Motion sickness from first person shooters

[Hemish71]

I'm curious.
I picked up Call of Duty World at War the other day and after playing it for about 30 minutes I felt really sick, so sick i ended up throwing up.
Last time that happened was when playing goldeneye on the n64.
L4D doesnt make me ill I can play that for ages, but some games when they have the 'bobbing' walk it makes me ill
Anyone else suffer from this or am i just a wuss?

[Cian]

I haven't had any such experience with 'shooters', only with certain FPS games that have strange perspectives.

Mirror's Edge was one that got me a bit...dizzy. Along with Portal.

[FrozenSoul80]

It happens to some people, but this isn't limited to just FPS. They have warnings in all the instruction manuals that you could experience shit like this. Video games could trigger motion sickness in some people, are you the type of person who gets travel sick?

You should probably see the doctor about it just in case, it could be something worse.

[Spudzilla]

Maybe if you slammed down a 6 pack of beer before playing it would cancel out the bobbing effect that makes you sick.

[Hemish71]

Maybe if you slammed down a 6 pack of beer before playing it would cancel out the bobbing effect that makes you sick.

I like the way you think sir

[AranchineD]

I've never gotten even remotely sick playing any type of game ever.


Well, except for when I played Guitar Hero for 18 hours straight without eating or drinking.

[McChimp]

I used to find that Duke Nukem 3D would make me feel SERIOUSLY sick, like motion-sickness-sensation sick. Mind you, never had that problem with Doom or the like.

[Vindik8or]

I got pretty motion sick from playing the Prey demo. Other than that, I haven't really experienced any. My girlfriend says she gets sick when playing Half Life 2, but not from Team Fortress 2, so I don't know what's going on there.

[FX-GTZ]

Bob your head in time with the screen, i dont have any troubles with fallout 3 doing this, but thats probably because the bobbing isnt drastically noticable, unless you throw yourself off of a rocky cliff.

[Spudzilla]

I've never gotten even remotely sick playing any type of game ever.


Well, except for when I played Guitar Hero for 18 hours straight without eating or drinking.

I remember a friend and I played a single map of Empire Earth for 16 straight hours against a super hard computer opponent. **** it was great.

[SOX]

I remember a friend and I played a single map of Empire Earth for 16 straight hours against a super hard computer opponent. **** it was great.

Did you win?

[Watchers]

Changed the thread title to something more relevant.

[Slippery]

The thread title has nothing to do with 16 hour rts sessions, useless Watchers

[StorminNorman]

I have a friend who gets this problem with most 3D games, not just FPS games. He can't even play WoW.

[Filthy Old Drunk]

It happens sometimes with a few FPS if I've been playing them for an extended period of time. Only sometimes though. The absolute worst was Half-Life 2 on X360. I could only play it for 30 minutes before feeling like I needed to vomit. I tried about five times to play it, but the same problem still occurred. I ended up getting my money back because I couldn't play it.

[Vindik8or]

It happens sometimes with a few FPS if I've been playing them for an extended period of time. Only sometimes though. The absolute worst was Half-Life 2 on X360. I could only play it for 30 minutes before feeling like I needed to vomit. I tried about five times to play it, but the same problem still occurred. I ended up getting my money back because I couldn't play it.

Well there's your problem. I'm fairly sure I'd be cruising for a puking if I'd wasted my time playing that game on a console too!

[Filthy Old Drunk]

Well there's your problem. I'm fairly sure I'd be cruising for a puking if I'd wasted my time playing that game on a console too!

My PC is a bag o' shit. It wouldn't run it :( (otherwise I would've snapped up The Orange Box when it was on the cheap on Steam.)

[Second]

It likely doesn't help that you're a filthy old drunk.

[Clockw0rk]

One of the older guys at work got vertigo from playing Forza 2, when I took my Xbox in to hold a time attack comp. Pretty gutted cos he used to race classic cars back when they weren't classics.

[ThePhotoshop]

I felt really sick, so sick i ended up throwing up.
Actually this is a standard reaction to CoD: WaW.

