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Has a game ever made you sick?
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A few.
Driveclub VR - cockpit mode makes me feel sick almost instantly. But the chase camera is fine.
Skyrim VR and RE7 VR gave me problems when turning in a smooth motion, it's like I could see the world dissolving into a mess of pixels tnrough the headset. Angled turns helped.
Half-Life 2's airboat, the combination of the mostly static boat and the moving scenery just makes me go nope. Increasing FoV helped.
The Talos Principle did something, but not enough to completely knock me out.
I was also fine in the past with old Build Engine games (Duke3D, Shadow Warrior) but something about the graphics engine makes me feel really sick now. Must be due to age :(
Driveclub VR - cockpit mode makes me feel sick almost instantly. But the chase camera is fine.
Skyrim VR and RE7 VR gave me problems when turning in a smooth motion, it's like I could see the world dissolving into a mess of pixels tnrough the headset. Angled turns helped.
Half-Life 2's airboat, the combination of the mostly static boat and the moving scenery just makes me go nope. Increasing FoV helped.
The Talos Principle did something, but not enough to completely knock me out.
I was also fine in the past with old Build Engine games (Duke3D, Shadow Warrior) but something about the graphics engine makes me feel really sick now. Must be due to age :(
When I played New Vegas on my 360 that canyon where the Khans lived had such bad screen tearing it gave me a headache and made me slightly nauseous
Wolfenstein The New Colossus made me badly motion sick. Dunno what it was in particular, probably a combination of head wobble, some super fast movement at times and 30 fps on console. Low fov probably didn't help too.
Also struggled with Edith Finch. Definitely a first person thing for me even though I'm fine with the vast majority I play.
Also struggled with Edith Finch. Definitely a first person thing for me even though I'm fine with the vast majority I play.
I think the only time a game made me physically ill was playing Rez in VR.
If I'm not mistaken, Level 4's boss walks on walls and the ceiling and it threw off my balance, even while I was sitting. It was quite the experience, but I'd never do it again.
If I'm not mistaken, Level 4's boss walks on walls and the ceiling and it threw off my balance, even while I was sitting. It was quite the experience, but I'd never do it again.
Pretty much every FPS I have ever played has given me acute motion sickness (as in: I feel so sick I have to lie down and rest for several minutes up to an hour in order to recover). Some times I don't even need to play them, just watching a video of them is enough to make me feel nausea.
Other games with a first person camera might also induce motion sickness but I find them more tolerable on the whole. Racing games in general practically never make me feel sick, while Walking Simulators might induce nausea or headaches depending on the game.
By contrast, I practically never suffer from motion sickness when playing games with a third person camera, but there was one major exception: Dead Space 3 on the PS3. I don't really know what there was about that game's camera or graphical settings, but every time I played it I ended developing a headache after around 20 minutes or so, and one time in particular I also got extremely nauseous to the point I ended running to the bathroom to throw up. I stopped playing the game after that. It's weird because that never happened with the prior two games.
More recently and not related to motion sickness: Having skipped them when they originally released on WiiWare, I recently got some of the Bit.Trip games that were ported to Switch. I played Beat, Core and Void and for whatever reason their combination of flashing lights and psychedelic colors ended causing me severe eye strain. That never had happened to me with any game before. They are fun games, but after experiencing that I'm not sure I will play the rest of the series.
Other games with a first person camera might also induce motion sickness but I find them more tolerable on the whole. Racing games in general practically never make me feel sick, while Walking Simulators might induce nausea or headaches depending on the game.
By contrast, I practically never suffer from motion sickness when playing games with a third person camera, but there was one major exception: Dead Space 3 on the PS3. I don't really know what there was about that game's camera or graphical settings, but every time I played it I ended developing a headache after around 20 minutes or so, and one time in particular I also got extremely nauseous to the point I ended running to the bathroom to throw up. I stopped playing the game after that. It's weird because that never happened with the prior two games.
More recently and not related to motion sickness: Having skipped them when they originally released on WiiWare, I recently got some of the Bit.Trip games that were ported to Switch. I played Beat, Core and Void and for whatever reason their combination of flashing lights and psychedelic colors ended causing me severe eye strain. That never had happened to me with any game before. They are fun games, but after experiencing that I'm not sure I will play the rest of the series.
Driveclub VR was the worst a game has made me feel. Was alright driving fast looking straight ahead but looking around at slow speeds or stopped was awful. Of course it had a couple of trophies for looking at a trackside objects that made you do that and then they were very bad at properly triggering.
Then some other VR games but that was usually more a case of putting in too long of a session, trying to play when already not feeling great, playing on an empty stomach etc.
The Resident Evil 8 demo was the first non-VR game that made me want to blow chunks so sadly I'm not willing to risk the full game. Resident Evil 7 was fine so I don't get it.
Then some other VR games but that was usually more a case of putting in too long of a session, trying to play when already not feeling great, playing on an empty stomach etc.
