Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT*
I wonder why Marathon in particular seems to do it for so many people? This isn't the first time I've heard it called out specifically. I get why something like Portal would trigger motion sickness, but what about Marathon would set it apart from other first-person games?
There are a lot of possible causes.
It's got faster motion than most modern games and an interesting flow of in-game movement.
Some people might take issue with the use of sprites for some objects which would be handled by 3d models in modern games.
But one thing that I suspect might be an issue is the perspective projection; it literally does not account for the pitch of the camera, only the yaw.
Imagine that the camera is always looking toward the horizon, and you have an 80-degree horizontal field of view, but your field of view is massive in the vertical direction; that is, it's a very thin and tall image, letting you can see way up and way down. BUT, suppose someone lays a viewing window over the image so that you can only see 80-FOV slices with a 2:1 aspect ratio at any given time; to see the whole thing, you have to slide the viewing window up and down. That's basically how looking up and down in Marathon works. It's a really efficient graphical approximation for a game with that sort of engine; for instance, Doom does the same thing, but it's not apparant in the original version of Doom because it doesn't let you look up and down.
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- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* -
Avateur,
2013-08-02, 12:37
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* -
SonofMacPhisto,
2013-08-02, 12:52
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - electricpirate, 2013-08-02, 13:17
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* -
Ragashingo,
2013-08-02, 13:14
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - Kermit, 2013-08-02, 13:20
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - UnrealCh13f, 2013-08-02, 13:22
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - Leviathan, 2013-08-02, 13:33
- Nope, never... - TTL Demag0gue, 2013-08-02, 14:00
- Marathon after a minute or so - scarab, 2013-08-02, 14:18
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - bluerunner, 2013-08-02, 17:34
- Nope -
ZackDark,
2013-08-02, 18:09
- Oh! The Ark intro! Almost forgot it - ZackDark, 2013-08-03, 08:54
- Nope - Stephen Laughlin, 2013-08-02, 18:38
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - Captain Spark, 2013-08-02, 19:51
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* -
marmot 1333,
2013-08-03, 06:42
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - General Vagueness, 2013-08-04, 10:04
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - Jillybean, 2013-08-03, 08:00
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - Korny, 2013-08-03, 21:37
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - crazybydefault, 2013-08-05, 14:16
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* -
stabbim,
2013-08-05, 17:11
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* - uberfoop, 2013-08-05, 18:56
- Sorry to ressurect an old thread, but... - Gatchaman, 2013-08-13, 15:44
- Do any games give you air motion sickness? *OT* -
SonofMacPhisto,
2013-08-02, 12:52