Portal nearly made me barf... Any games nearly make you barf?

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Not on portal, but actually on dead space 2. I'm not too sure why, but I can't play the game for more than 30 minutes at a time without feeling extremely dizzy or feeling the need to throw up. I mean, I'm running at like 40 fps or something, so it's not lag that's causing it.

 

[l3o2828]

Never.
I do remember that in my first playthrough when i was getting the hang of portals i'd sometimes get lost when going from a portal to another, but that's because i was just getting the mechanics and wrapping my head around teleportation, and how portals worked.
But never Nausea.

 

[Woodsey]

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Increase the FOV (I normally set it to maximum).

EDIT: Since someone has already set it to you, Valve specifically seem to run their games in a narrower FOV. They're the only games that do it to me too.

 

[DustyDrB]

It used to be a problem in some games for me. I can't remember it happening much over the last few years though, if at all.

 

[Mr Thin]

I struggle to believe that this actually happens.

No game has ever made me so much as slightly ill. I have to play constantly for a very long time before they even give me a headache. But, I suppose they wouldn't include all those warnings if it didn't.

Sucks to be you man. I know what being seasick feels like, and if it's anything like that, no game could convince me to go through that. Not even Portal.

 

[4173]

I can't play Star Wars: Dark Forces 1/2 for more than 5 minutes at a time. Just Cause 2 caused problems for a while, but that faded.

 

[Terminate421]

Don't fall endlessly through portals. Those are the quickest way to get Nausious.

 

[repeating integers]

Damn... that's not nice. The game is really good.

I can see why it would make you nauseous - sometimes, when going through a portal on the floor to exit a portal on a wall, the sudden orientation change makes me confused, at least. Is that what's causing it, do you think?

 

[Viral_Lola]

I've had it happen to me a few times. I've gotten better about it but every once in a while it bugs me. I think the last game to do it to me was Nightmare House 2.

 

[Futureman]

little big planet gave me some pretty bad motion sickness

 

[Luciean]

Had the same problem in Portal 2. Halfway through the game I started to feel ill...glad wikipedia and people on forums seem to like spoilers ^^.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

No I haven't gotten any problems like this ever even from Mirror's Edge or anything. Someone said the FoV might be too low as I always max mine out so that would probably help me not to feel like that.

 

[bulbasaur765]

Nope. Hasn't happened to me. Although whenever I fall into the bottomless pits from high rises in side-scrollers, my stomach jumps a bit.

 

[scw55]

Half-Life 1 made me nausious.

I did stop playing Portal 1 in a single-play through my second time due to I don't know, "frustration". I was going through it fine and enjoying myself, but I had a suddern feeling that I should stop playing.

I think it's just the graphics engine. Perhaps just don't play it for long periods of time. Is interesting how far games have came.

 

[Shia-Neko-Chan]

no, because I'm completely stationary when I play the game. o_o

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Only game that's ever given me motion sickness (not to mention a headache from all the f*cking bright white lights) is Mirrors Edge. I dunno, maybe some people are more susceptible to it than others.

 

[Dogstile]

Except that time we cut up an eyeball in biology.

I had to be sent out of that class, not because I was disgusted, but nobody else could take the class seriously when I jammed my pencil through the pupil and spun it round singing "you spin me right round".

No relevance, but its a fun story to tell and I rarely get to tell people.

OT:

I didn't get overly sick from it. I did once, but to be completely honest, I was drunk, had just stumbled in and the motion sickness was probably the result of the alcohol.

 

[willsham45]

I was fine with it but I got an extra copy when i got the orange box I think...or I got a spare copy some how gave it to my mate who proceeded to play the first few levels and then put it down because it was making him feel noshious.
I suppose not many games encourage you to jump from great hights and fly though the air like portal does.

 

[Plan10FromSpace]

you should try the original Prey game, have fun with that...

 

[MiracleOfSound]

F.E.A.R. 2 made me nauseous. Not because of the gore, but because of the stupid headbob that felt like the player was tripping over his shoelaces the entire game.