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I've done some research on visual acquity and game indused sickness and I was wondering if you'd be so kind to leave a response. For everyone who has this problem with gamer's sickness, do you have unusally keen observational skills. I think it might have something to do with a strange genetic trait of seeing every pixel which causes the brain to become ill with overload.
So basically, if you get sick like this, do you have very good observational skills. I personally wear glasses, but can find Waldo quicker than anyone I've ever met.
I'm pretty good at finding Waldo but I wouldn't know how to measure my observational skills.
Why not just turn down the brightness of the TV if putting a film or two helps. Also most modern games allow you to turn down the brightness in the game itself. Not sure what Seran Wrap would do to change how things look.
I'm curious to see what others think of this theory. But this would be hard to test scientifically. Most people would think they are smarter, keener than most - especially gamers where being keen and having superior attention to detail leads to success in games.
to me half-life2 source engine is better than RL, it's so smooth and never gets me dizzy, i love it so much just for this reason...
but farcry2 is so annoying to play, i can hardly hit anything, the same with bioshock and some other games... since i don't have that good of a computer i have to tune down the settings and that usually fixes it, when i set the resolution to 800x600 or something low it's easier for me, the textures seem more robust so i guess that's a plus.
This morning he felt much better. He was acting like his normal crazy self. So I gave him his medicine but made him inspect it first. He said yes, that's it and took it. 20 min. later he was back up here with the same symptoms and passed out on the couch.
Now I knew I had given him the correct medicine this time for 100%.
Long crazy scary story short....both times I gave him his meds he was playing Call Of Duty 4 on a new XBOX 360 that his older sister brought over 3 days ago. The first day he was fine because he was playing Madden. But both times he got sick he was playing call of duty. That has to be what is going on. The video game! I was about to bring him to the E.R. not knowing if the meds were fake (I've seen that on TV before about pharmacies getting bad meds).
That sounds way more serious than what I experience. You read on video game boxes that video games can sometimes cause seizures and such. Sounds like you should get your son in for some tests if he passes out from video games. It's never been THAT bad for me.
...Dale
Now, I limit any play of this game and Guitar Hero (my other favourite) to 30-45mins at the most. I had a brain scan and balance testing because I felt there was something seriously wrong with me, like a brain tumour of something.
I think we should all be careful of potential 'side effects' when playing these very sophisticated and fast paced games. I am so greatful that I wasn't crossing the road or driving at the time I suffered this attack. The consequences are unthinkable.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against gaming I'm just sharing my experience. Our brain and the various mechanisms that these games affect are undoubtedly very powerful and can fool our whole body into experiencing every sensation of movement and action. I think that it would be helpful for the game producers to give gamers a little warning about this as well as the epilepsy one.
Thanks for reading...all the best!
Sarah.
Strangely enough, the night before i had been playing games till it was 4 am and had to wake up at 7.
what can i do to enjoy this game without getting nausea?
Help
Some games make some people sick/naseous and others don't. I personally get dizzy/nauseous playing many games (as you can see above) but I had no problems with Call of Duty 4.
You might see if you can change your Xbox 360's video settings. I know that higher frame rates make me less dizzy. But your video settings are probably already optimized for your TV. You could also try playing the PC version (or its demo) and/or a PS3 version if possible to see if the issue you are having is console specific or unique to this game.
Wish I could help more. One of the reasons I posted this post is in hopes of starting this kind of a discussion so that people can figure out what specifically makes them dizzy/nauseous. In my case it seems to be the Unreal and id Tech engines almost always make me sick.
...Dale
Wow I did not know there were so many, from the minor searching I have done, it is said to be at most 3% of the population can be effected by changing light patterns and contrasts, (strobes). (appears much higher than that)
This is called the Bucha effect and was discovered in the 1950s when the government was investigating rising non hardware failure related helicopter crashes. The pilots were being strobed by sunlight hitting the rotors and disorienting the pilots.
I would love more information on this, if any doctors / medical professionals have input.
Half life 2 is the worst game for me. by far. the first levels arent so bad, but outside or any water refelctions in that game is instant nausea.
GTA4 also has its moments for me. it doesnt seem to be related to frame lag, necessarily, I have played much more laggy games with no effect at all.. strange.
