Motion sickness awareness thread

I can't play many first person games. Had to give up on Antichamber because I couldn't last 10 minutes without getting really dizzy and nauseous. I think it's because of a combination of small/enclosed spaces (walls are really close, but doesn't look real at all) and fast movement in the first person. I recently played Gone Home - I slowed down the mouse speed for that and it was fine for those 2 hours (the walls weren't that close together either), but generally I stay away from first person games. (I'm also very bad with controls there, but I guess that's because I can't really practice it)

Thank you for bringing up this issue.
I thought only FPSs could make me sick, but I was very disappointed when I had to give up playing The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. I could not believe a game like that could make physically ill. I looked up solutions to improve my experience with it (others had problems as well), but I don't feel brave enough to give it another try after the way it made me feel. I literally alt+f4-ed out of it and closed my laptop lid. Burn it with fire!
I'm glad you mentioned Fallout NV cause I was slightly interested in it. There should be a caution: might cause motion sickness sign in these games.

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Not when I play the game but when I watched someone else move in those old Point & Click games where you see the game from the first person perspective. I think it was related to the fact that when the playing person was looking or moving somehwere, I, in my mind, wanted to look at/move forward to something else. And I didn't think about it as a Motion sickness at that time, I was just having headaches ;)

I've only had it once, I literally felt nauseated while playing it. Transistor was the game. Never touched it since. It could've just been that day though, I felt odd that day in general.

Skyrim was the first, and thankfully only so far, cause of motion sickness for me. No matter what I do, change FoV, play on a bigger/smaller monitor, farther away, controller... that game would ALWAYS make me feel like shit within 10 minutes of playing it.

I experienced motion sickness while playing Kane & Lynch 2 thanks to the crazy camera, turning it off had some effect, but didn't feel ok so i dropped the game and Resident Evil Revelations, the narrow FOV is a real problem for me and it pisses me off because i was looking forward to playing one of the newer RE games, but i'm not going to risk my health over a videogame. :/

Yeah, i had my first case of it in GTA V with flying helicopters., planes were mostly fine. Never been motion sick in my life and then i just noticed more and more games have done it to me. but i think it might just me me focusing too much on the motions that make it happen to me.

I never felt such thing but the is one thing that happened to me... In open-world games (Skyrim-like) when jumping from the edge of a mountain or very high places, I have the feeling of falling in real life.

As soon as you mentioned motion sickness I immediately thought of Tomb Raider. I was enjoying the game and have tried repicking it up a few times but I get so incredibly sick after playing it. I almost never get motion sickness irl either. It's the worst one I can think of atm, but I also don't feel well after playing Left for Dead 2 though, I'll play it for ~20 minutes at a time or I'll have to lay down for hours.

I get migraines pretty easily as well though, so anything with extreme wobbly movements, constant loud noises (I normally have my volume on 1 or 2 and it seems loud, yet I can't really turn off the volume for games like FPS without really hindering the playing), or bright lights constantly flashing bother me. Normally it's a combination of those things tho and not only the motion sickness that bothers me so it's hard to tell what's the worst culprit.

Never really suffered with motion sickness, but I have shitty eyesight + a lazy eye and issues with depth perception, so some games tend to leave me with double/blurred vision more often than not (100% guaranteed any time there's light text on dark background)

I think the only game that's really made me noticeably and instantly sick was Dead Space, but that was down to the FOV in widescreen and using a ratio fix made it bearable.

Only happened to me in Half Life 2. After changing the FOV I was fine :)

I get motion sickness and I definitely felt queasy during Portal 2, but I loved it so I would just play it for an hour or so at a time so I wouldn't feel hurly hah. Same with the Talos Principle.
Oddly enough Minecraft really gets to me, especially if I hadn't played it for a while. I somehow build up sort of an immunity over time if I consistently play it though.
Its pretty much any first person perspective games, for some reason third person doesn't bother me too much.

I've found that the game running smoother usually helps. Unfortunately I have a pretty low-end graphics card so any sort of demanding game gets jittery for me and that makes it so much worse. So I rarely play first person games unless its something I'm really enjoying. Then I'll just tough through it/take breaks.

I have a super difficult time playing anything first person. It nearly killed me to get through Borderlands :(

Life is Strange, really want to play it all the way through but feel pretty sick afterwards... also Layers of Fear

I often feel sick while travelling by car or bus, but I've never experienced motion sickness in-game. Silly as it is, my fear of height sometimes kicks in when I play games. I try to avoid looking down, but sometimes it's impossible and then I usually mess up the thing I was supposed to do and I have to repeat it again. xD

mainly FPS do that to me. Most of time time, it when you get lost and roam in the same area for sometime.

I'm fine with most games, though I do turn motion blur off and FOV generally needs to be around 90.

Resident Evil 5 (the only RE I've tolerated so far) was hell though, that shit gave me a headache. Never again. If the only way for you to add tension and suspense is to give me a headache or make me queasy, you can fuck right off.

Mirror's Edge is my jam though. I've heard that makes folks ill.

Sounds like a you problem. =3

Only in old games. Doom I can take for some reason for almost an hour, but Quake engine makes me nauseous almost instantly. I couldn't ever complete Half-Life 1 on my own, I only watched others play through it because of that.

I'm more or less fortunate, no games have triggered any motion sickness or headaches since Wolfenstein 3D (and I was a teenager, so don't know if it would happen today).

Only in Fallout New Vegas, in the bit where there's a lot of explosions going on. I was also drunk and tired.

The only time I've experienced motion sickness was playing Warframe with everything on/maxed... never again x_x

I get sick from motion blur and depth of field, not always though, it depends on the speed and intensity of the effects, and the background as well.

My motion sickness is so bad, I get sick on playground swings :|.