when I'm "sick" I use it as make up time in game. i do the challenge rooms in Batman, collect stuff in various games and just make up time.

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Oh, and I recently just watched all of Red Dwarf from series 1-8 for the hells of it. Yes, I even endured series 7. "

Have you seen the mini-series that aired last year? Wasn't bad. "

" I didnt have any issues with any of the seasons of Red Dwarf. They are all good. "

I had the flu a couple weeks before Christmas and managed to watch the entire 5 series boxset of Peep Show in about 3 days. It was great. For games.... I don't really play games when I'm ill. I'd rather watch daytime TV and drink endless cups of Lemsip.

" @buzz_clik said:

Oh, and I recently just watched all of Red Dwarf from series 1-8 for the hells of it. Yes, I even endured series 7. "

Have you seen the mini-series that aired last year? Wasn't bad. "

oblivion is my go to sick game

Oh, and I recently just watched all of Red Dwarf from series 1-8 for the hells of it. Yes, I even endured series 7. "

" Earth Defense Force 2017 "

I think I just play puzzle games if Im sick. Actually I would most likely just watch some shows on Hulu until I fall asleep.

I don't deliberately leave games until I'm sick as I'm rarely taken ill. But when I was down with flu for a week I started playing Mass Effect (as detailed in my blog, pluggety plug plug plug). It was perfect and got me through the woozy, couch-ridden days.

I leave many of my DS games unfinished not only for sick days but for road trips, plane rides, and waiting rooms. I have The world ends With You, the second and third Phoenix Wright games, and Children of Mana sitting on my night table waiting for one of these occasions. Of course, I could pop in the second Phoenix Wright or The Worlds End With You and finish them both off in a few hours but I'd rather wait for one of the situations I mentioned above to knock one of them out.

I've got to say, playing a game is the last thing I want to do when I feel sick. I just want to watch something mindless if watching something on a screen at all.

I don't know, the only time I ever get sick to where I have to stay in bed, I'm so sick that all I can do is lay their miserably, or try to  sleep. Playing a game is completely out of the question.

Well, I played the heck out of Civilization Revolution the last time I was sick. I got most of the achievements, but now I never have any intention of playing it again. Not that I disliked it, but I played it so much that it was starting to drive me nuts. Even the sound effects were really getting to me.

I definitely like games that don't require fast reaction times.  I like sports games and grinding in an RPG is good and I simply lower the difficulty on some.

" I watched all of Red Dwarf  "

Does anybody else get the thing where youll watch a series/film or play a game when your ill then whenever you go back to that thing it makes you feel physically sick, for example when I was ill for two weeks I watched all of Red Dwarf and now I cant go back and watch it again because it makes me feel sick. 
I try to stay away from new games for that reason, like when I had swine flu I decided to get The darkness knowing that it was short and that I wouldnt play it after completing it

When I'm sick, playing video games just worsens my nausea.  I might play small casual games, like PopCap-style titles, but never anything else.
 
Also... WHAT THE HELL DOES CANDLE JACK DO TO HIS VICTIMS WHEN THEY SAY HIS NAME?!  I mean seriously... everytime I ask wha--

Baldur's Gate worked out really well for me when I was sick for a week. The ability to pause the game at any time and do things at your own pace is perfect when you're sick.
  
I think Saints Row would work really well for this purpose too. I just started the game and it feels like there's an overwhelming amount of stuff you can do and collect.
 
Oh, and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 would be perfect for this as well since it's a turn-based game.

SSX 3 and Plants Vs. Zombies for me :)

I rented Borderlands when when i was feeling under the weather. Just got the platinum. 

so this is sick as in like radical then?
well cowabounga

I have a few in mind myself. You nailed it right on the head with The Saboteur! god there is so much to do in that game.
 

• Grand Theft Auto 4 is definitely one for me. I know it should be a casual game that you play whenever, but i really only played it when i was off sick for about a week. So many damned pigeons! ^_^
  
• Overlord 2 is another.
• Burnout Paradise is one i think i have actually Only played when i was sick. No wonder i always had a fast paced heartbeat and bad headache when i played when sick. I really should play it more though because it's pretty awesome.
  
• Dead Rising is also one. Probably because when I'm that sick i feel like a Zombie, adding to the effects of the game-play.
  

mm, i also have "sick games". Red Faction comes to mind. I can spend hours mowing down all the high value EDF buildings, propaganda and EDF supply crates. it's not too difficult, and it's a hell lot of fun. 

I like to play open-world games since they don't require much thinking on my part whilst I lay on my bed.

I like to play SNES games when I'm sick. One time when I was younger, my father rented me a SNES and Super Adventure Island, and since then I've played that game when I'm sick.

well i don't purposefully leave games incomplete, but i definitely have some "sick" games of my own. as you said, assassin's creed and crackdown were great examples. i also recently added uncharted 2 to my list. i'm trying to collect all of the treasures and unlock all of the trophies in that game.

This is not a blog about games which are 'sick' in the wrongness sense, no, this is a post about games that you play when you're ill, sick, feeling shite, or just skiving off work/school/whatever. Sorry if you feel letdown by the title already. So, I recently wrote a review for The Saboteur, in which I stated that this is likely to become my new 'sick' game.
 
A sick game, from my experience generally comes from a game that has so much stuff to do in it, that you can't be bothered to rinse all 200+ items you need to find or whatever the objective may be. Most recently for me, this took place in the form of Assassin's Creed. Yeah, you guessed it. Those damned flags. During a long, bedridden week with some severe flu, this July or August gone ('09) I popped AC1 into my 360, and spent a good 7 hours going through, finding all those flags, and Templars, four of which glitched out, didn't appear, so I had to go through their 60 locations again.
 
Similarly, Crackdown had this sickness effect, I've spent several sick days trying to beat the races, and collect those cursed orbs, I believe I am just one away from collecting all the Agility orbs, and about 100 from the hidden orbs.   
 
The Saboteur is likely my new sick game simply because of the frankly insane amount of tasks to do. I am nowhere nears destroying all the Nazi stuff, finding the crates, the cars, let alone finishing side quests and the perk trees.
 
But what makes a sick game? For me, it has to fulfill three criteria:

• It has to be fun.
• It should, ideally, have mad collectibles.
  
• It shouldn't be too stressful to play through and get these collectibles (you aren't well, after all, and we don't want you getting any worse).