Author Topic: Video games and motion sickness (Read 5649 times)

HaRuMaN · « **on:** February 20, 2007, 08:14:44 am »

So I got an Xbox 360 as a late Christmas present along with a copy of F.E.A.R. I've been playing it for hours on end, no problem. One day last week, my brother wants to play so I hand over the controller and watch as he's running around killing people. That's when I start to get motion sick. It hits me pretty hard, too. I feel like I'm gonna throw up, so I leave the room and don't come back until he stops playing. The nausea stayed with me for about 3 hours after leaving the room, then I was fine.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? As far as I know it's the first time it's happened to me.

rumpelstiltzkin · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2007, 08:28:03 am »

The only time it ever happened to me was when i was smoking some weed and i was watching my freind play f-zero gx when it was first realeased and i felt so ill i had to lie down for a couple of hours.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2007, 08:51:25 am »

Quote from: gynoug on February 20, 2007, 08:28:03 am

The only time it ever happened to me was when i was smoking some weed and i was watching my freind play f-zero gx when it was first realeased and i felt so ill i had to lie down for a couple of hours.

ROFL

I was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time...

ChadTower · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2007, 09:13:58 am »

Not motion sickness, but if I'm playing in certain sitting positions my hands go numb every 15-20 minutes. I have to stop, get up and walk around until feeling returns, and then the cycle repeats until eventually my hands start to ache a bit and I stop playing.

clanggedin · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2007, 11:02:04 am »

If I watch someone else play an FPS game I get motion sick. If I play any type of video games like Zelda or Halo I get headaches after about 2 hours of play. I guess I'm getting old.

shardian · « **Reply #5 on:** February 20, 2007, 11:08:39 am »

My wife can't play FPS's because she gets motion sickness. Over-the shoulder view games she can do, but quick movements can make her sick.

As for me, I am a rock. The only time I've ever got motion sick from a game was the 3d Rayman game for the Ninteno64. There is a part where you fly a rocket plane thru a cave at a fairly quick pace. There isn't a true ground reference since you have to pitch and roll alot. That one hit me hard and I challenge any of you to get thru it and not get a little woozy.

crashwg · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2007, 11:10:31 am »

I never used to get motion sickness playing games until I played HalfLife 2 now I get it pretty much every time I play FPS games although it usually takes playing for more than 1 hour. Unless I play on the 100" projection screen, then it's pretty much instant!

Oh, and flying games get me sick pretty quick too.

boykster · « **Reply #7 on:** February 20, 2007, 02:31:04 pm »

the only console games that give me motionsickness are the Grand Theft Auto games.....

No idea why

I have gotten motion sickness from FPS on PC before, but usually only after consuming enough alcohol to alter myself to the point where it probably wasn't the game that caused it

JONTHEBOMB · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2007, 11:19:31 pm »

One christmas I received a N64 and played the game Buck Bumble for maybe thirty minutes. I started feeling really sick, so I got up and went to the bathroom to puke. Only certain games cause me to have motion sickness. James Bond: Agent Under Fire and Metal Arms Glitch in the System both for the xbox give me motion sickness. So far no 360 games have caused me to have motion sickness.

Quote from: HarumaN on February 20, 2007, 08:14:44 am

That's when I start to get motion sick. It hits me pretty hard, too. I feel like I'm gonna throw up, so I leave the room and don't come back until he stops playing. The nausea stayed with me for about 3 hours after leaving the room, then I was fine.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? As far as I know it's the first time it's happened to me.

If I watch people play FPS (especially when tired) I start to feel ill. Usually I just close my eyes until the feeling goes away.

saint · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:19:57 am »

I can't play or watch FPS games. Barf city. 5 seconds of watching and I'm sick.

ChadTower · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:33:28 am »

That's interesting. I've been playing Halo for the past few weeks about 6' from a 32" LCD... guess I don't get motion sick like that.

whatzcrackn · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2007, 09:15:33 am »

I played the Star Wars Clone Trooper game on my projector and was done for the rest of the night. I felt like throwing up but could not. And felt a litte off balanced for awhile too.

TheResidentEvil · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2007, 11:02:06 am »

Half-Life 2 gave a lot of people motion sickness but i did not have any issues with any games i have played. Sometimes playing ping pong in Wii Play my eyes start getting buggy from staring at the ball so hard but that is about it for me.

farmecologist · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:22:44 pm »

Yes! so it's not just me.

I have problems in FPS games when the screen 'bobs' up and down to 'simulate' the walking/running motion. When I turn it off ( in games that support it ), I am fine.

Tahnok · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2007, 10:38:54 pm »

Wow, I'm really surprised. I had no idea so many people deal with motion sickness with video games.

Personally, I can't recall ever getting sick, dizzy, etc, from a video game. I've played plenty of FPS on a big screen too. It really takes a lot for me to get motion sick though.

