I'm absolute shit at doing any kind of precision control with my right thumb. I basically stopped playing console FPSes entirely when dual analog became the norm. Was a machine at Goldeneye, couldn't play Halo at all. (Truth be told, I've always thought it weird that the primary d-pad / stick has always been on the left side in the first place.) I know not many other lefties seem to have it this bad, but eh.
It's funny that you specifically mentioned Halo, because Bungie is rare among companies in that they actually provide a way to swap the sticks in the control scheme on every Halo title, including Halo 1.
It's the only way I was able to get good at console FPS's, being likewise left handed.
I'm red green colorblind but perhaps a game where camoflage is the defining gameplay element wasn't a good example to highlight. I played and beat it no issue. You aren't supposed to see the death traps or soldiers.
I'm happy for you. I have a lot of fucking trouble seeing anything.
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But you know, now that you bring it up, it is a good example to highlight. Because I just started MGS4 instead, and guess what, camo is a defining gameplay element in it as well. But there's a little black outline around your character when camouflaged so you know where he is in relation to other things.
Not being able to see jack crap may be realistic, but it's not fun in a video game.
But that wouldn't help with seeing soldiers or traps would it? Or is everything outlined?
Was the "Left" control scheme not available in the first Halo? Have you tried it in newer games such as MW2 or Halo 3 and if so, does it help?
I can't stand the stock Southpaw control setups in dual-analog shooters either. I'm just that inept with using right sticks. The only dual-stick games I tend to be competent at are those in which both sticks perform the exact same functions (Katamari Damacy, Virtual On, etc).
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My father is colorblind, but I have 100% perfect color vision according to this test and I thank my lucky stars every day
According to the bar on the results page I am top percentile for colourblindness
Mines near the bottom, mainly in the pink hue, but overall pretty good. Never even knew I was even partly colourblind.
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I'm left-handed and don't really have any problem with right-hand oriented stylus games or dual analog controls. However, I also split things between hands; I write with my left, but throw with my right.
Pretty far cry from colorblindness, though. Given a bit of time and training, anyone can use both hands for anything. No training program to be not colorblind.
Not being able to see jack crap may be realistic, but it's not fun in a video game.
Yes, but Kojima also intentionally designs the control schemes to be bass-ackwards so his insane video games will feel more "real". I tell you what, if I want to lay some tall grass and poke my head up, it does not involve a thumbstick, facebutton, and pressure-sensitive trigger button which will randomly shift my view from "oh look, grass!" to "oh look, 90% grass and a kneecap!".
Kojima is not the guy I would look to in getting reasonable game design over stupid game design for aesthetic reasons.
yeah my scores in the other ones were perfect and in the pink one i think i got one wrong, but the blue one had quite a few errors and they were all clumped together on the spectrum thing.
BLUE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR! This is blowing my mind right now. It's only certain shades I guess, since I know I can certainly see blue, but it's very odd.
Question for the left-handed people: What hand do you use for the mouse on a computer, and are there any kinds of games or control schemes you find frustrating on the computer?
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To be fair, I rushed it. I just quickly arranged them, and did a bit of rearranging to fix some obvious errors. Not sure if that's how you're meant to do one of these tests, but it did seem like a good way - don't overthink shit, just arrange them, give it a glance to see if you immediately see one out of order.
Got a 15, but my eyes were about to kill me, and I was starting to see things. 2 wierdly bell curvy things around the yellow-green interface and blue-purple, but nothing between the 2
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Question for the left-handed people: What hand do you use for the mouse on a computer, and are there any kinds of games or control schemes you find frustrating on the computer?
I dunno about the first but I imagine for the second that since pretty much every PC game ever made...ever has key rebinding it isn't too much trouble
Question for the left-handed people: What hand do you use for the mouse on a computer, and are there any kinds of games or control schemes you find frustrating on the computer?
Don't really game on the PC all that much but I've never had a problem using a mouse with the right hand. All lefties get used to using their off hand to some extent. It just varies.
There is apparently a 56 in this - I don't see it.
