Poll: Gaming While Sick

[Ibanez887]

I game about the same when Im sick because I can usually keep my brain focused on the game. Unfortunately, I have the tendency to forget what I just did so I end up doing it over again to make sure I finished a quest or something; I play Oblivion or other RPGs when Im sick

 

[Avatar Roku]

Depends. I can usually play games like CoD4 just as well (hard to tell, my skill in that game fluctuates wildly, but it seems to fluctuate the same when sick as well), but some games will just annoy me too much to continue. For example, I remember the first time I played Psychonauts, when I got to Waterloo World and that one that's like a stage, the music made it almost unplayable in my state. Played them both again since and was perfectly fine.

 

[initialdelay]

I had two days off work sick last week, and managed more gaming than in the previous month. So yeah, being ill can't stop me! Plus it took my mind off the disgusting flu

 

[Boxinatorizore]

Depends on how sick I am, if I am only mildly sick then I can, and if I'm enjoying myself I forget I am sick. If I am really sick I sleep and watch tv.

 

[Quaidis]

It depends completely on the illness at question. If I have something like strep throat, tonsillitis, or a flu bad enough to keep me bed-ridden, I cannot play any games whatsoever. However should this illness be something weak like Bronchitis or such I can play random games. Obviously games such as farming simulations will be easier on me while sick than extremely challenging alien shooter death matches.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I stop playing Playstation when I'm sick so I go to my DS when I'm not asleep.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Depends. If it's something like a fever or migraine it becomes difficult to concentrate so there's not much I can do. Anything else is fine as long as I don't have to leg it to the toilet every ten minutes.

On a related note, gaming while (not too badly) injured is pretty awesome. People bring you stuff so you don't have to get up.

 

[Erazor521]

Playing when I'm sick usually makes me feel tired. So, if I do game when I'm sick, I don't do it for more than around 20 minutes before I give up and take a nap.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Unless it makes me uber tired, it doesn't really affect me that much.

 

[Snotnarok]

I had mono that was worrying doctors, I still played Deadrising, it's probably the only thing I COULD do, I couldn't talk, eat or barely drink, I was too tired to move, but too bored to sleep.

 

[SupaMechaDeathChrist]

no matter what when im sick i usally just play all day untill im better the next day so.

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[badgersprite]

I think I'm a little mixed in this, because, well, when I'm home sick, that's one of the times that I'll play a lot of video games. I'm sure I probably do screw up when I'm sick, but I think, knowing that I'm unwell, and I have nothing else to do, I can usually focus all my energy on the single activity of gaming, so it becomes like a channel for it. So I have a lot of practice of gaming while sick. Besides, I suffer from chronic headaches anyway, so I don't usually game while well. =P

 

[Enzeru92]

being suck doesn't stop me from playing any game honestly it feel better playing something then just laying around doing nothing but watching T.V

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Since I rarely get sick, when I am, I am hit really, really hard. I basically pass in and out of conciousness, so I don't really game when sick.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Yeah, if I can play, I usually have to play solo. All the sneezing and coughing seems to make people irritable

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Of course I'll be gaming when I'm sick, what else do I have to do?

 

[CloggedDonkey]

If I have a spiting migraine, hell no, if I threw up lunch from when I was 5, time to play the boomer!

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Eh, sometimes when I'm sick thed desire to play games will go down, but if I do play a game, being sick doesn't all that much affect how well I play.

 

[terrible cheeb]

whenever im ill i play old ps1 games because its the only opportunity i have of being able to complete them as i dont have a ps1 memory card.

 

[rhyno435]

I usually play games when I'm sick, and I do fine playing single-player, but playing online is horrible when I'm sick.