I will also add, that I am more than your casual gamer. Almost every game will have some section or part or scenes that will effect people like us. (be it small part, or a large part of the game) What really bothers me about this, with software laws the way they are.--- we cannot return the video games from this issue. They put the required visual epilipsey warning on the package and they are good to go.
also, I am a PC gamer, I have not played PS3 or XBOX 360 enuff give an accurate sample.
I have a question, how does it start for everyone else? the first indicator I get, is feeling mildly cross-eyed (im guessing that is mild onset of vertigo) and followed by instant nausea and a mild headache.
Have you tried changing the distance you sit from your TV/monitor when gaming? (or even the viewing angle?)
Also, can you feel it creeping up on you, or is it instant wham! nasuea? For me, I generally will feel cross-eyed for a 5-30 seconds before the nasuea hits me. Some games like Half Life 2, are almost instant nausea for me.
You say that only recently you started getting sick when playing? Has anything changed in your life recently? new medications? sleep habits? stress?
it started for me a few years ago, (or at least thats when I noticed it) about the time half life 2 was released for PC.
There has to be some sort of better understanding of this phenomenon (or condition is it?)
Dale,
you said that some games only make you dizzy versus some that cause nasuea, headache, etc. I am curious, is it consistant accross the games, I mean, does X game always cause Y effect, or does it vary for you?
I always get the same symptoms from the same game. Like you, Half-Life 2 is a killer for me. But I like the game so much I played through it too m any times. But I couldn't play the expansion packs in the Orange Box. I wanted too but just couldn't bare it for more than 15 minutes or so.
So, while the symptoms may vary from game to game, the symptoms I get for any given game are always the same. And, as I said, the games that don't make me sick, like all the Halos, never make me sick.
...Dale
I can't really remember feeling ill when I played games on the PS2 just the PS3. I sit pretty far back from the t.v. as well. I do remember years ago I used to play games like messenger on the pc and that would make me feel dizzy as well. Within the first 5 min I start to feel somewhat faint and quesy almost like my blood sugar level is low. I end up taking a 2hr nap and when I wake up I feel fine. It's just strange...
Because of this I've always been reluctant to play FPS games. However, a few years ago I owned a PC gaming center and multiplayer FPS was very popular, so I started playing again. I've included a list of the games that make me sick vs those that don't, just for comparison with your's, Dale...
All are PC games....
No problem with Halo 1, Alien vs Predator 2, Jedi Academy, Doom 3, America's Army.
Some problems (slight nausea and headache after a short while) with Battlefield 2.
SEVERE problems (heavy nausea with only a couple of minutes of play) with all Half life titles.
My console experience has also been mixed. I can't even get close to half-life games, but I can play through hours of Team Fortress. Portal gives me slight nausea, specially in closed spaces. I can play Halo 3, but again, closed spaces are not good.
GTA games only give me nausea when my character is walking through closed spaces... and it takes a while to hit me, it's not instantaneous.
Finally, Oblivion is giving me serious nausea just after about 20-30 minutes of gameplay.... IN OPEN SPACES! I'm going to try inverting the Y-axis to see how that goes (I really want to play the game) and I'll post to let you know... but it's really irritating.
One thing I haven't tried is changing my tv. My 360 is still hooked up to an old CRT TV, and I'm using that to convince my wife that we have to buy a decent LCD soon :)
Oh, and just for the record, I get no motion sickness anywhere else... not in cars, planes, buses, trains... I've even spent 18 hours in the deep insides of a ferry between Denmark and Scotland, and never even felt dizzy. Only video games... is this the case with anyone else?
perhaps it is somewhat related to environment / spacial awareness in game, not necessarily frame rate. (and also perhaps your playing enviornment [lighting, distance from TV/monitor, etc])
Closed spaces in games are actually better than wide open to me. (to a point -- huge maps with framelag cause me issues -- the battlefield games for example)
I am interested to see if perhaps a different monitor would help me out. I use a once top of the line Lacie CRT monitor. Inferior LCD technology in years past made me keep the CRT. With 2ms refresh times and very high contrast ratios, perhaps it is time to make the switch.
pepe- I would think Doom3 would cause you more problems than TF2. I literally played 4 minutes of Doom3 and felt so sick I had to lay down... (worse response I have ever had to a video game) and I too can play TF2 for hours with no issues. (that game is generally bright tho, where as doom is totally dark...) which also makes me think in game and real life lighting are related to how your eyes / head react.
