Disabled players and quests like Cuthbert's Legacy
Verfasst: 10.08.2021 15:39
Now, to begin with, I have visual issues that both make it very difficult for me to see in darkened areas (which also makes shifting to brighter ones outright blinding, but that's another issue), and make it difficult to read a lot of text, or see 'fine differences'. Most of that can be worked around, however, the particular quest in question is more or less impossible. In order to complete it, I'd had to go in and cheat my way past the section of following the pig's glow, because I flat out could not identify it in much of the terrain. I managed to get about as far as just past the ship at the docks before I could not get any further, and I'd tried multiple times to find a way past it. I imagine, honestly, that someone who is colorblind would have an even worse problem.
The reason I'm making this clear, however, is that I know that I'm far from the only disabled person who enjoys games like skyrim. Indeed, many of my friends over the years are disabled, and several have been heavy in the modding community over several games in the TES franchise. So, really, my pointing out that some quests are outright impossible to complete without cheating if you have certain impairments is not a 'weak snowflake' as several americans might think (yes, I'm from America, but I can't stand much of what I've seen our society). I'm pointing out that this is, in many cases, the *only* way some people have to have any kind of entertainment, and to have a physical handicap 'gateway' preventing full enjoyment is more than a touch troubling.
Please, in the future, when coming up with difficult quests, consider that not everyone is working with the same limitations that you are. Offer another way of completing the quest fairly, if possible, because it leaves us feeling like we have no worth at all to be excluded from things we enjoy, merely because our bodies and brains function differently.
(Again, the thing that made this outright impossible was that I could not make out the colored swirls for more than a few castings, at any given time. Between the groundcover and the lack of intensity to the swirl-color, it was, in effect, invisible to me, even when cast properly--though that last took me a little while to figure out.)
Otherwise, thank you for the game. Though I'd had to cheese this one quest, I did get all of my achievements finally. And it's a good story, one that I've been suggesting to others. Now I get the struggle with Nehrim, which is a touch more 'glitchier'.
Alassirana
The reason I'm making this clear, however, is that I know that I'm far from the only disabled person who enjoys games like skyrim. Indeed, many of my friends over the years are disabled, and several have been heavy in the modding community over several games in the TES franchise. So, really, my pointing out that some quests are outright impossible to complete without cheating if you have certain impairments is not a 'weak snowflake' as several americans might think (yes, I'm from America, but I can't stand much of what I've seen our society). I'm pointing out that this is, in many cases, the *only* way some people have to have any kind of entertainment, and to have a physical handicap 'gateway' preventing full enjoyment is more than a touch troubling.
Please, in the future, when coming up with difficult quests, consider that not everyone is working with the same limitations that you are. Offer another way of completing the quest fairly, if possible, because it leaves us feeling like we have no worth at all to be excluded from things we enjoy, merely because our bodies and brains function differently.
(Again, the thing that made this outright impossible was that I could not make out the colored swirls for more than a few castings, at any given time. Between the groundcover and the lack of intensity to the swirl-color, it was, in effect, invisible to me, even when cast properly--though that last took me a little while to figure out.)
Otherwise, thank you for the game. Though I'd had to cheese this one quest, I did get all of my achievements finally. And it's a good story, one that I've been suggesting to others. Now I get the struggle with Nehrim, which is a touch more 'glitchier'.
Alassirana