Hmm.. Anyone else consider GT5p a problem?

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Touring Mars
I'd be interested to hear if anyone has felt anything similar... I suspect that my ailment is pretty uncommon, but I also suspect that my problem is fairly novel at the same time i.e. I have been button mashing for 12 years, and I started at the relatively late age of 21, and am now feeling the effects....
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The only genre of game that has ever made my fingers hurt, and my thumb especially, is that of football games, because you tend to bash the buttons more. And I don't play fighting games. I reckon you're pressing those buttons a bit too hard!

The only thing that's knackered my hand before is playing guitar. For a while I had proper calluses on every finger tip on my left hand from pressing the strings, when I was playing probably 4 hours a day. Gave me bad cramp too.

Back OT, I love GT but I'd never say I've been addicted to it. I sometimes play for a long time, but never when I have something else to do.
 
My wife said I looked like I was looking at car porn when she saw the main menu with the cars in different locations. Another time she let out a "wow" while watching me finish a race, she is not a gamer but said the graphics were awesome.


She also laughed at me when I said I needed to give my thumb a break because it hurt from holding down the gas petal.

Yes I am hooked, best $39.99 I have spent in a while. I laugh at those that say they will not pay for a demo. The fact the GT5 will be better is no reason not to enjoy this game.
 
TM> That's cast-iron Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
 
I tuned my Force Feedback from 10 down to 8 tonight to give my shoulder a break. Old weightlifting injury been flaring up with all the fighting the steering wheel I've been doing.
 
TouringMars, I have a similar problem, but related to the wheel, not the controller. My work places a heavy demand on my wrists, hands and elbows, and when I drive a lot, it causes problems. I changed my seating position relative to the wheel, and it made a huge difference-no more sore elbows.

Regarding the controller-I modified the body of a PS2 controller a few years ago-nothing complicated, I used duct tape with paper as a filler-because the controller is so damn tiny in my hands, long use times would give me the exact same problem you described. It allowed me to have a more normal reach to the sticks and buttons, instead of cramping my thumb and wrist.

Someone should make a controller that shocks the user when they press the buttons harder than is necessary, that would solve the problem right there!
 
it is a very addicting game...played like 6 hours every weekend which makes me get pwned by my mom... >.<
 
imagine the online for the full gt5. now that would be mint, it would have hopefully 40 tracks and imagine the choice of cars you could have. i mean it would make it alot more intresting. hardly anyone would have the same car.
 
Hah unfortunately I think I'm headed down the same road as you.

I'm only 16, yes, but this summer I'll be working to try and raise the incredible 600 dollars (roughly) required to get a PS3, GT5P, and G25. Until then, I have to bear with watching hotlaps and drifting trials and only dreaming of how much fun everyone else must be having with the game.

...maybe I can strike up a deal with my parents and go in debt to them so that I can play it through the summer and not ruin my grades by feeding the addiction during the school year.

And to make it worse, I have a gaming chair that gives force feedback that I got a year ago and haven't touched yet! Just sitting there!
 
Work at McDonalds. They pay minimum wage, you should be able to make more than 600 by the end of summer.
 
Touring Mars
I'd be interested to hear if anyone has felt anything similar... I suspect that my ailment is pretty uncommon, but I also suspect that my problem is fairly novel at the same time i.e. I have been button mashing for 12 years, and I started at the relatively late age of 21, and am now feeling the effects....
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The only gamepad related injury I have ever received was gamers callous. Where you develop a callous on the inside of the thumb. It can be sore if you do a lot of gaming after not having played anything for a couple of weeks.

You sound like you are definitely suffering from Video Gamer's Thumb, yep a real term.
http://www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=35914

Fortunately, the American Physical Therapy Association has some pointers that can help.
http://www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Media&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=35905

Non-pad related injuries vary from eye strain when working an eight hour IT internship and then playing Starcraft from the time I got home until I went to bed. I had to quit wearing contacts because of it.

And with the Wii I have definitely experienced some joint strain from a tennis elbow type thing to sore wrists from Super Mario Galaxy (nicely termed Wanker's Cramp by Zero Punctuation). I have also gotten arm fatigue from Gran Turismo while using the DFP.

The sad thing is that all of these things have been noted by doctors and every single one can be avoided by.......wait for it...............taking breaks.

Unfortunately, breaks are difficult to conceptualize when you are trying desperately to snip that .0000005 seconds off your lap time, stop an alien invasion, prevent zombie hordes (or prevent zombie-like alien hordes from invading <cough>Every sci-fi FPS<cough>), kill hookers, or destroy mobile nuke launching machines.
 
FoolKiller
Unfortunately, breaks are difficult to conceptualize when you are trying desperately to snip that .0000005 seconds off your lap time, stop an alien invasion, prevent zombie hordes (or prevent zombie-like alien hordes from invading <cough>Every sci-fi FPS<cough>), kill hookers, or destroy mobile nuke launching machines.
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Exactly! We need better medical advice from experts who actually understand that breaks are not an option!
 
The subject of GT5P has come up in couples therapy several times, hell it is prob. the reason we started going in the first place.
 
gitSehT
The subject of GT5P has come up in couples therapy several times, hell it is prob. the reason we started going in the first place.
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Does she have a hobby? I just explain that I treat video games the same way others do any hobby, and looking at it like that my wife recognizes that it is not that bad.
 
Hobby? I expained to my GF that I view GT the same way she views real life - "if you turn it off I'll die!"

seemed to work. Haven't seen her in ages :)
 
haha...funny...I recognise myself. I too feel that more norwegians should be on the top-list. But it's damn hard to get into top-10 time-attack/drift, I beleive I still have some though. 7 hours fly by so fast when racing online. No one can help us....it's an addiction to only be released by another addiction. Before GT5p I was addicted to online poker. Before that I was addicted to Counter-Strike. When Gt5 full version releases, we're fuc*ed
 

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