What do you play when you're sick?

[Inglonias]

Okay. I'm sick. I'm unfortunately not sick enough to stay home and I have exams, but I FEEL awful. It got me to thinking: If you've got a sick day off, what do you spend it doing? Is there a game you play when you just feel sick? I want to hear about it.

I was thinking of playing Dwarf Fortress, but I think that requires my brain to function too much.
If I had to pick one now, it would be a close tie between The Sims 3 and Minecraft. Anybody else have ideas?

BUMPED ON MARCH 13, 2012: I am once again sick. Continue to post new titles!

 

[Count Igor]

I play Age of Mythology.
Because it's just so easy, but fun!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Pokemon.

It never moves forward on it's own. Paused or not. And I can fall asleep playing it to no real downside if my illness makes me exhausted.

My DS is just going to run out of batteries, not overheat, after all.

 

[WorldCritic]

Normally I don't play anything I haven't beaten yet since I'll probably feel like crap too much to really think my way through an unfamiliar game. Instead I probably play something familiar like KOTOR or Kingdom Hearts, or something that doesn't require much thinking like a rail shooter.

 

[Rooster893]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- simple, fun, and epic all at the same time.

New Super Mario Bros. -- again, read above description.

Half Life 1 -- ONCE AGAIN, refer to description #1.

Half Life 1 can be found on the PS2, which is what I play it on.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

I don't get sick.

But if I were sick, I would play Left 4 Dead 2. Nothing like killing virtual representations of disease to counter feelings of inadequacy at being laid low by a virus.

 

[drbarno]

If I get ill, I'd rather sleep. After all, I usually don't have the motivation to play.

 

[Sarge034]

I was playing Portal 2, but that was because it had just come out and the universe itself could not have stopped me from playing that game. Other than that I don't really get sick often enough to have one designated game....

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

Any game that happens to be in my Xbox and this is freaky 'cause I'm sick at the moment.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I usually play Pokemon, it's mindless and if I happen to fall asleep or get too sick to continue I don't have to worry about re-doing any missions or anything.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Saint's Row 2 is rather perfect when you just want mindless fun and don't need to worry so much about missing out on story because you can go and spray houses with shit instead.

 

[Thimblefoot]

For some reason, when I am ill, I dig out my old copy of Freedom Fighters, no idea why, it just helps me feel better.

 

[Discord]

RTS's Command and Conquer mostly only because it requires little to no movement
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[Scarim Coral]

Peetty much my DS game (if I had to stay in bed or headache from staring at the tv screen for long). The games I played are either one with replay value (Pokemon or Dragon Quest 9, pretty much somthing to grind) or game I haven't completed yet.

 

[kebab4you]

Okay. I'm sick. I'm unfortunately not sick enough to stay home and I have exams, but I FEEL awful. It got me to thinking: If you've got a sick day off, what do you spend it doing? Is there a game you play when you just feel sick? I want to hear about it.

I was thinking of playing Dwarf Fortress, but I think that requires my brain to function too much.
If I had to pick one now, it would be a close tie between The Sims 3 and Minecraft. Anybody else have ideas?

Stole my best sick day games right of the bat. But something that isn't to demanding on your brain I would say the harvest moon franchise.

 

[Mosesj]

I play fable 2 when I'm sick. Doesn't require that much challenge, and it has music in case you fall asleep

 

[illas]

Any of the Civ games is an easy and fun way to pass... well... a week.