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So Who else gets sick playing video games?
- Thread starter shattyboombatty
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Roland Hood
Member
Timesplitters 2 for sure. I think it was the bobbing camera and ultra-smooth framerate.
Oh and this one
Oh and this one
Only game I felt any sort of stress over was the demo for Soul Reaver for PSOne. Got stuck in the water and couldn't get out, and actually made me feel terribly claustrophobic. Dunno why, but that's happened to a few friends of mine, too. And only that particular demo. Thanks a bunch, Raziel!
I have gotten kinda dizzy playing some games, but only for a few seconds. I take the time to look away for a second and I'm fine. Rarely happens. Playing GTA, I was at the casino looking for the $10000 bet video poker machine (which stupidly moves around randomly so you always have to go searching for it, and its almost always the last one you check), and constantly checking each machine gets kinda dizzying since you're going from movement to still to movement, but that's about it.
I do remember when I got Turok for the first time that my friend couldn't even look at the screen.
I do remember when I got Turok for the first time that my friend couldn't even look at the screen.
Max Payne and Max Payne 2. I dunno. I just feel kinda ill after shooting so often and aiming so often, but FPShooters I can usually handle. It was also very annoying that you sometimes have to look for that certain opening or that certain door in Max Payne. I just get so crazy sometimes!!!
NintendosBooger
Member
The Internet has killed my love for video games. Now I just play them to maintain some vestige from my youth.
distantmantra
Member
My best friend was playing Halo with the digital pad once and the on-screen movement was so jerky I had to leave the room due to motion sickness.
I often get headaches from console games, none in particular. And I don't like playing them until an hour or so after I've woken up, makes me feel really groggy. My eyesight is shit, too, so my eyes feel weird after playing for an hour or so.
PC games are fine though, in all of those aspects.
PC games are fine though, in all of those aspects.
MrAngryFace
Banned
Gamecube games make me poop a lot.
Oh yeah, Star Wars. Jedi Knight II made be very, very sick and dizzy. It was crazy. I tried all kinds of resolutions.Bacon said:
It was the sounds, the graphics... they made me feel so incredibly BLEGH. Especially the sounds.Couldn't you just turn your head away from the TV?distantmantra said:
distantmantra
Member
Ruzbeh said:
Yeah, I could have done that, but seeing how there was nothing else in the room aside from the TV being used, it made more sense to go do something somewhere else.
DIrtyWeasel
Member
Only 2 games have ever made me feel "sick", but it was never bad.
The first Gamecube game I played was Pikmin. I think the bright colors gave me a headache, but after 2 days I could play it without problems. The same thing happened again when I got Super Mario Sunshine, but after a day or two I was alright to play it.
The first Gamecube game I played was Pikmin. I think the bright colors gave me a headache, but after 2 days I could play it without problems. The same thing happened again when I got Super Mario Sunshine, but after a day or two I was alright to play it.
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
Only a couple games have me sick. And by sick, I mean I get very dizzy and start developing a headache.
Gitaroo-Man: This game just kills me. You have to stare at a dot in the middle of the screen while strobe effects and flashes of light are erupting all over the screen. I get seriously nauseous when playing this for more than 5 minutes.
Lumines: Maybe it's from overplaying the game or something, but I can't go back to it without getting dizzy. All the colors just start blurring together.
Gitaroo-Man: This game just kills me. You have to stare at a dot in the middle of the screen while strobe effects and flashes of light are erupting all over the screen. I get seriously nauseous when playing this for more than 5 minutes.
Lumines: Maybe it's from overplaying the game or something, but I can't go back to it without getting dizzy. All the colors just start blurring together.
I'm playing Half Life 2 right now and 30 mins into the game I get sick. Golden Eye, Metroid Prime has the same effect on me as well but for some reason I can play Halo 2 for 8 hours straight with no problems. Is a framerate issue? Maybe I should lock Half Life 2 at 30fps to see if I still get sick, if anybody knows how to do that let me know. Currently it's running at 60fps.
TheTurtleTitan
Member
I can't play any portables in the car or else I get carsick. Too bad, because I heard it's great playing Game Boy on the road.
It doesn't happen to me at home, thank God. I play flight sims and FPS' just fine.
It doesn't happen to me at home, thank God. I play flight sims and FPS' just fine.
Spastic Colon
Member
The entire N64 library seemed to give me motion sickness.
Outcast2004
Banned
i dont have any problems at all. My friend does though. He can't do any FPS style game. He gets lost (no sense of relative direction) and a bit motion sick.
To me it's kinda weird.
To me it's kinda weird.
Playing Wipeout Pure on the PSP at one of the faster speed ranks got me nauseous once, but I was already not feeling too well that day. And any game I play while in the car gets me nauseous, I get carsick and dizzy so easily (for some reason, I feel fine if I'm playing an FPS or 3D platformer on console or PC).
Spastic Colon
Member
FiRez said:
Obviously beside the point, but I must also add that the "Z lock-on" system is the one of the most baffling gamng "innovations" I've come across.
shattyboombatty
Member
TheTurtleTitan said:
same here... playing video games while in a car = instant death for me. Although I managed to watch spiderman 2 on my PSP wihle driving to LA without incident.. probably the fact that I wasn't focusing on something interactive.