Poll: Colour blindness

[SomeBritishDude]

My dad is, very, but I've never had any troubles.

Colour blindness is very difficult to explain really, it's not just about not seeing certain colours, it's a lot more complicated than that. I don't understand it that well myself. For instand, if you have a bowl of green apples, and you put a red apple in, chances are a colour blind person will just see it as green. I think it's different for different people.

 

[joystickjunki3]

Yeah a little...

Most modern games just look grey and brown to me...

... oh wait...

Haha. What about Sonic Unleashed, though? Or Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts? Viva Pinata?

Or Mirror's Edge or De Blob or SMG or Tomb Raider UW or SFIV or...

You get the picture - lot's of good games with lots of colour are not mutually exclusive of lots of good games that would have been better with lots more colour!

Yeah, I dig it. I actually tend to play more games w/ lots of color because real life is depressing as it is and I don't need a game to make things look more depressing. Mirror's Edge was intensely bright and pretty fun until the "wow" factor wore off. I have yet to play SF4, though. Not that I don't want to, it's just that I don't have the money for it yet.

 

[Horticulture]

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

There are a few tests for it, the ones I've taken involve trying to discern a letter or number written in an array of red and green or blue and yellow dots both with and without the aid of a color filter. I'm colorblind (red/green) but I didn't even know until I was 7 or so. I haven't had any trouble with games that I'm aware of, and it's pretty rare that it causes me problems otherwise. The most common issue is red text on a green/brown background or the reverse. As the colors get darker they sort of blend together.

 

[Ryuzaki]

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

I had a friend who didn't know that he was red/green colour blind until he was 14. Basically it's because he had been taught that the grey colour that he saw was red or green and so whenever he saw that shade of grey (I'm guessing a bit here) he thought it was red or green, depending on the shade. He didn't know about it until he did a test for colour blindness where you have to follow a red dotted line though a green dotted background.

 

[forever saturday]

I learned all about red-green colorblindness in Genetics last semester...

It is most commonly inherited on the X chromosome, but there are other causes. Females have 2 X chromosomes; males only have one. It is a recessive disorder, meaning if a female has one copy of the colorblindness gene and one normal copy, she will be a carrier but not show the disorder (but her sons may get the faulty X). However, since males only have the one X, if they get the faulty copy--the disorder shows. SO, if your mom is red-green colorblind (meaning she has two copies of the defective gene and can only contribute that to you) and you aren't...She probably isn't your real mom.

Sorry if I just told some people that they were most likely adopted.

That is only true if you are talking to a guy. if a girl is reading this, then the X chromosome she got from dear old Daddy would be the same as the one that he has. So ladies, if both parents are colourblind and you arent, you better start asking questions.

Anyway, I am not colourblind but know people who are. Considering current graphics, this would probably be irrevelant most of the time, but if gaming were the way it should be then it would get in the way.

I have wondered what it would be like, and would like to someday play with some sort of filter that gives the equivalent. Since I am mostly a console gamer, however, i think this might be difficult.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

well my brother is. he cant see red or green. we noticed that when he couldnt tell the battery life on his gameboy.

 

[Joselyn]

I'm not colourblind, but I know two guys that are...they can't see red or green, but they don't complain about it affecting their gaming...

 

[SquirrelPants]

I don't actually know if I'm any type of colour blind. I do seem to see a few things as black, grey, or white, while my friends say it's some other colour, but that may just be my bad vision. *Shrug*

 

[capnjack]

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

There are a few tests for it, the ones I've taken involve trying to discern a letter or number written in an array of red and green or blue and yellow dots both with and without the aid of a color filter. I'm colorblind (red/green) but I didn't even know until I was 7 or so. I haven't had any trouble with games that I'm aware of, and it's pretty rare that it causes me problems otherwise. The most common issue is red text on a green/brown background or the reverse. As the colors get darker they sort of blend together.

I don't know if you can answer this, but do you see red, or do you see green, or are they both some other colour entirely, like brown?

 

[Delicious]

Red/Green is the most common color "deficiency", Yellow/Blue is the next most common. To find someone that is fully incapable of seeing color is extremely rare. So having red and blue as the teams works a large portion of the time even for people who are color "deficient".

Yellow/Blue colorblindness is actually extremely rare. In fact the doctor who tested me for colorblindness told me that it didn't exist.

And yes, it can make some games extremely difficult to play. Anything that has red and green names for enemies/teammates is extremely difficult for me to play.

