Difficulties

[Iwata]

I'm red/green colour-blind. That includes variations of those colours. In some games, that proves to be quite the bother.

In Bioshock 2, a game that I'm in love with, hacking is a chore for me. I can never tell where the red ends, and the green begins, so I usually have to have my girlfriend point those areas out to me.

Have you encountered any similar problems in your video game experiences?

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Is there a color blind setting?

I played CoD4 with a broken hand for a while.

 

[About To Crash]

Until I got glasses, I couldn't read most of the text in current gen console games like Assassin's Creed 2. I think it's more due to my TV that I still have trouble. I haven't checked, maybe there's a way to increase the font size.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Well, is being supremely awesome a difficulty?

No?

In that case, no, I do not.

 

[reg42]

Not me personally, but there's a person I've met who has one hand and one stump. and he kicks ASS at Counter Strike. He could pwn about 80% of the people on this site.

 

[Darktau]

Yeh, playing Air Rivals on vista, you couldn't read any of the text at all!

oh and lagg. Ive never really been affected by physical/mental difficulties in games though :S

 

[Ekonk]

I've got ADHD. It's not a problem. Not a problem gaming-wise.

Absolute lack of concentration, discipline and order is IRL, though. If I were to have a nickname, it should be the prince of chaos.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

First, you have the coolest girl friend ever.

Second, I have mild OCD, and it usually doesn't affect much, other than compulsive reloading and hoarding (I have around two hundred keys in oblivion).

 

[electric_warrior]

Broke some ribs once, pretty much curtailed every activity that involved sittng, moving, walking, running, lying down, being still and breathing

 

[Tharwen]

Not much, except that my contact lenses dry up and start to blur at around 10pm, which is before prime gaming time.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Is there a color blind setting?

I played CoD4 with a broken hand for a while.

This. Apart from the fact that I was playing Halo 3.

 

[chris11246]

I have problems with light greens and yellows and some greens and reds oh and blue and purple. I always have a problem on Cod trying to figure out if the helecopter is green or red on the radar.(i sometimes have to check by trying to lock on)

 

[PureAussieGamer]

I have a oldish tv that has like a rounded tv screen. And sometimes the shorter screen will cut off words from the top and the bottom. Which can be like health bars etc.

 

[ImForReal]

When I have my contact lenses on, I have a very hard time reading white text on a black background, and it is rather common. Not as fun to read some important game-play info or story element when it blurs into white unreadable lines.
It's fine with glasses though... Find it kinda strange :/

 

[hazabaza1]

I can't talk to anyone online because around this time of my life, my Tourettes is really acting up. People at school don't believe me, I doubt internet people would, they'd just think I'm being annoying.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Cut the end of my thumb off once.

Didn't stop me from playing in a Jedi Outcast tournament though.

That was a painfully fun filled day.

 

[jasoncyrus]

managed to get ingrown nails on my index and middle finger on my right hand from nervous chwing...that made playing shooters and wow rather....interesting.

 

[Andy_Panthro]

Here's a link [http://negativegamer.com/2010/02/11/what-bioshock-2s-hacking-looks-like-if-youre-colour-blind/] to see what Bioshock 2's hacking looks like if you have certain types of colour blindness.

This link [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/12/colourblind-gaming-is-it-in-his-eyes/] is for the Rock, Paper, Shotgun blog's take on the issue.

 

[Iwata]

Glad to see the issue is at least getting attention by some people.

 

[SantoUno]

Until I got glasses, I couldn't read most of the text in current gen console games like Assassin's Creed 2. I think it's more due to my TV that I still have trouble. I haven't checked, maybe there's a way to increase the font size.

I had a similiar problem when I had the PS3, lots of the small text was almost unreadable to me. In Prototype I could NOT tell which button the instructions for each power were indicating because I could not indentify the symbol.

It is because my TV is not so big and is a cheap, old concave (or convex?) screen that was serious pixel troubles with current-gen games.