Man. This is getting gamefaqs level of debate here. :d On 3/7/10, Yohandy <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > lol and you're not attacking people huh? ----- reread that last email you > sent. you know, I'm done with this stupid arguement. think whatever you wish > to think. You're obviously doing that anyway and are basically disregarding > everything I've said in the last few emails. You'll keep this arguement > going till you have the last word on it. I'm unsubscribing from this > list. I've better things to do with my time than deal with this crap. game > on everyone! > > > > Original Message ----- > From: misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 10:14 AM > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and can't do > > > > How in the hell have i been accusatory? Go re-read your emails and get > over yourself yohandy. I'm done with this discussion because it's clear you > cannot have a discussion without attacking people. Your tone was > discouraging to any blind gamer and you specifically said that people > wouldn't be able to get beyond the mall part. You're contradicting yourself > now and trying to make me look like something I'm not just because I > challenge the general thinking of blind gamers. Do you not want > freethinking people like me designing games for you guys? Who thinks about > what you can or cannot do and pushes you a little to do things that ARE > possible if you journey outside the box? You find a person who actually > considers what you guys can or cannot do and don't say for one minute > there's no way in hell I can do that. I live with Brandon, I've been around > blind people since I was 15 years old. You wanna go ahead and attack me for > trying to help people to tell them not to listen to your drivel when you > yourself have not put up any facts and still have not put up any facts to > tell anyone how this game is playable only examples of where you think it > isn't. You've brought nothing to the table but negativity. Thus proving my > point. Now enjoy yourself and have a good day. I'm gonna go back to > working on my new site for my online wrestling federation that is accessible > to the blind. > > What Brandon says holds true here. I was trying to help and I will not > pay attention to someone who throws bullshit insults at me instead of giving > me and everyone else on this list facts. I've given examples and I've given > examples of my own struggles as a sighted gamer to show it's not a cup of > tea gaming for us either. You made this an unnecessary arguement by saying > I was proving your point when I wasn't at all. Your stance from the get go > has been buyer beware just as Mike said in an earlier email. I don't > believe in buyer beware in a game that's failproof and you're trying to make > it look like I'm wrong for it. So really who looks stupid here? Me or you? > Bring me facts about how I'm missguided yohandy regarding the topic of > discussion HEAVY RAIN. Don't go babbling to me about mario or any other > game you've played. If you think I'm arrogant then you don't really know > me. If I'm arrogant for supporting brandon's reasoning behind this site and > wanting to push for blind gaming to be creative and for people to really put > forth effort and not just play it a handfull of times and then deem it not > playable then fine I'm arrogant and I'll take that title proudly. The > people who know me on this list know better. > > I'm leaving it at that. There's nothing more to say but just so people > get clearly what my point was amongst all this stupid argueing caused by > you. I'll once again say that heavy rain is playable and I believe that > whole heartedly but only if you're a determined gamer. You want a cakewalk? > Find it elsewhere. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and can't do > From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, March 07, 2010 9:28 am > To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > honestly where on earth are you getting all this from? How many times do > I need to explain to you I never said the game wasn't playable? Oh and to > clear some things up, I never told Brandon my sister beat anything, I said > we were both playing. as in, taking turns throughout the story. Brandon also > told me you two were playing together as well. Isn't that true? you say I > told people not to buy this game? Uh... when? I don't recall saying anything > that could be interpreted as "don't buy this game guys, it's not playable". > I clearly stated the game would be tough for the average blind gamer to get > through, not impossible. I'm not new to gaming guys. I still own an original > snes, and I frequently play games like Super Mario 3 and donkey kong. I > never actually beat SMB3, but I was pretty competent for many of the levels. > If I haven't given up on such old games, what makes you think I'd give up on > heavy rain simply because it's tough? Brandon, your input is appreciated. > you managed to come off non-accusatory, unlike Misty. either you took some > time to think it through and write the email, or you're just good at not > sounding that way. I certainly understand where you're coming from in > regards to your gaming methods. I always use totally bizarre strategies > similar to the one you mentioned to get through games, and I always do > things like time the CPU and take advantage of its weakness. AI's usually > follow patterns in games ----- that could easily be exploited if one pays > attention. Super Mario world is a game everyone here should be familiar with > so I'll discuss that. one thing I usually did which would probably be > frowned upon by most sighted gamers was with yoshi, I'd usually run full > speed and run into enemies. they'd take him away but since I was going full > speed, I'd get him back with in a second or so. once the placement of pits > was memorized, many levels became a lot easier using this strategy, > especially if the level contained