[Sniper Ash6]

There are some people that cant last 30 mins on a computer or playing a game so im curious as to how many games can only play for a short while before they get a headache or dont feel well

[BamBamMickey]

Don't often get headaches.
I do however feel sick/lightheaded if i go for a couple of hours without a break.
15mins per hour of play is the recommended AFAIK.

I think Prey was one of those games that "30mins" would make you feel unwell.
Walking walls etc.

[Sniper Ash6]

I would have added a poll to this but apparently i cant decide and add the 6 options i was going to put in within the 2 mins it gives you

I must say though, i never get headaches from being on the computer or from very long gaming sessions. I only get headaches when im ill and its how i know that im gonna wake up the next day feeling crap

[Poised_Anomaly]

I dont normally get headaches from gaming. I use a computer all day at work also without any problems. I do use to get them when i had my gaming headset turned up but that was just beacuase it was loud. I known people get them from playing in the dark or very low lighting.

[Codehead]

I only get headaches from lack of sleep. Finishing GoW2 at 0500 then being woken by the kids at 0700 is not nice.

On a side note, I have screaming backache this morning. For some reason the Rock Band drums do it to me every time I play them.

[kav]

I never get headaches, thankfully, but I do occasionally have weird sleeps after a late night of gaming - strange dreams containing elements of the games I've played etc (Scarecrow at the moment...). Also, if I've been playing something that gets the adrenaline going, like COD MP, it takes me ages to relax and get to sleep.

[Poised_Anomaly]

Yea that can really be a pain Bad compay + bedtime = restless Makes it worse when the better half is fast asleep next you.

[Mr Noble]

If people are getting headaches from gaming the chances are they have not got their TV set up correctly , too bright, too much contrast etc , putting a strain on their eyes in turn giving them a bad head, what look's good to some people will look horrendous and distorted to other's.

I often notice this when i go to friends etc big 50" plasma and brightness set to 75 , most people like all the new technology of today but don't have the experience to cali them correctly

The longest session with just toilet breaks and to answer door for pizza was 16 hours when i first got my 360

[Sniper Ash6]

Some people get used to it and can stand it, i can spend all day on the 360 or on the computer or at college on the computer it doesnt bother me at all - others just cant get used to it

@ Kav: That is quite funny (the dreams). I have no problem going to sleep after just playing MP on anything either

[King Tones]

Originally Posted by kavanf1

I never get headaches, thankfully, but I do occasionally have weird sleeps after a late night of gaming - strange dreams containing elements of the games I've played etc (Scarecrow at the moment...). Also, if I've been playing something that gets the adrenaline going, like COD MP, it takes me ages to relax and get to sleep.

That sums me up perfectly

COD Online i just cant get to sleep after that, i have to watch a video or some tv to relax.

I dont get headaches only aches in my legs for sitting in the same position.
I can game all day and all night...and have done and not have any problems. Just lack of sleep and food

I have also had pretty weird dreams. Thankfully nothing from F.E.A.R or Deadspace but i have had dreams where i was walking round New York and would push the up on the D-Pad to bring up the New York Map like in COD

Deftones

[kopchoir]

Tis not the game but the beer

[Sniper Ash6]

Originally Posted by Deftones

That sums me up perfectly

COD Online i just cant get to sleep after that, i have to watch a video or some tv to relax.

I dont get headaches only aches in my legs for sitting in the same position.
I can game all day and all night...and have done and not have any problems. Just lack of sleep and food

I have also had pretty weird dreams. Thankfully nothing from F.E.A.R or Deadspace but i have had dreams where i was walking round New York and would push the up on the D-Pad to bring up the New York Map like in COD

Deftones

Thats playing too much WaW for you

What is it about MP (especially CoD) that means people cant sleep though?

[Paul_T]

It depends on the game for me, normally I can go for hours but some games I just can't manage, and it tends to be those with fixed cameras - I just traded in Alone In The Dark because I just phyiscally can't play it, I find it disorientating when you're walking down a corridor away from the camera, then suddenly the camera will change so you're walking towards it and the controls get reversed - annoys the out of me.

I think it's why I've completly ignored RE5 as it's predecessors used the ssame system - it looks a stunningly beautiful game but if thats the camera it uses then no thanks.

Have also struggled with Blacksite in the past - I don't think it's a bad game but it's just too "brown", the textures are all too close to one another so it's sometime difficult to diffrentiate what's what on screen.

NFS ProStreet is the only other that springs to mind but thats down to it's shocking frame rate.

[Poised_Anomaly]

Might be down the the wife snoring not just the games ha. Just dont tell her

[King Tones]

Originally Posted by Sniper Ash6

Thats playing too much WaW for you

What is it about MP (especially CoD) that means people cant sleep though?

Like Frank said i think its the Adrenaline.
If you have had some big team games late on 1am or even FFA and you have been racking up the kills. When i turn my xbox off its as if i am twitching to play more.....KILL KILL KILL KILL !

MUST NOT SLEEP MUST KILL...MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICES


Deftones

[Poised_Anomaly]

But wait deftones....There's still time.

[r2001uk]

I suffer from headaches anyway, so I'm guaranteed to get a headache from playing for a long time.

Doesn't stop me though

[Poised_Anomaly]

Gaming and beer gives me headaches but thing that more to do with beer not the games

[j_s]

Been suffering more and more recently with headaches and a bit of dizzyness when it comes to choppy frame rates. Batman gave me a headache last night, Gears and Gears 2 do it to some extent to. I notice it the most when switching from a smooth game to a lower frame rate.

[Poised_Anomaly]

I think my headaches when comes after the mrs repeating "are your turning it off yet over and over

[r2001uk]

Haha :D

I seem to encourage headaches when gaming when I'm playing a fast moving game that requires a lot of visual focus, say CoD4 multi - always running around, eyes peeled and scanning all over the screen looking for enemies...

Choppy framerates don't help either though, I agree with that.

p.s. grats on your new Senior Member status, PA

[Poised_Anomaly]

Driving games do it for me

[benjammmin]

Originally Posted by Poised_Anomaly

Driving games do it for me

ditto, although its more of a dizziness i get rather than a headache.

and it only really happens in the first person view not the ones where you can actually see your car.

[Poised_Anomaly]

Yea the first person view will mash my head. Burnout revenge was a killer for me. I did 300+ hours on crash tours

[Yubious]

i get headaches when im not playing, misses says its from gaming, but when im gaming i dont have a headache or at least im too into the game to notice...
this tells me to justr carry on gaming!

[Sniper Ash6]

I guess its you dont notice it

As i said earlier i only have a headache when im ill not from gaming or being on the computer too long etc. but i wont notice that headache until i have stopped sometimes

[Lambo mad]

I used to when i began, but after a couple of weeks of extended periods of non stop gaming, you get used to it lol

i am now IMMUNE

[Shane]

I tend to wake up with a headache these days from either being on the 360 to late or the PC.

Really should come off about an hour before I go to bed.

[markgodley]

I don't get headaches from gaming... i get them from getting so into a game i forget to have a drink for 3-4 hours..

[Rorifett]

I'm usually fine on the headache front but I downloaded and played Wolfenstein 3d the other day and I've never felt so ill from looking at a screen, not having the use of up and down was disconcerting enough, the game just made me rough.

I suffer more from a bursting head with repetitive music, Zuma's music is murder for that. I've always had a thing about repetitive music though, one of the main reasons pop music is such a killer to me.