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Half-Life 2 Causes Headaches?
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Been noticing a lot of posts about people getting sick from playing Half-Life 2. And now CNet has a newspost about it.
Hundreds of buyers of "Half-Life 2," the hotly anticipated shooting game released last week, are reporting in developer Valve Software's user forums that they feel queasy and often develop a bad headache after playing the game for as little as an hour.
Far from sounding aggrieved, enthusiastic players greet the incipient hurling as evidence of the game's sophisticated graphics. "I am impressed and sickened (literally) by the level of detail," one player wrote.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
The only FPS game that ever made me sick was Jedi Knight 2 when that damn ship is crashing and you have to finish the level running sideways and upside down. Even then I wasn't ready to hurl or anything, just dizzy.
Posted by: Ocean
i hate HATE games where i have to spend time running around a 3d environment searching for things. such extreme focused staring on the background makes me sick. speed doesnt matter. quake3 and all the unreals i can play fine.
its just the searching, for me
Posted by: redwench
eh, eq does it under certain circumstances for me. lets face it, if you have anything remotely resembling realistic graphics, people will be physiologically affected. no way to remove that and keep it realistic. some people dont like to spin, some dont like running. or various other odd situations. its kinda cool that games are realistic enough nowadays to do that, rather that just triggering epileptic seizures. 
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
True. I've never heard of anyone barfing while playing pac man. Arcades would have been messy as hell back in the days.
Posted by: INeedHelp
If anyone played XIII then you'll know what does barfing-while-you-play-your-video-game mean... not like that's ever a term.
Posted by: taco_fox
I hear this is caused because Vavle used a narrow Field of View number causing a sort of "tunnel vision" effect. Changing the FOV to 90 helped some people. To do this you have to add the -console switch to your HL2 shortcut and while in the game press ` and type "fov 90"
I was never bothered by it, though
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