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Can you still play 1st person 3D shooters?

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vtohthree

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Back in the day I was all into 1st person 3D shooters, namely Duke Nukem and Quake II. Then I stopped during mid highschool and now in my sr. year of college.


I wanted to check out the awesome graphics of a modern day game. So I downloaded quake 4 demo and I can't play the game for more then 5 minutes without getting nauseous and dizzy and wanting to puke!!

It has nothing to do with graphic gore, but just running around in circles in a 3d environment. I suppose you could say I'm getting "motion sickness" even though I'm not moving.

Do any of you get this?? Maybe I'm getting old? ...but it's so frustrating and annoying, I just can't play with out wanting to puke, I literally have to go to the bathroom and run some cold water.
 
Try lowering your mouse sensitivity? 😛 I dunno. I have a friend who can't do FPSes either for the same reason. He's like 25.
 
Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
I started back with Wolfenstein 3d, but HL2 was the first FPS to ever make me nauseous.
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Originally posted by: SZLiao214
Yeah, most fps dont do anything to me but for some reason hl2 always made me naseous.
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It's because POV of HL2 is less than 90 degrees I think. There are ways to change the fov through the console and I find that a fov of 90-110 degrees helps. CSS has a fov on 90 degrees and I don't have a problem with it.
 
I've never gotten sick, and I've been playing them since Wolf 3D.

The only person I know personally is my friend, she can't watch for very long before she has to look away or else she gets sick.
 
Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
Try lowering your mouse sensitivity? 😛 I dunno. I have a friend who can't do FPSes either for the same reason. He's like 25.
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QFT

Except my buddy has been sufferin from this since he was 16 or so. He's 19 now. It helps for him if you turn the bob off.
 
i felt dizzy after parts of HL2. (The hovercraft thing) Other then that i have never had any problems
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
YANPAFBP

Yet Another Noob Posting A F***ing Backwards Poll

And no ... I learned with Descent, so an FPS is like amateur hour. 😛

- M4H
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lmao no kidding 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
YANPAFBP

Yet Another Noob Posting A F***ing Backwards Poll

And no ... I learned with Descent, so an FPS is like amateur hour. 😛

- M4H
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lmao no kidding 🙂
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haha, I love arrogant thread crappers :roll:

 
The strange thing is, I was fine playing FPS, I mean of course I played Wolfenstein, the original Doom, Mech Warrior, etc... But the games that I became an addict to were q2 and duke nukem, ctf, etc...never had any problems what so ever, in fact I had friends who got sick from just watching.

...Then years later I play again, and I get sick!

Will adjust settings accordingly, see if it improves.
 
I have been playing FPS (yah for Wolf3D and DOOM) since early 1992 and have never had any issues with feeling sick, although I remember my friends used to refused to play DOOM v1.6 on my old 386DX/8MB setup because they reckoned it used to give them motion sickness, all I remember was that it wasn't super smooth, but it wasn't choppy either just in the middle(probably at the 30fps mark), I could never figure out how it made them sick😕
 
oh damn that must suck.

I'm 23 and I've never played any game that gave me motion sickness.
 
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