3D Games make me sick!

JigsawMan · Post by **JigsawMan** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:52 pm

Does anyone else have this problem with 3D games... From the first time I played Doom back in about 1993 I realised that I would never be able to take part in 'mainstream' gaing again. I played for about 20 minutes and then I began to get a headache, then I began to throw up and just about feel like I was dying. Took 3 hours of sleep in the middle of the day to shake it off.

I can't play many driving games (thank goodness I am OK witht the burnout series). I can't play ANY FPS or any RPG that uses first person or close up third person. I am OK with NeverWinter Nights as long as I have the camera zoomed almost all the way out.

Good things have come out of the above though. In about 1999 I started playing 'retro' as back in the day there was no 3D to destroy my mind. A few binge ebay sessions later and I had almost every Saturn and Dreamcast shmup and fighter. Great fun! I still have a slow trickle of a game or two (maybe a PCB if I am lucky/rich) every month but I still wish I could waste hours online playing FPS games.

I found the first 3D RTS game I could play without getting ill last year, Dawn of War. Game me about 3 months of 3 hours a day online play (which is a fair bit for me as I work quite long hours normally).

Anyways, back to my main point. Does anyone else get sick from 3D games and have you found a sure fire way of getting rid of it once and for all?

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:57 pm

Games with a moving camera make me ill. Not FPS games since the screen moves precisely where I direct it, but games like Tomb Raider where it moves independently of me. That shit makes me want to hurl.

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:42 pm

Normally I don't have any problems, but some games can make my stomach feel "uneasy", for some reason. I've noticed this in Katamari Damacy and Dog's Life. And in the latter, it's only in the first-person-view, otherwise I'm a-okay.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:51 pm

JigsawMan wrote:Does anyone else have this problem with 3D games... From the first time I played Doom back in about 1993 I realised that I would never be able to take part in 'mainstream' gaing again. I played for about 20 minutes and then I began to get a headache, then I began to throw up and just about feel like I was dying. Took 3 hours of sleep in the middle of the day to shake it off.

I can't play many driving games (thank goodness I am OK witht the burnout series). I can't play ANY FPS or any RPG that uses first person or close up third person. I am OK with NeverWinter Nights as long as I have the camera zoomed almost all the way out.

Good things have come out of the above though. In about 1999 I started playing 'retro' as back in the day there was no 3D to destroy my mind. A few binge ebay sessions later and I had almost every Saturn and Dreamcast shmup and fighter. Great fun! I still have a slow trickle of a game or two (maybe a PCB if I am lucky/rich) every month but I still wish I could waste hours online playing FPS games.

I found the first 3D RTS game I could play without getting ill last year, Dawn of War. Game me about 3 months of 3 hours a day online play (which is a fair bit for me as I work quite long hours normally).

Anyways, back to my main point. Does anyone else get sick from 3D games and have you found a sure fire way of getting rid of it once and for all?

Nope! You're just a "spaz"...read the "epileptic seizures" section in the front of the game manuals.

Wanna have some real fun? PLay Tempest X in the dark with a strobe light on full blast!!!

Sorry, I think I may be in one of my "moods"...

TVG · Post by **TVG** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:42 pm

for some strange reason, the only game that slightly makes me want to throw up is psyvariar on ps2, i cant really understand why but it does after a while.

Dewclaw · Post by **Dewclaw** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:39 am

I'm generally ok with 3D games. The only one that gave me a headache was Jet Set Radio Future, although the soundtrack might have had something to do with that.

Ramus · Post by **Ramus** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:59 am

Descent on the PC makes me sicker than a dog. It's so easy to lose your way then you have to rotate the camera to get down different coridors...*BARF*! It's so disorientating. FUCK that game. I had the same symptoms you had playing Doom when I played this game. Yuck.

StealthNinjaScyther · Post by **StealthNinjaScyther** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:30 am

The only game that I can remember making me feel sick was the original Spyro the Dragon. Not sure why either. I mean I can play my Virtual Boy without getting a headache and no other game I've played has ever done that to me. Maybe it was the pastel colors...

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:37 am

Yeh, I tend to get motion sick easily. Unreal Tournament had me incapacitated for the better part of a day, and Katamari Damacy would have done the same had I not quit after 15 or 20 minutes.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:53 am

Yep, I'm feeling you guys.

The first time I played Doom on my brother's computer, I started feeling sick as a dog, but had no idea why. I went to my old bedroom (I'd moved out the previous summer), and laid down. Feeling better, I got up and went to play more Doom, at which point I felt even sicker than before. I felt like Alex in A Clockwork Orange after having been "treated". I put two and two together, and haven't touched a single FPS since. I had no idea Katamari Damacy would affect me the same way, but sure enough: puke city. In fact, when I found out that RE4 had that fully 3-D, behind-the-back camera, I actually waited until I found a used copy (my local game shop has an easy exchange policy with used games), so I could try it out first. Fortunately, I had no problems with that game (which is great because RE4 rocks my socks!). I also don't seem to have any problems at all with racing games.

