Ever gotten motion-sickness?

[Extra-Ordinary]

I was thinking about this the other day and I can only remember one time I've ever gotten motion-sickness.

Spoiler: Grand Theft Auto IV

You see what the camera is doing there?
Yeah, it didn't make me feel so good.
I can get tossed around like a rag doll in Bioshock and Resistance 3 but for some reason the drunk effect in GTA IV just messes me up.
SO!
Have you ever gotten motion sick?

 

[purplecactus]

The last time I got motion sickness was after I was consigned to the back of the car on a hellish back road (which I drove the following week and was just fine). Bacon rolls don't taste so nice the second time around, they sure as hell burn coming out of your nose...

But from a game? Never. I suppose it might be a little weird considering how motion sick I got before learning to drive, and by that note how much worse it is now that I drive most of the time and am rarely a passenger, leading to incidents like the above. But no, games have never had that kind of effect on me.

Sometimes I'll get a little dizzy if the camera is going completely crazy, but that's about the extent of it.

 

[Requia]

Eternal Darkness makes me vaguely nauseous once the sanity bar starts depleting.

 

[Lieju]

I tried watching some gameplay videos of Kane and Lynch 2.
Couldn't do it longer than maybe half a minute.


Also LEGO Batman 2.
When you play in co-op, the screen gets divided with this line that moves in a way that made me seasick.

(And I don't get motion sickness easily)

 

[magicmonkeybars]

I once played the F.E.A.R. at 120 fps, that made me a little motion sick.

 

[ultrabiome]

i get motion sick fairly easily in general: curvy or hilly roads (esp. as a passenger, it can even get to me as a driver though) or reading/playing video games in a car (and trying to get something at my feet at all while in motion), take-off and landing in an airplane (and if it's a turbo-prop, i'm nauseous the whole time) - i can play some games in the air though as long as there isn't camera control or 3D (as in 3DS, not necessarily 3D graphics), being on a boat in the ocean, and anything that makes me spin - rides or getting drunk enough for 'the spins' or even that one Everclear music video that just rotates the whole time.

so in video games, i have had it a few times but i try not to. first time i remember was trying Ridge Racer on PSP. something about the high speed plus being a handheld made me nauseous in less than a minute - and i love F-Zero so it isn't the high speed or crazy tracks by itself. also on Metroid Prime 3 if i set down the wii-mote before pausing, which causes my view to continuously rotate. last time was caused by low FOV in Metro 2033 - i played it for the first time for like 1.5 hrs or so, and although i felt a little weird while playing, the instant i stopped and looked away from the screen, i immediately became very nauseous and remained so for the next few hours. i increased the FOV via the .ini file, but it has kept me from seriously trying again until i'm fairly certain it won't happen again - it was seriously very unpleasant and i'm pretty sure it wouldn't have helped to 'give in' to the nausea. and it isn't like i haven't played a decent number of FPSs, but just not on a 22" widescreen 1080p monitor from 12" away.

 

[Sixcess]

Not since Wolfenstein 3D. The fast pace of the movement and the extremely repetitive textures did it in that game.

 

[XMark]

I'm quite resilient against motion sickness in games and movies. However, I did once find my limit.

When I got Mirror's Edge, I figured I would give myself a greater amount of immersion into the game by sitting about two feet away from my 50" TV. About three hours in I had to stop because I felt like throwing up.

This is making me wonder if motion sickness will become a major problem if things like Oculus Rift get popular.

 

[Jamash]

No, not even slightly from a game.

I think the countless hours upon hours I spent as a child on long sailing voyages (in rough seas in a small boat) have made me very resilient to all forms of motion sickness.

Motion sickness is caused by conflicting signals regarding movement being sent to your brain, usually when your inner ear and other physical senses tell your brain you're moving, but your visual senses say you're keeping still (or vice versa in the case of video game induced motion sickness), resulting in nausea as your brain tries to process the conflicting and contradictory information. Once you've trained your brain to only accept your inner ear's information regarding movement and ignore what the eyes are telling it, you're pretty much immune from motion sickness.

I think it's because of this that I wasn't negatively effected by the shaky camera effects in Kane & Lynch 2 (or the drunk effects in GTA IV) and found Kane & Lynch 2's camera effects to be extremely effective at conveying the frantic movement and pace of the gameplay. It was a risky innovation and it's a shame that it caused motion sickness in a lot of people, because when it worked as intended it was brilliant.

