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Me too.
A while ago I heard that it helps to set up a fan to lightly blow air at your face as you play. I was never really into these types of games enough to give this a try though.
-Jay
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Back, so long ago, when I was trying to make it as a shareware/CD-ROM vendor, I received Wolfenstein 3D from its author. The first FPS?
It was sort of fun (who wouldn't enjoy blasting Nazi's??) - but really boring in just a few levels. It would seem, although things have hopefully evolved, that if one plays these FPS games, action dominates - so insight and intelligence cannot way heavily in the game. Turn-oriented would seem to still be the way to go. Unless adrenelin is all you want - a distinct possibility and not to be condemned. Different strokes . . .
Dizzy or queasy? I can understand what you mean. My current experience in that arena is with another developer in this stable. When he pauses to think, he habitually shakes his mouse back and forth, and makes little circles in the window he's contemplating. Should he be at the command prompt, he'll type-matic <cr>'s. Way too much motion.
I do like the first-person view: that was the escape for me when I had time to play.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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queasy for me. Guess I wasn't clear on that. Glad to hear that I'm not alone.
Hogan
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Dizziness sometimes more if I watch but the bad part is if I play too much I start to dream about the game when I go to bed. Then it’s time to quit.
djj
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I have this problem in any first person 3D game that is in confined quarters. If the game is in an outdoor setting, I'm fine. Certain places in EverQuest used to get to me, but most of the game was fine. Doom 3 was very difficult to play without feeling ill, but I've never had much problem with the Halo games.
I'll have to see if anyone is still playing Halo 2 online tonight...
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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The same thing happened to me when I tried playing HL2 on my laptop. Made me nauseated and headachy  . Could be the LCD screen on my laptop perhaps, as I use a CRT for my desktop. My laptop has a superior video card.
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Wow – so many people getting queasy or something else. I love fps; never played Halo, but the Jedi Knight Series rocks (Duke Nuke’em was alright). Beyond that the “Myst” type games are my favorites; they are first person but not shooters, just I lot of. Puzzles in a 3D world.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Yeah, I am the same. I love resource based strategy games. One day, I'll have enough time to play them again. Oh, and platform games, LOVE the Mario series. FPS, I can live without.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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When I first download and played the demo version of "Resistance - Fall of Man" for my PS3 I experience some motion sickness after a few minutes of playing. It wasn't really bad. Not nearly as much as I experienced playing a game on my neighbor's XBOX 360  . I quickly realized that the more I played the game the less motion sickness I experienced. I think my brain had to adjust to the graphics I was seeing.
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OK, I googled and found it, but still - some of us are not into video games.
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Or have no time to do so. When I was in my 20s and did not work 70+ hours a week and had no SO I had time for games now there is no time at all for this.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote: 70+ hours a week
Unless you're working for yourself, 70+ hours is total BS. Anyone asks me to do that and they'll find an empty seat where their employee used to be.
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At times I feel this way but I do love what I do most of the time.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote: 70+ hours a week
If you are working 70+ hours a week and have no time for an hour of gamming (or some other hobby that you enjoy) you have a truely sad life and need to rethink your career path. Everyone needs a hobby.
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BigPMcCoy wrote: Everyone needs a hobby.
Programming used to be my biggest hobby and for the last 10 years it has been my career. As I said to the previous poster at times the long hours get to me but for the most part I do love what I do.
John
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The serie of games Halo is the most overrated of all times. They suck from left to right.
Well .. i am exagerating a little, yes. It had a few nice things, like shiny grafics, that were only slightly worst than the best grafic engines, and some action, for the first 5 mins until it got completely repetitive and .. haaa haaa
Windows is just as secure as Linux. When shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet.
Windows has even better performance that Linux. When running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre.
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I've always been confused about the hysteria over the single player game... it's a pretty by the numbers FPS. But Halo 2 is still the best online FPS experience I've ever had, and by far the best online experience for a console that I've seen.
I don't have an Xbox 360 yet otherwise I'd get Halo 3.
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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Yeah, there are a ton of FPS games (online multiplayer and singleplayer) that are much better than any of the Halo games. I also found nothing in Halo revolutionary, some people mentioned the vehicles, but Tribes had that a long time ago.
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I only played the first one. Thought the storyline was ridiculous, an advanced alien species sends an armada of ships to attack earth and instead of letting loose with the ship weapons they send over guys in spacesuits to do the fighting.
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PauloMorfeo wrote: for the first 5 mins until it got completely repetitive and .. haaa haaa
You just described EVERY fps.
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If you do not distinguish not liking FPS games from liking FPS games but some beeing repetivive and others not .. whatever, dude.
I like FPS games. Many are not repetitive. Some are more repetitive than others. Halo is very repetitive.
Windows is just as secure as Linux. When shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet.
Windows has even better performance that Linux. When running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre.
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I like FPS and have played tons of them. Never found one that wasn't quickly repetetive. Pick up gun, shoot things. Pick up bigger gun, shoot bigger things. Cut scene. Take elevator ride, shoot more things.
This is a fair description of Halo1/2/3, Half Life1/2, Unreal, Far Cry, Prey, Bio Shock, battlefield, Gears of War(not first person but close enough), Wolfenstien, etc........ The key thing is weather or not you enjoy the action you are repeating.
Humor me, what FPS did you not find repetitive?
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No, you humor me. Tell me a game, then, that isn't repetitive. *Any* game, not just a FPS game.
Your generalised description of FPSs fits perfectly into *any* game i have ever seen. With such kind of generalisation, this discussion is pointless.
Windows is just as secure as Linux. When shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet.
Windows has even better performance that Linux. When running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre.
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So you can't name one then. Fine. I like how you can bash one game as repetitive buy have no example of one that you believe isn't.
The Zelda Twilight game kept things fairly fresh. Platformers usually have more variety than run and gun games.
But like i said before if you enjoy the action your repeating then it's not a problem. People who like halo/shooters like to run around and shoot things for hours on end.
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"So you can't name one then. Fine. I like how you can bash one game as repetitive buy have no example of one that you believe isn't."
Now you are just beeing plain stupid. My conversation with you is over, mr over-generalisation-when-it-suits-you-stop-generalising-when-it-suits-you.
Whatever, see if i care.
Windows is just as secure as Linux. When shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet.
Windows has even better performance that Linux. When running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre.
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