Poll: Gaming While Sick

[Trotgar]

There should be an option "depends how sick I am". If I'm very sick, I can't even really manage it to the computer.

 

[RIOgreatescapist]

Everything inFLUences you while you're gaming imo. If you're tired, ill or just not in the mood your gameplay and enjoyment of the videogame itself will be affected in a negative way

 

[Jon Etheridge]

I don't know I feel like I can't really enjoy a game when I'm sick. I mostly just want to curl up on the couch or bed and watch tv.

 

[The Aimless One]

If I'm sick enough to stay home, it usually means I'm too sick to actually do anything else.
Usually the last two days of staying home "sick" will envolve some gaming.

 

[Abedeus]

Sometimes. Right now, I'm only browsing the net (yeah, I'm sick - stomach virus or something like that), because I'm not in the mood to play. But if I do, I usually get my gamepad and play something on my PC. Assassin's Creed or Prototype or something like that.

 

[Thaius]

Depends. I was stuck in my dorm with the swine flu about a week ago, and it was a complete mindwipe. Thus, I could play Diablo just fine (see enemy, click on enemy, kill enemy) but Indigo Prophecy almost made my brain explode. I also played through a crazy plot twist in FFVII while I was drugged up from getting my wisdom teeth removed. Yeah, I was confused as heck next time I loaded up my game.

 

[Guido656]

Yeah I think playing while sick is great, although it's got to be in bed. Don't think I'd like being hunched over my PC grinding away at something whilst feeling ill.

I completed GTAIV whilst off from work with pnuemonia for 2 weeks....it hurt, but Nico's slavic remarks got me through it!!!

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I beat Far Cry 2 whilst sick.



Such bad stealth. So annoying npcs with telescope X-ray see in the dark vision.

 

[mikecoulter]

It depends on the game. Some can just make me feel sick.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

depends on the game... playing anything that requires too much twitch response is a bad thing when i'm sick as I tend to be a bit... fuzzy headed and kinda slower than normal reaction time... turn based strategy is fine though...

 

[Kajt]

I can play games just as well when I'm sick as when I'm healthy. The only problem is that I have to sneeze and blow my nose quite often then.

I'm rarely sick though, and when I actually do get sick, it's usually just for a day or two.

 

[zombflux]

Games are all I do when I'm sick

 

[Proteus214]

Super Mario Brothers 3 cures the chicken pox.

I'm not even kidding.

 

[Greeboz]

I don't get sick much. In fact, when I was younger I used to get "sick" just because I got a new game or something.

 

[rainman2203]

When I got back from the hospital after an appendectomy, I literally gamed for nearly a week straight. I didn't have any regular illness symptoms, just the inability to bend my torso and the incessant fear of my guts slipping out of the hole in my ab muscles. Amaaazziinngg painkillers- I played so much Starcraft that week.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I'm currently down with a pretty severe bug and what am I doing? Playing games.

The day I'm too sick to play games is the day I die!

 

[Jakkal]

My dad is very religious and very nuts and very old-fashioned and doesn't like me much because I'm an atheist, and a modern one at that.

When I'm well it's, "Grumblegrumble, ComputeStationBoxes are bad for your soul!" and when I'm ill it's, "If you're too ill to go to a rugby match/school, you're too ill to play the Xbox." Right... So because I can't get up at seven and spend a day in a cold set of rooms, awake, thinking, working and walking, then sepending an hour in the rain running up and down a field in the mud hitting people for a bit of leather that I don't want, I can't sit down and wiggle my fingers?

Gaming while ill is a no-go for me.

Feels like my mom. If I were to sit in a chair clicking a mouse and mashing keys without anything in front of me she wouldn't care, but as soon as a monitor is in front of me it is "ruining my life"

Also, I lose my reflexes when I'm sick, so usually I might play a strategy for a bit.

 

[ae86gamer]

I can still play games, but the continuous sneezing makes it difficult. XD