Has Marathon: Durandal made you sick? Post here.

[Speevy]

The latest phenomenon on the Xbox Live Arcade scene is the classic Bungie game that apparently causes motion sickness for many of its users.

Post here if you've played this game, and it made you sick.

Also, post if you played it, and experienced no problems whatsoever.



And if you haven't taken a ride on this stomach-turning rollercoaster of a first person shooter, what are you waiting for?

Give it a try today. "Achievement Unlocked" if you keep your lunch through the entire campaign.




IGN review mentioning the sickness

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/809/809536p1.html

Vomit Count:

-Wario64
-SailorDaravon
-Aaron
-FightyF
-squicken
-duffey
-Reznor
-Buttonbasher
-sevenchaos
-Xenon
-Cerrius
-Cocopjojo
-siamesedreamer
-JB1981
-Truelize
-HaloFans
-DrBaalzamon

Stomachs of Steel

-SanjuroTsubaki
-Bildi
-devilscallmedad
-Doctorwho
-darkresurrection
-Drakken
-Brannon
-HaVoK
-Cipher
-Rolio
-rakka

[Wario64]

Default sensitivity settings = sick

Lowering sensitivity = less sick




The motion sickness actually prevented me from dropping the 800 points. I'm playing the PC version instead.

[rakka]

I played it on the Mac years ago and it did nothing of the sort.

Is the XBLA version different?

[M3wThr33]

Half-Life 2 made people sick, too, because of the wider-than-normal field of view. I think it was 90 when most games are 70 or so.

[Speevy]

This is for tallying, not discussion.

[SailorDaravon]

Default sensitivity settings = sick Lowering sensitivity = less sick The motion sickness actually prevented me from dropping the 800 points. I'm playing the PC version instead.

This was basically going to be my exact post. They don't post here (I think?), but I have 2 IRL friends who tried the demo who were both looking forward to it (as was I); one of them actually threw up playing the first level, the other felt sick enough to before stopping. I finished the first level, I felt pretty ill but not quite to the point of throwing up, but I probably would have with another 10-20 minutes. None of us had bought it yet luckily, and we've recommended against it to our other friends. I already mentioned it in the other thread, but this is total bullshit that this passed QA, because this is affecting much more than a very small % of people (look at any gaming board today), and even if they fix it I actually refuse to buy it. Total ****ing bullshit.

Edit: Also to add I have never gotten sick in over 20 years of gaming, and I've played all the games that apparently have had sickness problems (Turok, Breakdown, etc), and neither have the other two guys that I know of.

[Aaron]

Add me to the sick list. Never gotten sick with any game before either, and I've played all the original FPS games except Marathon.

[Lord Error]

I don't get it? Why this game in particular?

[Speevy]

I don't get it? Why this game in particular?

I don't know. No game has ever made me nauseous except for Gunvalkyrie which gave me a headache.

Just seems like an interesting topic.

[FightyF]

Yup.

[Bildi]

I played it on the Mac years ago and it did nothing of the sort. Is the XBLA version different?

I didn't get sick on the Mac and I didn't get sick on the XBLA version. They appear identical to me for all intents and purposes. Edit: oh yeah, except for FPS.

Speevy - maybe you could also track those who don't get sick? Might make the stat more interesting.

[squicken]

The XBLA version made me nearly throw up. Haven't tried lowering the sensitivity, and don't think I want to even bother again. It was very unpleasant.

[duffey]

I played it on the Mac years ago and it did nothing of the sort. Is the XBLA version different?

It runs at 60 frames a second now instead of 30, maybe that? That and the FOV kinda make me a little dizzy. I've never felt that way before playing a game.

edit: It almost makes me wish they put a 30 frames per second checkbox in the options honestly. I think I read the IGN review which stated that and I agree with it.

[SanjuroTsubaki]

I have had no problems with this on my HD. I had a blast playing it this morning. Best XBLA download so far.

[woxel1]

Ha ha ha you all just spent money on a motion sickness device.

[Reznor]

I downloaded the trial, shunning IGN for their claim. I hate to say it, but they were right. I strangely got a headache and felt woozy. I'm not kidding.

[Buttonbasher]

I laughed at the IGN review too. I got dizzy.

[Speevy]

Speevy - maybe you could also track those who don't get sick? Might make the stat more interesting.

Nah, that contradicts the thread title. People aren't going to visit this thread if it didn't make them sick.

[Wario64]

You should tally up the non-sick people too, so we can get a ratio of sick to non-sick. Or not.

