Normally I just zip up my man suit, and suffer through it, but after about an hour or so I feel nauseated and headachey and full of regret-y.

Does anyone have this problem with video games? How do you handle it?

Shame, my top favorite games are Spyro: Year of the Dragon and the ES series, and each of them make me want to shed this mortal body. What can be done aside from taking copious amounts of dramamine twice a day?

My girl has this same problem watching me play or the few times she's played her character. She also can't take BF3.

Whoever moved it.. thanks, I suppose.

^ and no. I'd die too often.

Don't play.....

If you play on PC, try changing the FOV to something more natural for PC games, like 90.
Ingame, press ~, the type 'fov 90' without the '')

Some people can get headaches from certain field of views. If your on the pc you could open console and try out some other fov's. Just type fov 90 or number of your choice. I think the default is 75. Just typing fov will reset it to default. More then 90-100 you will get noticable fisheye effect though. The higher the number the wider field of view you get, smaller becomes narrower. 90 is what a lot of people swear to but it really depends on the engine the game runs on. And i guess you can follow the notices on pretty much all video games, take small break every hour at least

Thanks guys! I'll definitely try this

The default is 60.

I get absolutely terrible problems with motion sickness. It's really not fun. I'm fortunate in that TES has been kind to me, but some other games make me feel unbelievably horrible; HL2 was a good example, and I'm not sure if my tendency to force myself through it anyway was all that sensible since I would feel very ill for a long time afterwards. Actually one TES-related thing that did make me feel horrible was the New Vegas add-on, Lonesome Toad, where everything was at a jaunty angle. That wasn't nice.

Sadly, I haven't found anything that helps, though I have heard some have success with jappuh's suggestion of taking a look at the viewing angle.

Oddly enough, it's one of the few games that I do have to give my eyes a rest from every now and again. I normally have no troubles with video games, but there is just something different about Skyrim. Maybe it's the FOV like some are saying, which in my case is not correctable, as I'm on PS3. Trouble is, I normally fall asleep while playing before my eyes do need a rest. Working a 10-11 hr. day, eating, showering, then walking the dog, makes me pretty ragged by the time I get to sit down and play... svcks really. :hehe:

I've played Skyrim on binges of up to 8 hours nonstop and I get no problems.

I feel for you.

LOL @ Toad!

svcks you got all nauseous with that tho. I'm lucky I have never had this problem. I knew somebody who couldn't play Doom due to the motion sickness. :/

Well it depends on your screen. on a 16/9 widescreen it's 75. On a 4/3 it's probably something like 60. I should have specified i guess.

I really struggled with Doom; I still have flashbacks of a sort to a day in the mid '90s when I really overdid it and had some weird Zappa record playing in the background. That episode left me feeling thoroughly peculiar, and in a really bad way. Actually, now that I think about it, Doom 3 was worse, but I think I had the same problem as a lot of people which is that the head-bobbing really amplified the motion sickness. Once that had been turned off, it was no more nausea-inducing than the original!

It would svck to feel sick from that, but I liked the angles on some of the buildings in LR, I dont know why but I just loved it, maybe it makes the place feel more damaged or something, no idea. But for me it was more atmospheric and just plain awesome.

I agree. Visually, it was great; continuing to feel well, not so much... Must've been quite a pain for them to put together, though, at least from what I remember of GECK.

I know a guy who pops a nausea pill before he plays any kind of videogames. They work, (Aspirin maybe) I don't recommend this but its all I can offer.

I Skyrim I can't stand the first person view and get nausea. I have played in 3rd person forever and never feel sick.

Ooooft I feel your pain, OP. I sometimes get sick from playing, and as of yet I can't pinpoint why. Some games affect me more than others- TES I have no problems with (thank goodness.) I played mirror's edge and that made me want to puke almost straight away, it was horrible. First person shooters tend to make me go cross-eyed and give me a headache after a while. Also, watching other people play gives me motion sickness a little as well, doesn't matter what game it is.

My only advice would be to take it easy a bit, don't play for 5 hours straight or something, and play in a brightly-lit room. If you're in the dark squinting at the TV that will give you a headache for sure. Plus the bright screen messes with your hormones and that's never good. :shrug:

I had serious issues with motion sickness playing Oblivion and Morrowind on my widescreen, had to change the FOV to fix it. Skyrim hasn't been quite as bad, it seems to happen mostly from sprinting a lot.

I have no shame. Period.

I regularly wear MLP shirts to school and yell "FOR THE HORDE!" across the lunchroom to my friends who still play WoW for old times sake.

EDIT: I very obviously misinterpreted the thread.

Seek a doctor.