Mirror’s Edge: It’s vomiterrific!

Hey, are you a cutting-edge gamer?  Are you sure?  How about a game that makes you vomit?  Reports are mounting that Mirror’s Edge does just that.

You do a lot of running, jumping, and climbing in Mirror’s Edge, but so what?  That’s true of a lot of games.  What’s the difference?

This article‘s author speculates that Mirror’s Edge produces nausea by interfering with your proprioception, which is your body’s sense of where its parts are.  (Proprioception is how you can walk down stairs without looking at your feet.)  He also compliments the realism of the action, in particular that running really fast feels more like running in this game than he’s ever experienced in any other game.

I might like to give this one a try, but I believe I’ll wait a year or so for a price break.  After all, syrup of ipecac is way cheaper than $60, and probably faster-acting.

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7 thoughts on “Mirror’s Edge: It’s vomiterrific!”

  1. I think I will pass. Did I tell you about the virtual reality game I played at Disney Quest? One dons a helmet / visor thing that you view through. You have a sword in your hand and you battle these things flying at you. Also, you run down lots of corridors. I was fine afterward, at first. But then, OMG, I was sick,sick, sick and didn’t fully recover for a couple of hours.

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  2. Now that I have this cool new whiz-bang computer, there’s a number of games I want to get, but “Mirror’s Edge” isn’t one of them. I put the following on my Xmas list:

    Lord of the Rings Online
    Assassin’s Creed
    Blazing Angels
    The Bourne Conspiracy (though right now I think it’s only available for the XBox 360 and the PS3)
    Alpha Protocol

    Have any info or opinions on those ones?

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  3. ‘seester: My grand Disney health issue was getting off Space Mountain and experiencing absolutely miserable itching on my back–I mean, itching that could not be relieved. Lea had to scratch it constantly on our way back to the room, else I’d have taken my shirt off and rubbed back and forth on the asphalt. (That’s exactly what I did on the carpet–for about 30 minutes–when we did get back there.) It never happened again. Still have no explanation. It was unreal.

    ‘seester, Mrs. Chili: The only time I can recall that I ever threw up for a non-gastrointestinal reason was on a deep sea fishing boat. I’d not been seasick before and haven’t been since, but I had one time that just got to me.

    nhfalcon: I haven’t played any of these. I’ve heard some good things about Assassin’s Creed, though. Re: Bourne: games based on movies almost always suck. There are exceptions, but they’re rare. One you should definitely get IMO is Bioshock. It may have been out long enough now to even be discounted. It’s PRIMO.

    I tried to be a PC gamer for a while, but I found it exhausting and expensive trying to keep up. I stick to the Xbox 360 now for serious stuff (I’ll start Gears of War 2 soon), and Wii for lighter/with-the-kids fare. You trade a little bit of cutting edge, but I find the stability worth it.

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  4. I did give the demo a shot. It does feel like a semi-cool game, but I don’t understand the palette at all. Everything is really white–distractingly so.

    I may pick it up at $20 or $30.

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