EDIT: "Actually the wording blue-yellow color blindness is misleading. People affected by tritan color blindness confuse blue with green and yellow with violet. So the term blue-green color blindness would be more accurate because the colors blue and yellow are usually not mixed up by tritanopes"

From: http://www.colblindor.com/2006/05/08/tritanopia-blue-yellow-color-blindness/

 

[Maddenfreak]

I feel as if your spelling may be a bit off, (colour-color?) but no, i'm not color blind

 

[Horticulture]

I don't know if you can answer this, but do you see red, or do you see green, or are they both some other colour entirely, like brown?

Like others have observed, there's no way to know whether red, green, and brown 'look' the same to me as they do to others or not. I do see them as three distinct colors, and brown as more or less a mix of the two. A distinction like the bright red and green of a traffic signal is very easy for me to make, whereas something like a darker red stop sign in front of a bush at dusk makes me very thankful for the reflective paint. Only a few combinations, especially on the browner end of greens and reds, are really difficult/impossible for me to distinguish.

About a week ago, to give an example, I was coming out of a local restaurant and a friend asked me what the lettering on the sign said. I looked up and saw a sign with the name of the restaurant, so I read it off. She laughed at me and replied, 'no, you idiot, the Chinese lettering on the sides.' There were two square signs, on either side, with green lettering on red backgrounds...it took me a good thirty seconds of squinting to see the 2-foot square letters (I didn't even try to read them). Occasionally the same thing happens with berries mixed in with leaves. I'm lucky I wasn't born a hunter-gatherer.

 

[bmf185]

I learned all about red-green colorblindness in Genetics last semester...

It is most commonly inherited on the X chromosome, but there are other causes. Females have 2 X chromosomes; males only have one. It is a recessive disorder, meaning if a female has one copy of the colorblindness gene and one normal copy, she will be a carrier but not show the disorder (but her sons may get the faulty X). However, since males only have the one X, if they get the faulty copy--the disorder shows. SO, if your mom is red-green colorblind (meaning she has two copies of the defective gene and can only contribute that to you) and you aren't...She probably isn't your real mom.

Sorry if I just told some people that they were most likely adopted.

That is only true if you are talking to a guy. if a girl is reading this, then the X chromosome she got from dear old Daddy would be the same as the one that he has. So ladies, if both parents are colourblind and you arent, you better start asking questions.

Anyway, I am not colourblind but know people who are. Considering current graphics, this would probably be irrevelant most of the time, but if gaming were the way it should be then it would get in the way.

I have wondered what it would be like, and would like to someday play with some sort of filter that gives the equivalent. Since I am mostly a console gamer, however, i think this might be difficult.

Yes sorry for any confusion. My head is full of angry virus-ridden goo.

 

[Fenring]

I am soooo color blind. Only red green, it's sad that I can't achieve my dream because of it, no flying helicopters for me.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I'm blue/green color blind, though I have to call mostly bullshit on the diagnosis. I can distinguish pure green or pure blue, it's only when the two colors come very close together that I have a problem distinguishing between them.

Also, red/yellow color patterns destroy my brain. I can distinguish them, but it seems my eyes rebel against the notion and start kicking me in the frontal lobe.

 

[jimduckie]

yeah partly due to age , occupation and my tv is sd don't have hd tv yet , if you want to donate or give me a hd tv i want a 37inch minimum 1080p hd lcd sony and don't forget the hdmi cable ,get a good one so i can hook my ps3 up yah bum lmfao

 

[sheic99]

I've got a friend who is completely color blind. He keeps his socks in the package they came in, so he can tell what color they are. But he can play games just fine.

 

[Hyoscine]

Yeah a little...

Most modern games just look grey and brown to me...

... oh wait...

Sir, you just induced an actual lol. Kudos.

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

Well, I can't really. It's not so much that I'm expecting one colour and seeing another, the problem's more to do with when one or more colours on screen appear identical.

Oh, and the portals are Blue (first portal you get) and Orange.

Oh, cheers!

I feel as if your spelling may be a bit off, (colour-color?) but no, i'm not color blind

Yeah, I'm actually English. The colour/color thing is a regional difference.

Yes sorry for any confusion. My head is full of angry virus-ridden goo.

Sorry to hear that, get well soon!

 

[Nutcase]

I can generally tell red and green apart just fine, even when they are side by side in a mess of dots like in the tests for colour blindness, but seeing patterns in them is impossible.

And in some lighting conditions I can't tell pink and gray apart.

This has only ever caused trouble for me in two things - I am not very good at picking berries, and was auto-disqualified from applying to special forces back when I would have liked to.