motion sickness?

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

I've been hearing alot about this, primarily from HL2. Something about the movement coding makes people "seasick". Even some hardcore gamers I know (one with a prominent mag) get nauseous playing it.

Reason I'm asking, is (I'm sure you know *wink wink*) I've been playing SWG for the better part of a year, and recently they upgraded their graphics movement to the HL2 code, now there's a sudden rash of people complaining about getting sick. Personally, I haven't noticed any ill aftereffects, just very smooth and quick gameplay. I mean, an MMORPG that responds faster than my single player games? Amazing.

Anyway, I've been trying to figure this out. I'm thinking that it's only partly the coding, in a sortof unofficial poll, the majority of gamers getting sick have smaller screens. SInce I have a 19" LCD now, maybe that's it. Since I have more screen in my face, and less peripheral view of things around the screen, it doesn't bother me. Likewise, I don't have a tower or hutch on my desk, just a nice, big, flat desk with a plain white wall behind it, and very little at eyeball level around the screen.

Anyone else have this problem?
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Zero_Fresh · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject:

No problem here. Thought I play more XBOX than PC games.
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gmoney · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject:

dood exact thing happened to me... i woke up one day about 9am rode bike to taco bell.. got some double stacked tacos came how scarfed em down.. an started to play hl2... next thing i know.. im dizzy i feel naseaus... so i lay down... and i passed out.. till 12 o'clock!!!

later i was like naw man i eat double stacked tacos (only at your local taco bell, come in and have a bite on us) Mad

all the time... so it must've been the game... i thought i was the only one Shock

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gmoney · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:03 pm Post subject:

oh yeah and i do have the smaller screen 15" lcd.... this is a very interesting topic
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Ok.....I'll add Taco Bell to my theory......although, TB makes me slightly ill just driving by.....let alone eating that crap before I play.

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2old2care · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

I've never had a problem with TB and HL2....Tequila and HL2 is a different story. drunken

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Ham_fisT · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:

Tequila and I are Mates,

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comdak · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject:

for some reason iD Software games always make me ill after a few hours of gameplay. This has almost never happened for any other game but the old.. OLD... school Wolfenstein 3D did it, Doom 2 did it, Return to Castle Wolfenstein did it and Doom 3 does it.

I have played several other FPS's as well as numerous other games in my life time, and never (other than the rare occasion that I was already ill at the time) has any other company's games caused me to feel neausious. It must be somethin to do with their engines.
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comdak · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject:

Oh I forgot to mention, I read the Masters of Doom biography about the iD Software team and their many changes.. I also remember that Doom 2 used to cause a ton of motion sickness in all kinds of people.

Oh, and the Quake series (for some reason or another) was exempt from this.. never made me feel nauseous.
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zhensem · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

The only game on planet earth that makes me feel ill after playing for a while is Half Life (the original). HL2 is fine (completely different engine, graphics, etc) but Half Life was the only game that made me feel ill playing it. That is the reason why to this day I haven't completed it. There, I said it....

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Macabre · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

Thats really od. Iv'e heard of this kind of thing befor... never happen to me ::knocks on wood::
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Yeah, it seems to be limited to a few people, but what's odd........I get seasick/carsick easily, unless I'm driving. If I'm a passenger in either a car or a boat, count on me getting pukey. HL2 (and SWG, since it's getting the same complaints now) don't bother me at all. It appears to be people who don't get motion sickness that experience it.........

I wonder...if I called HL2 developers........how many of them got carsick, and coded the software so it wouldn't affect them. But by doing so, they affected the other extreme. Hm.
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gmoney · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:42 am Post subject:

reiiiiiiiiite... as conspiricy theory... against up ppl who dont get sick while playing games but get sick while playing games and then wanna puke but they dont puke so they just stay dizzy and play more of game and get dizzy and wanna puke but dont puke and then lay down.. and pass out and feel nacsosiudf and then one time i was a skewl
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Xal · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:24 am Post subject:

I have never had motion sickness from anything. I like flying in light aircraft and love it when theres a bit of turbulence

(passenger not pilot) I flew crosscountry on tuesday for a job, the little twin engine plane was swaying all over the place, it was sooo much fun

I am pretty sure that if I don't get sick from that then no game could do it

My GF gets sick watching me play some racers tho

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zhensem · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:51 am Post subject:

comdak · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:32 am Post subject:

i beg to differ. unless imthe driver in a vehicle for any real amount of time either pump me with Gravol or yer lettin me puke wherever needed. I also as mentioned above suffer from iD's wave of nausea
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2old2care · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:25 am Post subject:

Interesting.....If I read in the car and don't look up regularly, I feel the effects of motion....I don't become a chunk blaster, but I feel a dizziness.
Sometimes, when I watch someone else play, (a good FPS) I can feel a similar "dis-orientation".
This never happens if I'm driving or playing myself.
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Right........some games will make me want to hurl watching other people play, and I know when I play a good FPS, my girlfriend wants to blow chunks, partly because of the way I play.....fast, using the mouse to look around alot while running. Even flying in SWG can make her sick, when I do barrel rolls and such, or I'm in a particularly nasty dogfight.

I don't think it's a conspiracy theory, I just think that (maybe) in an effort to cure the motion sickness in people prone to it, they went a bit too far in the other direction. I'm sure it'll get fixed, but I'd love to figure it out.
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2old2care · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject:

Yep, another reason I don't like people watching me play...**wipes off back, has sudden urge to shower** puke

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gmoney · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:

lmao 2o
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Josh · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject:

wow that is strange...i have never experienced any thing of the sort, and ive played all the games mentioned alot...for several hours straight, and ive never noticed it...or know anyone to be affected similarly?

Doom 3 makes me ill.....but, thats just doom 3

Ill get a headache with a crappy refresh rate, other than that you can put a game in front of me 24/7 and i wont notice anyting.

Are you sure your not referring to epilepsy?

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zhensem · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

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I don't get motion sickness at all, including games.
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