From the wiki:
# Tritanomaly (equally rare for males and females [0.01% for both]):[18] Having a mutated form of the short-wavelength (blue) pigment. The short-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the green area of the spectrum. This is the rarest form of anomalous trichromacy color blindness. Unlike the other anomalous trichromacy color deficiencies, the mutation for this color blindness is carried on chromosome 7.[19] Therefore it is equally prevalent in both male & female populations. The OMIM gene code for this mutation is 304000 “Colorblindness, Partial Tritanomaly”.[20]
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I can see the 56. It's pink, which is more odd considering that's the colour I fucked up on in the other test.
Question for the left-handed people: What hand do you use for the mouse on a computer, and are there any kinds of games or control schemes you find frustrating on the computer?
Don't really game on the PC all that much but I've never had a problem using a mouse with the right hand. All lefties get used to using their off hand to some extent. It just varies.
It's funny, I use my left hand for writing, eating with utensils, and using the remote, but I use my right hand for everything else. Golf clubs, baseball bats, the computer mouse, and the normal way you play drums.
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Marty sort of beat me to this but I figure this is different enough, and I was wondering while playing Mario Galaxy 2 and its been haunting me since then so I am compelled to ask.
FOR THE LEFTIES THAT PLAY WII:
When using both Wiimote and Nunchuk, do you tend to hold the controllers in the style of a standard controller (nunchuk on left) or do you reverse it (nunchuk on right)?
Question for the left-handed people: What hand do you use for the mouse on a computer, and are there any kinds of games or control schemes you find frustrating on the computer?
Don't really game on the PC all that much but I've never had a problem using a mouse with the right hand. All lefties get used to using their off hand to some extent. It just varies.
It's funny, I use my left hand for writing, eating with utensils, and using the remote, but I use my right hand for everything else. Golf clubs, baseball bats, the computer mouse, and the normal way you play drums.
I'm right-handed, but the few times I've golfed or swung a bat, I did it left-handed.
I mean, the bat one makes sense (LOL ONE STEP CLOSER TO FIRST BASE!) but I dunno about the golfing.
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I write/golf left-handed and I have the nunchuck on the left, although that may be a result of my right arm being stronger. I dunno, I'm weird like that.
And that 56 at the top of the screen really faint for me, but I can still make it out when I concentrate.
I wonder how different types of synesthesia affects gaming for those who have it. Music games like REZ for those with sound color synesthesia would probably be weird.
As a child, Pat Duffy told her Dad, "I realized that to make an R all I had to do was first write a P and draw a line down from its loop. And I was so surprised that I could turn a yellow letter into an orange letter just by adding a line." Another grapheme synesthete says, "When I read, about five words around the exact one I'm reading are in color. It's also the only way I can spell. In elementary school I remember knowing how to spell the word 'priority' [with an "i" rather than an "e"] because ... an 'e' was out of place in that word because e's were yellow and didn't fit."[26]
Individuals rarely agree on what color a given sound is (composers Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov famously disagreed on the colors of music keys); however, synesthetes show the same trends as non-synesthetes do. For example, both groups say that loud tones are brighter than soft tones and that lower tones are darker than higher tones.
I'm left handed and I use a regular mouse with my right hand, no problems whatsoever.
Sometimes I play platformers with a gamepad (left hand on directions, right hand on jumping/attacking) and sometimes I play them with a keyboard (right hand on arrow keys and left hand on Z,X,C) and don't really notice a difference.
I use the wiimote on my right hand and the nunchuck on my left hand.
I use my left hand exclusively to interact with the nintendo DS screen. On games where you use buttons 99% of the time but can select stuff by poking them I use my left thumb.
edit: I did the color test a long while ago and got a good but not perfect score. I just did it again and got perfect vision. It depends a bit on luck and what monitor you're using.
Question for the left-handed people: What hand do you use for the mouse on a computer, and are there any kinds of games or control schemes you find frustrating on the computer?
I'm left handed, use my mouse left-handed and I have my mouse buttons switched. It's a setting in Windows and just about every game works fine like that. I remember playing the Hellgate London beta and the buttons didn't switch for that, but everything in that game was broken.
I do hate it when I can't change the controls. WASD is so alien to me. I'm so used to moving in games with the arrow keys. The W is slightly to the left of the S, I don't know how all you crazy right-handers do it.