many enemies to make my job easier. > banging my head into solid objects was also a strategy of mine that helped a > lot, especially in water levels, although it probably gave mario many > headaches hehe. in comparroson to all that guesswork, heavy rain is a piece > of cake. Misty, did you ever stop to consider this whole thing probably came > about due to email miscomunication? instead of asking if this was so, you > started off this whole unnecessary arguement. > > Original Message ----- > From: misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 12:53 AM > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and can't do > > > Assumption - According to dictionary.com - The act of taking for > granted or supposing. > > Now tell me what am I supposing? I just outright told you that I'm > going off what you've said. I know you through Jesse Yohandy, you speak to > my own fiance quite frequently and you act like I'm some stranger off the > street who is new to this list. You're never gonna meet me either. What > does that have to do with anything? I didn't say you're happy or not about > heavy rain I said you're complaining. Which you are and you're trying to > turn others off to it and covering it up with well if people don't think > it's playable I don't want the backlash. Um Yohandy, the majority of what I > said about the blind gamer mindset was a generalization one I feel you're a > part of but don't think I was just singling you out. In fact I said I > wasn't singling you out. So ya know what until you read my emails without > getting all upset and typing first you're making yourself look silly. I > started this little chat with you earlier in the evening.. What the hell > would I have to do at 9pm? I'm so sorry that your life is so delluded that > you think that you can try to attack me with my saying I have a busy > schedule so I can't help out with a FAQ for heavy rain just because you know > you don't have a leg to stand on here. I'm sorry that you felt the need to > blab on about your accomplishments to try to prove to me you're a gamer. > I'm so sorry that you lack the self confidence in yourself that you can't > even have a conversation with someone that you can't even see the other side > of it you just have to defend yourself when really there's no defense at > all. You told people to not buy this game. You told them that it is not > playable and Brandon told me that you had your sister play it for you. So > there ya go that's where I got my info. Heavy Rain is FAILPROOF! You cannot > be stuck in this game. All you have to do is wander around. If you fuck it > up you still get to the end. All of these things blind gamers are familiar > with and here you are not even thinking about that. Just because you say my > assumptions are random doesn't mean it's true. You have not come back with > one perfect example as to why this game is not playable and ya know what, > you won't either. I believe the crime scene is even perfectly playable > because when you put the glasses on you see through the glasses it's no > longer a third person view it becomes a first person and you scan everything > in your sight because you're wearing the glasses. It's just a matter of > wandering around and finding stuff which I would think considering the way > blind people game they should be used to. Brandon did scan something in > that crime scene he found one of the items that wasn't relevant to the case > but he did find it. Brandon just said himself no one else that has played > that game seems to realize how much environmental audio there is in that > game and how much it can help you. So stop attacking me personally and > start giving me some facts. Everything I've said is relevant. The gaming > mindset of the blind is seriously an issue here. There are people willing > to give this a serious go and you who have clearly not tried are trying to > stop them, detur them, supposedly warn them. It's unfounded..you're the one > assuming the game isn't playable. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and can't do > From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, March 07, 2010 12:30 am > To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > and you continue with your assumptions. you keep saying I think this > and I think that. I don't think anything! you're the one assuming all this > stuff from a random internet stranger you will never meet. how would you > know if I'm letting people beat the games for me? you came over to my house > and checked that out? I don't think so! you say I'm not happy about heavy > rain? wrong again. I really could care less what you think my gaming > accomplishments are, I know what I've done and haven't done. I won't even > bother discussing it here though. in fact I don't even know why I bother > writing this email. you strike me as one of these people that are stubborn > to the last, and will do anything to try and prove their point, even if > their point is completely off. Your random assumptions aren't helping at > all, they're just making me quite annoyed. Let's see... you're gonna take > some time off your extremely busy schedule to reply with more accusations? