Ever feel nauseous playing a game?

tonydude

I was looking through my old collection of games and i came across a game that i couldnt play. The reason being was every time i put it on i would feel nauseous within 10 minutes of playing it. Its some time ago now and the game was hidden and dangerous for the ps1. Just wondering has anyone experienced something like this with certain games. It was the only game that caused this to happen, maybe my body was telling me that the game was pure sh*t and not to play it .

Professey Chin

Cant say I ever have.
Well unless I spin around a lot 1st

Kersmash

I was at a lan party at a friends and there were loads there. Anyway, a few of us had girlfriends there so we gave them a bash at it. needless to say they were awful but my gf got very motion sick after playing CoD for a few minutes.

noob.

TheChrisD

I don't think I've been that bad, but Mirror's Edge has had me feeling slightly unwell before.

Canis Lupus

I don't get motion sickness with the exception of falling off something high in WoW makes my tummy lurch. It's odd,no other game does it to me.

Overheal

Eye muscle twitching. That, sounds familiar...

Kiith

Back when Goldeneye was released, i could make a friend of mine feel sick by pointing the camera up as high as you could, and spinning around in circles. Not sure what it was, but it had a weird effect on him.

KilOit

Getting blood shot eyes is about the extent i get from playing games

Larianne

Kiith wrote: »

Back when Goldeneye was released, i could make a friend of mine feel sick by pointing the camera up as high as you could, and spinning around in circles. Not sure what it was, but it had a weird effect on him.

I couldn't play this game either as I would feel sick after about 5 minutes of playing it.

Overheal

Larianne wrote: »

I couldn't play this game either as I would feel sick after about 5 minutes of playing it.

How do you feel about Shattered Horizon? 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-2dZMDAGw

Kiith

Overheal wrote: »

How do you feel about Shattered Horizon? 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-2dZMDAGw

Most relaxing game ever...until you get shot in the head from all over the damn place.

Skerries

i sometimes start to feel sick after a good few hours playing and have to stop for a while
or if i am sick i can't look at a computer screen

Zapp Brannigan

A friend of mine nearly puked while playing Mirrors Edge.

Stokolan

Battlefield Bad company 2 seems to be doing it to me. I havent a clue why.

KilOit

Overheal wrote: »

How do you feel about Shattered Horizon? 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-2dZMDAGw

Kept meaning to give that a go when it came out, is their still much of a player base?

Overheal

Theres a small base. The game doesnt have a whole lot of depth, sadly. Coming from futuremark, it's really just a DX10 gaming benchmark tool. I wouldn't rate it highly as say, TF2.... Erm, which now that i go over to steam to check the price on both titles, apparently TF2 is $10 this weekend, for a new content patch. woo.

challengemaster

Only time I've ever felt not right playing games is when suffering from "Lan Death"

Otherwise, no issues....a few liters of coke usually keeps things working

L31mr0d

Worst I've ever felt playing a game was after a 6hr session of playing Prey on the PC years back. Felt ok while playing it, but when I turned it off and stood up it felt like I'd been spun around a few hundred times then asked to walk in a straight line. Nearly puked right there.

Another weird one was HL2. Didn't feel nauseous at all when I played it first years ago on my 19" 4:3 ratio screen, but when I revisited it again on my 24" 16:10 ratio screen I started to feel really motion sick during the boat section when looking left and right while moving forward.

I looked it up and supposedly it's something to do with how HL2 handles the FOV for widescreen monitors. Loads of people have suffered from it. I corrected the FOV settings and I was fine afterwards.

Never happens on console games though. I guess the difference is how close I am to the screen. For PC games I'm rarely more than a foot away from the screen. In console games I'm never really closer than 4ft away.

Azza

Can't remember the name of the game but there was some Formula 1 racing game on the N64. After a short while of playing it I would start feeling nauseous.

Only game that made me like that.

After one late night session of Total Annihilation I was tracking a enemy aircraft over a totally black background and I noticed I was seeing a long stream of ghosts planes behind it.

Later as I went to bed I noticed my eyes where completely bloodshot.

SeantheMan

Guitar Hero , gives me slight tunnel vision and motion sickness after about 20 minutes due to focusing on the same spot and the scrolling boards coming at you. I can't play GH when drunk or I'll be sick.
After I look away from the screen everything in the room goes distorted and wobbly.

However, the same effects do not happen when I play RockBand, which is basically the same premise...go figure.

Adyx

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I don't get motion sickness with the exception of falling off something high in WoW makes my tummy lurch. It's odd,no other game does it to me.

Happens to me in nearly every game if I fall or jump off something high.

Nehaxak

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

A friend of mine nearly puked while playing Mirrors Edge.

I get a Vertigo thrill when playing parts of Mirror's Edge, especially standing near the edge of a skyscraper looking down, then again, I also get it from watching this which I guess most people would too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7U

deathrider

I remember renting out Parappa The Rapper on PS1 and winding up sick as a dog for a few days. A couple of weeks later I (in-excusably) rented it again, and the same thing happened. Now, I know this was a sickeningly crap game, but I mean I was actually proper sick kinda sick. I never played it again after that.

ProjectColossus

SeantheMan wrote: »

Guitar Hero... After I look away from the screen everything in the room goes distorted and wobbly.

Exactly this happens to me also.

Healium

Portal

Black Swan

Only once... Classes had ended for summer break, and I celebrated by playing Dragon Age Origins almost non-stop, starting with a new noble warrior Grey Warden, and by the time I got to the Denerim Elven Alienage, I felt I had the plague and was ready to bed down in the Tevinter hospice.

Monotype

I have never gotten nauseous with games yet but I'd say that certain factors such as monitor size, aspect ratios, distance from the screen, the game, the extent to which you are surrounded and how much you've placed yourself in the game could influence these feelings.

