Does anybody else get motion sickness playing video games?

I have, and it's not fun. It's mostly first-person shooters, but other games have set it off as well (The last time it happened I was playing the PS2 version of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy). That, and the fact the newer video-game systems are expensive as heck (No way am I spilling out $600 on a PS3!) have made me more acquainted with reading and the Internet.

But the funny thing is, it didn't use to be this way. I never got motion sickness playing video games, not until the N64/PS1 era at least, with the advent of 3-D graphics. I remember getting dizzy sometimes playing Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64, but not full-blown "I have to hurl" motion sickness. That didn't come until later, when I played the first Medal of Honor game for the Playstation. Other games would set it off as well, like Star Wars Bounty Hunter, so I became more adverse to newer video games after that.

In a way, it's a blessing, because I'm not an obsessive gamer, but with The Force Unleashed coming out, it looks pretty cool, but I'll be content reading the tie-in book and graphic novels. But the game looks so cool. But I don't want to spend so much money on a new video-game system and a game that might do that to me.

 

yeah i've noticed that too

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No.

But I haven't played a lot of new video games in recent years.

 

I can't play most FPS for the motion sickness reason and a lot of the walking around games. Morrowind made me vomit, yet KOTOR I&II I had no problems with. I guess it depends on the lighting and graphics? I have no idea.

But yeah, I have gotten very, very vomity ill from gaming.

 

There's only been one time I almost got sick from motion sickness in a video game. I was in college and was pretty trashed one night and my friend was playing some kind of sci fi racing game on his n64 where he kept going really fast through a bunch of tunnels with bright flashing graphics. It started making me dizzy so I wisely stopped watching.

 

Once every few months I'll get a little queasy after a long stretch of gaming, but it usually passes within a few hours.

 

The first day I got my Xbox, I got sick. Been fine ever since. My dad (he actually used to play Halo with me) did get sick after around 30 min or so.

 

I get massive Vertigo from playing Mario Galaxies. Great game concept and I enjoy the fact the look and controls are similar to Mario 64...but the fact I am upside down or floating around or can fall off of so many things into that horrible vortex of doom that i assume is supposed to be a black hole...its too much for someone with a fear of heights. I can play for maybe half an hour before getting so dizzy my head starts to hurt.

 

Now I got one more reason not to get a Nintendo Wii.

 

Try playing Ace Combat 6 and then tell me how you feel

No I don't, good thing too.

 

Flight Simulators I have no problem with, in fact they are a personal favorite. But there is a feeling of stability, something keeping you in one place so to speak. With Mario Galaxies you often creep precariously close to the edge where there is nothing between you and a long drop. I don't have a problem being high up. But when I get to close to an edge and get the sensation of falling the vertigo kicks in. They deadly one for me is watching Cliffhanger.

 

I've never gotten motion sickness in my life.

I'm just that cool, I guess.

 

Audiosurf was the first and only one to cause the slightest of uneasiness-feelings, but it IS a narrow track in a black/white/grey void surrounded by fireworks and other pseudo-psychedelic lightshows...

 

Yeah, I avoid First Person Shooters for this reason I think if I just played them more I'd get used to it though.

 

I don't get motion sickness, but I did have dreams of web swinging through downtown NYC after playing Spider-Man 2 for the Gamecube!

I'm still waiting for a virtual reality Spider-Man game.

 

I remember driving a car in RL after playing Gran Turismo for about 3 hours straight. It was impossible not to speed. It took about 2 hours for the color to retrn to my wife's face -- or the ringing in my ears caused by her screaming "Slow down!" to stop.

 

Same here.

 

Oh, I used to see rooms, buildings and some enclosed exteriors as "good" and "bad" Splinter Cell levels.

 

The first time I ever got dizzy was from Turok for the N64. Then years later, I was playing Metroid Prime for the GameCube and I actually tossed my cookies and went to bed with an extremely bad headache. I had no problems with Metroid Prime III for the Wii so I'm guessing it was frame rate related issue with the older gen systems.

 

One night, I seriously thought that Sam Fisher was standing outside my house.

 

Some racing games get me sick.
Grand Theft Auto on PSP gets me sick, but not on PS2. Bizarre.
But the worst offender for making me sick is the Spider-man games.

 

QFT. I don't really get dizzy, but the constant fear of falling is pretty bad.

 

inside, because I rarely switch on lights. I live like bad stealth-game-AI

 

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