Poll: Gaming While Sick

[Woodsey]

Depends on the game and what's wrong with me.

 

[Bloody Crimson]

If I'm not at school because I'm sick, if I'm caught playing a game I'll most likely be sent back to school as is.

Though I do believe I've played a few Smash Bros rounds with my brother late at night while in a mania. I felt really weird and jumpy.

 

[delet]

Guess I've got 'uber-leet-gaming-senses' then. Every time I'm sick, I do what I'd do when I normally have nothing else to do: Play video games. It works quite well to pass the time.

 

[Deleted]

when I stay home from school sick my mom doesn't let me play video games because she doesn't liek the fact that I'm getting a double deal out of being sick. No school and gaming all day, she makes me lie in bed miserable no matter what the sickness.

 

[The Eaten Cake]

Depends on the game, I suppose?... If it's a game which requires particular energy, then it's out of the window, I suppose. I'm probably limited to platformers which don't require much mental stress. But more often, I just lie in bed and groan internally if I'm really ill.

 

[Elsarild]

Sure I'll play, actually, I'm sick right now, and I've been playing a few hours today, but it does still depends on the game, i can't play FPS's or fast games if i got a massiv headache, and I'm not good at RTS if i got a massive stomicach.

 

[Firia]

My previous flu (not my most recent, but the one before it) was about the time The Darkness came out. So a good 2 years ago. I had recently purchased it for a song, and came down with a naaaasty flu that evening. It lasted for a week; the flu, AND the game. I spent most all of my sick time sitting in my gaming chair playing The Darkness while in a fevered state.

I love The Darkness. I dunno if it was enhanced by my condition, or if I was numbed by it (which means it's even better when you're not ill). Some parts were almost to much to handle ill. And I dunno if my being sick and gaming rather than resting made it harder to recover. But it did take a week (7 days) to recover. So that may be something.

 

[Siuss]

Pretty much what everyone else said.

If I have like a cold or am starting to feel down I'll keep playing, but if we're talking the flu or mono I'm out and I'll be dead in bed for the next week or two if anyone NEEDS me.

When I get sick I get super sick.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Add to the poll, "Depends how sick"

 

[metza]

I just play different games - a lot more single player and a lot more handheld when I'm sick.

 

[The_Deleted]

I still play games sometimes. It's depends on what I'm sick with. Sometimes, looking at TVs and computers makes me feel worse and makes me want to throw up. xD

This. I was sick last week and thought : Sweet, I'll get on the PS360. But I just ended up with a monumental headwrong.

 

[Ocelot GT]

I like to play platformers in bed when I have the flu. Or a good TBS.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Generally when I'm at all sick, I'm very sick so gaming is out of the question.

 

[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!!!