My guess is that inverting the Y axis will make things worse for you. I note that when a controller does not act how I expect it too, that causes me to get nauseous quicker. One of the reasons I started this thread was in response to the inability to invert the Y-axis to my preference (see above). When my brain thinks/expects the screen to go one way and it goes the other way ... the stomach almost instantly starts to churn.
Call of Duty 4 for PC, Bioshock for PC, Half-life 2 for PC, Resistance 2 for PS3, God of War for PS2. your list seems very good. i do know why it occurs, and i know the problem is going away these days.
Bad Company and GTA4 for PS3.. would not be on the list for me.
I'm playing Prince of Persia right this moment. It's so like Tomb Raider, but so UNLIKE Tomb Raider on the sickness scale. I could play this 24-7 and never get sick.
I have to wonder if the picture being highdef actually makes it harder to look at. The high level of detail can be somewhat harsh at times. And with it all in constant motion, it makes for a lot of detail for your brain to process for long periods of time.
Another possible reason for the headaches is that when one is playing one tends to keep their head and neck and shoulders ridgidely still for long periods of time without a break. That's bad for the circulation to your brain as tense neck muscles inhibit blood flow. I might try standing up to play and see if anything changes. . .
I don't experience any nausea, jut the low dull headache aspirin can't touch. I'm gonna try to see what resolution adjustments I can make to see if the situation changes any. Sorry to see you've had problems, but glad to see I'm not the only one affected.
All things being equal, for me the higher the resolution (and more importantly, the higher the framers per second) the lower the probability of getting nauseous.
As stated above I have not played Res5 because of its horrible reviews. Again, of all the game I've ever played, the earlier Resident Evil Games were the absolute worst at giving me instant headaches and it was because the game gave me some degree of control over the camera but was constantly trying to wrestle control away and center the camera. Does Res5 do that. If you are looking, say, to the left, and you move forward and let the controls go, does the game recenter the camera. Does it do this, or try to do this as you are trying to look elsewhere. If so, my bet is that that is the reason this game is making you sick.
Also, do you get headaches playing any other game, or just this one? For me, any game that fights me with camera control will give me a headache and nausea pretty quickly.
...Dale
I have a Wii and an XBox 360 and have never had a problem with nausea or headaches with any of the games I've played (fps included). I just bought a DS lite, however, and I've noticed that my eyes and stomach feel funny...
In my experience it is not the platform that causes the dizziness, its particular games. Try a few other games, especially games of different genres, from different developers using different game engines, on your DS Lite and report back. I'll be curious to hear the results.
What game(s) is/are causing your ailments?
Ordinarily, I never get sea-sick, or car-sick, and the curious thing is that there is a lag between the time I play the game and when the headache pops up. Usually, I'll get the headache the day after I play the game the previous night.
My theory is that the DLP puts a too great a stress on the brain to 1) average all the colors together, 2) to resolve all of the sharp detail that RE5 has in the background. First person shooters are more burdensome than other games because the entire field of vision is always moving.
I'm still experimenting. I may be able to play the game on a regular SD CRT set. It may well be the Sony DLP set itself that I can't tolerate.
...Dale
Enter the sega saturn in 1995 and the playstation, with at the time mind blowing 3d graphics and virtual worlds to run around in. Robotica for the Saturn was a first gen game that was in the same mold as Doom but it had robots, anyway 6 minutes in and Im ready blow chunks all over my floor and the saturn. Other first gen games such as wipeout and legacy of kain for the ps1 caused this same effect, I started thinking that I would not be able to enjoy playing games any longer and to tell you the truth once you start feeling dizzy and nauseated you pretty much dont give a F$%K what you do as long as you lay down and get better.
But over these last few years I continued playing games but I was cautious about the games I chose, i stayed away from a lot of fps games because of my "fear" and once in a while I would man up and buy a game that I know would 99% of the time induce nausea on me but I had to play these games.
