Colorblindness has always been like a plague when it comes to video games. It's one of the reasons that I've been such a Halo fanboy over the years...hard to mix up blue and red!

Games like COD can be a fargin bastage...red and green is pretty much the worst combination possible. There's no FF, which is extremely helpful since it allows you to 'shoot now and ask questions later' but still, it'd be a lot easier if you knew who was a teammate and who wasn't. Well, Treyarch gives us that. In the options there is a 'colorblind friendly' color scheme. It is absolutely awesome. It makes teammates names appear light blue and enemies dark brown or red or something...I can't tell for sure ( ) but the colors are definitely on opposite ends of the spectrum, making life a LOT easier and making the game a LOT more fun.

This feature alone trumps everything Treyarch has done wrong in the past. Infinite enemies, nade spamming AI...all forgotten, just because they actually cared enough to add a simple feature for those of us who can't distinguish red from green

Perfect timing too! It was becoming VERY hard to maintain a good Halo fanboy attitude with all of the reskinned maps in Reach.

Wow that is very cool I'm turning that on tonight!!

Very cool. I like to see companies going out of their way to do something for their customers that won't even result in a lot of good of PR.

Agree. Very nice to see for once a small option that didn't take much time, but was very thoughtful get thrown into a game. Kudos, Treyarch!

nice!!! As one who is effected by color deficiencies I totally know what you mean. Rockstar's Table Tennis was horrible for me. All the colors were to close to distinguish fast enough and the spinning spheres were too small. They came out with a color friendly too, but it permanently disable all achievements. Heck, I can't enough do the GTA4 tetris game for an achievement because when I get far enough to get the score close for the achievement, I can't tell the color differences till they're next to each, which is too late.

It kills more companies don't do it with it being so heavily male dominated. 1 out of every 4 guys has it because it's on the X chromosome. Thanks mom!!!

That's awesome! My wife has red/green color issues which she passed on to my son so it is really nice to see more gaming companies making an effort to address these issues. Thanks for the heads up!

holy crap, your wife has it? Only like one of fifty women get it because it has to be on both X chromosomes. Any all boys she has will have it. She's so mean that way.

LOL. Yeah, her grandfather saw only in B&W. He was a little pissed when color TVs came out!! haha. And yup, she passed it on to our son. Our middle daughter is not but we're not sure about our youngest daughter yet.

unless you have it, she may be a carrier. My mother can see all colors, but obviously she was a carrier.

man, that's pretty bad if he grandfather was that colorblind. basically, if you can't see the color, it's just gray. I'm sure he would have been pissed. color tv were super expensive.

I have it real bad with yellow and green. I can't see a lot tones, but the basic (like a on a rainbow). I have issues with blue and purple; purple generally looks blue to me.

Originally Posted by Peench

her grandfather saw only in B&W.

I didn't even know that was possible. I've never heard of anyone being that color blind.

It's also very strange to me that Green and Red are indistinguishable. Since Red, Yellow and Blue are prime colors, and Green is a product of Yellow and Blue, I would've thought Green would be indistinguishable with Yellow or Blue (Yellow makes more sense) rather than Red.

Yeah, it's a trip to ask my son or my wife what colors they see. My son had a tough time with the DS because he could never tell when the battery was running low. The DSi, thankfully, changed the way the colors were represented so now he can tell. It is nice to see subtle changes like that for people who have issues distinguishing the colors.

well, you have a very special lady Peench.

My mom was disappointed to figure out I was colorblind. She wanted me to be some grand painter or artist. With the colorblindness, I just didn't enjoy it. I would enter art contests, and never color the pictures.

On a side note, I do enjoy playing with electronics. There are a few times I have to get someone to tell me what colors on the wires. Thus, I label everything.

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interesting. It would be nice if they could make something like that with glasses so you can use that in the real world. I can't tell you what a pain it is working on electronics and lots and lots of wires. Momma has been asked quite a few times, "what colors are on this wire?" It's part of the reason I'm not jumping onto the 3D bandwagon. Those glasses with the red and blue just don't work very well for me with 3D. I have no idea about the new glasses and the sync works. It's if it dependent on colors and tones, I'm screwed.

Originally Posted by lovekeiiy

interesting. It would be nice if they could make something like that with glasses so you can use that in the real world. I can't tell you what a pain it is working on electronics and lots and lots of wires. Momma has been asked quite a few times, "what colors are on this wire?" It's part of the reason I'm not jumping onto the 3D bandwagon. Those glasses with the red and blue just don't work very well for me with 3D. I have no idea about the new glasses and the sync works. It's if it dependent on colors and tones, I'm screwed.

have you not gone into a bestbuy yet and checked out one of the 3d displays yet?

nope. I haven't been into one in a few months. And they local one doesn't have the media/show room.