Arcadiac · « **Reply #15 on:** February 24, 2007, 01:16:36 am »

Whe I got a used 3DO system, my first then next-gen system,
Shockwave, Rebel Assault and Wolfenstein 3D would make me dizzy.
And that was on my "Large" 27' Zenith TV.
I got used to it, never really got nauseus, but it sure was disconcerting.
The speed-flying-factor I think. I still get that way with Burnout Revenge and some other driving, space/flying games. Never had to quit a game though.
Maybe dizzy is a natural state for me!

ARCADIAC!

ark_ader · « **Reply #16 on:** February 24, 2007, 10:24:51 am »

A friend and I tried playing Xbox games on his plasma, then switched to the Projector.

The playing of games on the plasma was fine, but the huge image on the wall from the projector made me very unwell.

I think sometimes it is heat or the many images your brain has to process, that induces motion sickness, which is a shame as I want to put up a project or as a replacement to a LCD for FPS games.

Ever tried watching those roller coaster movies?

saint · « **Reply #17 on:** February 24, 2007, 12:26:30 pm »

You know that opening bit at the movies they had where it was a roller coaster ride on film, swooping up/down/around while popcorn and soda popped around you?

Can't watch it, makes me barf. I have to close my eyes when that comes on the screen at the movies.

Tahnok · « **Reply #18 on:** February 24, 2007, 06:44:07 pm »

Quote from: ark_ader on February 24, 2007, 10:24:51 am

A friend and I tried playing Xbox games on his plasma, then switched to the Projector.

The playing of games on the plasma was fine, but the huge image on the wall from the projector made me very unwell.

I think sometimes it is heat or the many images your brain has to process, that induces motion sickness, which is a shame as I want to put up a project or as a replacement to a LCD for FPS games.

Ever tried watching those roller coaster movies?

Ever play No Limits? Amazing simulation, but I could see it making a lot of people sick.

I think the problem is less that the mind has so much to process, and more that what you are seeing is not what you're experiencing. The mind is known to not like it when senses don't all input the same thing. With games getting so realistic, it only makes sense that the eyes are being tricked into thinking you really are walking through a building, but the rest of the senses indicate that you're sitting still.

I ran across an interesting gadget at a swap meet earlier today. One of those virtual reality helmets with a screen in each eye that can track head movement. The booth owner wasn't around though, so I couldn't even ask for a price. The thing I though funny was the big label on the cord warning not to use it for more than 15 minutes at a time. 15 minutes!

csa3d · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2007, 06:57:04 pm »

I get motion sickness in various degrees playing FPS games, depending on the camera angle the game uses and how fast paced the game is. A long time ago when Team Fortress was popular, I was playing and would continually get sick.. headache, nausia, etc. One night I was like, this is so stupid, it's an F'in game. So I played beyond the point my body said to stop. One hour later, I felt worse then I've ever felt in my life! I had an unbelievable headache that no amount of tylenol could cure, had to lay down with ice across my eyes and forehead for about 5 hours. If you feel sick from playing games, this is a normal response, just as riding in the back of the bus is for some. Stop when your body tells you it's time, I'm sure this is how videogames kill others.

-csa

Spaz Monkey · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2007, 08:46:12 pm »

Played Doom for N64 for about 1 hour. Had a headache for 3 days.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #21 on:** February 26, 2007, 05:41:18 am »

I'm glad I'm not the only one... lol. What a crappy feeling.

ChadTower · « **Reply #22 on:** February 26, 2007, 09:20:13 am »

So movie rides like you'd find at Universal Studios... would those make you sick too? Some of those are seriously intense. Hell even the Jimmy Neutron ride had people weaving back and forth in their seats like they were really moving.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #23 on:** February 26, 2007, 09:53:22 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on February 26, 2007, 09:20:13 am

So movie rides like you'd find at Universal Studios... would those make you sick too? Some of those are seriously intense. Hell even the Jimmy Neutron ride had people weaving back and forth in their seats like they were really moving.

Yeah those kind of things make me ill, too. I just never expected it from watching a video game.

ChadTower · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2007, 09:58:36 am »

Are you Licensed to Ill?

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #25 on:** February 26, 2007, 10:17:25 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on February 26, 2007, 09:58:36 am

Are you Licensed to Ill?

Fo Sho!

ChadTower · « **Reply #26 on:** February 26, 2007, 10:18:15 am »

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM DROP!

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #27 on:** February 26, 2007, 10:37:02 am »

Now when I write graffiti my name is spock

ChadTower · « **Reply #28 on:** February 26, 2007, 10:50:52 am »

Isn't that the wrong album?

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #29 on:** February 26, 2007, 11:04:15 am »

I dunno is it?

Hello Nasty, right?

