Does anyone else sometimes get queazy from playing FPS?

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derek533

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Just asking, was playing COD4 last night and for some strange reason, it made me really nauseated. I can play the Halo series and all of the Tom Clancy games all day long, but for some reason, COD4 just messed my stomach up (no I was drinking either). Anyone else ever have this happen to them?

Just curious.
 
I get it bad. 1 hour and I feel ill. I think it has to do with your eyes trying to process an image that is "too perfect".
 
FOV degrees and/or bobbing up and down motions may do it too.
HL2&ep1 for PC does it for me.
 
derek533 said:
Just asking, was playing COD4 last night and for some strange reason, it made me really nauseated. I can play the Halo series and all of the Tom Clancy games all day long, but for some reason, COD4 just messed my stomach up (no I was drinking either). Anyone else ever have this happen to them?

Just curious.
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I've played FPS since doom and wolfensten days. So typically, no. More recently, I watched my brother play portal and I had to look away.
 
Only one: The XBLA port of Marathon.

Have a buddy who gets sweaty and nasueous after about 15 minutes of any fps.

Bout made a friend puke after I put portal into an infinite loop (one hole right to another) that made the screen swap ends everytime :p
 
I get it playing any fps, simulator sickness sucks balls. I also can't play 3rd person like WoW, i'm good with Titan Quest and most racing games though.
 
derek533 said:
Just asking, was playing COD4 last night and for some strange reason, it made me really nauseated. I can play the Halo series and all of the Tom Clancy games all day long, but for some reason, COD4 just messed my stomach up (no I was drinking either). Anyone else ever have this happen to them?

Just curious.
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It depends on how tired I am or if I am already slightly ill. If I am sick or really tired my eyes lose focus and I start getting motion sickness.
 
I love FPS's. My family doesn't like playing it, My mom get's mad when I'm playing it she says if she looks at it for atleast 1 minute she gets naseuated and wants to throw up.
 
Nice to see I'm not alone apparently. The good thing, is that I can play simulators all day long w/o affecting me. I would really be miffed if I couldn't.
 
first game to make me wanna barf was tomb raider 1. halflife 2 vehicles stages does the same.
 
When the original Doom came out it made me and several of my friends sick repeatedly... we would have to stop and barf after 15 minutes but we still kept playing because we were just that stoked to be playing the game. (Doom was a milestone game for the PC)

I think it had to do with the fact that Doom used a gentle 'bobbing' up and down when you walked in the game. It still makes me queasy even 13 years later but I can usually go for awhile without the urge to hurl.
 
The Darkness made my wife feel sick when watching.....used to make me laugh. We do sit quite close to the tv and it is a beast so I guess ppl predeposed to motion sickness would have a prob.
 
COD4 hasnt bothered me yet. BF2 does not bother me eaither. Any Half-Life (Expecially pre HL2) will, Doom, STALKER, MOH, etc.etc. makes me pretty sick after about 30 minutes. Still have not found a way to control it. I usually play until I can't stand it anymore.

I get motion sick still. It is better than when I was younger, but I still get sick.
 
So far just HL2 (PC). But after like an hour or so would notice that I felt sick. Just shortened play time on it and was fine.

So far the only game on a console to make me sick is...well Katamari heh. I dunno after a while I just get dizzy.
 
^^Funny you should mention that. Remember Super Mario 64?!:D: Yep, that did it to me as well.
 
Yeah, I get that too.
It really depends on the game, my mood and the state of my stomach (ate or not).

I used to think it was a minor case of epilepsy, but I guess I'm not alone.
 
I nearly vomited from playing Resistance on PS3 at my friend's house. That was certainly a first time experience. Maybe the moons were aligned correctly.
 
Used to get dizzy from CS1.6 back when I first started. That has gone away from the most part, but it's still possible on close quarter or levels with buildings. OTOH, HL2 is just awful - I can't handle much more than 10-15mins at a time. Which...is unfortunate, b/c I want to beat the game.

Descent was my first FPS...good lord. Take the same motion sickness you get on 2 axis already - and add a third (which creates a great deal more possibilities). Mmm fun.
 
Mav451 said:
Used to get dizzy from CS1.6 back when I first started. That has gone away from the most part, but it's still possible on close quarter or levels with buildings. OTOH, HL2 is just awful - I can't handle much more than 10-15mins at a time. Which...is unfortunate, b/c I want to beat the game.

Descent was my first FPS...good lord. Take the same motion sickness you get on 2 axis already - and add a third (which creates a great deal more possibilities). Mmm fun.
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I used to love playing Descent.
 
