Gaming Sickness

pulliptears

Not sure where the best place is to post this but I figured techie would be a start

I love my PS3, I just can't use it. Most of the games I want to play leave me feeling hot, clammy, sick and dizzy within ten minutes of playing them. Last night I decided to play Portal 2, I'd played for a whole ten minutes before the sickness struck and left me feeling awful all night.
I can play things like guitar hero and rock band, but the games I really want to play (Lego Lord of The Rings, Skyrim etc) are beyond me it seems.

I've tried accupressure wrist bands which dont work for me and I'm wondering if anyone else has any tips? I'm wondering if I take some travel sickness medication and try to slowly increase my gaming time? Or am I just destined to keep playing on my Amstrad CPC464

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pulliptears wrote: »

I'm wondering if I take some travel sickness medication and try to slowly increase my gaming time?

No one here should be commenting on the effectiveness of any drug. I'd say your first port of call should be your local GP. However, the doctor will probably simply tell you to abstain from gaming if it affects you so badly after only 10 minutes.

pulliptears

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

No one here should be commenting on the effectiveness of any drug. I'd say your first port of call should be your local GP. However, the doctor will probably simply tell you to abstain from gaming if it affects you so badly after only 10 minutes.

I dont think bothering a GP with this is the way forward really do you?

And an over the counter travel sickness pill is a bit different to a prescribed drug.

tonyh66

pulliptears wrote: »

I dont think bothering a GP with this is the way forward really do you?

And an over the counter travel sickness pill is a bit different to a prescribed drug.

unless the underlying problem is more serious than just a bit of motion sickness, possibly some sort of mild epilepsy for example.

dibuzz

I'm the same I can't play many games without getting travel sick, I cant even watch the kids play a lot of them.
Behind the camera views on tv get me too especially if the cameraman is running.
Strangely my son who gets terribly travel sick in cars and on buses has no problems playing any game for hours.

pulliptears

tonyh66 wrote: »

unless the underlying problem is more serious than just a bit of motion sickness, possibly some sort of mild epilepsy for example.

No, it is just motion sickness. I have tried to play through it in the past (Mario Galaxy on Wii), I managed about an hour but it did make me physically sick in the end. I'm physically 100% fit and healthy.

I'd read that slowly building a tolerance to it by playing little and often works, I was wondering if anyone had tried that?

pulliptears

dibuzz wrote: »

I'm the same I can't play many games without getting travel sick, I cant even watch the kids play a lot of them.
Behind the camera views on tv get me too especially if the cameraman is running.
Strangely my son who gets terribly travel sick in cars and on buses has no problems playing any game for hours.

I can watch the kids, that doesn't bother me too much. Perhaps because I'm not concentrating as much.

Behind the camera is definitely worse for me, as I say I tried Portal 2 last night and that knocked me very quickly indeed. I have played bits of the lego series and as I'm controlling the lego character I am a bit better but still can't last much more than 20 minutes to half an hour without starting to feel the effects of it.

I'm especially devastated because I really want the new Walking Dead game and I have a feeling it will be a behind the camera game and as such pretty unplayable for me

paddyrg

Try an experiment for me - have 3 cans of ice cold full-fat Pepsi standing by. Play for 10 mins, then as you start to feel queasy sit down, drink a full can fairly quickly but with easy breathing, give it a minute or so to settle and go back to the game. If you feel queasy again after another 10 mins, repeat. It's unlikley you'll need the third. Coke or Pepsi are great at settling nausea - you may well find before you know it the gaps increase between needing it.

tyllwyd

I have an idea of what you mean - my DD plays Halo sometimes, and I close my eyes and look away because I hate seeing everything tilt and turn around. It's not so bad when I'm in control myself - a bit like driving/being a passenger I guess. I know that my eyesight is not well balanced which doesn't help - have you had an eye test recently? Maybe the right pair of glasses might do something.

pulliptears

paddyrg wrote: »

Try an experiment for me - have 3 cans of ice cold full-fat Pepsi standing by. Play for 10 mins, then as you start to feel queasy sit down, drink a full can fairly quickly but with easy breathing, give it a minute or so to settle and go back to the game. If you feel queasy again after another 10 mins, repeat. It's unlikley you'll need the third. Coke or Pepsi are great at settling nausea - you may well find before you know it the gaps increase between needing it.

Interesting. I'll give that a go tonight. I'm also going to move even further back from the TV and see if that helps (I'll be in the dining room haha)

I know its a trivial problem in the scheme of things, but I really would love to be able to just pick up a controller and play for an hour like everyone else

tyllwyd wrote: »

I have an idea of what you mean - my DD plays Halo sometimes, and I close my eyes and look away because I hate seeing everything tilt and turn around. It's not so bad when I'm in control myself - a bit like driving/being a passenger I guess. I know that my eyesight is not well balanced which doesn't help - have you had an eye test recently? Maybe the right pair of glasses might do something.

I do have glasses for reading and its a recent prescription, I have tried to play both with and without but it seems to make little difference really.

I'm due a 'health check' with my GP actually, I may mention it when I go, he's a raucous Irishman with a killer sense of humor so i can only begin to imagine what he'll say lmao

gonzo127

move to PC gaming, no seriously, consoles are quite often frame per second locked at 30FPS because of hardware restraints so moving to a unlocked FPS on a good quality 120hz monitor could 'cure' it