I'm with Clement. I play a lot of te old SNES Mortal Kombat games and they're perfectly playable without sighted help. Granted that doesn't do any good if you're not into fighting games but it still proves my point. Besides, whhat I want to know is how these people got permission to develop games for the Wii since that couldn't have come cheaply.
On 2/5/12, Clement Chou <chou.clem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lol at games not being accessible just because the menus are tough to figure > > out... all three of you are trying to make points and noone and listening. > Let me just step in for a moment and say that in Michael's defense, > mainstream games can be hard to get into, especially for people spoiled with > > self-voicing menus. Michael, to be fair, you should give the games that are > > indeed playable on the wii a chance, rather than just writing them off as > not playable simply because you can't go through menus. And what exactly is > > wrong with memorization? It's attitudes like that, the lack of willingness > for change that has kept audio games in a rut for so long and produced so > many good but similar games. Personally, I think menus don't need to be > voiced, at least, main menus shouldn't. In game menus are a different thing, > > but it should be good enough for people to read the documentation and get > the main menu into their heads, and then work based from memory. Just my > personal opinion though. One last note... Michael, if you find a game which > > is playable, or try out a game given on this list, odds are at least one of > > us might have knowledge of the menus or at least the important ones. And if > > not, if the game sounds interesting, one of the people with sighted > assistance will get it, figure it out and post the results. This is why I > almost exclusively play fighting games... other than the genre we can get > into the most, I don't need any sighted assistance at all, figuring out > menus is something I can do on my own, since, funnily enough, most fighting > > games have a similar main menu structure. > > > --- > 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.
