joystiq.com— A color-blind gamer discusses how it affects his gaming life and in particular, how he manages to play Rockstar's Table Tennis.
Jul 31, 2006View in Crawl 4
The majority of people that are 'color deficient' are very mildly deficient and frequently won't even know it. There are actually a bunch of different types of colorblindness, but mild red/green is the most common.
My friend cameron has a lot of trouble with metroid prime with the last part of the game.. Hell even I do and I see fine. Purple and blue metroids are hard to pick apart
I have a friend who is colorblind and can't play certain games because he can't tell the difference between certain characters. Halo is an example he uses, there is no difference in the color of the master chief in Deathmatch to him.
I have also noticed that I'm good at spotting details that elude people with normal colourvision and that my nightvision is better than most.Are there other advantages to being colorblind ?
cmizJul 31, 2006
The majority of people that are 'color deficient' are very mildly deficient and frequently won't even know it. There are actually a bunch of different types of colorblindness, but mild red/green is the most common.
njankJul 31, 2006
there are different degrees of colorblindness. yours would be... ?
neotechniJul 31, 2006
My friend cameron has a lot of trouble with metroid prime with the last part of the game.. Hell even I do and I see fine. Purple and blue metroids are hard to pick apart
tochiJul 31, 2006
I have a friend who is colorblind and can't play certain games because he can't tell the difference between certain characters. Halo is an example he uses, there is no difference in the color of the master chief in Deathmatch to him.
bob_oliverJul 31, 2006
I wrote to RockStar about this... they sent me a nice email, a tshirt, and some stickers.
ceejaydkAug 1, 2006
I have also noticed that I'm good at spotting details that elude people with normal colourvision and that my nightvision is better than most.Are there other advantages to being colorblind ?
sautegodAug 1, 2006
Using the heat vision goggles in splinter cell was hell.everything looked the same.I've also shot my share of team mates at LAN party's
jakedoomAug 1, 2006
Thank you for letting them know of my problem hah. but yeah, it does suck to be colorblind and need color's to play a game correctly.