The Resident Evil 8 demo was the first non-VR game that made me want to blow chunks so sadly I'm not willing to risk the full game. Resident Evil 7 was fine so I don't get it.
Anything PSVR, but that's on me and my motion sickness unfortunately. Tho I didn't have any problem playing on higher rez headset in arcades in Japan, so I hope it's specific to the low resolution of PSVR and the v2 feel better.
The South Park FPS where you throw piss soaked snowballs at overly aggressive turkeys, on PSOne. It gave me headaches. At the time, I was a teen and didn't gave a shit about framerate, but I suspect it was probably something like 15fps and that's what made me sick at the time.
The South Park FPS where you throw piss soaked snowballs at overly aggressive turkeys, on PSOne. It gave me headaches. At the time, I was a teen and didn't gave a shit about framerate, but I suspect it was probably something like 15fps and that's what made me sick at the time.
Outer Wilds. The weird fish eye lens thing does me in within 10 seconds of turning it on. So sad too, because it sounds like the type of game I would love.
Yes but more specifically a graphical effect used in the 360/ps3 era would give me a massive headache when viewed on a CRT. So anything with extensive use of POM (parallax occlusion mapping) after 10 mins would make me feel like someone took a hammer to my temples.
Happened to me with Final Fantasy XII. One session I was playing for a few hours, and I developed a headache and actually had to stop and run to the washroom to throw up. It kinda soured me on the game, which was becoming a bit of a slog.
Only when I played Half-Life 2 on the earliest Oculus Rift. Got nauseous after 5 minutes and I stopped playing but it remained for an hour.
The FOV in the games is real low by default and the way the movement works with the bobbing is a real bad trigger for motion sickness, Doom has a wider view and the way you move doesn't bob the screen like it does in Marathon.
Bizarrely, Everyday Shooter made me feel ill, think it was the third level specifically but I have no idea why.
I only get motion sickness from playing games with a brown color palette. Mostly FPS games like Turok 64, Rise of the Triad, Unreal, Quake. Although I did get motion sickness with ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, but I'd play 1 hour at a time.
Not sure why brown affects me the most, but I can play other FPS games fine.
Not sure why brown affects me the most, but I can play other FPS games fine.
Playing SuperHot on VR for the first time ever [it was my first ever VR experience] made me pretty dizzy and nauseous. But i got used to it after a while.
Doom 64 on the N64 I think was the first game to give me motion sickness, but I largely chalked that up to basically binging the game for way too long on a rental stretch during summer vacation. Antichamber did a number on me too, and I'm not really sure why.
Past that, I've only noticed getting sick with VR titles when I picked up the PSVR. About 40 minutes of Astrobot Rescue Missions and I'd feel it coming on... not a fun time. I tried out Job Simulator as it's more stationary and it still does a number on me. It's really disheartening because Astrobot absolutely blew me away.
Past that, I've only noticed getting sick with VR titles when I picked up the PSVR. About 40 minutes of Astrobot Rescue Missions and I'd feel it coming on... not a fun time. I tried out Job Simulator as it's more stationary and it still does a number on me. It's really disheartening because Astrobot absolutely blew me away.
One of the PSVR games I tried made me want to hurl, but I fortunately haven't hadn't any issues on PCVR (yet).
And The Last of Us 2 had multiple gratuitous moments that made me recoil in disgust.
And The Last of Us 2 had multiple gratuitous moments that made me recoil in disgust.
PS4. I swear it was 30 🤔
Guess that speaks to my experience that I thought it was.
The only time I felt sick playing a FPS was playing CoD at a friend's house - he hadn't enabled game mode on their TV (amateur hour I know) and the high latency causes such a disconnect when moving and aiming that it really didn't feel good.
Also FPS on consoles have such low FoV which really wouldn't help if you're prone to travel sickness. But yeah I'm fine with FPS tbh, maybe my favourite genre.
My issue is (camera) motion blur. I hate it so much, especially when I'm playing when tired it just gives me such a headache. Makes it so difficult to focus, it's just so artificial and unnecessary. Luckily most games let you disable it, but those that don't, well fuck them.
Also FPS on consoles have such low FoV which really wouldn't help if you're prone to travel sickness. But yeah I'm fine with FPS tbh, maybe my favourite genre.
My issue is (camera) motion blur. I hate it so much, especially when I'm playing when tired it just gives me such a headache. Makes it so difficult to focus, it's just so artificial and unnecessary. Luckily most games let you disable it, but those that don't, well fuck them.
Katamari damacy made me slightly dizzy. Not really sure why. Maybe it was the movement of the ball that caused it?
Same. It's a shame because it looked really well made and seemed fun, but I don't think I even managed to finish the tutorial. I played for maybe 20-30 minutes and had to lay down in the dark for a couple hours to recover from the nausea.
Ohhh headbob I can get. I totally remember actually DOOM throwing me off with that headbob too.