Half-Life almost Killed me, it was a gift from my brother for my computer and by the time I got it, it was old news by 2-3 years but its one of those games that were revolutionary and had to be played. I honestly played 15 min worth before totally giving up. But Halo 3 I can play all day without a problem.
FarCry 2 is another game that was slow to creep up on me.
Call of duty 4, not so much 98% of the time I was fine but if a flash grenade went off and i was running in-game i felt dizzy and i had a headache.
Prey was 10 Minutes before stopping
Fear I played through but I had to adjust the bobbing up and down to zero before continuing
Grandtheft Auto Series - Forget it 10 Minutes tops before I want to spew.
Another thing I noticed was that I could not watch other people Play FPS games as this was an almost instant nausea attack.
I sometimes take some dramamine before i start playing to help with this motions sickness and it works most of the time. But I am still to scared to try it with Half-Life.
Thanks for letting me share.
Thanks for checking in.
It seems you and I get sick playing pretty much the same games - except GTA4 which I had no problem with.
You could adjust the bobbing up and down in FEAR 2? Gosh, I wish I knew that. I couldn't find a way to do that.
My suggestion. Rent a game before buying. If you don't get sick and enjoy the game, you can buy it. You'll save a lot of money that way. This is pretty much how I play all games now - especially since my local Game Shack has a stellar rent-to-own program they have with used games that makes gaming REALLY affordable. If I like the game I keep it. If I don't like the game I return it within 7 days and pay only $5.
...Dale
Gary
It puzzles me that there isn't more information on this matter. I believe there has to be a connection between standard motion sickness and videogame induced ones. The reason why I believe this to be true is because the feeling is virtually the same. Sea sick, car sick, I mean I have had many, many years of getting I'll everytime I was a passenger. Now in the 15 years that I've been driving I have not had motion sickness but if I'm a passenger then I do. I figured the reason behind it was because I as a driver knew when I was braking and hitting the gas as opposed to a passenger who wasn't prepared for sudden braking. Now videogames that I mention above that caused me this same feeling like halflife 1 and 2 ( and most recently ) the darkness for my 360, have certain elements in the game or game engine itself that literally makes me sick. F.e.a.r 1 had these same elements, such as the bobbing up and down as you walked. The darkness has this motion when you walk that mildly sways side to side and it feels like your "floating" this killed
me. Now comparable games that don't get me dizzy 98% of the time such as the call of duty series, yet there is slight movements in there that should make me dizzy but don't, so I wonder if it comes down to the game engine itself that might be behind it. I also understand that everyone is affected differently by different games for those of us that get dizzy that is, but I have noticed a trend in the posts above when it comes to the halflife games (which is run on the source engine), seem to induce Nausea more than others. Although certain games that are run on the Id engines or unreal engines make me just as sick I am able to play through most of them. I think it would be interesting to see just how many people that have posted or will post, have comparable problems with certain games basically a list of games that people have gotten sick with and percentage tally. Personally this is a very interesting subject for me and I am curious as to why it only affects a certain number of people and others are immune to it, my brother for example has no issues and it makes me wonder.
I would certainly like to see other people's lists of games that make them sick - especially if they could rate which games made them the most sick.
I have made my list above and have added to it several times since I started this post - and will continue to add to it as new games make me sick or I remember old one's. I think that is a good idea Kevin.
Madden football doesn't give me a headache on PS2,
however Tony Hawk skating does.
Number 1 and biggest issue is lack of PERIPHERAL VISION. I can't see to the right and left of me at all and until I tried playing some of these games, I never quite understood how much I really use my peripherals. Getting closer to a screen so I can tune out the unmoving sides helps on games where I can zoom out a little, like Fable for Xbox of Zelda for N64. Still, I develop a headache after about 20 minutes.
I do however notice that I can get used to the game setting, but once I do and I get up and walk away from the tv, I'm suddenly nauseas and a bit dizzy and literally having issue focusing on things and walking in straight lines. My depth perception completely fails me.
This helped me feel like less of a failure as a gamer, for sure. I'm constantly getting pushed over because I can't play this or that game because of the display. First Persons are always out of the question, my eyes begin to water within seconds. Now, at least, I know I'm not alone in my pain haha..
