Xbox and motion sickness?

MagicMarker

Am I imagining this at all? I've only had an xbox for a couple of days and it's my first console in about 15 years!! I was playing it last night and felt like absolute crap, I didn't know what the reason for it was, just figured it was something I ate. But tonight I've been playing Assassin's Creed, and just all the jumping about etc has made me feel ill, and I don't even get motion sickness!

Is this the price I pay for ignoring video games for so long?

mukki

its because your not fully in control, bit like when your sitting in the back of a car

maybe when you want to look up and accidently move to look down, just don't spend too long playing it until you get good with the controller,

funny enough another way to avoid getting car sick is to stick with car racing games for a while as they only have left and right

projectmayhem

When they released Doom way back when people complained of the same thing!

Funnily enough when I play guitar hero/rock band and look away from the game for a moment my eyes play an optical illusion on me where the world kind of stretches out... madness!

brianon

Same thing happens to me playing most fps games. PC & 360.

calex71

I sometimes get similar thing with rock band, because I play with the speed cheat enabled on expert sometimes the screen scrolls very quickly. I get a brief moment of dizzyness the odd time

You mention Assassins Creed OP , I get that ''feeling" during a fall after some frantic action and there is a lot of falling in that game, you mean that feeling in the the pit of your stomach as you are falling just before you hit the ground?? I'd say thats normal enough and just that you are involved with the game.

Seriously though, it would be no harm to have an eye test done. Should be done every 2 years especially if you use computers at your job etc.

MagicMarker

Yeah I get that sinking feeling in the stomach when you're falling. Tis horrible!

Was playing Dead Space today and felt fine, so that's good!

docdolittle

projectmayhem wrote: »

When they released Doom way back when people complained of the same thing!

Funnily enough when I play guitar hero/rock band and look away from the game for a moment my eyes play an optical illusion on me where the world kind of stretches out... madness!

I get that all the time on GH/RB! :P Happens to my lil' brother too...

Liber8or

If you really want some motion sickness, play 'Portal'... That game will really mess with your head.

Hammer of Thor

projectmayhem wrote: »

When they released Doom way back when people complained of the same thing!

Funnily enough when I play guitar hero/rock band and look away from the game for a moment my eyes play an optical illusion on me where the world kind of stretches out... madness!

lol I was getting the same thing a few weeks ago when my mate dropped the equipment into me. It didn't matter what I tried, playing with more lights switched on etc. Freaked me out!

AlmightyCushion

Liber8or wrote: »

If you really want some motion sickness, play 'Portal'... That game will really mess with your head.

I'm really hungover and even thinking about playing portal nearly made me sick. Complete mind fúck of a game.

mawk

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I'm really hungover and even thinking about playing portal nearly made me sick. Complete mind fúck of a game.

also best game evaarr

nevaeh-2die-4

its nice to know im not on my own, i only ever got it with one game, but i got it really bad.

i got it with prey.

3rdDegree

I get that with FPS games if I play them for more than half an hour. Makes me fell like a big whuss. Funny thing is: I love rollercoasters and things like that. I could stay on them all day without a problem. I think it's all in the mind.

I found a great solution was to stop playing after 29 minutes. But where's the fun in that? Since it's all in the mind, a lobotomy might do the trick.

Cactus Col

Mirror's Edge certainly had this effect on me. Which was annoying because I liked the game, but could only play for half an hour at a time, before the I'd break out in a cold sweat and have to give up.

buckieburd

Thank god it's not just me! Thought I was going mental! Resi 5 on Versus is very intense, after paying for a while I feel really weird.

MagicMarker

Ugh, was just playing Call of Duty 4, I had to stop after the first mission on the ship!!

Shiminay

It's never happened to me, but clearly I'm not a little girly man like the rest of ye

I'd recommend that you have more than the screen in your field of vision - i.e. there's something that you're looking at that's never moving - be it a picture on the wall or something like that. It might just help your brain to know that you're not moving about, but that the contents of the screen are.

Yeh its especially bad on Guitar hero, when the menu comes up at the end it seems like the whole screen is rising, i thought it was just the menu for the 1st few weeks, till i realised the menu was still if someone else played it lol.