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 Post subject: Gamers Battling with Motion Sickness
PostPosted: Tue 12-07-2004 3:44PM 
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http://www.thetoque.com/041207/motion_sickness.htm

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IN FRONT OF THE MONITOR-- Is the risk of motion sickness worth the price you might have to pay whenever you play a first-person shooter? Games engines are constantly improving their graphics and their physics, and with realistic games on the store shelves like Halo 2, Doom 3, and Half-Life 2 comes a greater risk of nausea. The result of this realism is an uneasy queasiness that can lead to uncontrollable vomiting

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"I hurled something fierce after the first level of Doom III," said Jenny, who has been playing PC games since she was twelve. "When the half-digested bits of food hit the screen I could hardly tell the difference between that and the gore from the game."


Yeah, it's satire. But this is actually becoming a real problem with new games.

Anyone here had any experience with it? During the boat levels of HL2 I began to feel a bit queasy. Most of that was because I was so immersed that I forgot to eat, though.
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I definetly get a headache after a while...Those vehicle levels in HL2 made it pretty bad.
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If i play any first person shooter for too long, i get a headache for sure. Its just you feel like you're moving, but you arent actually, so as someone tried to explain it to me. Ah well, i just take breaks every few hours, lol, damn Halo 2 is addicting. just my 2 cents
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It's there...But it's usually not noticable.

DOOM 1 and 2 are the only games that really make me nauseous, fast, and that's only because of the really grainy, 256-color graphics.

Edit: Nightvision in Opposing Force. It's terrible. But still pretty sweet.

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none of the newer games do it to me, but quake3 and some others of the time period did.

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EQ made me sick. Try getting drunk in game. Is horrid. Everything all stretched out and you wobble back and forth. HL2 didn't do anything to me really, but I see where some places could.

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never been affected

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lol, my friend couldnt play half life because it gave him motion sickness. it doesnt effect me at all. i just have to take a break once in a while from my eyes getting sore.
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Yeah, it doesn't affect me. I love fast games like UT 2k4 and Quake.
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No problems here, but from what I hear, I manage to make some who watch me get sick :twisted:

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I played the original Doom on a 33MHz 486 with 8 MB of memory and didn't get motion sick. When we upgraded to a 200MHz Pentium Pro with 32 MB of memory, I got motion sick for a while, then got used to it.

The first computer I took to Rolla was a 300 MHz Pentium 2 laptop with 64 MB of RAM. I played Half Life and HL: Opposing Force on it and didn't get motion sick. Now I have them on Steam on my Athlon 2600 with a Radeon 9700 Pro (128 MB memory) and 512 MB of system memory and I get motion sick from playing them, but not HL2.

It's very hit and miss with me, but many times if I keep trying a game I'll adapt and the queasiness will go away.
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I kind of got dizzy with HL2 at first. Then I got used to it.
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I get motion sickness on the games where you can't tell up from down. A lot of flight games where you are indoors and the floor and ceiling look the same do it to me.

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I sometimes feel sick when I watch other people play games that have a lot of freedom - typically flying games. I really have never felt this way when playing even these same games myself.
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Only headaches I ever get from games are caused when I smack my head on surrounding furniture. Suffice to say, I have yet to learn that, no, leaning into it does not improve your X-Wing's maneuverability.

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