Hope you find a solution. I'll be googling to see if you ever post one.
I do site pretty close to my plasma TV - about 8 to 10 feet away. I don't know how to test this because I really wouldn't want to be much further away or closer. Where I sit is about right for the size of my TV.
I've never notices peripheral vision being an issue for sure, but now that you mention it, I'll keep it in the back of my mind when assessing games that cause me nausea in the future.
...Dale
I recently bought a PS3, but more for blu-ay than the gaming. I have a few games, and here is the experience:
Burnout Paradise City: No problems
Baja Edge of Control: Slight nausea
Call of Duty 4: Holy cow, I thought I was going to pass out
Battlefield 1943: I was about to vomit
No clue what causes it. I use to play counter-strike (PC) for years, no problems. Counter-strike Source would give me some issues.
I do get car sick at times.
I wonder if a motion sickness medicine would help?
I'll try it with Call of Duty 4 and see how that goes
(these are both on the PS3)
Thanks
Shannon
but there isnt much that can be done about it, see your doctor first before trying any of these ideas, what works for some, dont always work for others. fix the balance on your tv or stereo, and move back from the screen it may help some. see wicth side your hearing is better and fade the louder to the side were hearing is poor got it?
On the topic of Vertigo:
http://www.daleisphere.com/vertigo-1958/
:)
First, a question: is this at all related to the epilepsy/seizure warnings on gaming packages? That was my first thought (years ago) but the symptoms described are actually completely different (e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/games/home/photosensit...) so I’m guessing the answer is “no.”
As to my own experience: I could never play Half-Life because of this condition. However, CounterStrike, based on the engine, never gave me any problems at all. Now that Half-Life 2 came out I was eager to play it but it had the exact same problems as Half-Life.
However, and here comes the interesting bit: I’m using a mac so to play HL I’ve got two options: either boot the parallel Windows installation, or start Windows in a virtual machine from inside OS X. DirectX does actually work in the virtual machine and the speed is halfway decent so I *can* play HL inside the virtual machine, albeit with lower graphics settings that require special hardware features/drivers (in particular, no HDR, no fancy water reflections …). Inside the virtual machine, I don’t experience dizziness, even after hours of playing.
I haven’t yet discovered the deciding factors that differ between these two settings. Perhaps someone has an idea? My experience with running HL2 in a virtual machine somewhat disprove the hypotheses that this is related to general motion sickness and/or absence of peripheral vision I guess …
Likewise, I believe it would be too simple to blame water reflections since (for me at least, and as far as I can tell) the effect also exists for parts of the game without reflecting surfaces. It also fails to explain the differences between HL1 and CounterStrike. It might help to know the exact differences between running the game natively versus in a VM, and the technological differences between HL1 and CS.
Have you tried Half-Life 2 outside of the Mac. It could be that the HL2 engine is better for you than the HL1 engine and maybe not the lower graphics settings. Game egnines almost always change between versions of games - especially, as with the Half Life franchise, many years pass between releases.
I never played HL1. I just know HL2 makes me ill.
I got dizzy/nausea from Deus Ex 1, the early Doom engine games (Hexen, heretic, doom 1 and 2), Uncharted for PS3, Killzone 2, and Resistance PSP. I've been fine with everything else though, just about.
Some people I know can play Uncharted with no problems, but then can't stand FPS games due to sickness issues. What the heck is going on??
Another thing, I never realized that the "partial camera control" could be a reason, but now I think about it, when games are like that, I too get extremely dizzy. In fact, today I finally, bought The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and was extremely excited to try it. In fact, I greatly enjoy it, however, while you can center your screen with a button, the camera still moves by itself, especially when moving. I had to constantly wrestle the camera to point it forward, which I doubt is helping my dizziness at all. As such, I was only able to play for an hour before I had to stop, due to the extremity of dizziness.
Also, about 6-7 years ago, I used to play a game avidly, and I had no problems, in fact I don't think I had ANY problems with any games. However, I went to Calgary, AB to visit some relatives and we went to the Calgary tower. Despite not being too tall, when the elevator was rising, I had my ears pop (from the differentiation of air pressure from rising to the top of the tower) for the FIRST time in my life. Right when it happened, I instantly felt nauseous and collapsed. Afterwards when i went back home, whenever I played that game I began to feel nauseous after 10 minutes or so, and so i stopped play.