[jawsy]

Really, ThePhotoshop? Standard? Really?

[Ad-Rock]

Never made to feel sick from games, but I do suffer from bloodshot eyes after a gaming session, making me look stoned most days.

[Second]

The weed has nothing to do with it.

[Cerebral]

I felt sick after playing Prey, but that was more because gravity went down the toilet in that game.

[Silverwolf]

The only time I have really had this bad was playing one of the 007 games on the PS1 years ago. I ended up throwing up, then never playing the game again.

Haven't had it happen in many years though, CoD:WaW was fine for me.

[Cicada]

My girlfriend says she gets sick when playing Half Life 2, but not from Team Fortress 2, so I don't know what's going on there.

HL2 has a different field of view to most FPS', which makes it capable of inducing horrifically violent bowel wrenching motion sickness in people who are absolutely fine with other games. Then again, that might apply to all Source games, in which case it's a mystery.

[aubergine]

I know someone who tragically always gets motion sick from console shooters. not from PC ones afaik, although I don't know if he simply limits the time he spends on Battlefield etc. He was just about puking from playing XIII on gamecube years ago. And before jokes, it's an AWESOME game.

I can't for the life of me get him to get an xbox and join our mutual-friends Halo Saturdays.

[Hemish71]

I dont feel so weird now, thanks chaps

[9warbane]

Haven't ever felt sick playing FPS but I felt so sick the first time I played F-Zero GX, I think it was the jumps.

[JubeiSaotome]

Never had motion sickness from a game. Playing a game in a car, yes.

[Bronze]

I felt sick after playing Prey, but that was more because gravity went down the toilet in that game.

Same here. Some of those levels were genuinely nauseating. You just couldn't orientate yourself. Ugh.

Also had some mild motion sickness from F-Zero GX, and to a lesser extent, Mirror's Edge.

[ThePhotoshop]

I get motion sickness from The Witcher, and Fallout 3's 3rd person view, and any 3rd person game that goes over the shoulder instead of having the character centred.

[FrozenSoul80]

Actually, portal made me dizzy if you did the "endless falling" trick with portals above and below you. Marathon, Doom and other FPS games from that era hurt my eyes a lot if I play them for more than a few minutes.

Thankfully I've never puked because of a video game.

[banjoeskimo]

If I play a handheld game or read a book on a curvy road, I feel car sick. Outside of that? Nope.

[TAT]

Some of the gravity changes in Prey left me quite disoriented, but still a fair way away from feeling nauseous.

[Doctor sicknote]

the only game that has made me puke was hawx but i was pretty sick at the time anyway

[St@ckboy]

I remember buying Half Life 2, day one. I had to stop and go lie down, cause the water effects made me sea sick.

I recall lying on my bed, looking longingly at the paused screen.

Oh hahaha a side note. Ecco the Dolphin made me ill, back in the day.

[Xanafalgue]

The only game that has ever made me sick is Sonic the Hedgehog '06 :(

[McChimp]

Some of the gravity changes in Prey left me quite disoriented, but still a fair way away from feeling nauseous.

Gave this a spin yesterday, and yeah, I was on my way to feeling nausea. That was only after maybe 3/4 of an hour's play. Kinda scared to go back to it now.......lol.

[aubergine]

I've totally never had a motion-sickness issue with any of these games. Prey made me feel a bit ill but only because it was so promising and so shit at the same time.

[Zan]

Haven't ever felt sick playing FPS but I felt so sick the first time I played F-Zero GX, I think it was the jumps.

Yeah same... I don't get dizzy or anything, but F-Zero 64 freaked me out, especially when the track became the outside of a cylinder and you'd spin around it.

[aubergine]

I don't count it as motion sickness, but I loved climbing miles into the air in Spiderman 2 then jumping off, because my nuts would ascend deep into my body and rub together in fright, it's quite an odd sensation.

[Doctor sicknote]

The only game that has ever made me sick is Sonic the Hedgehog '06 :(

well that is the standard reaction to that crap