All of STALKER's bugs made me sick to my stomach and blue in the face. Does that count?\

But besides that, nope. Doesn't effect me.
 
Most, but not all. Resistance, Killzone, Halo, and Rainbow Six 3 are okay for me, but games like PDZ, Quake 4, and many old FPS made me feel sick. I remember once day I played PDZ, I ended up feeling really dizzy and had to spend all day in bed. That's why I traded the game in.
 
I have never had the problem, but I do remember showing my cousin Magic Carpet way back when and he went and threw up in a trash can after 30 seconds or so lol.

Mario could do it I suppose but they balanced their camera really well so it never jumps around too much IMO.
 
derek533 said:
Just asking, was playing COD4 last night and for some strange reason, it made me really nauseated. I can play the Halo series and all of the Tom Clancy games all day long, but for some reason, COD4 just messed my stomach up (no I was drinking either). Anyone else ever have this happen to them?

Just curious.
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Oh, so you're the reason they have the medical warning in game manuals. :D
 
HL2 is the only one that ever made me sick. The level with the bridge almost had me running to the bathroom.

I remember alot of people back them complaining about it making them sick.
 
I used to go to an internet cafe first year university and would always see this small guy playing counter-strike. The odd thing wasn't that he was always there, or that he had a never ending supply of bawls energy drinks on his person. The oddity was I kept noticing him popping pills every once in a while. After a few months of observing this I couldn't contain myself any longer and decided I would sit beside him in the hopes of satisfying my curiosity. Sure enough, after about half an hour the pills came out, so I asked. Turns out the kid got really bad motion sickness when playing cs for long periods and the only way to combat it was by taking Gravol. That kid wasn't you was it? jk.
Apparently its pretty common, I remember most of N64 games had a warning in the manual about nausea and seizures risks.
 
Duke Nukem 3D used to give me motion sickness while watching someone else play, but not while I was playing.

Half-Life 2 was the only game that made me sick while playing. The solution involved changing the FOV to 90 (from the default of 75). I was quite baffled the first time it happened to me, though -- after an hour of playing, I almost puked.

I'm not sure why Valve didn't put in an FOV adjustment for the HL2:E1 and HL2:E2 configuration. At least Team Fortress 2 has it. :)
 
diablerie said:
Duke Nukem 3D used to give me motion sickness while watching someone else play, but not while I was playing.

Half-Life 2 was the only game that made me sick while playing. The solution involved changing the FOV to 90 (from the default of 75). I was quite baffled the first time it happened to me, though -- after an hour of playing, I almost puked.

I'm not sure why Valve didn't put in an FOV adjustment for the HL2:E1 and HL2:E2 configuration. At least Team Fortress 2 has it. :)
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Hmm interesting. Maybe it'll help me.
 
Nothing is wrong with you so don't worry. Theres tons of people out there that are the same way. Personally, the only game that really gave me head aches and made me feel sick was bioshock after playing like 40 minutes at a time. I got far into the game and got to a area where I just couldn't figure out where to go next and gave up, since then I have not played it and probably never will again.

A few months ago I was watching trailers for different games, a lot of RPG type games. I had some headphones on and hat on, during a everquest 2 trailer I fainted for I would guess about 5 seconds, but there was no time feeling when I woke up, but I remember looking at the time before I fainted so it was not like I was out for awhile. But when I woke up, I was leaning over in my chair, my hat was on the on the floor and my head phones slid off my head and were sitting on my left leg. I felt so dizzy and light-headed I went to my bed and layed down with all my clothes on and feel asleep within 10 seconds and woke up early in the moring at like 6am which I never wake up that early. That whole day I felt odd. But nothing like that has happened since. I have fainted before after getting shots from the doctor when I was younger.

I have not had any queezy problems with COD4. If your using headphones, try some speakers and see how you feel. It could be that headphones are clamping to hard on your head, I use to have that problem then I switched to little ear buds. Now I just use 5.1 speakers so I don't have anything touching my head. Also try lowering the brightness on your monitor or I think theres a gamma setting in-game.

Hope my suggestions helped. BTW, I notice this is in the console gamer forum now? I guess you would be using speakers anyway if you were on a console?
 
I finally started getting queasy in FPS after being a hardcore player for almost 5 years now ...

... and it was in the zero-G environments in Crysis's giantalienroomwithenergydoors. I lost track of up and down, hated it ... felt like Descent on steroids. :p
 
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