Apparently, in the future, people don’t have epilepsy. The latest information out of CVG is that the long-awaited PSN title has been severely delayed. In fact, the game “[failed] the epilepsy tests so much that it has to be re-engineered." The statement makes you wonder how many people dropped and kissed the floor while trying to play the game during the testing process.
This epilepsy stuff always gets to me. Games typically have very clear and distinct warnings on both the title screen and in the manual stating they can cause photosensitive seizures. It’s not like this is some big, insidious secret of the industry. My guess is that part of this is political, and a direct response to the lameness that is Parliament when it gets a whiff of misgivings in games.
Just for fun, I uploaded the E3 trailer for WipEout HD after the break. I didn’t get a seizure from watching it. Did you? For those of you with sensitivities to light, fast moving objects or epilepsy, don’t watch the video or you’ll have a seizure.
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5:55 PM on 07.23.2008
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from the looks of this flashing trailer it appears the pointy floaters are back and i'm drooling. when Twisted Metal and new Team ICO game come out i'll get a ps3 and this... when it finally releases.
However, I do apreciate it when TV, Films & games atleast warn me or cut that un-neaded flashing crap out.
Oh wow... look, pretty flashing patterns.... BORING... we ain't all Japanese school kids liking that crap!
So just put it out with an extra big epilepsy warning!
I wish a game would be pretty enough to put me into a seizure.
XL is by far the benchmark to which all sequels will be judged.
that godammed game was in essence virtual crack, i was late to work 2-3 times because of it.... oh the memories.
Heaven = Quadraphonic sound setup set to volume level 7 playing this thing for like 6 hours straight
And when you're cruising through a tunnel and let one of those bombs off!!! Holy shit! this game lovingly added an invisible subwoofer that shook the house!
ahhhh Psygnosis + Coldstorage... i doubt it will ever be that good again!
Did i mention it had probably the BEST soundtrack in the history of soundtracks?! If you've heard it than i didn't have to...
OH! shit, kinda went on a little nostalgic voyage there, i can wait till they remove the milkshakes (sry different strokes reference...)
At least i get to play it emulated on the psp...
PLEASE REMAKE XL WITH THE SAME SOUNDTRACK AS THE ORIGINAL SONY! ADD STUFF BUT DONT CHANGE ANYTHING!!!!
Cigarettes have a health warning on them too, does that mean if I stick 500x the dose of nicotine in it they had fair warning.
What a tard.
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guermogamer:
Are you high?
However, I do believe that a lot of us could find something that causes a negative response if we searched high and low enough.
Case in point: one time in Quake, I turned Godmode on and then jumped into a random lava pits. For some reason after about 30 seconds of never ending fire damage, the computer monitor took on this red hue that made my head buzz and get a little tense in the neck and jaw. Never had an issue before or since, but I can see how some displayed images might induce epilepsy in even normal people.
A bad example maybe but..... You can put a warning sign on Alcohol, but the same sign will be on one that is only 4% in volume and one that is 75% in volume. Now if the percentage was not being displayed you would not realise which was stronger and more dangerous (well you would by the taste, but it is different comparing taste to light as by the time an epileptic sees the lights its too late...so for the purpose of comparison say you had to drink a pint regardless of taste with no percentage wrote... just a warning that it contains alcohol which may or maty not get you drunk). One would have little effect whilst the other would knock you out on your back blind drunk.
There is no reason why any game (or media) should be 'over the top' with such stuff that can cause an epileptic fit (which can be life threatening). It is simply undeeded and does nothing to make a game any better at all.
milescosmo, If you have a kid and he had a fit once whilst watching TV or playing a computer game with over the top flashing, then would you really tell him he could no longer watch ANY TV or play ANY computer games for the rest of his life? OR, would you blame that one tv programme or game that also set off thousands of other kids at the same time?.
Grow the fuck up you tool.
If true, I hope the seizure mode is unlockable somehow.
Back to WipEout Pulse I guess.