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As a general rule the casual game space has vastly better colour blind support than AAA titles. All those bejeweled clones, excellent colourblindness support. Even game that don't do colour/shape combos for their game things will offer some kind of "highlight all red things", "highlight all green things" option - many even have a "Select your colour pallete option" so that you can fix the game depending on what colour blindness you have.
This made me think of Mass Effect 2's and some other games' annoying red blood thing that happened when you got low on health. Would it be even worse for colorblind people?
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Was the "Left" control scheme not available in the first Halo? Have you tried it in newer games such as MW2 or Halo 3 and if so, does it help?
It's the only way I was able to get good at console FPS's, being likewise left handed.
Mines near the bottom, mainly in the pink hue, but overall pretty good. Never even knew I was even partly colourblind.
Pretty far cry from colorblindness, though. Given a bit of time and training, anyone can use both hands for anything. No training program to be not colorblind.
Yes, but Kojima also intentionally designs the control schemes to be bass-ackwards so his insane video games will feel more "real". I tell you what, if I want to lay some tall grass and poke my head up, it does not involve a thumbstick, facebutton, and pressure-sensitive trigger button which will randomly shift my view from "oh look, grass!" to "oh look, 90% grass and a kneecap!".
Kojima is not the guy I would look to in getting reasonable game design over stupid game design for aesthetic reasons.
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I'm actually beginning to understand why my fiancee thinks I am insane when I tell her that her old car was Purple....
About 20-30% of the blue one looked pretty much identical to me. Was pretty trippy.
My actual score was around 150 i think.
BLUE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR! This is blowing my mind right now. It's only certain shades I guess, since I know I can certainly see blue, but it's very odd.
I dunno about the first but I imagine for the second that since pretty much every PC game ever made...ever has key rebinding it isn't too much trouble
There is apparently a 56 in this - I don't see it.
From the wiki:
# Tritanomaly (equally rare for males and females [0.01% for both]):[18] Having a mutated form of the short-wavelength (blue) pigment. The short-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the green area of the spectrum. This is the rarest form of anomalous trichromacy color blindness. Unlike the other anomalous trichromacy color deficiencies, the mutation for this color blindness is carried on chromosome 7.[19] Therefore it is equally prevalent in both male & female populations. The OMIM gene code for this mutation is 304000 “Colorblindness, Partial Tritanomaly”.[20]
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Yeah, it's so weird. I can kind of see it, but I would never have guessed that it was actually 56 without being told it was.
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It's funny, I use my left hand for writing, eating with utensils, and using the remote, but I use my right hand for everything else. Golf clubs, baseball bats, the computer mouse, and the normal way you play drums.
FOR THE LEFTIES THAT PLAY WII:
When using both Wiimote and Nunchuk, do you tend to hold the controllers in the style of a standard controller (nunchuk on left) or do you reverse it (nunchuk on right)?
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I'm right-handed, but the few times I've golfed or swung a bat, I did it left-handed.
I mean, the bat one makes sense (LOL ONE STEP CLOSER TO FIRST BASE!) but I dunno about the golfing.
And that 56 at the top of the screen really faint for me, but I can still make it out when I concentrate.
Though they do say that lefties tend to be more creative and whatnot. Maybe I'm just jealous.
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Sometimes I play platformers with a gamepad (left hand on directions, right hand on jumping/attacking) and sometimes I play them with a keyboard (right hand on arrow keys and left hand on Z,X,C) and don't really notice a difference.
I use the wiimote on my right hand and the nunchuck on my left hand.
I use my left hand exclusively to interact with the nintendo DS screen. On games where you use buttons 99% of the time but can select stuff by poking them I use my left thumb.
edit: I did the color test a long while ago and got a good but not perfect score. I just did it again and got perfect vision. It depends a bit on luck and what monitor you're using.
I'm left handed, use my mouse left-handed and I have my mouse buttons switched. It's a setting in Windows and just about every game works fine like that. I remember playing the Hellgate London beta and the buttons didn't switch for that, but everything in that game was broken.
I do hate it when I can't change the controls. WASD is so alien to me. I'm so used to moving in games with the arrow keys. The W is slightly to the left of the S, I don't know how all you crazy right-handers do it.
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Edit: Bioshock 2 apparently had problems with the hacking minigame.
http://nukezilla.com/2010/02/11/what-bioshock-2s-hacking-looks-like-if-youre-colour-blind/