maybe try some motion sickness/anti-nausea pills? The older ones can make you drowsy, but newer ones are less prone to do so (though they still do so a little I understand). It wouldn't be good for playing a lot (you can only medicate yourself so often even with over-the-counter meds before it becomes ... unadvisable), but maybe, maybe it would help playing such games every once in awhile.

I dunno, worth a shot?

But before taking any pills, make sure you consult the pharmacist or doctor first. Because some of them have other minor side effect. Most common, they going to make you drowsy and affect your stomach.

very true, especially if he's on other meds

most first person game it's fine for me but if it lags a lot then there' a problem for me...

I get Seasick from motion, from what I found the best treatment is ginger, Mythbusters tested Ginger too and it turns out to work was better than seasickness drugs. If you like having a soda while you game, Ginger Ale with real ginger is really good.

I'll try the pills, sounds like it's worth a shot for sure. As for playing in short bursts as other suggested; I get sick after literally a couple of minutes (or seconds on older games like doom). I have read that exposing yourself to it can help, but as some games make me sick quicker than others, I'll start with one that I can at least play for a few minutes currently. Witcher 2 I guess.

How about Gothic 3? I was thinking of getting it, but looking at some youtube gameplay vids has made me think I may get the same issue with it.

I've noticed this. Even some top down strategy games that I can usually play without issue can make me sick when I have a flu. I've also found it's far worse when I'm stoned (I don't drink, but I'd imagine being drunk would do the same).

Thanks for the tip, I love ginger ale so will give it a try :)

I get this, too, but not very often. In my case, it occurs in FP-perspective games when I'm running quickly through buildings, hallways, what have you, turning a lot of corners and going from room to room. Almost never occurs in outdoor settings.

1. Solution: stop playing for a while and get some fresh air. Go outside to "reset" your eyeballs to a different viewing distance.

2. Games I can play without feeling icky? Any of them that don't meet the criteria above. For instance, BF1942 was fine since it's outdoors for the most part. O:FP (ArmA:FP or whatever it is now) is also safe unless I'm spinning around a lot in the woods.

I think I related this here before, but we used to play Doom while our ship was at sea. The gently rolling ship told the inner ear one thing, while the game told the eyes something completely different. We'd hot-seat the game since the most anyone could play at a time was about 10 minutes.

I get sick to my stomach playing Wolfenstein 3D....it got so bad last time I played it, I haven't tried it since.

Not sure if there is a correlation, but I also have almost no vision in one eye so my equilibrium is quite fubar.

I never have a stomach ache, ever. I do however get headaches sometimes if I play a first-person game with a really low FOV for an extended period.

Best of luck!

Not games, but those old "Spaghetti Westerns" make me sick to my stomach (much like feeling motion sick.) I can't believe it is just because they are that bad—there must be more to it. Anyway, the "cure" is I don't watch westerns. (Note that I think Clint Eastwood is a poet in the director's chair.)

I never used to get motion sickness from any video game, but I've noticed that in recent times (last 4 years or so) I've gotten it periodically from certain games. It seems to have to do with FOV, I think, but there are a couple of other causes.

I used to play Doom nonstop and never had any problems, but with ZDoom I can only play for about an hour or so. I think this has to do with ZDoom allowing you to look up and down, which the original Doom didn't do, and it leads to distortions on the edges of the screen, especially in the corners.

I get motion sickness from Psychonauts, too, which I'm pretty sure is FOV because it's a console port, and console games are designed to be played on a TV that's several feet away from you, not a computer screen that's 12-18" away.

But I can play Doom 3 or Prince of Persia or Morrowind/Oblivion absolutely nonstop with no issues. I also don't get motion sickness from cars or even boats.

I used to get sick after prolonged marathon sessions of games like Fallout/Fallout 2, BGII, NWN, IWD, and many of Spiderweb's RPGs like Avernum 6. Specifically what happened was that I got major eyestrain; it felt like the back of my eyes was experiencing a major migraine. I actually did find that giving my eyes a rest by going somewhere else, sitting, and closing my eyes for as little as 15 minutes helped a lot.

On that note, has anyone heard of Gunnar Glasses? I caught wind of them through a passing reference that TB made to them on one of his Mailbox videos. It sounds like total Monster Cable-esque Snake Oil to me...

Aye fatigue/eye-strain is pretty common. I actually get migraines from watching movies in movie theaters easily while it takes a really long time to get eye strain/migraines with the same movie on the TVs or with games/work/hulu/iTunes on the computer - I think the problem with the movie theatre may be that the volume level is high. I think the loud volume does me in rather than looking at the movie screen, but I'm not sure.