Does 3-D gaming make anyone else dizzy?

[GatorDeb]

I've noticed that 3-D gaming makes me dizzy. I'm not talking just a little light-headed, I'm talking laying-down-in-bed-afterwards-for-hours-at-a-time dizzy. Morrowind for the XBOX makes me extremely nauseous to the point that I can't play even five minutes. I just realized Final Fantasy XII does the same thing to me. I think I've pinpointed it down to games that have you walking/running around 3D environments. Anyone else experience the same?

[Seantn]

Me! It takes a while, but yes, I do start feeling like i'm going to throw up after a while. It doesn't take hours to get over it, though. Just about 10-15 minutes of cooling off.

I first noticed this happen when I was about 11 or 12 and I played the game "Wolfenstein 3-D". I kept having to stop because I was getting headaches and feeling like I was gonna throw up.

[DVDChris]

The only game that did this for me was King Kong on the 360. After playing for an hour or so, I felt really nauseous.

[darkside]

FPS can make me very sick. It used to happen to me a lot with Quake 2 on the PC and many of the FPS games on the 3DO.
I will say that it didn't happen to me once playing FEAR and Half Life 2 on the PC so maybe the improved frame rates of the newer games has fixed some of this for me.

[areacode212]

This happened to be back in high school when we all skipped class to play our first 4-way DOOM fragfest in the computer lab. It hasn't really happened to me since.

Some older games let you toggle the "bob", which I believe is that slight bounce you see when you move, which sometimes causes dizziness with players. I don't know if this is still something you can turn on & off, but you might want to check.

[AGuyNamedMike]

Halflife 2 makes me sick as a dog. Armed and Dangerous and MOH:Pacific Assault too, but not nearly as bad. Strangely, I can play all the Unreal games, Tribes 2, and any flight sim for hours without issue.

[KurrptSenate]

I wouldn't say I'm predisposed to this, but it does happen occasionally when I'm watching someone else play a FPS game that isn't fluid with the controls

[Groucho]

Sit back from the tv, make sure it's not taking up your entire field of vision.

[DodgingCars]

No. I have the stomach and I guess equilibrium of steel. I rarely get motion sickness. I never knew people couldn't read in cars until I was an adult because I always read in the car. Boats, ships, airplane, rollercoasters, and yes folks.... 3D video games seem to have little to no effect on me!

[pinata242]

WTF are you taking to read on a rollercoaster?

[DodgingCars]

WTF are you taking to read on a rollercoaster?

That punctuation mark after "car" is called a period.

[pinata242]

That punctuation mark after "car" is called a period.
So's that cramping and bleeding you have in your vag ;) Sorry I missed that, it just seemed like a full list of places you read :lol:

[DodgingCars]

So's that cramping and bleeding you have in your vag ;) Sorry I missed that, it just seemed like a full list of places you read :lol:

Next time I'll start a new paragraph. :)

[GatorDeb]

I sit on the bed and play off a 15" flat screen monitor that's 10 feet+ away, so it's not the distance :) I could always read in cars, and didn't get motion sickness in boats. Then on a cruise last month I didn't get sick as a dog, but the movement did bother me a bit. I thought you were supposed to grow out of stuff like this, not into it :(

[Mikey]

Over a decade ago I played Descent which made me feel pretty nauseous. I haven't experienced that feeling again since. I'm grateful that I don't have this problem now since some of my favorite experience involve 3-D shooters.

On one of the 1up radio podcasts, an editor said that one of the reasons why the 360 hasn't taken off in Japan is that Japanese people are prone to getting motion sickness from 3-D games. As a result, RPGs are the most popular type of game there, while many people prefer 3-D shooters here.

[dvdhook]

I used to get nauseous playing first-person shooter games on the Nintendo 64, especially Goldeneye. So much so that I gave up playing these type of games altogether. However, if it's a third-person game I don't have any problems. I'm not sure why this makes a difference for me.

[pinata242]

Aren't higher refresh rates supposed to help with this? It has never really bugged me, but computer monitors have always had a higher refresh than the typical tv you play a console game on. So it would make sense that 3-D games on a computer are less prone to causing motion sickness than a similar game on a console.

I am just talking out of my ass though as I have no real idea if that's true or not.

[BravesMG]

The only games that give me an absolute splitting headache are games on rails. That Panzer Dragoon game on Xbox almost killed me, I didn't know I was that sensitive but I got just horrendously sick within about 3 minutes of sitting down with that one. Some of the King Kong 360 levels were the same way.

