When Video Games Make You Sick

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Not really a parody thread. My brother got a Virtual Boy for Christmas.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

15 minutes of Mario Virtual Tennis and I had to lay down. I came real close to vomitting.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Wow, lucky! I almost splashed out on one of those last year but didn't because it was sans-manual and I obviously wanted an even bigger hole burned in my pocket.

Playing Gameboy on the bus to thread.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

doom to thread

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 December 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

all first person shooters make me sick
recently, playing Rayman 2 on my computer did it

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 30 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Shit, I totally want a VB. Just for Wario Land.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 30 December 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

I remember playing the demo at Toys R Us. My mom would always pull me away because she knew it'd kill my eyesight.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 30 December 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Playing Gameboy on the bus to thread.

Oh yeah, I tried playing MarioKart DS on a long car trip last week and it made me ill. Dawn of Souls was no problem though.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

i couldn't play goldeneye from feeling dizzy. i was ok with Quake tho. i think it was the speed of turning

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Watching someone ELSE play Doom/Quake, or somehting like Colin McCrae or Gran Turismo. The lack of control over the movement I guess? Urrgh.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

yoshi's island...dear lord, the background colors

― anonymous celebrity (anonymous celebrity), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

katamari can be deeply stomach upsetting if you play for the first time on a big screen and / or are drunk

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Saturday, 31 December 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

Wipeout Pure on PSP on a train :(

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

play three or four straight songs on guitar hero then watch your carpet and walls expand and contract

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

i couldn't play goldeneye from feeling dizzy. i was ok with Quake tho. i think it was the speed of turning

What FOV setting does each game have? I remember reading somewhere that the FOV setting in HL2 had to be altered for the boat ride bit because it caused motion sickness in too many people...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I get sick in each and every game I play developed after 2003 with a phony first person perspective -- that is, one where you see the car or the character, only the camera isn't consistent in relation to the character -- in curves or while taking a sudden stop, the "camera" swoops over or around the character/car. This has spoiled the GTA games for me COMPLETELY, and I have to pick my driving games very carefully (the more recent Colin McRae's are out, for instance). Is this a problem that developers are aware of?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure what you mean, the camera doesn't swoop over the player/car when you suddenly stop in GTA.

do you mean you prefer a more 'sticky' camera, which would remain behind the car when you turn/handbrake stop ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:24 (twenty years ago)

In an old job we bought a huge interactive whiteboard thing with an SVGA projector and I tried playing life size Doom on it. I felt like hurling within 3 minutes.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

psp me and my katamari makes me real pukey real fast :(((((((((

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know Gynoug on the Megadrive? Might have been released in America as "Wings of Wor" (which I remember was what it was going to be called here, but they stuck with the original name). Some of the effects in that like screen tilting and shaking really make me chunder.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Thursday, 4 May 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Ste: didn't check this thread -- yes, I don't get sick when the camera perspective sticks consistenly with the bumper, hood, whatever.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 5 May 2006 07:48 (twenty years ago)

I said this on the other thread also, but can't you just pick the "in-car" camera then?

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 5 May 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

In-car is an improvement in some driving games, but not the newer Colin MacRae's nor for the GTA games--because it's not a real in-car perspective in MacRae (the camera swings around a bit) and because you spend so much time out of the car (and on motorcycles especially) in GTA.

Need for Speed Underground 1 & 2 are about the only driving games I can play any more without wanting to barf. :(

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 6 May 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

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