Dear Rockstar North:
Hello, my name is Gordon and I've recently bought Grand Theft Auto 4 for the 360. I am utterly amazed at everything this game has to offer - it's one of the deepest and biggest games I've played in quite some time now. Everything has been expertly crafted, even down to the achievements. Things you might have missed in the game are highlighted, such as doing as wheelie, stealing 20 cars through text messages, or even topping the leaderboards in QUB3D.
Oh QUB3D...
I know this is a game inside of a game so it is most likely nowhere near the top of the list of important things to consider for tweaking or fixing via a patch or update but please hear me out. I really like QUB3D. After a long day of doing missions, races, and bank heists - I like to stop in at the local pool hall or wherever I can find this machine and play - always attempting to get that achievement, to get first place.
But herein lies my dilemma - I am colorblind.
I can see color, yes. I can make it through 99% of life no problems, but the 1% of those problems I happen to run into really stop my life and remind me this is literally impossible. I started to play QUB3D and found the puzzle game quite interesting and quirky. I progressed through the levels and somewhere around either level 5 or 6 (hard to tell as you'll figure out), I noticed the "green" blocks no longer disappear after you match up a group of 4. This quickly lead to my failure in the game and I was left wondering what was wrong.
Piece after piece, block after block, I toiled away at this machine - my highest score still 3 thousand away from where I needed to get. "Why do they make these blocks impossible to break, except by random chance?" I would ask myself. I called my roommate in to have a look, perhaps both of us could figure this out. As I got to that magical level again I showed him the "green" pieces no longer match.
The look he gave me told more than any words could - a look of humor, and a sort of sad pity.
"Well those ones," he walks up and points at the screen, "are yellow. THESE ones are green."
I stare dumbfounded at the screen, there is no way I could have forgotten I was colorblind - there was no way this game would fall into that niche of puzzle games I have categorized in my mind. The niche of games that, while very fun, are close to impossible for me to play because of my less than stellar color acuity.
So I write to you today not so much for tech support (I apologize for wasting your time but this is the most relevant email address I could find) but to ask if you could possibly just forward this to someone who is open for suggestions or bug fixes. Many puzzle games put a little icon or symbol on the pieces for just this reason. I really do want to beat this game, I want to get 100% in it - I want to scour every part of Liberty City myself, down to the very gristle on the bone.
But for now the meat I can eat off that bone looks a bit too similar in color to the meat that is inedible.
Thank you for your time.
Hungrily Blind,
Gordon R.