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Paltry
08-09-2005, 04:35 PM
Korea... video games... obsession...

Need I say more? (http://today.reuters.co.uk/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=uri:2005-08-09T104506Z_01_KWA938635_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-ODD-KOREA-GAMES.XML)
Heretic Machine
08-09-2005, 04:58 PM
Ya, there is a thread about this on the forums. Personally, I believe the Koreans are just too weak to handle gaming the way we Americans can. Hell, I've played that long before, and the only thing that happend to me was a collapse on the kitchen floor. But my heart didn't explode, so hah!
Taco
08-09-2005, 05:02 PM
I agree Perigon. The reputation far surpasses the reality of Korean gamers. Panty wastes.
Dirty Harry
08-09-2005, 05:11 PM
I agree Perigon. The reputation far surpasses the reality of Korean gamers. Panty wastes.
As long as you take breaks to drain the lizzard, eat some food occasionally. You can play for three days straight, enjoyably?, well thats a different matter.
Eric_T_Cheng
08-09-2005, 05:19 PM
What a wuss.
DeadPixel
08-09-2005, 05:26 PM
I once knew someone who played Diablo II for 32+ hours straight, or was it me? Damn! It was me, fucking shit.
Heretic Machine
08-09-2005, 05:26 PM
As long as you take breaks to drain the lizzard, eat some food occasionally. You can play for three days straight, enjoyably?, well thats a different matter.

You never had the Abyss Shard PVP Experience on UO. That was some fun shit back in the day, and I enjoyed it until I passed out. Then I went and enjoyed it some more!
Thumper
08-09-2005, 05:31 PM
He quit work to "play more computer games".

Scary, my last day of work is tomorrow and thats the exact reason I'm quitting. Waking up at 6:30 after gaming until 4am is no way to live, so I did what had to be done. :)
Paltry
08-09-2005, 05:33 PM
good thing you live in canada and not in the us

we havent yet reached the canadian level of socialistic paradise down here
sicker
08-09-2005, 05:45 PM
Pfft! I played Ocarina of Time for over 50 hours staright, no sleep. Beat it (the game), took a nice nap, woke up, booted Ocarina back up, and started a new game.

Maybe his game was the shit, so dope you could OD.
Taco
08-09-2005, 05:57 PM
I had my Everquest marathon's. The worst side effect was me eating frozen dinners four hours after my Mom had cooked something fresh.

Now that I'm on my own I want all those meals back :).
Paltry
08-09-2005, 06:05 PM
god damn ive been playing games since i was 4 but i dont think ive ever played more than 11 or 12 hours straight before
Kelegacy
08-09-2005, 06:26 PM
These days marathons for me are like 5 hours and it's very rare that I do that. (last time was Psychonauts--up until like 2 A.M.) I stay away from RTS games or stuff like Civilization/Alpha Centauri because they suck my life away so bad. Great games but a day goes by in 15 minutes and I'm obsessed with time. I dont play MMO's either because of that. I enjoy single player games where there is a beginning and end, even if the game stretches 100's of hours. Juggling a job and other interests has really capped off my gaming time.
KNOTE
08-09-2005, 06:28 PM
This brings up something that I think about often. I don't get tired when playing video games. In fact, I feel that the longer I play, the quicker my reflexes become and more acute is my vision. I do notice an increased heart rate while i play too. Does anyone else experience this? I could easily play for 24 hours or longer in a sitting. Never done it, but there is something about playing video games that eliminates any fatigue. Someone needs to do a study.
Adewade
08-09-2005, 06:38 PM
KNOTE - Which kind of games? I bet there'd be both relaxants and stimulants.
Malovech
08-09-2005, 06:53 PM
good thing you live in canada and not in the us

we havent yet reached the canadian level of socialistic paradise down here

Fandango you've clearly never been to Calagary. :)
KNOTE
08-09-2005, 06:54 PM
honestly, i've never found a relaxing game. pretty much all games rev me up.
EyesNoMore
08-09-2005, 06:56 PM
These days marathons for me are like 5 hours and it's very rare that I do that. (last time was Psychonauts--up until like 2 A.M.) I stay away from RTS games or stuff like Civilization/Alpha Centauri because they suck my life away so bad. Great games but a day goes by in 15 minutes and I'm obsessed with time. I dont play MMO's either because of that. I enjoy single player games where there is a beginning and end, even if the game stretches 100's of hours. Juggling a job and other interests has really capped off my gaming time.
I'm with you. I consider 3 - 4 hours a long stretch of gaming. And I also stay away from RTSs for the same reason as you.

