I've had feelings of vertigo, but nothing inducing illness. Ace Combat comes to mind right away, where I've also instinctively ducked while flying under objects. I think Asscreed, Skyrim, and Mirror's Edge come to mind as well. Just... having a feeling of motion, I suppose.

Nah. Portal is fine for me. Closest I ever got was turning off the dot on Mirror's Edge. Even that is just a slight disorientation.

As I already mentioned in the other thread, I do suffer headaches every time I play Marathon on the 360.

Interestingly enough, no other games have even come close.

Then again, Crackdown gave me a headache after about 15 minutes last night. I couldn't tell if it was motion sickness or the fact that 500+ NPCs were shooting at me. Ehhh....

I'm curious because of the replies down low regarding Marathon on the 360. I remember people mentioning getting sick to their stomachs or getting headaches back when it first came out on XBLA, and I thought maybe it was isolated. But then there are games like Portal and Portal 2 where I know many, many people who can't even watch them being played for more than maybe five minutes without getting ready to throw up.

I've personally never come across a game that makes me dizzy, nauseous, etc., so I'm curious about the games that make others sick.

Does it happen when you play? Watch? Both? Does it happen after a few minutes, or a few hours? Certain genres? Just certain games?

I've mentioned it before on this forum, but Mirror's Edge, Marathon, and especially Halo's Forge mode initiates nausea mode after about 15 minutes.

I'm not sure about watching other people play, as I'm usually all alone, boohoo.

...Though watching my wife play anything first-person (e.g. Skyrim) is a wee bit disorienting for me at times, but that's mostly because she usually throws her avatar about like a drunk puppet. I've never been able to determine if she's trying to use her avatar like a club or if she's hoping to so thoroughly disorient the enemy with her chaotic body movements that they fall over all on their own. :)

I feel nauseous for an hour or two afterwards.

COD or Medal of Honor had the same effect (maybe it was just the floral wallpaper in those French villages).

I play on a projector in my game room. The only game I remember making me feel dizzy was during the roadie running in Gears of War. Sometimes I would also get vertigo while playing Marble Blast Ultra. I had a roommate nearly pass out from watching me play that, but he had also taken a lot of cold medicine right before.

But playing Borderlands 2 with a mouse gives me eye-related headaches a few minutes after I quit, as do scrolling large paragraphs on MacBooks.

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I'm curious because of the replies down low regarding Marathon on the 360. I remember people mentioning getting sick to their stomachs or getting headaches back when it first came out on XBLA, and I thought maybe it was isolated. But then there are games like Portal and Portal 2 where I know many, many people who can't even watch them being played for more than maybe five minutes without getting ready to throw up.

I've personally never come across a game that makes me dizzy, nauseous, etc., so I'm curious about the games that make others sick.

Does it happen when you play? Watch? Both? Does it happen after a few minutes, or a few hours? Certain genres? Just certain games?

I tried the Portal demo and I couldn't play it for more the 30 seconds before getting dizzy.

I've never became sick to my stomach from a video game but Crackdown gives me a terrible case of Vertigo that makes me dizzy, and I don't have to have my character very high off the ground to experience it. It takes just a few seconds for the Vertigo to kick in. My first time climbing the Agency Tower I actually experienced mild stomach cramps but I wasn't nauseous.

I'm still somewhat confused when I developed the fear of heights, because as a kid, I spent more time climbing very tall trees (most were over 100 feet tall) and I never experience the effects of Vertigo! I think I literally spent more time in trees as a kid then I did being on the ground.

Riding as the passenger in a Warthog makes me dizzy. It's the side to side swaying of the front of the vehicle and the up down motion of the front of the vehicle that does it to me and it takes only a few seconds.

I don't get motion sickness but I do get a vertigo-like feeling when jumping from a very high height in video games. It makes me squirm in my seat until the character hits the ground.

The first time I remember this happening was playing Ocarina of Time at a friends house in 1998--jumping from the highest point I could find in the village with the Windmill.

It also happens with Assassin's Creed, particularly the highest tower in ACII.

I find the floating houses in Bioshock Infinite a little disconcerting - but I never get motion sickness, so I'm not entirely sure why!

Bulletstorm is the only one that I can recall. I couldn't play that without getting a headache... To a much lesser extent, Duke Nukem Forever was a strain, but I think that had more to do with the muddy visuals and choppy framerate...

Smash Bros, as a matter of fact. I wouldn't describe it as motion sickness, but it definitely gives me a headache after a period of time. It's the only game where tracking the rapid movements of my character will mess with my head in some way.

Thankfully, I don't seem to get motion sickness from any source.

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?

After seeing this, I had to mention Kula World for the PS1. Picked it up again on the PSN Store recently.
I don't experience motion sickness with any other game, but this gets me going after about a dozen levels, every time. (Whether I'm playing or watching)

The colours, the shapes, the sounds, the shifting perspective and gravity, it combines to make a thoroughly nauseous experience. Which is a real shame, because the idea of the game is sound, and the puzzles become quite neat!

Here's a vid: http://youtu.be/QvBfo-Q5iAk