A poll about video games, motion sickness, and whether I'm being crazy.

[rmd]

It seems I'm not alone in sometimes being prone to "Simulation sickness" (which is motion sickness without any actual motion). So, I've made a poll about it.

[Poll #1453161]

Comments

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Is it possible that FPS games made after 2003 won't make me Doomsick? Because the nausea and vertigo I got from Doom put me off the subgenre entirely.

And does dramamine work? If so, that's way cool all by itself.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

initial tests seem to indicate that dramamine works for me. i haven't determined if it's placebo effect or not.

some FPS games let you adjust things like frame rate and the field of view on your screen, and some people find that helps.

i never used to have problems with FPS's, but occasionally in HL2 (there's this bit whenever you get out of the dune buggy you drive in part of the game where it does this whirl around from your POV as you get in and out of the car that just hit my nausea center), and even more so in later HL games and Bioshock, i have problems.