Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT*

by Captain Spark , Oregon, Friday, August 02, 2013, 19:51 (4346 days ago) @ Avateur

I'm curious because of the replies down low regarding Marathon on the 360. I remember people mentioning getting sick to their stomachs or getting headaches back when it first came out on XBLA, and I thought maybe it was isolated. But then there are games like Portal and Portal 2 where I know many, many people who can't even watch them being played for more than maybe five minutes without getting ready to throw up.

I've personally never come across a game that makes me dizzy, nauseous, etc., so I'm curious about the games that make others sick.

Does it happen when you play? Watch? Both? Does it happen after a few minutes, or a few hours? Certain genres? Just certain games?

I tried the Portal demo and I couldn't play it for more the 30 seconds before getting dizzy.

I've never became sick to my stomach from a video game but Crackdown gives me a terrible case of Vertigo that makes me dizzy, and I don't have to have my character very high off the ground to experience it. It takes just a few seconds for the Vertigo to kick in. My first time climbing the Agency Tower I actually experienced mild stomach cramps but I wasn't nauseous.

I'm still somewhat confused when I developed the fear of heights, because as a kid, I spent more time climbing very tall trees (most were over 100 feet tall) and I never experience the effects of Vertigo! I think I literally spent more time in trees as a kid then I did being on the ground.

Riding as the passenger in a Warthog makes me dizzy. It's the side to side swaying of the front of the vehicle and the up down motion of the front of the vehicle that does it to me and it takes only a few seconds.