Anyone get light headed playing some games..

SammyF

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Willeth wrote: »

I have a friend who can't play any Valve game for more than half an hour. He's an absolute beast at most FPS games but if you sit him in front of Half-Life 2 he'll enjoy it for twenty minutes and then endure the next ten before having to quit. I think they do a weird thing where they add a very slight fish-eye effect and he just can't cut it.

The Source engine seems to really like FOV 75. Set it to FOV 90, and he'll be able to at least enjoy the single-player and any multiplayer that allows adjustable FOV.

Huh! That's actually worth thinking about. I played Vampire: The Masquerade a while ago on my old as ass monitor a year or so ago, and when it was mentioned in a thread last month I thought to myself, wow I really need to play this game again and try one of the other clans (malkavian or nosferatu). I gutted it out for about an hour and then decided, no, the awesomeness of this game does not, in fact, trump my overwhelming urge to vomit.

It didn't occur to me before, but I got a new monitor in the interim. I wonder if the weirdness of the Source FOV75 is accentuated on a widescreen monitor in ways that aren't as perceptible on an old-school screen.

AuburnTiger

When the gravemind talks to you in Halo 3, and the screen shifts and spins and the depth perception goes whacky, it reminds me of a bad acid trip and I get nauseous. Luckily it only lasts a few seconds at a time, or I couldn't play it.

Wetsun

Viva Pinata is one of the only things to do this to me. Mostly if I'm player-two in co-op, and I'm focusing on something near the screen edge and then get dragged away across the garden (by my girlfriend's cursor).

Sir Carcass

Mass Effect made me light headed.

It was mainly from all of the blood rushing to my penis, though.

Caedere

Sir Carcass wrote: »

Mass Effect made me light headed.

It was mainly from all of the blood rushing to my penis, though.

Yes, Wrex has that effect on me too. :winky:


In general, I don't get sick from playing videogames - I get the opposite reaction, actually. In games that are really spinny with lots of of vertigo-inducing moments I get really mellow and relaxed. Forsaken 64, playing as the alien in AvP2, Metroid Prime, Portal... it's all fun times.

Setting up a loop in Portal and going through them upside-down and backwards is like soothing mental therapy for me.

LewieP

Scotty wrote: »

Condemned 2 - I couldn't even finish the demo. I got a bad headache with nausea.

Funny enough, with Condemned: Criminal Origins I was fine through the whole game...I dunno.o_O

Were you playing them on the same platform?

Atreyu

for some reason medal of honor makes me sick. not call of duty just medal of honor.

Grislo

My mother suffers rather badly from motion sickness. When I was a kid she managed to get dizzy while watching me playing Mario Kart on the Snes at a store.

I suspect that I could kill her with a Wipeout game or something like that.

Island

Tiemler wrote: »

Playing COD4 on a CRT TV, the flashbangs and redout from damage used to give me a headache. I don't remember now if it went away because I upgraded to an LCD TV or if I simply got used to it.

Apart from that, no problems.

A bit of advice re: the motion sickness effect, vision wobble. Put a reasonably bright light source like a lamp off to one side, in your peripheral vision. It's like a visual reference point, and can have a relaxing effect. Occasionally, it might not hurt to pause the game and look just off to the side of the light, circling the focus of your vision around it. It's kind of the visual equivalent of stretching your legs.

It's funny that you say this, as I am finishing a 4 hour session on my computer and I have my lamp on next to my monitor. My wife always asks why I have a lamp on next to my computer when there is plenty of light in the room... now I am doing it for a reason!

Chrono Helix

Prolonged playing of Okami makes me feel a bit giddy. I have an old demo of Jak and Daxter and that makes me dizzy too. Half-Life 2 makes me feel really screwed up, but strangely I have no problems with TF2.

UnbreakableVow

I just bought and played Jumping Flash for the first time.


Add it to the list. My eyes hurt too.

xboxxer

Are most people talking about nausea/vertigo, or headaches?

I get the vertigo/nausea pretty bad on some games. I'll second the vote on the Valve games. Half life 1/2, Portal not so much (thank god).

I remember when I first started playing Half Life 2, it was like -- wow, this game has really excellent pacing. It's making me tense, and anxious playing through the beginning (running from the soldier with no weapons). A few minutes later, I as like -- nope, it's just the nausea

I will DEFINITELY try the light source next to the screen trick. I want so badly to play through Halflife 2, but I'm rarely willing to get nauseated just to play a game.

Antihippy

I get a headache most times whenever I play for more than 3 hours straight.

mrsnackroad

My wife actually can't play any FPS because of her motion sickness - LoZ: Ocarina of Time does it to her, too but oddly Okami doesn't.

I think its the camera angle that does it to her.

Desert_Eagle25

My friend is SO addicted to wow he takes motion sickness pills during raids so he continue playing. :-\

sabyul

NO ONE here has mentioned Descent?

I had to build up a tolerance for that game. it anyway though conc conc conc conc

zimfan

EliteLamer wrote: »

glithert wrote: »

Play Guitar Hero
Try to read a book
Fail miserably

Can you read while moving?

I sure can sir

never been lightheaded playing a game

I get lightheaded at parties where everyone is talking to me at once and I'm probably playing a video gmae at the same time

Grim Outlook

i remember i couldn't play ocarina of time without feeling sick.

i would get light headed and feel like i was going to throw up a little.

i was pretty young at the time though. maybe it was just some sort of weird phase.

mastrius

Yeah I dont get lightheaded while playing games, thankfully. My friend does, like when I played F.E.A.R. he was always saying how its making him sick and hes getting headaches, same thing for Doom, he cant play those types of games for some reason. although actually... I HAVE noticed I do get a little bit lightheaded from really bright and happy games, like....lots of bright bright colors and shit, not so much from the dull ones.

zimfan

mastrius wrote: »

Yeah I dont get lightheaded while playing games, thankfully. My friend does, like when I played F.E.A.R. he was always saying how its making him sick and hes getting headaches, same thing for Doom, he cant play those types of games for some reason. although actually... I HAVE noticed I do get a little bit lightheaded from really bright and happy games, like....lots of bright bright colors and shit, not so much from the dull ones.

Allergic to Wii

mastrius

zimfan wrote: »

mastrius wrote: »

Yeah I dont get lightheaded while playing games, thankfully. My friend does, like when I played F.E.A.R. he was always saying how its making him sick and hes getting headaches, same thing for Doom, he cant play those types of games for some reason. although actually... I HAVE noticed I do get a little bit lightheaded from really bright and happy games, like....lots of bright bright colors and shit, not so much from the dull ones.

Allergic to Wii

Hah, yes indeed, it is the essence of PURE EVIL!

Frem

I get horribly motion sick from the following games:

Doom I - III
Descent I - III
Half-life 1 & 2
Katamari Damacy
Quake
UT'99

However, I'm mostly just fine when I play these ones. I mean, if I've been playing a marathon session for half the night at a LAN party, I might get a little dizzy toward the end, but for the most part, I'm good.
Halo
Unreal Tournament 2004
Oblivion


Tribes, Morrowind, and Beyond Good and Evil are somewhere in the middle.

Pent

I get sick on anything in Half-Life or Half-Life 2 engine, and spore. Something about the game engines themselves give me motion sickness.

I can play Call of Duty 4, WoW or anything on the Unreal engines (like ut2k4) for long hours though without the same effects.

Frem

Spore?! Really?