ChadTower · « **Reply #30 on:** February 26, 2007, 11:17:08 am »

Hello Nasty is not on Licensed to Ill.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2007, 11:30:05 am »

Hello Nasty is an album, too.... on one song in it they sing:

"Mmmmmmmmmm drop"

lol

ChadTower · « **Reply #32 on:** February 26, 2007, 11:31:44 am »

IIRC that's a sample from Licensed to Ill, but hey, dude could have said it again.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #33 on:** February 26, 2007, 12:32:55 pm »

Lol... pretty nuts if you start sampling your own stuff...

ChadTower · « **Reply #34 on:** February 26, 2007, 12:38:30 pm »

Not nuts... Beastie.

Lots of artists do it, though. More than you may think. Definitely a lot of old school hip hop people did it.

ark_ader · « **Reply #35 on:** February 26, 2007, 03:55:07 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on February 26, 2007, 12:38:30 pm

Not nuts... Beastie.

Lots of artists do it, though. More than you may think. Definitely a lot of old school hip hop people did it.

Ahhhh! now I remember why I got that Akai 950 for. Silly me, and I have been using it as some glorified door stop. Now how much donkey kong can I sample on a 1.44 floppy?

stonefry · « **Reply #36 on:** February 27, 2007, 04:34:35 pm »

I don't get it anymore, but I remember getting really sick playing doom for too long because the room sways as the character walks quite dramatically. At least I think it was doom. There might be a correlation between swaying animation and getting motion sickness. I don't play a whole lot of FPSes, but I do play a lot of halo and halo 2 and neither of those give me problems.

-stonefry

hypernova · « **Reply #37 on:** March 02, 2007, 07:48:08 pm »

I'm with tahnok. This is all news to me.

The only thing that happens to me is occasionally my eyes will start burning a bit from staring at the screen for too long. That's it. Never got sick from games.

Glad I'm not you guys. $:-\$

saint · « **Reply #38 on:** March 02, 2007, 09:28:56 pm »

Barforama. Motion simulators make me want to puke. It's getting worse as I get older too.

Disney Quest in Orlando. 5 stories of ultra-cool arcade gaming goodness done Disney style. They had an "Aladdin" VR ride where you basically climbed on a motorcyle type of thing, and put on a full-surround VR helmet. You then are flying around through a landscape, swooping up and down, sharp turns, etc. Great fun I'm sure -- 3 minutes, I'm sweating, and about to heave right there. Had to rip the helmet off -- sick the rest of the evening, had to lie down in the restaurant in Disney Quest for about 10 minute before I was only somewhat queasy.

Really blows.

Quote from: ChadTower on February 26, 2007, 09:20:13 am

So movie rides like you'd find at Universal Studios... would those make you sick too? Some of those are seriously intense. Hell even the Jimmy Neutron ride had people weaving back and forth in their seats like they were really moving.

Naru · « **Reply #39 on:** March 03, 2007, 05:00:09 am »

When games went to 3d the motion sickness hit me pretty bad.
MARIO 64 made me feel like I was gonna' barf for some 4 hours.
Over the years I guess I've grown out of it, or my vision has adapted.
It could also be that the newer games have transparent walls and things
that the old games didn't have, which made the camera go wonky at times.

ChadTower · « **Reply #40 on:** March 03, 2007, 10:25:45 am »

Quote from: saint on March 02, 2007, 09:28:56 pm

Barforama. Motion simulators make me want to puke. It's getting worse as I get older too.

Disney Quest in Orlando. 5 stories of ultra-cool arcade gaming goodness done Disney style. They had an "Aladdin" VR ride where you basically climbed on a motorcyle type of thing, and put on a full-surround VR helmet. You then are flying around through a landscape, swooping up and down, sharp turns, etc. Great fun I'm sure -- 3 minutes, I'm sweating, and about to heave right there. Had to rip the helmet off -- sick the rest of the evening, had to lie down in the restaurant in Disney Quest for about 10 minute before I was only somewhat queasy.

Really blows.

I was there in October and know the exact ride you're talking about. That one was broken at the time, though, as I could only circle to the left and got stuck in a corner. The other VR rides, though, would have made you sick too, if that one did. Especially the coaster builder.

SNAAKE · « **Reply #41 on:** March 03, 2007, 01:15:52 pm »

is there a "cure" for video game motion sickness ? I'd love to play some FPS games......

Tahnok · « **Reply #42 on:** March 03, 2007, 03:59:31 pm »

Quote from: SNAAKE on March 03, 2007, 01:15:52 pm

is there a "cure" for video game motion sickness ? I'd love to play some FPS games......

Ginger root, maybe. Always seems to help me with sea sickness (one of the only things that can make me feel like I'm going to vomit). I've not heard of anyone using it for this kind of thing though (especially since I wasn't aware of the situation).


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Author Topic: Video games and motion sickness (Read 5649 times)

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