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Blind teen can beat you at Soul Calibur II

by Ross Miller on Jul 25th 2005 7:00PM

SC and Voldo

What else is there to say? A local boy from Sioux City, Nebraska has earned fame and attention through his keen ability to play Soul Calibur II without the aid of his vision whatsoever. He learned through endless trial and error, and likes to "freak people out by playing facing backwards" (Voldo, anyone?). His dream? Going to college for game design. This is just plain cool.

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kudos to him!!! :d hope he does get into game design.

that is amazing.

just had a discussion with a friend of mine lately about how far blind people could get in competitive gaming. no question that they are out for shooters or rts, but in fighting games, especially those where you have only one axis of movement, they could be pretty big. all the attacks have their own sounds and actually you could react faster to an audio signal than to a visual on a colorful moving screen. try it.

just unplug his controller, win, plug it back in, taunt.

the joke's on him. he was really playing et on the atari 2600. they just told him he was playing sc2.

the article refers to the splattering of blood that appears in sc2. i've played sc2 enough to know that there isn't any blood whatsoever in the game. what is the point of talking about a feature that doesn't even exist?

is this kid's name tommy by any chance?

i wish there were some videos of his matches online. :(

ha ha ha nice sound of s**t
i'd like to see him beat me on that game or even better yet halo 2 ha ha!

i bet all he did was button mash

i can definitely see this happening. maybe they'll do an update of tommy.

"that deaf, dumb blind kids sure plays a mean soul calibur".

cool. i'll bet he'd definately pwn me.

i guess he wouldn't notice me unplugging his controller. ;)

don't be a dirty player.
use strategy.
play with the bongo controllers and create so much sound he can't hear it.

that deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean soul cal.

actually, this was in egm a few issues back. i'd love to see what he could do with halo2.

i used to play my friends at street fighter 2 blindfolded... its doable if you have a set up stereo system, you can tell where on the screen they are, and about what kind of attack they are using... then just let your attacks fly. though in 3d that might be a different story, then again soul caliber ii is very kind to button mashers.

poor blind kid. he may have mastered soul calibur ii, but he still doesn't know where he's from. sioux city is in iowa.

wow, he can button mash. amazing...!

did you know that in the us alone, there are dozens of towns and cities that share the same name?
it's a fact; knowledge is power!

god, people are mean.

if he goes to college for game design, i wonder what kind of games he would come up with. they'd be very heavy on sound and touch, probably. i find that fascinating.

just mute the tv, they guy plays off the games sound...

the guy doesn't necessarily hear the attacks, but probably the rumble pak in the controller.

'just unplug his controller, win, plug it back in, taunt'-posted by pure shooter

'i bet all he did was button-mash'-posted by ray

'that deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean soul cal'-posted by sheikh and captain james skull

'wow, he can button mash. amazing!!'- posted by l0tus

i would appreciate it if you don't redicule this boy. he is a very well-gifted individual, and will most probably have the dream career you yearn for.

"did you know that in the us alone, there are dozens of towns and cities that share the same name? it's a fact; knowledge is power!"

and for all knowledge there should be a little research. the paper reporting the story is in sioux city. iowa.

sioux city is on the border of nebraska/iowa. he could live in the nebraska side of sioux city while the newspaper could be located on the iowa side.

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