I just installed the WoW trial from PC Gamer which could be a huge mistake if I value my time. :( But I have a feeling I won't get addicted. Thank God. :) I am enjoying it, but having played Guild Wars already I find the interface in WoW to be less intuitive and a little frustrating. Please don't turn this into a WoW vs GW thing, it's just how I feel having played GW first. I'm sure I would feel the opposite if I had played WoW first.
King Drewsky
08-09-2005, 06:56 PM
Mr. Lee, it is my pleasure to award you your Darwin Award. Congratulations.
Crabby
08-09-2005, 07:00 PM
Pussy.


Personally, I could never ever fall asleep while playing a game, nor get tired unless I was already tired. Even the "mindless" games require a bit of mental operation and that keeps me dialed in to whatever I am doing.
LilAbner
08-09-2005, 08:29 PM
LOL!!!

Oh those krazy Koreans!!
Crispy951
08-09-2005, 08:58 PM
god next thing i see is politicions saying that games kill people...instead of just the people that play games
Deadend
08-09-2005, 09:09 PM
Mr. Lee, it is my pleasure to award you your Darwin Award. Congratulations.

Like he would have reproduced anyway...
bean19
08-09-2005, 10:46 PM
Huh. . . I thought most of the people who died doing this in Korea were farmers (farming gold in MMO games for sell on online markets). . . this story seems to indicate he actually had an addiction.
FyrionX
08-09-2005, 10:56 PM
LOL, try looking up the surname Lee in a Korean phone book!
MrMeatshake
08-10-2005, 02:27 AM
50 hours? hm. halo2 release i remember we started on friday when i got back from work and stopped late sunday night. but i think i got about 5 hours sleep each night - then up and lots of coffee. i'm sure i could have gone without the sleep, but i don't know why you would.

was weird going out (to a cafe for more coffee) on the sunday. i really wanted to melee my housemate in the back while in the queue... it would have been an assassination!

This brings up something that I think about often. I don't get tired when playing video games. In fact, I feel that the longer I play, the quicker my reflexes become and more acute is my vision. I do notice an increased heart rate while i play too.

i certainly find this, but then I'm a really light sleeper, i can't sleep even in front of the TV. i now play halo2 much, much less, but if i don't leave 2 hours or so after playing to wind down or do some excersize or something, i won't sleep until annoyingly late. i wouldn't listen to my opinion on sleeping, though, i've bin prescribed sleeping tablets before :(
MrMeatshake
08-10-2005, 03:35 AM
i'm going to combine binge drinking and binge gaming into a sport. you need to drink massive amounts of alco-pops while playing MMORPGs, if everyone survives to level 50, then the person with the highest brethalyzer score wins a prize.
Eon
08-10-2005, 04:55 AM
Although you will not physically exhaust yourself playing games your mental state will suffer. People who think that they are "at the top of their game" after 40 hours straight gaming are simply better at deluding themselves than most people.

This is physiology. The effects of sleep deprivation are not unknown and the rules don't change because you're playing games.
Rakael
08-10-2005, 05:19 AM
Shit, if I game for more that 5 or 6 hours, my ass will be passed out on the couch with controller in hand (Or leaned over the kb,fingers still on the right keys, as I have done before). I just love my sleep too damned much. You guys have fun with your 50 hour gaming fests, I'll be snoozing happily.
TRiLoGY
08-10-2005, 05:22 AM
I've done near to 40 hrs straight on Final Fantasy..

ah, those were the days...
Spigot
08-10-2005, 07:51 AM
Fandango you've clearly never been to Calagary. :)

Too true :)

I wish I could take the time off to game but living in the outer orbit of the center of the universe (Toronto) I can't drop my hours lower than 40/week, though it'd be nice.

I miss the good ol' days of being able to work till 11pm, stay up till 4am gaming, sleep until 8-9am and then play games till 2:30pm when I had to go to work. Amazing how little time for games you have when you have a kid.

Sigh.
Spigot
08-10-2005, 07:54 AM
I am enjoying it, but having played Guild Wars already I find the interface in WoW to be less intuitive and a little frustrating. Please don't turn this into a WoW vs GW thing, it's just how I feel having played GW first. I'm sure I would feel the opposite if I had played WoW first.

You are completely right Eyes.

I played WoW first and then went to GW and found the opposite to be true. However, after going back to WoW after I'd ascended in GW I found that there definately were a few things I wish WoW had from GW. It took me about a week or two to stop hitting the GW buttons and get back to using my WoW hotkeys...

Granted, that's about how long it took me to adapt to the GW interface when I fired it up.
Spigot
08-10-2005, 07:56 AM
Huh. . . I thought most of the people who died doing this in Korea were farmers (farming gold in MMO games for sell on online markets). . . this story seems to indicate he actually had an addiction.

This isn't the first time it's happened.

At least this was a case of the guy neglecting his own body instead of craziness like the guy who killed his friend because he didn't honour their trade of a sword in Lineage or some other MMO. That's about the only instance I've heard of where a game WAS really the central part of a murder. Even there, you have to be pretty unbalanced to kill someone because they didn't give you a virtual sword.