Also, to the post about reading in the car, I've always just thought of that as motion sickness. I naturally get sick if sitting in a car for more than 4 hours, and so I just thought that when i was reading, my eyes were focused on a book, but the whole car was, so my balance was off since my focal point was not synced with the movement, as such I have found that looking at the landscape far away helps a lot.
Anyway, it's good to know there are others out there :) *Goes to try and play twilight princess again*
I'm glad to see someone else experiencing nausea from lack of camera control. It's not just me.
Btw someone mentioned getting headaches from guild wars. I've been playing for 4 years and I haven't had any problems but after reading your post, ridiculously enough I got a headache. But I think it was just aftereffects from twilight princess or my mind TRYING to make it seem so after reading your post.
Return to castle wolfestein: With deus ex , i could manage about an hour without feeling the effects but RTCW was a different story. I could barely manage 20 mins before i got the spins and the nausea associated with it. I just had to lie down or risk emptying the remnants of my breakfast onto my monitor.
I have also noticed that this happens more often with First Person Shooters, third person perspective doesn't make me feel that way. I have played the Hitman series , Splinter cell etc without any issues.
One exception is Counter Strike. It has never made my dizzy even though its a FPS. Anyway , glad to know that there are others like me!
As an update. I just finished ODST campaign mode. Not a drop of nausea all the way through.
@ Addy I have problems with fps too,but splinter cell does affect me. And counter strike condition zero does as well, yet source doesn't. And battlefield 2142 does and not bf2. It hardly makes sense but yea...
I do have some theories about the cause of the nausea which I'd like to share. One is to do with the lack of physical motion that a few people already brought up before. I never have nausea or dizziness in gaming arcades, and I think it's because the arcade machines allow players to move their bodies in tune with what's happening on the screen. Some of the articles I read suggest that the nausea comes about because the vestibulocular reflex is suppressed while playing FPS. That's the reflex which synchronizes eye and head movements - both are supposed to move together, but apparently only one or the other moves while playing on PC or console, and so people become disoriented.
Another one is the lack of a focal point and peripheral vision, as someone brought up as well. I noticed that if my character is holding something in its hands that's visible, I'm less likely to become dizzy and nauseated. Similarly if I'm playing something like American McGee's Alice, which shows a first-person view of the movement but with the character just in front of you as if you're looking over its shoulder, I don't become dizzy so easily. And also for views with large sidebars, like the Might and Magic series. This one also goes back to the vestibulocular reflex, where the eye continues to focus on something even while the head is moving. Because the entire view moves, the thing being focused on is snatched out of line of sight, creating disorientation because there's nothing left to focus on - unless there's a fixed item of significant size in or around the centre of the screen, like an equipped weapon. Targeting crosshairs and small indicator bars apparently aren't large enough.
(Just for interest, the Final Fantasy battle environment seems to support this. If the camera view is allowed to move automatically, it swings in ways that should give people major motion sickness, but don't - because it's always focused very sharply on the current character.)
I'm not sure about frame rate as that apparently differs by individual vision, as well as being affected by things like myopia, astigmatism or presbyopia. Those conditions can account for eyestrain and headaches though. Also for me, resolution doesn't seem to make a difference. (I mean, Might and Magic?)
Others have also said that first person and third person viewing makes a difference. I've never correlated my being sick to first or third person view. I can get sick in either view and I can be fine in either view.
So there has NEVER been a first person game that you have been able to play without getting sick? I notice that if I'm in a first person view I get sick when the character bobs up and down while walking. But in Halo, for example, Master Chief doesn't bob, so I don't get sick in first person view.
Another thing I forgot to mention in my original post. I have monocular vision:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocular_vision
My eyes do not work together and never have. My left I follows my right and I use it for peripheral vision but I only use my right eye. If I close my right eye, my left eye has perfect vision, but when the right eye is open it becomes subservient. A side affect of this, for example, is that I can't see 3D movies like others can. It never occurred to me until now that that could be part of my problem.
