Bad Vibrations

[peeveen]

Played Doom3 on XBox for quite a few hours yesterday ... good fun, and atmospheric enough to make me forget about switching off controller vibration ...

So I wake up today, and my middle finger of my right hand is quite numb. I can move it normally, just can't really feel it very much. I think I could stick a pin in it quite comfortably. Coincidentally, this is the finger I use on the right trigger button on the controller, which fires the gun, which makes the controller vibrate.

Coincidence?
Anyone else experienced this?
And most importantly ... am I gonna get the feeling back in my finger?

[Ady]

I experienced a similar thing after an Outrun 2 session on a friend's XBox a while back. The XBox controller's rumble is truly arthritis-inducing.

[TheHoodedClaw]

Its called "Vibration White Finger". Miners used to get it in the old days.
You should only worry if it doesnt go away.

[Soi]

I never play with vibration on. It is very bad for you. PGR2 made the tips of all my fingers have pins and needles for about 2 weeks (I was typing loads at the time at work too). I asked a doctor (well my dad) who said that it will go away, and it did.

My trigger finger also aches after long xbox sessions (especially racing games). I hope that the 360's controller has less resistance on its shoulder buttons.

[Kubrick]

The XBox controller's rumble is truly arthritis-inducing.

Agreed. I noticed this too. It's so powerful you can actually hear the motors working if you have the TV volume down low.

[Yoshimax]

How long were you playing for ?

I've not had this and I have some seriously long sessions sometimes - Right enough, I've been playing games since the ZX81 so there's nothing my fingers cannae take.

[peeveen]

Yeah, I've been playing videogames for over twenty years, using various digit-mangling contraptions, and this is the first time I've had a problem of any kind. I must've put in about 4-5 hours play yesterday, with the old-style BIG controller. I usually switch off vibration, cos I find it to be a pointless and irritating gimmick that got stale about ten minutes after the N64 Rumble Pak was introduced.

[Ady]

I also have two decades of gaming behind me (not that it has anything to do with anything, imo), and that XBox controller is the first to cause me physical discomfort.

[anephric]

The Xbox has officially The Strongest Rumble Evar, doesn't it? Saying that, both my hands actually went numb after a PS2 Rez session, the other day.

[hankwangford]

cos I find it to be a pointless and irritating gimmick that got stale about ten minutes after the N64 Rumble Pak was introduced.

Vibration was designed for Starfox and Starfox alone

[Roddie]

i pretty much only use wavebirds or the hori digital pad, so i always get a bit of fright when playing my brother's xbox

[SubparMario]

Who actually even notices rumble effects? I know I don't any more. I've never thought it added much to a game anyway.

[Lebowski]

Who actually even notices rumble effects? I know I don't any more. I've never thought it added much to a game anyway.

Back when rumbleing pads were new it really added to driveing games for me on the first colin mcrae it worked really well by giveing you a bit of feedback on what type of road suface you were driveing on.

I also got one of them starfox packs and that was great at the time, but yeah i think your right with it being used more and more it tends not to get noticed as much, i certainley dident miss it on the dc and havent even thourght about it with the psp or ds.