Guild Wars 2

The new update helped me a very, very small amount. Yes it made it more noticeable, but no where near enough. I am just guessing on if I need to dodge something or just following others dodge. Sometimes I will just die and not know why because of it. It really affects the game play massively, especially on fights like Lupicus when I get 2 shot because I couldn’t see where to dodge.

I suggest giving the players their own ability to change the colors of friendly and enemy circles. They give us a spectrum to work with and we change the colors according to what we can see. For example, I could make an enemies circle blue. It would help greatly and I’ll finally be able to not get my kitten kicked in dungeons. I’m really tired of getting, in a way, “held back” because I’m colorblind.

I’ve already quit the game because of this issue, but came back because my friends really wanted me too and because of the changes. However, I am still at a huge disadvantage and once I get frustrated to the max I will leave the game either until something to add me comes out or forever. I just can’t deal with a skill based game not being fully accessible to everyone.

When I started playing this game it was the first thing I searched for and it still really annoys me that it still hasn’t been added yet, in fact it almost made me quit and get a refund. I know what everyone is going to say. “Every game started out without it and added it later,” yeah, but that’s not my point. This is a skill based game, those with disabilities shouldn’t be punished especially one that makes the gaming experience so awful.

It makes the game so incredibly hard especially for dungeons and it isn’t fun. One dungeon in particular is so stupid hard that I am never doing it again until a colorblind mode is added and that dungeon is FotM. I have done just about every dungeon and believe me when I say, dying to some bosses almost one shot ability because you couldn’t see either the red ring on the ground or and color change on the ground at all, makes the experience of game based on skill very, very bad. It causes me to die pretty often in dungeons, upsets the group and some groups even make fun of me for it. It can even make PvP very frustrating.

So far, this game is not a great experience. It was fun for a short time; experiencing the new style of dungeons with no set tank or healer, leveling I guess, if you liked the leveling, and new style of skill based PvP. But it’s not fun when you can’t really do them without 100+ deaths.

tl;dr: I can’t see anything, the game is not much fun anymore, I love getting punished for having a disability. Thanks Arenanet!

Don’t respond with, “If you take damage move” or anything along those lines. I in fact do. It’s the only thing I can do, but I am a great sword warrior dps so I’m melee and I’ll usually just end up running into more crap that I can’t see. Don’t say, “Change builds” no other warrior build is fun to me. Don’t say, “reroll a different class” no other class appeals to me besides a mesmer and that makes things worse. On top of that I find leveling in this game very boring and plus it is hard for me because I can’t see the enemies aoe attacks.

Some more info: If you ask me what my favorite color is, well it’s definitely a shade of grey. I’m not completely colorblind, but the majority of colors are invisible to me and the very few colors that are visible to me are just a jumbled up mess.

Bailey Scarr.1394:

snowball fight. cant get any points for the wintersday titles. either other team has present, and impossible to catch the carrier before they get to base (cant get stopper point), or someone else on my team has the present (cant get bringer points). the one time i managed to actually pick up the present, i didnt get anywhere before getting killed

bell chior. i know i suck at this one, but i just dont see how you can click the buttons fast enough to get the all or even most of the notes. even when i think i one, i still take damage. 34 notes so far, out of how many? 500? might be possible just randomly hitting keys, but its still not going to be fun

timed jumping puzzle. no. no. no. i feel the game’s basically insulting me. “not good at jumping puzzles? too bad. here’s a time limit, go suck it” falling off in 3 hops isnt fun. having it wait however long it is before you can try again isnt fun either. and since you start taking damage. ive heard one remark suggesting you basically have to autorun the whole way to the end to make it in time.

toypocalypse is better, but there’s basically no coordination/teamwork there with a random number of players, (as few as two, and sometimes like 6-7). i did manage to get 50 waves completed, but im pretty sure the title track counts several points for each actual wave, as much as 7:1. and since all the dolyaks die inside of 3 rounds because all the toys A) move faster than the players and go straight for the dolyaks, i have no idea how you’re supposed to get the canceled achievement.

not going to rag on the tixx dungeon, since that was actually pretty well done (if a bit repetitive.) so thumbs up there

overall its really a good effort, getting better at events, but these minigames just arent fun.
i dont really have any good suggestions to improve them, and its kinda too late to do anything about it now, but maybe if there were more presents in snowball fight (for better/any chance of getting points there)
maybe if you could click on the notes (i certainly keep trying to)
maybe if there wasnt any time limit on the jumping puzzle(or could immediately start over)

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See, I’m the opposite. I felt that all of these minigames were just so easy they were no fun, except the toypoccocrap, it was just boring and the majority of pugs aren’t good enough for it. All in all, this wintersday was pretty bad. The only thing worth doing was the jumping puzzle because it had the best rewards by far. I got perfects in the bell choir and it was just so boring after doing it 3 times. The jump puzzle was easy, but still I despise timed jump puzzles. It punishes people for moving a bit more slowly because they are new to it and such blah blah blah so on and so fourth. The snowball fight….. this one’s easy, support OP as hell. PvP mini games or PvP in general with an OP class is not fun. I know that very well, I played WoW for a long time and don’t even get me started on that. The minigames were part of the reason why this wintersday sucked, but what really got on my nerves was the one time only present from Tixx was soooooo garbo that it really kitten me off.

All and all, this wintersday was pretty much no fun; Playing a boring PvP minigame with an op class, playing pretty much Guitar Hero on my keyboard got boring fast, a jump puzzle that got boring the fastest, toypoccocrap that is too challenging for a pug, Tixx’s one time gift and the worst rewards on the planet. This event really turned me off to future holiday events. Halloween was so good, but then they dropped something good to something awful. I will no longer do holiday events unless my friends tell me that they are worth it.