[shumway]

I've only ever had a problem w/ the Half-Life port for PS2. I also seem to recall this coming up before and people mentioning that taking dramamine actually helped them with this problem.

[matome]

When I first hooked up my PS2 to my new HD set a few years ago, I would get nauseous after a while, particularly with the FPS shooters like Doom. Now I guess I've gotten used to it since it doesn't happen anymore.

[Dragon Fly]

I've never had a problem but my wife gets nausea when she watches me play an FPS.

[gongon78]

Me! It takes a while, but yes, I do start feeling like i'm going to throw up after a while. It doesn't take hours to get over it, though. Just about 10-15 minutes of cooling off.

I first noticed this happen when I was about 11 or 12 and I played the game "Wolfenstein 3-D". I kept having to stop because I was getting headaches and feeling like I was gonna throw up.

I thought I was the only one!! I felt pretty crappy after watching my uncle breezing through Wolf 3-D.

[McHawkson]

I played FPS for years (since Wolf3D first released), I never experienced any dizzy or feel sick. I was pretty hardcore FPS player ever since.

[Daryl]

Aren't higher refresh rates supposed to help with this? It has never really bugged me, but computer monitors have always had a higher refresh than the typical tv you play a console game on. So it would make sense that 3-D games on a computer are less prone to causing motion sickness than a similar game on a console.

I am just talking out of my ass though as I have no real idea if that's true or not.
For me, it's gotten worse with each console generation as the framerates increase. Started back in the day with Twisted Metal on the PSOne and is even worse with games like COD2 and even Crackdown to some degree. I can play for 30 minutes or so and then I start getting the dull nauseous feeling

[Joe Molotov]

I can't say this has ever happened to me.

[Neitzl]

Over a decade ago I played Descent which made me feel pretty nauseous.

I never got sick while playing Descent, any version of it. I loved being able to bank and roll, complete freedom. I was damn good at it too.
But when I got an XBox and played Halo, I was getting sick playing it. Not sure why, but it might be because I hated playing an FPS with a gamepad. I'd go back and play quake2 or 3, and I was fine. Play some Halo and I felt it again.

[CKMorpheus]

I remember a particular night when I was a child playing Gameboy for a few hours, and then I ended up getting violently ill afterwards. Other then that, never got sick from playing any sort of game.

[GoVegan]

I think part of the problem is related to anticipating the motion. That would explain why a lot of people have problems watching other people play, but not playing themselves. Basically like when you're driving a car with a manual transmission, you can anticipate the gears shifting but the others in the car lurch forward and back.

There are a few games which stuttered badly during play and those bothered me - again, because I couldn't anticipate what I was going to be seeing. It's like walking around drunk.

[GreenMonkey]

My wife gets ill from some 3D games. Particularly FPS games. She can't even watch me play Gears of War on the projector - the shaky camera thing combined with the 3D makes her feel icky.

I got her Buffy for the original xbox and it made her vomit within about 5 minutes. It's pretty rare she has a reaction like that. Oddly games like Mario Kart she's OK with. She also does better if she's playing - she says it is worse watching.

She also gets motion sick, though. She took dramamine when we traveled through the mountains during our wedding/honeymoon trip.

[noonan4224]

I got very sick the first time I play Timesplitters 2 for some reason. I ended up puking the whole night. No other game has had that effect on me though, including the first Timesplitters. Even hundreds of hours of Morrowind and its blocky graphics didn't do anything.

[The Bus]

I get sick from playing Ridge Racer 6 but it had nothing to do with the game being 3D.

[PopcornTreeCt]

I felt a little nauseous playing Superman Returns and Spider-Man 3. I think that has to do with the fact that there are times in the game where I can't tell which way is up (Spidey crawling on buildings, Superman flying fast in different directions.)

[Mok]

I remember Golden Eye for N64 would make me feel like this. I would lay in bed for about an hour before I felt better, then I would go back to playing. It still happens sometimes with certain games on the 360.

[taffer]

I sit on the bed and play off a 15" flat screen monitor that's 10 feet+ away

:wtf: How can you see anything at all from that distance?

I play my 360 on my 19" monitor and I sit about 1 foot from it.

I never get motion sickness. There has only been one game that made me even slightly dizzy: Prey. The gravity puzzles in that game that flip the room upside down and every which way is trippy.