 

[Baldr]

I was thinking about this the other day and I can only remember one time I've ever gotten motion-sickness.

Spoiler: Grand Theft Auto IV

You see what the camera is doing there?
Yeah, it didn't make me feel so good.
I can get tossed around like a rag doll in Bioshock and Resistance 3 but for some reason the drunk effect in GTA IV just messes me up.
SO!
Have you ever gotten motion sick?

GTA3, GTA:VC, and GTA4 all gave me motion sickness, but San Andreas was not a problem. I think it has to do something with the engine. I can play a lot of games without a problem. Minecraft when they switched over to the new lighting gave me motion sickness, but there is a way to combat it. Play a little, take a break, wait for it to go away and start again, stop playing every-time you start to feel queasy. It works, but it can be slow going.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Never in a game. I'm not even sure how people get motion sick from it.

 

[TehCookie]

Never, I'm quite stationary when playing games. For me to get motion sickness there has to be motion.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

I seem to get it a little from playing FPS games on a PC with low FOV, I'm not sure if you would call it 'motion sickness' exactly but I feel physically ill in my stomach and/or get a headache. Games with older/simpler graphics seem to be the worst culprits, such as the first Deus Ex, System Shock 2 or Antichamber. Minecraft is fine if I run it in a smaller window.

Also I find the 3D function for the 3DS to be very uncomfortable to look at in a similar way, so I always have it turned off.

 

[piinyouri]

Not from a game, but in real life I'm quite prone to it.

If I'm riding in a car, and reading, biting my nails, chewing bubblegum or any other sort of repetitive activity I get horribly nauseous very quickly. Being hot only accelerates the process.

Outside of cars, I get ill quickly on any amusement park rides that go in circles, or back and forth.

Last time we went to a park near here we all rode a merry-go-round for old times sake and I was sick as a DOG after I got off.
;-;

 

[Rednog]

I get motion sick on teaching microscopes (the two headed microscopes), and it happens occasionally in games with low fov where the game takes away camera control and jilts it around quickly. But other than that I'm fine on rollercoasters, boats, etc.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I get motion sickness when I try to read or do smartphone stuff on long drives, as a passenger. Fucking hate that.

1. you've got five hours left to drive. You're bored.
2. you pull out a book
3. you read five pages and get sick
4. you spend half an hour keeping your guts where they should belong
5. nausea subsides, boredom returns
6. you pull out a book
7. repeat steps 3 to 5 as often as required

Joy.

 

[Woodsey]

There's a bit in Crysis on the alien ship where you're shot through these tunnels. That did it.

And I get it to varying degrees in games with low FOVs - by which I mean usually anything below 85. By which I mean most fucking games.

 

[Neverhoodian]

I tend to get it when I try to play old FPS titles like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Basically any first person game that tries to simulate 3D space by manipulating 2D sprites and vectors gives me nausea after playing for about fifteen to twenty minutes. A fair number of players suffered from this back in the day, and it's sometimes referred to as DIMS (Doom Induced Motion Sickness).

 

[redknightalex]

I seem to get it a little from playing FPS games on a PC with low FOV, I'm not sure if you would call it 'motion sickness' exactly but I feel physically ill in my stomach and/or get a headache. Games with older/simpler graphics seem to be the worst culprits, such as the first Deus Ex, System Shock 2 or Antichamber. Minecraft is fine if I run it in a smaller window.

Also I find the 3D function for the 3DS to be very uncomfortable to look at in a similar way, so I always have it turned off.

Yup, that's motion sickness. Had a lot of issues with Valve games before I could fix the FOV and turn it up from the horrible setting of 45 (normal for a console) to 75 or higher for a PC. Normally I stick with 90 for a game, particularly ones I play long stretches of, like Skyrim. On a console, FOV doesn't matter as much due to the distance between you and the TV.

The reason why one can get motion sickness from video games, particularly ones with low FOVs, is because our brain sees us "doing" something on the screen but our inner ear, which controls balance and other functions, doesn't feel it and hence can't adjust. Same reason why people get sick at 3D movies.

Another title that gave me motion sickness was, strangely, The Unfinished Swan. Probably a low FOV combined with fast controls and changing contrasts did too much to my brain. Can only play that in hour stints.

 

[anthony87]

From a video game? Nah.

Used to get it all the time while on buses or in cars when I was a kid though. Couldn't go anywhere without a plastic bag just in case.

Fun times.