Has anyone tried Dramamine? I too would love to find out about a good cure for 3-D related motion sickness.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:03 am

Ramus wrote:Descent on the PC makes me sicker than a dog. It's so easy to lose your way then you have to rotate the camera to get down different coridors...*BARF*! It's so disorientating. FUCK that game. I had the same symptoms you had playing Doom when I played this game. Yuck.

Descent 3 did this too me. Which sucks, because it is a great multiplayer coop game (enemies that actually dodge your shots rule!).

Some 3d games do this to me if I play in the dark or they are too smooth. Usually depends on the environment too. Corridor based games get me, but I can usually play for sometime before it happens.

Descent 3 ... quick.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:26 am

FPS do give me motion sickness. Most other games don't.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:33 am

Ramus wrote:Descent on the PC makes me sicker than a dog. It's so easy to lose your way then you have to rotate the camera to get down different coridors...*BARF*! It's so disorientating. FUCK that game. I had the same symptoms you had playing Doom when I played this game. Yuck.

I am getting nauseous thinking about it. I played it on the computer, sitting a foot away. Horrible.

Armorines on the PSX made me nauseous also.

kong · Post by **kong** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:30 am

There's a wrist band that's marketed for motion sickness. It uses accupressure points to alleviate motion sickness. I've heard of some success for people that play fps games. Worth looking into if you suffer from motion sickness while playing games.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:31 am

Most games do give me motion sickness. For some weird reason though, Descent is an exception and I really enjoyed playing it on Kali back in the day.

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:44 pm

I dont get motion sickness from playing any games...only headaches and sore eyes

but descent and it's ink would probably be good candidates

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:23 pm

I don't think that being made sick by 3D games is very normal, I'd see a doctor.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:51 am

judesalmon wrote:I don't think that being made sick by 3D games is very normal, I'd see a doctor.

Actually, it may be more common than you think. Hideo Kojima has said in quite a few interviews that he gets really bad motion sickness from 3-D games. IIRC, he said that was one of the reasons that he kept the overhead camera in MGS3.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:19 am

Give me the name of one good FPS.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:35 am

I'm fine for most games, but FPS games do tend to make me nauseous, but only after I've played a while. Oddly enough, in some games I get sick if I try to play singleplayer, but can play hours of multiplayer with no apparent ill effects.

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:36 am

Elixir wrote:Give me the name of one good FPS.

Halo, Halo 2, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Deus Ex, Battlefield 2 etc. etc.

If you don't think any of those are 'good' then you reside on a distant planet.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:15 pm

Elixir wrote:Give me the name of one good FPS.

Some awesome old-school FPS...
You can't go wrong with these:

Alien Vs Predator 2
Doom 1, 2, 3
Descent 1, 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Heretic
Hexen
Hexen II
Rise of The Triad
Unreal 1

I knew a guy that he used to get sick from 3D games, so he would only play shmups.
After some time, he went to a doctor for treatment.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:06 am

I don't have any problem with FPS games or any other games, which is good, because I've been waiting for VR to become commonplace for a loong time now and it would suck if I weren't able to utilize that to its fullest. My stomach isn't the strongest, though - I get nausea and chills whenever I go on any ride that spins around really fast (especially that one that pins you to the wall). I think some people are more sensitive to forward motion, and others to rotation.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:21 am

Only one game has ever given me these symptoms and its one I liked very much. Turok on N64.

I got a headache so bad but just couldnt put it down.

Post by **system11** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:54 am

I can get a sort of hazed slightly uncomfortable feeling playing games where the camera moves independantly of me. FPS are fine, racing games where you can glue the camera behind and above your car are fine, but in 3D games with a /particularly/ spastic camera, I can feel a bit odd after it gets stuck and moves too quickly in enclosed spaces.

D · Post by D » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:45 am

My grapple with 3D games in general is:

varying frame rates. They make me sea sick. The average pc gamer doesn't know any better, like my dad, but I indeed get that sea sickness effect.

Slowdown isn't 1% as bad as varing frame rate

FatalError · Post by **FatalError** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:30 pm

For the most part, I don't have any issues with 3D games. I can play games like Quake, Doom, and Unreal without any problem. However, it should be noted that only TWO FPS games make me motion sick.

Alien Trilogy (PS1) and Decent (any).

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:36 pm

Maybe I'm just lucky then, as I've never suffered ill effects from playing any type of game.
Even when Doom first came out, I was a "non dizzy" fan.

The only slight effect I've ever noticed is when I was playing Tokyo Extreme Racer for about 5 hours straight in a dark room(I play all games in the dark anyway), I stepped outside for a smoke and I felt a slight sense of vertigo. Then again, it was nightime, so maybe that was a factor.

JigsawMan · Post by **JigsawMan** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:20 pm

The vagrant wrote:for some strange reason, the only game that slightly makes me want to throw up is psyvariar on ps2, i cant really understand why but it does after a while.

That game just makes my thumbs fall off in pain...

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:10 pm

The one that makes me feel sick is the museum mode in the Naco collections for the PS1. Walking around in the museum made me sick, but I've played Doom, Duke Nukem, and Dark Empire (or whatever the Star Wars FPS is called) and I've been fine with those.

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