Vidya games that make your hands hurt

[Agent Proto]

I also want to add that playing any game on the DS that doesn't use the stylus for a long time will give my hands a cramp. >_<

[VeloZer0]

It seems hardcore until you consider I was forced to pick sock lint out of an open blister after the game was done. Then it just seems kind of stupid.

Every time I imagine a Venn Diagram I see a huge overlap between the two.

[Sephex]

Fun fact about the Mario Party one people keep mentioning. I remember that Nintendo Power asked people not to use their palm in that one mini game because of the damage it caused to the hand. Also, I looked on Wikipedia and saw this:

In Mario Party, certain minigames required players to rotate the controller's analog stick, including one in which the player is challenged to wind up Fly-Guy at the minigame house. Some players got blisters and other hand injuries from rotating the analog stick using the palms of their hands instead of using their thumb.[9] Some wore away the stick because it was not very durable. The analog stick rotation has no longer been used since Mario Party 2. The exceptions are the mini-game in Mario Party 5 in which the player only needs to rotate it once and the mini-game in Mario Party 3 in which players see how far they can throw Bowser and did not need to use the palm of their hand to move the analog stick.

[Jiro]

Mario Party. smurfing Mario Party. My friends and I discovered a technique which makes the mashing of the A button easier but by no means less painful. The blisters on my knuckles were phenomenal.

GIRP really made my hands cramp the smurf up, that game was hard.

[edczxcvbnm]

I use to hold the PS DUAL SHOCK Controller in a way that made the joints on my middle finger and ring finger hurt....so any PS game after a while. I eventually changed that though. I never had a problem with the regular PS controller though =P

For games that actually cause pain to my hands see none. WTF is wrong with all of you? I was a Mario Party wizard and never suffered any crap. I have a light touch to everything I do (curse you carbon paper!) so maybe I just never go in with the force necessary to get to a breaking point?

[GhandiOwnsYou]

While waiting for a flight out of Kandahar last year, me and a good buddy were stuck in a tent for three weeks with nothing to do, right next to a USO. They had a PS3 and a copy of super street fighter 4, which we played so much that in three weeks i blistered my d-pad thumb, tore it open, and managed to heal it no less than three times. Then I just found a bottle of new skin and started creating fake callouses to soldier on.

So that. And every psp game ever.

[VeloZer0]

Oh yeah, I forgot about portable consoles. No specific game in mind, but anything I play on the DS usually leads to cramped hands. It isn't so bad on turn based games, but anything action oriented on such small buttons is a recipe for trouble.

[Pike]

[Shattered Dreamer]

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 once cost me the skin on both my thumbs from a marathon multiplayer session with my brother in law years okay & recently Heavy Rain gave me a bad cramp in my wrist!

THERE'S A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE CAN BE HAPPY

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? ONCE AGAIN THAT IS THE INCREDIBLE

It's in our nature to KILL KILL KILL

etc.

Fond gaming memories surely, can't wait for Pro Skater HD because they ruined the series after Underground 2 & it will be great to play a skating game that doesn't involve the right analog stick for tricks!

I use to hold the PS DUAL SHOCK Controller in a way that made the joints on my middle finger and ring finger hurt....so any PS game after a while. I eventually changed that though. I never had a problem with the regular PS controller though =P

Repetitive strain injuries are the bane of anybody that has been gaming most of their life. Both my wrist joints click & my thumbs can get kinda stiff & a little "sore" after extended gaming sessions. I'm guessing we all have arthritis & carpal tunnel syndrome to look forward too in later life

[DK]

The only games that mash my hands up are fighting games that use all the face buttons like Tekken, 'cause I hold the pad only with my left hand and right hand I have my index and middle finger on the face buttons and the rapid repeated use over a long period of time makes my wrist and the back of my hand ache like tit. Other than that I'm pretty much fine with anything I think. Some of the stuff that kills peoples hands makes no sense to me at all, whenever I've been playing DW7 with Paul and he complains about it killing his hands I can't even comprehend how you could hold a pad in a way that would hurt your hands while playing that game, or why you'd need to.

edit: forgot, used to blister my thumbs something rotten playing 2D fighters, Street Fighter, guilty gear etc etc. It's pretty much just fighting games that kill my hands in some way or another.

[Bubba]

Button mashing at Tekken!

Definitely this.

I was never much good at fighting games but I loved Tekken.

[Mirage]

Any fighting game the first week after I've been on a long break. By long, I mean several months long.

[Jessweeee♪]

Tekken 3, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and Assassin's Creed when climbing all over trout and holding right trigger and A together for long stretches of time.

[Old Manus]

The goddamn torture sesh in MGS1.

[Sephex]

The goddamn torture sesh in MGS1.

But it simulates torture perfectly! The pain in your hand (or arm if you tense up enough) is supposed to make you feel roughed up like Solid Snake is! IMMERSION!

Also, nanomachines.