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Get your epilepsy out of my WipEout HD

5:55 PM on 07.23.2008, Brad Nicholson 39 comments

Get your epilepsy out of my WipEout HD photo
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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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king3vbo at 07/23/2008 18:03
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KamikazeTutor at 07/23/2008 18:04
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Unicorn at 07/23/2008 18:04
i loved wipeout XL back in the day, but not the ones on ps2 so much because the cars weren't angular and were more smoothed out.

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.
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xe-cute at 07/23/2008 18:09
I am photosensitive and photophobic..... I am lucky enough not to suffer siezures (yet).


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!
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Unicorn at 07/23/2008 18:11
also, is this wipeout HD a remake of the original Wipeout with HD redone stuff? or is it a whole new game? i want Wipeout XL remade in HD. secret cars included. loved the flying pig. haha or was it a hippo?
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moot button at 07/23/2008 18:15
i like flashing things.
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ParaParaKing at 07/23/2008 18:17
I would buy and play this even if it causes epilepsy.

So just put it out with an extra big epilepsy warning!
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xe-cute at 07/23/2008 18:21
The only flashing things I like are girls with big boobies :)
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TurboSpaz at 07/23/2008 18:22
Shit I'd buy a PS3 just for this game. Well, if I was rich as shit.
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xe-cute at 07/23/2008 18:25
shit is rich?
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SantanaClaus89 at 07/23/2008 18:27
I wish they would have left it alone. It's much more fun to play a game while having a seizure.
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xe-cute at 07/23/2008 18:28
^ Have you actualy tried it?
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Shin Oni at 07/23/2008 18:36
so...this better not make/break the game.
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liqideos at 07/23/2008 18:41
I think this stems back to some kids having freakouts during Pokemon episodes in Japan back in the late 90's.

I wish a game would be pretty enough to put me into a seizure.
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niacin at 07/23/2008 18:48
I guess a lot of people don't know they are photosensitive until it's too late and since seizures really fucking suck, taking out a cd rack in a virgin megastore, turning blue, ambulance ride and a really sore fucking tongue kinda suck anything that can be done to prevent them should be. Hell it's not like it's really going to interfere with any ones enjoyment of the game having certain frequencies of flashing lights removed.
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xe-cute at 07/23/2008 18:57
^ EXACTLY
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shadpreston at 07/23/2008 19:00
Seizures rule. I once saw a guy take out a CD rack at a Virgin Megastore....man he was flopping around like a fish. It was awesome....best time i have had at a Virgin Megastore, that's for sure.
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xe-cute at 07/23/2008 19:05
^Just hope it never happens to you as you may change your view point!
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shadpreston at 07/23/2008 19:08
Nah....My opinion of Virgin Megastore will never change....seizures or not.
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Vanilla Gorilla at 07/23/2008 19:08
Fuckin hell, what does a guy need to do to experience a seizure for once in his life around here?
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guermogamer at 07/23/2008 19:17
MOTHERFUCKERS! Ahhh! Sorry, wipeout is my one true weakness when it comes to system purchases, it's why i have a ps1, ps2, and psp...

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!!!!
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NihonTiger90 at 07/23/2008 19:20
Well, this is a rather important reason to delay the game. If it's failing these tests so miserably, then it's a big issue.
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BluDesign at 07/23/2008 19:47
Nice. I just found my 4th PS3 game.
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Projectexodus at 07/23/2008 19:53
I'm glad they take these kinds of measures. Imagine if you where a gamer, and all of the sudden you find out you got epilepsy, and you cant play them anymore.
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Volomon at 07/23/2008 20:44
WTF is this idiot talking about.

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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mix at 07/23/2008 21:06
Are there pokemons inside!?
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ajaxender at 07/23/2008 22:01
The trailer looked pretty epileptic, cos it kept flashing for no reason. The game itself, however, looked no worse than any other wipeout game, and plenty less seizure-riffic than many other games already out.
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pendelton21 at 07/23/2008 22:03
Hey, look, Wipeout!!!

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Alexradl at 07/23/2008 22:03
According to Wikipedia, "being asleep" can trigger seizures (for people with epilepsy). Pillow delays suck.

guermogamer:

Are you high?
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Cheeburga at 07/23/2008 22:05
man this game look fusAUGHGHHHUGHHHHHHHHHIAGUCVKndkashfioahsfihaogi30957290357.54.............,l;,l;
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Crapsh00t at 07/24/2008 00:11
I have never been diagnosed as epileptic/photosensitive, and have run the gamut of strobes, colors, etc, much like many of you.

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.
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Darth Kupi at 07/24/2008 01:04
Epilepsy's about to make you its bitch!
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milescosmo at 07/24/2008 04:00
maybe if you have epilepsy you shouldn;t do things that cause it to happen.
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xe-cute at 07/24/2008 10:04
^ @ milescosmo... Wow, you are very retarded... Have you read any of this thread?

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.
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naib at 07/24/2008 15:07
I'm skeptical. I was sure it was some issue with online MP.

If true, I hope the seizure mode is unlockable somehow.

Back to WipEout Pulse I guess.
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Too Much Coffee Man at 07/25/2008 16:09
Someone at Beyond3D (Kanyamagufa) was talking about this being a possible reason before the story broke {Jul 18} (one of those a friend of a friend type deals). But the the top dogs there seem to have pause w/ it being legit enough to warrant that long of a delay. Speculation is it's the multiplayer that's causing the biggest problem.
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