edges regarding full access to
someone without any sight but conversely, also allows us to really
experience a lot of enjoyment and get a lot out of the game.
I’ve posted before on the map so for more details on this, you may want to
go back in the threads over the last couple of weeks on this. If you can’t
locate the earlier messages, just let me know and I can re-post some of my
earlier notes on this.
Essentially though, even though the map is not technically accessible
without sight, there are a couple of game features which make it somewhat
usable for us.
Also, the game as a GPS system and driving assists which allow us to
independently drive from place to place in the game and take part in races.
The full driving assistance uses the game’s own AI to drive our car for us.
the skill aspect of the interaction that we have in the game is limited, in
the sense that we don’t have a whole lot of control of our driving (when
using full assists) but we are able to choose the amount of driving
assistance we use and we also can override the assists to drive wherever we
want at any time just by manually steering. So we’re not limited to just
being a spectator as it were. The spatial audio is nothing short of amazing
so we can be as active as we choose when it comes to racing while still
letting the AI get us through the checkpoints during the race.
Also, we can actively steer our vehicle out of situations where we may be
stuck etc, or if we just want to go off of the GPS route. I often go
off-road during skill songs to get points by drifting etc. Once I then let
the AI take control of the car again, it will get me back to the road and
the route that I was on originally.
There are also stories in the game, which are made up of shorter, more
guided activities which contain a lot of narration and description of what
is going on and what we’re expected to do. Other folks may have more
feedback here, as I’ve only done just a few stories but from what I’ve seen
so far, just relying on the AI here is usually all that is required, but
within that context, there are other aspects of stories that do need other
interactions from us that we may be able to do. Overall though, since these
are described so well, these scenarios are very cool and fun.
There are unfortunately, way more menus that are not narrated than I’d like
to see, but some of this can be gotten around anyway. So for now, I’m still
very much supportive of this game and I think this really shows what just a
few added features can do for us. -Especially for something like a driving
game in this vein. Considering that this is a current and very popular game
in this genre, for us to have the level of access to this that we do is
seriously amazing!
anyway, hope this helps and gives you some insights into this. If you need
more specifics just let me know and I or someone else can respond.
Thanks Juan and have a great weekend!
Cheers!
Cara
On Jun 15, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Juan Hernandez <juanhernande...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I am interested. Can you speak to the game play? How you manage to
navigate the game?
Best,
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<blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io>> On Behalf Of Cara
Quinn
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Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] F1 Manager 2022
Hi Nick,
Welcome to the list. I don’t post often but have been doing so a bit more
of late.
I too love racing games and have just discovered that Forza Horizon 5 is
somewhat accessible, so this might be something you’re interested in. One
or two others here on the list are also playing it.
it’s definitely not perfect (with quite a few rough edges) but with a bit
of persistance, it can be quite a fun driving / racing experience.
If you’re interested and would like to know more, I can share more
details. -or someone else may chime in as well. Just let us know.
Have a great day and enjoy the list!
Cheers!
Cara
On Jun 8, 2022, at 5:33 AM, Nickus de Vos <sh...@zs6us.co.za
<mailto:sh...@zs6us.co.za>> wrote:
Hi all
I'm new to this list.
One aspect of gaming I really miss since losing a lot of my eye site years
ago is sports, cricket, rugby racing games etc.
Yesterday I came across this new title which will be launching later this
year. Note this is not the F1 22 game, this is a different game which is
pure management.
I wonder if anyone know something with regards to the accessibility of
this game or similar games. It would be really awesome if developers can
make games like these accessible.
Nick