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 11:19 PM > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and can't do > > > You're discouraging people and your last email was basically > telling people outright not to try. You may not have said "Don't try this." > but you might as well have. You think it's a piece of cake gaming for us > sighted people? It's not and that's the whole point of gaming because if it > was easy we wouldn't do it and that's that simple. There are games I've set > asside because I've tried several times and have been unable to defeat a > certain part of that game. Does that mean I'm not gonna go back? No. It > means I'm taking a break. I have yet to beat Professor Quirell in the first > Harry Potter game. I'm at the end of the game am I gonna give up because > it's supposedly beyond my means when I've tried a handful of times? No. Go > ahead and state every accomplishment you'e done Yohandy but with your > attitude to me you are not a gamer. Gamers go outside their saftey boxes. > The fact of the matter is any blind person playing a game should know > already they're not gonna easily beat it. They shouldn't be looking for > games that are easy to beat. That's humilliating and degrading about as > much as when patrick was on this list saying shit about games when he never > plays a game beyond the setting of easy. You talk about getting people's > hopes up? You just sat here and said indirectly that the blind community is > looking for easy games. This game is failproof. It's not like the door to > the mall moves people would find it eventually just like they end up finding > the shower in the first level. Just like you go to find bad guys in any rpg > game you guys do play. You wander around till you freaking find it. You > guys rant and rave about games not being playable at all and then here you > have one that is and you're still not happy! Why? Because it doesn't have > spoken dialogue in menus? Because you don't know what buttons to press in > certain situations? Hey ya know what? They don't give us the answers > outright to certain puzzles in certain games. We sit there and stare at it > or wander around just like you guys would and what do we do? We figure it > the Hell out. If everything were given to you or me or anyone else, if it > was all spelled out what would the fun be? Furthermore you just played the > demo you got through it and still deemed it supposedly unplayable. So that > proves something right there. You gave up and let someone else play it for > you. Those people on game anyone don't show when they get stuck for months > because that would be humiliating and boring for the people watching. You > guys see what you want to see. It doesn't matter when you pre ordered it > Yohandy, you're letting someone else play the damn game for you. How do you > know what button combos you'd figure out? How do you know which ones you'd > need to learn? You're making a lot of assumptions based on what you've HEARD > not PLAYED and there's a huge difference there. People don't have to buy > these games like I said before. If they're smart they'll rent them. I'm > not gonna ask anyone anything. But Brandon can say his piece here if he > wishes it is his list. He and I have been discussing it. I'm saying what I > am based on your behaviour on this list. You're the one giving assumptions > to people. I'm a player who has played the game a bit of the way in and you > know what I missed one button on the button combo to the sketch on the first > level and I missed making Shawn dinner, I also didn't find his teddy bear > but I'm gonna play it out because that's what I did and any blind gamer that > attempts to tackle this game should do that too. That's what the developer > wanted was people to play it out and not reload in an attempt to play it > perfectly. To do what they can do. > > I hate this general logic you people have. I'm in the same boat > as you guys because I'm a female gamer. I'm not a target audience and in > games I have to deal with crap I sometimes find tasteless. As I said before > there are some games that are beyond my reaction speed too. So because I > have a slow reaction speed by your logic it's unplayable for me so I > shouldn't play. Listen to yourself and what you've said. Go back and read > your emails. You don't have to say things directly but it's there. More > than just you do it. If I lost my sight tomorrow I would never take on that > mentality. It's a defeatist mentality. I have always kept my eyes open for > games I felt Brandon could play. I'm right almost all of the time. Matter > of fact I don't think there's one I've been wrong about yet. So sorry if I > have a higher idea of your abilities than you do people. Should I be > apologizing for that? I don't think so but there ya go it's in print if you > want it. Don't come back at me and tell me I don't know what I'm talking > about either. I have a very good gift for putting myself in other people's > shoes and without my glasses I am legally blind. I would not be able to see > to game very well at all either. I can't even find my glasses if they fall > on my floor because it's a dark color. I've had to use a screen reader at > points too when I haven't had my glasses or after eye doctor appointments. > So I'm not an outsider looking in..I'm someone straddling the line. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and can't > do > From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, March 06, 2010 9:14 pm > To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Uh, I never said not to try. you accused me of a few things I > never even hinted at let alone said. I actually consider myself a pretty > hardcore gamer. I've gotten MK vs DC and SF 4 platinums, and I'm real close > to getting platinums on rock band 2 and lego rock band. I would never tell > people to give up on a game, because I don't do it myself. In fact I get a > thrill if I do something I consider insane and succeed. I was just pointing > out the facts, and letting people know that it wouldn't be easy. I don't > want people buying heavy rain thinking oh I'm gonna get this game, and > easily beat it. people won't easily complete this game, and I'm not gonna > claim otherwise and get people's hopes up, and if they happen to suck at it > I'll be blamed for the purchase. it'll take lots of work and motivation. do > you think I'd preorder the game a month in advanced and have it delivered on > release day if I was a person who gave up on things? course not. I knew > exactly what I was getting into. already someone has purchased the game and > hasn't played it much, and I sorta feel responsible for letting them know > about HR and having them spend money on it cause I couldn't shut up about > the game. I've spoken to Brandon on MSN previously. ask him if he thinks I'm > the type of gamer to give up on games. You really shouldn't assume things so > quickly, it's rather insulting. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 8:21 PM > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and > can't do > > > But I still did it. You're telling people not to even try. > There's a kazillion people there anybody would be blind it's a situation > where you're looking for a needle in a haystack. All you have to do is find > the doors.. Until you do nothing happens Yohandy. It's not like he wanders > farther and farther. He's across the street from the mall. You know when > you hit the escalator that makes it's own sound. See this is the problem I > have. You guys are so frustrated with games not being playable that you > don't even try. You just say oh you have to be sighted so I can't do this. > Is this how you look at life? Try.. Seriously try. Don't try once and give > up, try and try again. We sighted people if we can't do something the first > time because it's beyond our range of ability we keep trying. I'm not very > good with button combos but I'll be damned if I let that stop me. I wasn't > very good at shooters to the point I was afraid to play around anyone else > because I'd be laughed at. My aim was just to put it simply shit. But now > I'm really good at them. I can't tell you guys what to do but I think your > outlook is very dismal and depressing. Do you guys realize how many gamer > achievements and trophies are just based on pure dumb luck? A certain > situation presenting itself and you just so happen to be in the right place > at the right time? Brandon got a trophy today in mlb for hitting a home run > out in left feild into the rocks at aneheim. He told me he didn't think he > could beat krea in KOTOR 2 but I told him just try it. You guys don't have > to buy any of these games. There's gamefly and there's blockbuster and > other rental places. Go rent them. If you feel after you've tried the > hardest you can and exhausted all options that you can't play it then fine. > But if you just try a handful of times and say I can't do this because i'm > blind, that's not the spirit of any gamer I know. I guess by using your > logic i shouldn't play guitar hero on expert or god of war because i'm not > very good at fast response. I shouldn't play call of duty because i suck at > war games where i have to strategize and work in stealth. I'm an in your > face gamer. I love melee combat in left 4 dead but i still play every > single one of the games I mentioned. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and > can't do > From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, March 06, 2010 3:04 pm > To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Misty, you just proved my point. if finding Jason was tough > for you, imagine for a totally blind person? like you said there are a whole > mess of people in that mall. we'll just end up walking around endlessly and > he'll desperately keep searching till we get frustrated and turn off the > game or happen to find him randomly. in this situation, the game will not > continue even if you walk around all day. Jason will just patiently wait for > you to find him before the game triggers the next scene. there are many > sections like this where time won't pass unless you do what the game demands > you do. A walkthrough for this game wouldn't be particularly hard to > make, except for writing up those walking parts. trials will be pretty tough > as well. rest is just basically lists of possible options. it'll be time > consuming though! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:15 PM > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can and > can't do > > > Actually I played most of the mall scene "blind" for > about the first like 5 minutes. I didn't hear the dialogue about the > balloon so I was trying to find a kid in that sea of people it was kinda > freaky. Then Brandon mentioned the balloon and I was like oh! Kid with a > balloon kid with a balloon then I found that kid that wasn't him! I was like > omg! Now chelle stayed with him somehow it was kinda cool. And yes while > if you don't get a button press right it may affect the game later on but it > does not mean that the blind cannot play this game. Now as I said before to > see all the paths the game has to offer you'd need a FAQ. But this isn't > the normal situation where you guys will get stuck and the game will not > progress. That is generally what you guys call a game that's unplayable. > So to answer people's questions about it, yes this game is playable. And I > clarified what I meant by it in previous emails. You CAN play the game > independantly.. you can get to the end of it independantly. Can you unlock > all the options to the game independantly? No but is that better than not > being able to play it at all? I'd say yeah but then again I'm not very far > in the game. > > I also tend to be a bit crazy when it comes to games LOL! > I've had Brandon do some things he thought was impossible for him to do. > Like defeat Krea in Knights of The Old Republic 2. He defeated Bohan for me > in Heavenly Sword and he's been opening doors for me in Heavy Rain because I > just can't seem to get it right. I've even had Brandon play Left 4 Dead and > while he didn't advance in the level too far, he did not die. That's > something right there! At least I thought it was cool. Also as I said > before if I have time to I'd be willing to help out with the FAQ but it > would take me a long time as my time is limited. Probably would release it > by level maybe on Brandon's site. I don't know yet. Right now I can't say > I can do it. So I wanna wait and see if someone else does it first. It > would be better to have someone release it all at once for you than piece by > piece like I would have to when time allowed. