Your head already got around the fact that videogames are supposed to be slightly disorienting, but reading takes a lot more convincing.

How odd, that I can play games like Mirror's Edge for hours at a time, and in fact never get sick from ANY game ever, love roller coasters (real and virtual), flying, 3D movies etc, but nooooo when I try to read in a car that's it I'm done.

In fact what's doubly weird is it's only READING. I was playing a point and click adventure game on my laptop in the back seat the other day, and the subtitles were on. I got sick, and turned them off. BAM. I could play but not be sick, even though I was still just looking at the screen.

WIERD.

Dude, I KNOW.

Apart from Marathon making me a bit queasy, I'm the exact same way. I could ride roller coasters all.freaking.day. Love 'em. Never gotten sick. In fact, I laugh like a little kid when I ride roller coasters. They're awesome. But give me a book in a moving car and I often feel like crap pretty quickly. Very strange.

But I can play standard Halo fine, for days at a time! And most games for that matter. Forge, Mirror's Edge, and sometimes Portal is about all that hits me like that, that I know of at least.

How odd, that I can play games like Mirror's Edge for hours at a time, and in fact never get sick from ANY game ever, love roller coasters (real and virtual), flying, 3D movies etc, but nooooo when I try to read in a car that's it I'm done.

In fact what's doubly weird is it's only READING. I was playing a point and click adventure game on my laptop in the back seat the other day, and the subtitles were on. I got sick, and turned them off. BAM. I could play but not be sick, even though I was still just looking at the screen.

WIERD.

I may just be in a literary mood today, but the rumors that the new Mirror's Edge might be an exclusive makes me wonder if the lackluster reveal of the Xbox One (from a gaming perspective) is part of a larger strategy,* what I might call a Prince Hal strategy. For those of you unfamiliar with Shakespeare's histories, Prince Hal was something of a clown prince, a drunkard whose friends were thieves, whores, and other drunkards. Hal's lack of royal propriety greatly disappointed his father, the king, but Hal had a strategy. "My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to set it off."

Prince Hal would become the celebrated Henry V, and stun everyone because they expected so little of him. Perhaps it will be the same with the Xbox One.

Kermit

*I think it's unlikely that this is a conscious strategy on Microsoft's part, but it will be interesting if all the current disappointment actually helps Microsoft in the long run.

I definitely think you're right, Microsoft has already talked about how they are going to talk about gaming and only gaming at E3. Also they promised to answer the big questions everyone has. I have no idea if it was planned, but either way I think it's probably going to end up working out for them.

Prince Hal would become the celebrated Henry V, and stun everyone because they expected so little of him. Perhaps it will be the same with the Xbox One.

Kermit

*I think it's unlikely that this is a conscious strategy on Microsoft's part, but it will be interesting if all the current disappointment actually helps Microsoft in the long run.

I can't remember when.

N64?

Holy shit! That was the one with the custom courses! I spent hours making epic jumps and thoroughly trashing the AI on my creations!

I had to look it up to realize there was one for the N64! I never played that one. I haven't played many racing games (except Mario Kart) since probably the N64 with Wave Race.

N64?

Holy shit! That was the one with the custom courses! I spent hours making epic jumps and thoroughly trashing the AI on my creations!

I miss that game. I haven't played a bike game in like... a decade.

Three times this close to E3? Man oh man are my hopes pretty high right now.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/mirrors-edge-2-listing-pops-up-again-6408998

Did you play it as God intended, on a Power Mac 7100?

Haha, no sir, I can't say that I did. I tried it first on a PC, probably over a decade ago. I was at a friend's house, they had a computer, and I wanted to play a game. I tried one (I didn't realize until much later that it was Marathon) and I got nauseous pretty quick. Recently I downloaded Marathon: Durandal from XBL, and the nausea ensued again :(

If you have a Power Mac 7100 and a copy of Marathon, I would love to take a third try at it :)

I think when you play it on a 15- or 17-inch monitor with graphics running at 640 x 480 or smaller with the HUD (which took up a more of the screen than current HUDs), it's a bit harder to get sick. I was very disappointed when I found Marathon 2 unplayable on the Xbox. We naturally want everything super-sized now, but back in the day Marathon was impressive enough.

Did you play it as God intended, on a Power Mac 7100?

Haha, no sir, I can't say that I did. I tried it first on a PC, probably over a decade ago. I was at a friend's house, they had a computer, and I wanted to play a game. I tried one (I didn't realize until much later that it was Marathon) and I got nauseous pretty quick. Recently I downloaded Marathon: Durandal from XBL, and the nausea ensued again :(

If you have a Power Mac 7100 and a copy of Marathon, I would love to take a third try at it :)

Marathon was the first and only game (so far) to make me feel nauseous. Big sad :( And all this time I thought I was just wierd and couldn't handle it.

Did you play it as God intended, on a Power Mac 7100?