I've always got motion sickness when playing games. Well, I say always, the first time it happened was playing Wolfenstein in 1992. I've never been able to play FPS's or certain driving games (such as the Codemasters Touring Car games), but the GT series has never given me any problems, even in previous title's Rally Modes.
Anyone else suffer with this, or am I just weird?
I sometimes get motion sickness when playing first person shooters. The field of view in Forza 3 could also make me feel sick some times. So for me I guess it's a matter of fast changes from left to right.
I get that too. Can't play borderlands or quake at all for example. It's got something to do with the speed or the fov. Now that you mention it actually, when I was doing the X2010 challenge I felt a bit dizzy afterwards, haven't experienced that with GT5 before.
Can't do more than 3 laps at a time without having to leave it for an hour or so, only 1 hour into the race, thinking of restarting with another slower car. Feel so dizzy and horrid after 2 laps, crawl back to the pits on the third. No other car makes me do this!
I have the same problem with FPS games, sometimes to a point where I get really nauseous. Occasionally though, I feel perfectly fine and own everyone in the game.
Fortunately this doesn't happen to me often in racing games. When I do get the motion sickness, it's from the drift trials. =|
Yep FPS does it for me if I play too long, never on a driving game though thank goodness
I never knew that I was affected by motion sickness until I played a first person perspective game. It only took a few minutes before I began feel nauseous so I have stop playing them all together. Thank GOD that I don't get that feeling when playing Gran Turismo.
Wow, I'm not the only one...
I have to admit that many games do make me nauseous, even if just watching them. I can't play first-person shooters, or games whereby a lot of action occurs in multiple axes (Grand Theft Auto, The Simpsons, et cetera), or I get sick after a about 10-15 minutes. The latest-generation of consoles tend to exacerbate this condition, to be honest. I think it's because there's just too much going on, and neurologically, my brain can't process the information quick enough. I discussed this a few years back with my optometrist, and heard heard of a few cases of this, but he claims it's not the eyes, even when simulating this sort of thing in his office.
Interestingly, racing games tend not to have this effect on me, but I think it's because most of the action is occurring in just two directions, left-right. I have never been "car-sick" nor incur motion sickness of any type in real life, with the exception of trying to read a book, or something with small print, in a moving car (as a passenger), for more than a minute or so. Yet I can drive all day long, fly in planes all day in long in bad weather, and it doesn't faze me.
Then again, if the X2010 was a real-life car with the specs it claims to have, most people would indeed blackout or get sick from driving it after a few all-out laps...a flight suit or G-suit would be required! Perhaps the ultimate simulator is doing its job. (Although 'twere it a Real Driving Simulator was doing it's job, we'd all be either dead or horribly injured by now.)
Apparently, we're not (quite) nuts, even the U.S. Army has noted it:
http://gamingillustrated.com/video-game-simulator-sickness
http://www.cyberedge.com/info_r_a+p05_ss-es.html
fantastic metaphor 👍
So I turn it off after time and have to use a controller... 
Got a headache after 5 minutes.
