Editor's note: This feature original ran on IGN Middle East on May 27, 2014.
I’m standing in a field with tall grass swaying in the light breeze. In the distance, trees obscure the sunlight as it streams through between the leaves. Nearby, a small cottage leaves a plume of ashy smoke drifting towards the sky, as puffy white clouds lazily crawl across the horizon. The game I’m playing is Skyrim, a game that while visually impressive, has been constantly modified and tweaked by the community to look as lifelike as possible. And to the average gamer, the game does look absolutely breathtaking from almost every angle.
For Robert Kingett, a 24-year-old gamer in Chicago, things are a little bit different. The grass may look like a fuzzy green carpet. The trees look like tall dark sticks, and the clouds are barely visible against a mixed backdrop of blue and white. But despite facing difficulties with his sight and having cerebral palsy, Robert does what most other twenty-something young men do – he plays video games. His disabilities haven’t stopped him from playing and reviewing games, which is something he does a passion that can be found in only a handful of gamers. Over a flurry of emails back and forth, I quizzed him about how he plays video games, what his pet peeves are when gaming, and how he remains so infectiously optimistic. Here’s what he had to say:
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