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can > and can't do > From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, March 06, 2010 1:49 pm > To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Misty, > Your point is a good one for the most part, but the game > won't continue in certain situations. for instance the mall scene is one of > many where you need to walk around to find what you need to find. lol trying > to not spoil things is hard work. haha. anyway if you just choose to stand > there, nothing will happen. if it's a button sequence you're dealing with > and you press nothing, an undesirable result will most likely occur that > you'll end up regretting later on. if you press a wrong button, it'll have > the same consequences. this game isn't made in such a way that you can just > guess what to do, you have to know what you're doing. I appreciate that > you're trying to help, but we gotta face facts. we'd all love to play this > game independently, but unless a good faq comes out, I doubt we'll be too > successful by simply guessing. I'm just grateful I have people here that can > help. not everyone does. > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 10:07 AM > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we can > and can't do > > > > Yep that's what I'm saying. You guys have to realize > that failure with this game isn't really failure. It doesn't stop you from > seeing the rest of the game. It continues on even if people die or you make > a "wrong" choice. There really is no right or wrong in this game. That's > the whole idea behind it. So generally you guys say an unplayable game is > one that you get stuck on and cannot advance any further due to something > you have to see to continue. If you can't then you can't continue on in > the game and you'll never see the end. With heavy rain you will see an > ending regardless of what you do. You will get through the game. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What we > can and can't do > From: Søren_Jensen <slj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, March 06, 2010 9:19 am > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Okay. So you're saying this game is playable if you > have a great walkthrough and if you take your time to figure it all out? I > don't have any people who can help me accept for one of my friends who love > games, but he's not here all the time. > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > slj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > > Den Mar 5, 2010 kl. 8:00 PM skrev > misty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > > > Okay let me clarify here. This game is not > unplayable it's not beyond the realm of being playable for you guys. If you > find a FAQ with all the button combos they do not change. As for the > timings you would have to figure those out on your own as per usual with > these things. It's not like you'll be stuck people. This game plays on > regardless of what happens you will never be stuck. You will need help but > I don't think it goes beyond anything other than finding an FAQ. If a guy > can get help playing legend of zelda which is way harder than the stuff you > have to do in heavy rain, i would say this would be a cakewalk. I've been > helping brandon play parts of heavy rain I've even failed at parts in heavy > rain such as the drawing of the sketch in the first chapter. Some doors I > can't open so I have brandon do it for me. Come on people be open minded > and actually try here. Make an effort. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [brandon's list] Re: Heavy Rain: What > we can and can't do > From: Michael Breedlove <stirlock@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, March 05, 2010 10:26 am > To: brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > This is why I don't buy too many games like > this. I don't have someone > around to help me all the time, so there's no > point. Plus, I pretty > much told you that this wasn't very playable on > your own. Buyer > beware. > > On 3/5/10, Orin <orin8722@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After I get home from Disney, I really want to > play this game, and it looks > > like the only way I'm gonna do that is with > myself, since my brother got so > > disinterested quickly. > > > > I'd really hate to return it, or not play it > at all, but the fact is that > > watching it on Youtube you don't see the > entire thing; you see a players > > game and if I were to play it it might be > totally different. > > > > Also, from what it seems, this game has nice > and easy trophies. As in, just > > playing it will net you some trophies. I've > watched both the GameAnyone > > walkthrough and a Youtube walkthrough. The > outcomes were the same, but the > > characters doing certain things were > different. > > > > Well, I certainly won't be buying a game again > until I'm sure my brother > > will play it. At least a game like this. I > think eventually we'd be able to > > do it but here's a problem we run into in the > prolog. > > > > You can walk around the house nude or at least > upstairs and the bathroom. In > > your room, when you're standing at your > dresser or whatever to get drest, is > > that when the first button prompts come up? My > brother did actually manage > > to get this far for me, and he didn't really > tell me anything so I was > > unsure. Where he stopped and never did pick it > up again, and where it gets > > good, is when Jason goes to the mall. I did > manage to get through this > > scene, however my brother probably would've > gotten through it a lot quicker. > > I also got through the fight with Troy, > however I didn't get the trophy for > > it. > > > > And now I'm at the crime scene. And I'm kinda > stuck here. > > > > I doubt anyone has any tips on where to go? > Hmm. Hopefully I can get my > > brother playing somehow. I'd hate to return a > kickass game just because I > > couldn't get help for it. > > > > > > > >