L31mr0d wrote: »

Worst I've ever felt playing a game was after a 6hr session of playing Prey on the PC years back. ....

I haven't played this myself but a similar thread on another forum a few years back, this was the top game for people feeling nauseous.

Nehaxak wrote: »

I get a Vertigo thrill...

I've gotten this once or twice but in theme parks when watching fast moving surround videos. I'd say I'd get it would work with games too but I'd need eyefinity and big screens to trigger it. You need to really immerse yourself rather than just watch it.

Healium wrote: »

Portal

Although I was fine portal, looking at the portal 2 videos, the increased pace could easily have these effects.

JackBrgs

I'm not a gamer but it happens to me any time I try to play racing games. When I was younger, I felt the same after a few minutes watching people play Zelda on the Nintendo 64.

quarryman

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

starting with a new noble warrior Grey Warden, and by the time I got to the Denerim Elven Alienage, I felt I had the plague and was ready to bed down in the Tevinter hospice.

...... my cat's breath smells like catfood...



i get a bit queasy playing minecraft in full screen, need to play it windowed for some reason.

GO_Bear

Kersmash wrote: »

I was at a lan party at a friends and there were loads there. Anyway, a few of us had girlfriends there so we gave them a bash at it. needless to say they were awful but my gf got very motion sick after playing CoD for a few minutes.

noob.

Lol +1

Cuddlesworth

Kept getting a pounding headache with Gears of War after about ten minutes. Never went back to it because of that.

quarryman

Bioshock has this problem due to the FOV. They released a patch to fix it.

I definitely noticed it - playing the game me a headache, until the FOV was fixed.

Dr Bob

I knew a guy who got motion sick playing any fps.He tried taking sea sickness pills for a lan once but it didnt work too well(probably due to the amount of beers had!).Eventually he found his niche playing as a sniper(on any FPS's that had a sniper class) and he ended up racking up the kills

Doctor DooM

All the CoD games do this to me to a greater or lesser extent.

CoD 3 I would have to go lie down after watching for 15-30 minutes.

I think it's the bobbing of the screen when you walk.

Sierra Oscar

Quite a lot of people used to get motion sickness with Source engine based games a few years back but I don't hear of many complaining about those issues anymore . . . Valve could have changed something in the engine I guess.

Pyr0

Nehaxak wrote: »

I get a Vertigo thrill when playing parts of Mirror's Edge, especially standing near the edge of a skyscraper looking down, then again, I also get it from watching this which I guess most people would too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7U

I get a rush in my stomach if I fall from high places in game, it's great !

TerrorFirmer

tonydude wrote: »

Its some time ago now and the game was hidden and dangerous for the ps1.

I felt Nauseous after playing that game...and it was nothing to do with motion sickness. H&D on the PSX was truly the most horrific conversion I've ever seen. Guns that took up half the screen, puddles that killed you, enemies that spawned out of mid air right in front of your eyes and could hit you from miles into the dreadful fog (you would die, and the camera that zooms in on the enemy that delivered the lethal shot would often travel on an epic journey to the other side of the map), a collection of about 10 sound samples in the entire game.....this is dredging up a lot of buried feelings within me.

I have never been as offended by a game as much as I have H&D on the PSX.

And this from a guy who actually owned Rise of the Robots.

TerrorFirmer

I've never felt anything other than normal when playing video games, though, there is one thing that shocked me by giving me that rush in my stomach - jumping down the elevator as the Infected in the hospital in Left4Dead in the No Mercy campaign, it makes me feeling like I'm actually falling in reality! I've played plenty of other games that involve leaping great distances, lengths, and drops, though none of them give me that feeling.

Menengroth™

only game that ever made me feel remotely nauseous was Postal; streets covered in blood, piss and vomit with people nearby continuing to vomit as I ran around with a large shotgun up the arse of a cat, using it as a silencer until it inevitably exploded.

what an odd game.

TwoShedsJackson

Master of Orion 3.

johnny_adidas

my friend once said to me it wasnt a good idea to bring capcom vs snk 2 to play one night. a few super combo finishes later and he was doing a Shakin' Stevens impression :eek:

tonydude

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I have never been as offended by a game as much as I have H&D on the PSX.

And this from a guy who actually owned Rise of the Robots.

lol

Conor108

Mirrors edge. Could hardly play it..

Nehaxak

Menengroth™ wrote: »

only game that ever made me feel remotely nauseous was Postal; streets covered in blood, piss and vomit with people nearby continuing to vomit as I ran around with a large shotgun up the arse of a cat, using it as a silencer until it inevitably exploded.

what an odd game.

Very strange game alright, not to mention the ability to pull your zipper down and take a piss on absolute strangers for no reason.

Monotype

It wasn't just for no reason. At least in postal 2. You could put out fires with it and even put out yourself if you went on fire... used in the right way.

Plus if you finished the week, you could piss fire. I'm not sure what you do then if you set yourself alight.

Nehaxak

After the latest patch a couple days ago in world of warcraft, apparently some people (a fair few it seems) are having nausea issues now when playing...

Thread here on the US forums with 7 pages about it (mostly whine but hey...) and was a few talking about it in /trade chat last night too. No problems here myself with it at all so can only think it's something to do with their FPS being too low/choppy or something like that...

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27191402090&sid=1&pageNo=1

Or indeed as someone on that thread mentioned, maybe Blizzard changed the default field of view which doesn't agree with some people.

thewheel2.0

So I've played Mirrors Edge with no problems but the FOV in Half-Life 2 was screwing me up. Changed it in the settings from 70 to 90 degrees and it worked so much so that I finished it in one sitting...riveting game!