Hello,
@1 : it depends on what you consider as playable. To me, for example, being able to shoot everywhere, making more noise than actual gameplay without being able to complete the objectives, and needing cheat codes to do most of that is not an enjoyable gameplay experience, which excludes GTA from the list. Furthermore, having to use exclusivly an objective tracker to reach an objective, without any actual exploration isn't a particularly nice gameplay experience either, which excludes resident evil.
If you're a little tired about fighting games, which is definitly understandable, but if you don't mind playing side scrollers, shank is probably what you are looking for. With a somehow immersive story, comfortable gameplay, it is clearly playable without any sighted assistance. You will certainly spend more time than a sighted player to go through some leels, but it is not the same kind of die and retry as you'll find if you try to play games that are completely based on trial and error for blind players.
I've finished the game on my own, even if it took me a few days, and it was really fun to figure it out.
Hope you'll enjoy it to!
One more thing. For those who have played it, correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know only shank I is accessible, shank II implies far more concepts which are really difficult to handle without being able to read the instructions displayed on the gamescreen.
Best regard,
Simon