No Pain, No Gain

[Durxom]

Nothing super hard to understand here, but have you ever played a game so hard or for so long that you ended up hurting yourself? (ie. sore wrist, headaches, extreme lack of sleep)

My most recent one, was that I played Street Fighter 4 so much yesterday, trying to finish hard trials, challenges and online matches, that I pretty much had muscle pain(akin after exercise muscle pain) and a sore wrist for all last night and this morning.

 

[MisterShine]

The most recent was Mass Effect 2. When I finally got it working (around 11pm on release day), instead of only playing an hour or two as planned since I had work in the morning, I ended up spending the whole night/morning playing, forgetting that I had work later. Yeah... I had to drink like 3 red bulls that day, and I got sick after I got home. Still played Mass Effect though...

and if I may add: Totally worth it.

 

[tlozoot]

Platinum Artist and Bladder of Steel run on Expert Drums, Rock Band 2.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

Er... I've gotten blisters from Mario Party. Really, that's about it.

 

[Sephychu]

Most games that I enjoy I sometimes play too long and end up with sore wrists. Though, now I get sore wrists from virtually nothing else, because I resist them.

 

[PissOffRoth]

World of Warcraft binges. They took their toll. Sleep deprivation. My eyes hurt like a *****, I honestly stopped blinking after awhile.

I'm off the stuff now, though. It wasn't the good shit it started out as. It's all deluded and crude, overdone. Sorry, Blizzard. Fail IMHO.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

When I play drums on Rock Band, my ankle gets sore. Other than that, I've just had a couple of instances of sore wrists. Also, Guitar Hero on Expert makes my fingers hurt >.< My pinkie once cramped which sucked.

 

[Omikron009]

When I was a lot younger....maybe 11, I woke up at like, 6 in the morning skipped breakfast, and went right to playing Halo. I beat The Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Room, and 343 Guilty Spark. When I got off of the xbox, having played for longer than I ever had before in one sitting, I had a migraine headache so bad that I threw up until nothing was left to throw up. Then I passed out and slept for 24 hours.

 

[fishman279]

Master Of Orion 2. That game was impossible when I first played it about 6 years ago. I find it easy now but at the beginning I had a really sore wrist for AGES. Damn Antarans...

 

[JWRosser]

I suffer from headaches quite frequently anyway so I'll exclude that. I mean, especially when I was younger and spent the majority of my time on video games, I played for hours and hours (I remember playing Final Fantasy VIII for nearly 12 hours straight) my eyes would get blurry, I'd have a headache (a given) and I would just feel so drained it looked like I was suffering from some sort of illness.

My hand ached from holding the Wii remote for so long when playing Resident Evil 4.