[Speevy]

You should tally up the non-sick people too, so we can get a ratio of sick to non-sick. Or not.

Okay, I'll do it.

[DoctorWho]

The Sensitivity, turn it down.

[Reznor]

The Sensitivity, turn it down.

It didn't help.

[Bildi]

Nah, that contradicts the thread title. People aren't going to visit this thread if it didn't make them sick.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I just thought it would then give a ratio like '90% of people get sick' rather than 'lots of people get sick'.

[davepoobond]

i bet the ones that get sick will be 33%

but microsoft will claim its 4-5%




but seriously, what is it about the game that makes you sick? isn't it a FPS?

[SailorDaravon]

The Sensitivity, turn it down.

You keep posting that, and we keep telling you it doesn't help a lot/most of us. On top of that your movement speed forward is unchanged, if it was just a movement thing that would only partially help. I think it's something to do with the 60fps + the flat textures.

[devilscallmedad]

Half way through, nothing so far

[sevenchaos]

That game gave me a bad headache which probably would've turned in to nausea.

[Bildi]

Stomachs of Steel -SanjuroTsubaki -Bildi

I shouldn't mention I can feel queasy in the back of some cars then?

People could also try toggling the head bob on or off - maybe that helps.

[Xenon]

Yes. Haven't felt that since playing Decent @ a high FPS

[DoctorWho]

It didn't help.

Don't know. This worked perfectly for me.

[Cerrius]

Yes I have gotten sick playing it. Still bought the game though

[Cocopjojo]

I wish I hadn't bought it. Turning the sensitivity down helped a little, but it's still pretty much unplayable.

Count me in with the vomit count.

[siamesedreamer]

Its horrible.......I've never experienced it from a game this bad.

Only thing it reminds me of is reading in a car. I always get bad motion sickness while reading in a car.

[JB1981]

I can't play the game. I feel like I'm going to have an epileptic seizure. I start feeling tingly and just quit out.

[darkressurection]

I haven't gotten sick on either PC or XBL version. Strange epidemic though.

[Drakken]

I played through the first mission twice with default settings, and I felt fine. I then bought the game and played a few more missions, only lowering the sensitivity by one click to help my aiming. Odd.

[Brannon]

I played and beat Forsaken, you think MARATHON'S gonna bring me down? HA!

[Havok]

I finished the single player with a smattering of multiplayer afterwards, all on default settings, and haven't had any problems whatsoever.

[Cipher]

I haven't had any kind of motion sickness. I ate my lunch while playing and nothing. :(

[avcables]

I'm going to grab the trial and tell you guys what happens.

[Pastry]

Its horrible.......I've never experienced it from a game this bad. Only thing it reminds me of is reading in a car. I always get bad motion sickness while reading in a car.

It really sucks not being able to read in a car I get horrible motion sickness if I try. I can't even play text heavy RPGs on roadtrips or I feel like I'm going to boot or at least I did when I was a kid. I haven't attempted to read in a car in a couple of years because the second I try oh man you better not be sitting near me.

[claviertekky]

+1 count for sickness

[Truelize]

I played through the first 4 levels and felt a pretty nasty afterwards. I haven't tried turning down the sensitivity at all yet.

Later today I played several hours of Doom and felt nothing. I think it might have to do with Doom (as well as most FPS) having a bit of a bob when the character moves. I didn't notice this with Marathon. Having that slight rhythmic up and down motion takes the focus of the constant spinning. At least that's my theory.

[JDSN]

Lol, the number of people having motion sickness will increase after they read this, even the stomach of steel ones.

[Bildi]

I played and beat Forsaken, you think MARATHON'S gonna bring me down? HA!

I just had to say that I loved this game. The music + light of your weapons + sound of your weapons = bliss. That is all.

[sprsk]

I'm going to grab the trial and tell you guys what happens.

Considering how bad I get it from other FPS's I'm even worried about trying it.

[DrBaalzamon]

+1 Sickness. Turning headbob on seemed to keep the sickness away if only for a placebo amount of time. Beat all the originals on the Mac many moons ago and had no problems.

[Brannon]

I just had to say that I loved this game. The music + light of your weapons + sound of your weapons = bliss. That is all.

Hell yeah, I feel tempted to download it; it ran smooth as silk when it released, I'm sure it runs even better today.

[Y2Kev]

I got nauseous watching IGN's video review. If that counts.

[Speevy]

I got nauseous watching IGN's video review. If that counts.

It doesn't. Download it for your Xbox 360 and experience what everyone's talking about.

Also, eating a plate of runny eggs and crispy bacon helps.