First-Person Shooter Games (Like Quake) Give Me Motion Sickness

[arwalden]

Honestly! Don't laugh... if I play it for more than 10 or 15 minutes, I'll start to get a headache, then I'll LITERALLY get nauseous.

Am I weird?

-- Allen

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. I won't laugh!

Same thing happens to me!

It really sucks, because the new Buffy game (Chaos Bleeds) does the same, and I really wanna play it!

[arwalden]

2. That's Comforting To Hear...

My internal equilibrium must be based more on visual cues than the little inner-ear thingy.

Another clue would be that whenever I watch a movie or video where the camera is riding on a roller-coaster, I get queasy going over the drops and turns. (I'll even lean into the turns that I'm watching on video.)

-- Allen

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. you pick that minigun back up

and you go back into hell soldier, you got cacodemons to fight

[name not needed]

4. Weakling.

I have been playing shooters constantly since i first saw wolfenstein 3d.

[nini]

5. me too.. which is a problem being I work for a big game company

I can't play most of our games for long for this reason. Luckily I don't have to do testing anymore.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. I have a different problem

I find them boring.

Boring to tears. (Well, almost.)

I had a friend who was obsessed with them. He was always trying to get me interested in them. While I was impressed with the programming involved, the games themselves were completely uninteresting.

--bkl

[ArmchairActivist]

7. heh.. me too...

... no headache, but nausea hits pretty quick, along with breaking out in a cold sweat. Same thing happens sometimes when I try to read in the car.

-AA

P.S. a google of 'doom induced motion sickness' turns up over 1400 hits...

[Elidor]

8. I used to get that after about 5 hours of Doom 2

I don't think I could even PLAY Quake. Too much motion. I still like to break out Doom once in a while and kill some critters.

[101 Proof]

9. I only get sick from them...

If I've been playing them for 7-8 hours straight.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. They aren't ALL that bad.

Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and a few others are the exemplars of the ultra-fast-paced "twitch" style of gameplay; I don't really like them, either...but some of the first-person shooters (like the Medal of Honor series, Battlefield 1942, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Day of Defeat, and Call fo Duty) have a much slower-paced, more "realistic" gameplay style that's a LOT easier on your inner ear. Heh.

[Cat Atomic]

11. It might be the camera focal length.

They often put a fish-eye effect on your field of view, to give you some peripheral vision. Some games allow you to adjust it.

That might help... maybe?