Hello,

My name is trapspeed and I suffer from nausea induced by any first/third person game. I don't know how to get over it. I haven't really tried taking medication but I also think its ridiculous to have to resort to that to play the game. I REALLY would like to get Skyrim but I'm wondering if it's going to be another one of those games I will be unable to play. It only takes 5 minutes for me to be playing to start feeling an overwhelming sickness where I just want to puke. The weird thing is, I don't get any type of sickness on PC. I can play the same exact game on PC and be fine. Does anyone have anything similar? How do you cope? If I just force myself enough will I eventually get used to it?

My mum is like that when she watches me play games, you not what she does? Walks away
You could force on through and build an immunity to it....nahh that wouldn't work.

Go see your doctor maybe s/he knows the illness and has some sort of pill for it. I think its just a form of motion sickness.

Try svcking on a piece of hard candy. I've heard that helps calm visually-induced nausea.

Games with narrow FOVs can do that to you, like the new COD.

This. I actually got a little queasy just watching TotalBiscuit's "WTF is..." video for that one. Bad limited FOV. Bad. (The weird thing there is games almost never make me motion sick. The only one that has for sure was Zombie Driver, back before they tweaked the camera settings. :sick: MW3's FOV is way more limited than I'm used to, though, which might explain it.)

Anyway. Some games (if they're smart; some aren't) will let you change the FOV. I would try looking in the settings menu and try gradually tweaking the FOV up until you find a setting that's comfortable for you.

You might also want to try changing up the environment you're playing in...play with the lights on (if you're playing at night), and increase the distance between you and your monitor a little.

Skyrim has a FOV option by typing 'fov 75' or whatever number oyu want in the console (which is opened with ~), but it doesn't always seem to stick. A mod will probably offer a permanent solution soon.

Sometimes I have the same problem if I haven't played a first person game in awhile. After a short time it usually goes away, I usually have to look away or just not focus completely on the screen when I turn untill I start to feel better.

I'm not a doctor, but something you might want to look up is "Ginger Root", it's been used for motion sickness by sailors for hundreds of years.

I have the same, it is a form of motion sickness in that your brain is trying to mesh what the eyes are seeing with what the inner eye is experiencing.. I just stay away from certain games that are too frantic



Works a bit. Best thing is not to game for too long, not to game at night or when you're tired and be careful about frantic gameplay.

I can't even play L4D2 anymore

What size is your TV and how far away are you sitting from it exactly? I have a problem myself which I take allergy medications for that cause me to have dizzy fits. It can be a problem if your eyes don't have something to lock onto causing a miss communication between what your eyes perceive and what your balance center is telling you. For me when playing FPS games on a console I will intentionally focus on the target in the center of the screen to give me something to focus on. Over time your body may adapt and learn to focus on the target allowing you to look around.

Anyways it's the best I can suggest aside from taking sea sick pills or something like that.

I get it.
Adjust your framerate, wear your glasses if you have vision issues, and drink ginger ale or ginger tea.
Don't play for more than two hours at a time.
I get it so bad that if I play too long, I will vomit and end up laid out on the bathroom floor.
Everything ends up spinning.

My husband gets motion sickness from Half-Life 2; I get it from Mirror's Edge. I think it really depends on the game and you uniquely.

Yeah, my brother plays mostly first-person games and he got it from Thief, while I get it from Katamari games.

Funny I play many games with first person view and only Time splinters has given me some sort of pain. I couldn't play more than an hour of it before my eyes started to hurt greatly.

I remember my mom getting sick when she watched me play. Miss them days

I used to have really bad motion sickness when in the car. I used to throw up a lot, but I guess i just got used to it, after continuing to read in the car all the time. Now I can play pretty much any game or do anything that might cause motion sickness and I'm not affected.

So, from my experience, if you just keep getting nauseous and throwing up, your body will get used to it.

Your name is trapspeed? What were your parents thinking?


It might be your TV, if its a flatscreen try getting a cheap tube TV just for gaming.

I don't normally get motion sickness with a game (sometimes with a movie) but I did get a little queezy with this one. Nothing unplayable though. I'd recommend wearing glasses (even if not corrective, they can just help take light off the eyes). Also, experiment playing the game in a room that is well lit, as well as dark.

I'd recommend only playing games with motion blur then. From what I've seen, this feature is widely absent in Xbox 360 games. Get a gaming PC, while you're at it.

Yeah, same here. I've never, ever gotten motion sickness from any game (and yes, that includes all of the other Call of Duty games), but about 10 minutes into TotalBiscuit's video I started getting a headache and a bit of disorientation until I looked away.

Terrible, terrible idea to have such a bad FOV for any game, let alone a PC port where you're only a couple feet from the screen. I'd already lost interest in Call of Duty before that, but the fact that MW3 is the only game ever to give me motion sickness pretty much sealed my decision never to play it.

I sorta get that when I'm watching someone else play a game but I don't have issues when it's me at the controls

I hope so, it's one of the first games I've played in which I actually notice how cramped the view is, it doesn't make me feel sick though, just makes me feel slightly uneasy (and I get the feeling that NPC's are teleporting, since it is so easy to miss them because it takes ages to do a full 360).

I fear lowering the FOV is a side-effect of trying to make the console versions prettier, I certainly hope it doesn't turn into to much of a trend among developers.

Skyrim is also one of the few games that hit me this way, when I played yesterday. When I played the game this morning for a while, though, I didn't start having motion sickness. Maybe for me part of it yesterday was the adrenaline from installing Skyrim and having to halt the download of the "Old Republic" beta -- a long story.

Not quite motion sickness, though I guess it could be similar, but playing too much Skyrim yesterday has given me a migraine. I could barely eat anything today, the bright light coming in the window made me want to hurt someone and I had a headache that felt like a thousand tiny nords were pounding the inside of my skull with their warhammers. Not pleasant. As much as it saddens me, I think I'll be leaving the controller alone tomorrow.

Fix it the hard way.

Build a time machine (100 Science and Repair required) and go to the future when you can get a Deus Ex style augmentation that allows you to be immune from motion sickness.

I think it depends some on people's current state, like whether they're tired for example. I too get nauseous if I stare at the screen for too many hours, regardless of what I might be watching/doing/playing. It also happens with games when I watch someone else play them but not when I'm the one doing so.