Poll: Video Game Induced Motion Sickness

[Darkauthor81]

It's official name is Virtual Motion Sickness. This happens most commonly when playing fast paced first person perspective games. CoD, Halo, Mirror's Edge, etc etc.

There's a liquid in your inner ear that is used to register movement. In fact, without it you wouldn't be able to keep your balance standing up. When this sense of motion conflicts with what the eyes are seeing, for some people, it results in nausea. Most people have it to some degree which the military found out the hard way during early attempts to use 3D technology as a way to train soldiers. Most of whom became anywhere from nauseous to vomiting.

I can't play certain games at all. Mostly first person shooters. Some seemingly random games set it off too. My first case was playing Mario 64 way back when. I had no idea what was happening, but I was having a lot of fun and kept playing anyway. The first and only time it got so bad that I threw up.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Never happened to me...I've had headaches after extended sessions, though.

Heard it happened to a lot of Mirror's Edge players.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Never affected me, although my friend fells ill when he plays Halo.

Just Halo. Don't know why that's the only that FPS that affects him.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Never affected me, although my friend fells ill when he plays Halo.

Just Halo. Don't know why that's the only that FPS that affects him.

Is it all the fucking bloom?

 

[BENZOOKA]

I never get anything like that. Or any motion sickness anywhere, apart some rather mild cases from a couple rides in amusement parks.

 

[Azaradel]

Because I fail at life, yes, I do get motion sickness from certain videogames (and pretty much everything else you can possibly get motion sickness from).

It mainly happens while playing games with a first person perspective, but in a few really sad cases it's happened in other games as well, but only under certain conditions; the Ecliptic Express in Resident Evil Zero makes me sick to my stomach and I could never use the flying carpet mounts in WoW for the same reason.

The single worst case has to be Portal, though. That game made me so sick I had to go lie down to keep myself from throwing up over my keyboard.

I also had a friend that couldn't watch me play Oblivion because it made her sick, while I didn't react to it at all.

 

[Nuuu]

I only get a little naseua in First Person Shooters when i have a cold or something, mainly because i have a lot of mouse sensitivity so all the turning hurts my eyes. Most of the time, im fine.

 

[Darkauthor81]

Because I fail at life, yes, I do get motion sickness from certain videogames (and pretty much everything else you can possibly get motion sickness from).

It mainly happens while playing games with a first person perspective, but in a few really sad cases it's happened in other games as well, but only under certain conditions; the Ecliptic Express in Resident Evil Zero makes me sick to my stomach and I could never use the flying carpet mounts in WoW for the same reason.

The single worst case has to be Portal, though. That game made me so sick I had to go lie down to keep myself from throwing up over my keyboard.

I also had a friend that couldn't watch me play Oblivion because it made her sick, while I didn't react to it at all.

Oh yes. Watching other people play is always far worse for me. Games that don't normally make me sick make me sick and games that do normally make me sick I can't look at for more than a few minutes when someone else is playing them.

 

[Continuity]

When I very first started gaming I used to get motion sick from wolfenstein 3d and doom, though I suspect that may just of been the pseudo nature of the 3d giving me a headache. Other than that, no, i'm cool with it. I expect like other forms of motion sickness it wears off to some degree with exposure, so the more you game the more inured you become.

 

[King of Wei]

Never happened to me. I like to think having poor vision has something to do with that.

 

[Darkauthor81]

When I very first started gaming I used to get motion sick from wolfenstein 3d and doom, though I suspect that may just of been the pseudo nature of the 3d giving me a headache. Other than that, no, i'm cool with it. I expect like other forms of motion sickness it wears off to some degree with exposure, so the more you game the more inured you become.

Oh man, those claustrophobic FPS games are the WORST. When the FPS is in a wide open area I can play for an hour or two. But when the whole game is hallways it starts setting me off almost immediately.

 

[Mr Gilkes]

Condemned 2 was the worst game I ever played for nausea, after about 10 minutes of playing I had to turn it off and I never had that problem with Halo/CoD/Portal.

 

[ginty2]

that happened to me with games like half life 2, the original wolfenstein, and especially with stranglehold.

 

[Lieju]

The only time I've gotten nauseous was when I watched few minutes of the gameplay of "Kane and Lynch 2".

 

[olfelix]

Only happened to me on Spiderman: Web Of Shadows, after falling from a tall building. I'd get that coked-out-hobbit-dancing-on-your-intestines feeling.

 

[AbstractStream]

So far, in all my years of gaming, the only game to make me feel sick was Mirror's Edge.
My body would give me a warning (headache) but I would ignore it and keep playing, resulting in nausea. That comic couldn't be more true.

 

[Merkavar]

the only thing close to motion sickness is a tingling in my feet when i go near a cliff in a game or nearly fall from a large height.

 

[Atmos Duality]

This happens to me until my brain "adjusts" for the motion mentally (probably a psychological/neurological disorder). It's almost always attributed to new games, or games whose motion engine is one I've not adapted to yet.

 

[Moon_Called]

I get this from time to time too. Oddly enough, the Spyro games are really bad for this, I couldn't even play the new one. Usually it's not so bad. Sometimes FPSs make my nausea act up, but only if I've been playing for aaaages.
The only recent game I've played that's like this would be Mirror's Edge. I couldn't even finish the tutorial on that game, I had to go lie down halfway through.