But then again, as I've said above, as games get better and better and frame rates increase, the probability of my getting sick has decreased dramatically as the years pass.
Grand Theft Auto (a couple of them actually) is one for me too.Jak 3(havent played any of the other jak and Dexter games) is horrible.
For me it is the ones that,like you say,take a bit of (or a lot) control over the camera manuevering away from me.
It sucks.I love playing games and the ones that kill me.....seriously render me incapacitated for a good 20 minutes trying to regain my focus and non-upset stomach!!!
Its really disconcerting.I refuse to play games the make me feel like that-I no longer even try.My boyfriend has no problems and tries to encourage me to give it another shot.....but it never works so I dont anymore.if anything,it makes it even worse.
Im glad Im ot alone in it.I have found a local gamer shop though who will give me a very very fair price for my second hand never played games if this occurs.bonus!they are not unfamiliar with this apparently!
I've been having problems with Guitar Hero III and World Tour, both on PC and Nintendo Wii. Even if I play for only 5 minutes the head spin comes on. Sometimes straight away other times it may take up to half an hour from the time I finish. It seems that the longer I play, the longer it takes to come on but the harder it hits.
I'm deffo trying those ginger pills!
I suffered from the same illness, basically any game where the background moves at a rapid past, if I control the camera movement by not moving it around too much that makes it better but usually takes all the fun out of the game.
I'm relegated to a short list of games which for years was fine with me, because all I played was Madden, DMC, MSG. Well the last MSG changed a lot and I can no loner play that series. It just stinks because some of the games which come out I'm in love with but I simply can't play and yes I break out into a cold sweat and I usually don't feel well for the rest of the day. I guess we're in a minority as the majority of games seem to continue to come out with rapid camera/background movement.
Lucky for me the true Beauty, you know the console savers Like DMC and God of War having slower background. You think there would be more, I expecially love the artwork on some of these games.
That's interesting. I've certainly never got sick from that kind of game either. But fast moving backgrounds don't usually get me sick either.
Thanks for posting this. It is very helpful to know that other people experience the same symptoms. I do believe the x-factor is related to the refresh rate of the monitor/frame rate of the game. I used to play PC games on various monitors and the problem sometimes went away if the monitor refresh rate was 75 hz instead of 60hz.
I had a really nasty experience with Halo3 ODST on the XBOX 360 so I was wondering if anyone else had problems with that game?
Funny you should mention Resident Evil, since I love that series, but I never had problems with RE1 to RE3, mainly because I think those titles had 3D characters on pre-rendered, static backgrounds. I started having problems with RE4, since everything, including the backgrounds, were in full 3D. RE5 is worse, and I can only play it in 15-30 minute increments, which just sucks.
The Grand Theft Auto series for the PS2 also induce motion sickness after playing for about 10 minutes or so. However, I'm happy to say that I have no problems whatsoever playing the GTA games on a PSP, which makes me wonder--is it the size of the screen or the distance of the screen to your eyes?
Other PS2 games that made me really dizzy include the first Kingdom Hearts game, and Katamari Damacy. I have astigmatism, wear glasses, and get dizzy when I try to read inside a moving vehicle, except in an airplane.
You raise an interesting point about vision. I have monocular vision, meaning my eyes don't work together - one is dominant, the other just follows the other around. I wonder if that has anything to do with the types of games that make me sick?
...Dale
I just wanted to reconfirm what has been said concerning Half Life 2 supposedly causing motion sickness. I just bought it last week for my Ps3 and I can't play it longer than an hour or so without feeling utterly sick.
In fact, there is no other game I can think of right now that triggers similiar symptoms as fast and drastically as Half Life 2 does to the point where it makes me want to vomit!
Having said that , it's undoubtedly a great game nonetheless but these symptoms still ruin much of the expirience for me I'm afraid. It's just such a turn off!
And btw I've been playing games for almost 20 years on a constant basis without feeling bad.
I'm no expert but my best guess would be that it might be due to the framerate and/or the camera movement!?!
Oh and I never got nausea from other fps like Black, Bioshock , Halo or the Prime series for example!?!
puzzling indeed!
but I can only play Call of Duty for small amounts of time without getting sick.
I don't understand why though.