I got motion sickness from Half Life

[soleft]

My son's totally into Halo. It's always seemed overwelming to me to try and learn how to play a video game. I told him I wanted to learn how to play, and I wanted a game with zombies. So he got me Half Life for Xmas. He finally loaded it onto my lap top and I started the training session. Before I knew it I started feeling nauseus. I think it's because I was so herky jerky learning how to move around. I hope I get the hang of it. I want to see zombies!

[montanto]

1. Is it half-life 2? I loved that game

but I gave it up for World of Warcraft, to which I am super addicted!!

[soleft]

2. He got me Half Life 2 and the original

The original has the training section, which I really need.

[DarkTirade]

3. The only 3d games that ever gave me motion sickness

were the early '2 1/2d' ones like Doom and Dark Forces. And that's mostly because the perspective was all weird and not quite right. :P

[darkstar]

4. Remember Descent? That one got to me....

Ugggh.

[AZCat]

5. I always got confused...

about which way was up. Very disorienting, especially if you hadn't played a lot of video games prior to that one.

[DarkTirade]

6. Heh... newbs.

Seriously though, it takes a certain kind of brain to work that one. Either one really good at multi-tasking, or one really good with spacial movement. I happen to have a bit of aptitude for both, so I was able to play that one just fine. :) I wasn't a master at it or anything, but that's because I was too lazy to work at it and get really good.

[DS1]

9. see post 7

that was the same night that I beat D-10 Thresh in a Q2 DM

once

[AZCat]

10. That was before my training...

Now I can whip the mouse around in any old FPS and not feel the slightest disorientation (with the possible exception of the CryTek games, which seem to have some sort of "lag" that is mildly annoying).

[DarkTirade]

11. Yeah, I remember when I first discovered that the mouse could improve FPS games...

y'know, after they got it to work intelligently. :P Around the time of Descent.

In fact, it was in playing Descent that I discovered that. Because the one guy out of the 7 that I was deathmatching against who played regularly was kicking all of our asses... including mine. And he was the only one using a mouse.

By the end of the match the scores went down by halves for every guy on the list. The hardcore gamer had 54 kills, I had 27, next guy had 12 or 13, ect. :)

[AZCat]

13. Something similar happened to me.

Believe it or not, I used to play FPS games like Hexen, Duke Nukem 3d and Doom with a joystick! I was getting slaughtered by my college roommates who had figured out the whole mouse thing. Now I only get beat by teenagers with reflexes far sharper than mine.

We've a little LAN group that gets together every couple of weeks, and usually the kills are staggered pretty similarly. There always seems to be a really good guy and a really bad guy in every group. I don't know why...

[DarkTirade]

15. Yeah, before people figured out the mouse thing joysticks were popular for games.

Not quite sure why. Other than flight sims I see little practical use for a joystick. I always preferred just plain keyboard for the games where keyboard and mouse wasn't a viable option.

[AZCat]

16. I got hooked on the joystick...

while playing Mechwarrior 2 and tried to use it in other games, with limited success. It was awesome for that game though.

[DarkTirade]

17. Yeah, that's kind of halfway between simulator and FPS, so I can see that.

Never had much of a chance to play it myself.

[AZCat]

18. I was in love.

I had just bought my first computer (my very own!) when it came out - a blazing fast Pentium 75! Ahhh, thems was the days.

[DarkTirade]

19. Yeah, back in those days

all we had was an old 486/66... and an even older 286. :P

[JVS]

12. wolfenstein 3d got me dizzy sweaty and nauseated the first time

[DarkTirade]

14. Kinky.

:P

[DS1]

7. Welcome

I once threw up after playing Quake2 for about 6 hours on end.

I stopped playing, got up, felt sick, and then it happened.

[Kutjara]

8. If you go into the setup options...

...you can turn off "head bob" so that the up-and-down effect of your character walking is eliminated. That helps a lot of people who experience motion sickness when playing FPS games.