Gamers hear voices long after playing...

Only Game that did this to me was probably System shock 2 and then it was mentally repeating what I'd heard rather than actually hearing something added to the pant wettingly scary experience IMO "We seek... WE SEEK!"
 
I was drunk on my way home once and thought pressing Triangle to steal a car was an acceptable course of action.

Boring version: No it didn't lead to a GTA-style rampage ending in me driving a tank over a load of cop cars. I caught myself and lol'd all the way to bed.

Cool version: It led to a GTA-style rampage ending in me driving a tank over a load of cop cars.
 
When I first got a DVD player as a student in about 2001, I watched loads of gangster-type films (Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Godfather, Scarface etc.....), and kept finding myself drifting off and casually thinking about pistol whipping people in the supermarket queue, or tying up and chucking in the boot some cyclist I knocked over.

I've never had anything similar with video games. Though I did sometimes feel a bit on edge when I went to bed after playing FEAR.
 
Me and my mates used to freak out hearing sounds from freelancer back in the day after heavy sessions. Also the bomb beeping from Counterstrike.

Though come to think about it, we were usually pretty high when playing Freelancer.
 
cheesyboy said:
I've never had anything similar with video games. Though I did sometimes feel a bit on edge when I went to bed after playing FEAR.
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It's that Pyromanic Alma in her childish form that did this I still have nightmares because of that game made worse after someone posted this Pic:

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I'm now waiting for the first case of gaming related Posttraumatic stress disorder from a call of duty player who is to young to play the game but his parents won't blame themselfs.

turns out he just wet the bed from birth and it was nothing to do with gaming

MAN THE **** UP! you modern pansies !


BTW on a serious note did they use headphones for the test? because it's likely the volume causing the issue rather than the noise itself.

anyone ever been in a car thats blasting out happy hardcore or some crap like that at stupid volume levels? you can still hear the high pitched noises after the music is turned off..

I don't game with loud volume and never experienced any of this?
 
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Fallout 3 did this to me, I used to be able to hear the ambient sounds and the noise of trolleys and tin cans clattering across the floor after a lengthy session.
 
Atlas23 said:
One time, after playing Borderlands coop with a mate for a number of hours, I went to drive home. Upon pulling away, a load of seagulls flew over the car, which I mistook for a flock of Rakk, and almost ended up crashing into a lamp post. Gaming is dangerous guys.
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Pretty sure it was about 25 hours in one sitting wasn't it? :D :D

This, plus after we had our Minecraft and whisky Moff Mall marathon (of only about 12 hours by comparison) I was pretty sure I could hear that Minecraft block laying sound over and over :)

To be honest, it was quite soothing. Apart from the Rakks.
 
I spent a week playing Grand Theft Auto IV when it came out, then when I went to drive to work after barely leaving the house that week I started to drive on the wrong side of the road! luckily I noticed after about 100 meters, kinda weird!
 
Tinnitus and "ear worms" are not exactly new discoveries and of course cannot be blamed exclusively on computer games.

Regarding bizarre game related behaviour though, I completed Far Cry 3 (involving plenty of in game driving) over a few weeks when I didn't use my own car at all. Then when I did next need to drive it, I found I was about to get in the passenger side. ;)
 
Svack said:
I spent a week playing Grand Theft Auto IV when it came out, then when I went to drive to work after barely leaving the house that week I started to drive on the wrong side of the road! luckily I noticed after about 100 meters, kinda weird!
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:confused: Is that you Theo?
 
I think there was a time long ago, while i was playing BF2 heavily, that on occasion, walking to the shops etc, i was hearing "MEDIC!!"

But developing "true multitasking" as apposed to "multitasking" is well worth a few days of hearing "MEDIC!!!" randomly in a US accent.
 
I haven't heard noises before but if I go to sleep straight after a long gaming session I always have a dream about playing the game and what I could have done better.
 
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