motion sickness playing games..

slinxy · 7 Jan 2013 at 19:53

This is a bit of an odd one, and no I'm not pregnant as I'm a bloke. I don't suffer from travel sickness.. but is it just me that seems to get motion sickness playing games certain games.

I think the issue first popped up on the first tomb raider game, it used to send my head dizzy. I was ok playing UT and Quake in all its format on the PC back in its day but its been a while that I've played first person shooter or 3rd people view of a 3D game, but a few years back I watched my mates playing MOHAA, and I seem to get it really bad especially if I'm just watching.

I recently just purchased dishonored as it looks like an amazing game and tried playing for the first time tonight and had to stop within the hour as I wanted to throw up.

Anyone else suffer from this? lol.. I'm perfectly fine with the overhead or side scrolling view, just that a VERY large amount of games I simply can't play due to the view of the game.

alex24 · 7 Jan 2013 at 20:03

I just started FC3 and it makes me feel ill after too long! I changed the FOV and it helped some though, I think it was so narrow it was messing with my brain. Partly because FC3 motion, animations, movement etc is quite realistic, which actually makes it difficult as your brain naturally compensates for this in real life.

blueshift · 7 Jan 2013 at 20:17

I get this with FC3 as well, first time for me

Scort · 7 Jan 2013 at 20:25

Used to get it when I was a wee nipper starting out in gaming, but I simply carried on playing, and I guess my brain got used to it as I recall it going away completely after a while and never coming back.

ps3ud0 · 7 Jan 2013 at 20:42

Probably artificial head bob that does it

ps3ud0 :cool:

jpm · 7 Jan 2013 at 23:46

I'm normally ok but got it terrible when I played Bullet Storm. It would kick in about half an hour after I started.

Any other game I'm fine.

Nismo · 8 Jan 2013 at 06:13

Some FPS games are fine, some force me to stop or I'll be violently ill. Guess it all depends on the FOV and headbob that a particular game uses. I find ones that use lots of tight corridors an issue sometimes too.

slinxy · 8 Jan 2013 at 08:02

oh glad to see or not see its not just me that stuff from this issue. I think its is the motion of going up and down (head bobbing) sharply that affects me. I do get sea sick sometimes. Games like quake 3, it was generally a flat terrain, even with unreal on the ps3 I can play it for a while before feeling sick.

it would be nice if they allow us to filter out certain affects that can cause motion sickness

Loosecannon · 8 Jan 2013 at 18:49

ps3ud0 said:
Probably artificial head bob that does it

ps3ud0

That one of the reasons I suffer the same.

A combination of avoiding things like this and 120mhz monitor have both helped.

Can you turn head movement off in Farcry 3?

EYEREX · 8 Jan 2013 at 19:08

I get motion sickness with a few games the worst one being Dirt where one night i was playing Virus and throw up, thank god i had a paper bin next to me and then had to lay down for a few hours

insane200 · 8 Jan 2013 at 19:12

FC3 gives me a bit of a headache also, after a while i get used to it, how do you adjust the FOV !!

I seem to remember half life 2 having the same issues on the PC !!

subbass · 8 Jan 2013 at 19:26

Yeah I get this with some games. Most recent one that comes to mind is Syndicate and I literally could not play it at all for more than 5 mins. There's no option to turn off the head bobbing too

Haggisman · 9 Jan 2013 at 08:23

I had this issue with a couple of older games - the most prominent being Everquest (but then that might have just been due to staying up waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long playing it! XD)

Mr.E. · 9 Jan 2013 at 09:27

I had this happen to me a few weeks ago, playing Borderlands 2 split screen. when I told the family they thought I was having them on.

MrMarvelous · 9 Jan 2013 at 11:50

Narrow FOV make me feel sick, recently happened with Call of Pripyat. It's got some stupid 55 FOV even though it's not on console, downloaded a tool to get it to 75 and all was well, it's how the game should have been in the 1st place.

Addicted · 9 Jan 2013 at 11:55

I've had it sometimes, I think its the combination of FOV/Bobbing and Motion Blur!

Wizzfizz · 9 Jan 2013 at 12:52

Doom use to give me some cracking headaches.

slinxy · 9 Jan 2013 at 13:47

just seen this article in the guardian. I really thought it was just me, but it does seem more common than I thought.

Nismo · 9 Jan 2013 at 13:59

It can affect anyone really. Michael Schumacher famously couldn't use simulators for F1 testing for as long as the other drivers because they made him feel ill.

I remember going on a Back to the Future ride at EuroDisney which is part simulator-part rollercoaster, and that was horrible.

Infidelus · 9 Jan 2013 at 14:08

I remember watching a friend play Wolfenstein 3d years ago. Within 5 minutes of him beginning to play, I had to go outside as I thought I was about to hurl.

A few years later some mates were playing Quake 2 and I thought I'd have a go too. Ten minutes was about all I could manage before I had to step away from the PC there too.

I started playing Quake 3 multiplayer with the same group of friends when it came out, and found I could last a lot longer, although I did eventually get a little queasy. After playing Q3 for a few weeks on and off, I decided to try Q2 again, and much to my surprise I ended up playing for an hour or more and didn't feel too bad at all.

There's still games that do it to me, but I suspect it's now because I stopped playing games like Quake, so the resistance I built up went away.

Or maybe it's something completely different