Class action lawsuit coming? This can affect people's jobs and things like driving.
Class action lawsuit coming? This can affect people's jobs and things like driving.
It's interesting that people reacted so strongly to Unfinished Swan, huh. I personally had issues with the first chapter, but for me it was more that the inability to erase any of the ink you shot made it really hard to tell what anything you put too much ink on was, and for some reason this become actively stressful to me.
Played a few hours on the PS4 and so far I've been fine.
On the other hand I couldn't play The Unfinished Swan for over 20 minutes continuously without feeling sick, which was a real shame because I love that game.
It's not really that low at all though, it's about 85 degree horizontal when you play at 1080p.I had a mild case of this after playing for about an hour, less an acute nausea and more a feeling of wanting to lie down. I guess I would describe it as a slight headache? And then I realized the last game that really made me feel that way was Singularity. So yeah, my money's on motion sickness due to low FOV.
I'm on PC, by the way.
EDIT: That Steam community post also says the default vertical FOV is 54. I don't mess around with FOV enough to know for sure, but that does seem low.
I know that feeling. I never felt sick playing any game and after playing this game for two hours I had to go to my bed and stay there. At first I thought it was food poisoning or something because seriously, I never got sick playing... but alas, it seems like it was this gameHonestly, I looked at this thread last night after playing The Witness for the first time, about 60 minutes, and I thought: "Man, these guys are really screwed up, must be some medical problem!" But of course, I would not write something like that, no point in provoking and ridiculing people.
I never ever, gaming for a long time had any sort of problems with any game of any genre. So I thought that all those people have some health issues.
Then I started again this morning, about 30 minutes ago. I am writing this now because I am flat on my back on the bed, I feel like puking. It started slowly, a bit of a stomach tingling, and within 5-10 minutes I felt like I'm sailing on a series of tsunamis. First time I feel sick like this...I've been down for about 10 minutes, and I'm still ill.
Subliminal sickness Simulator?
Sounds really odd, it's not like that fainting sickness that went round some time ago? Some sort of psychosomatic thing?
It's motion sickness. It's also fairly common. Here's an article about it. Things like altering the field of view or stable frame rates can help. Some games don't bother me but most first person games are immediately nauseating to me.
I watched the GB QL and then after I felt sick. Didn't chalk it up to motion sickness until now. I haven't gotten motion sickness from a game in years, but this must have been it. And I just bought the game... Ruh oh.
Hopefully it gets patched on PS4. I may try to play it and see if it's different when I'm actually controlling it.
Yeah, I know that.
It's just weird that it's affecting so many people, I know games have affected people in the past, but I can't remember seeing such an unprecedented level of people reporting it!
Yeah - I'm affected too. The second sessions lasted a tad longer but after 1 hour I had to exit the game. I will try adjusting the FOV today and limiting the FPS to 30
They need to add an option so you can turn on or off a cursor reticle, I bet that would fix it for most people
I wonder how many people only started feeling it when they found out about this.
Lol it's not like can you induce the feeling at will. It's excruciating (for me at least) PHYSICAL pain. Like, dude, I was spread out on my couch begging for mercy...hoping I didn't vomit. I'll never forget that shit. But again, I haven't played the Witness so idk if it'd have that effect on me. But I definitely can relate to those experiencing it.
Lol it's not like can you induce the feeling at will. It's excruciating (for me at least) PHYSICAL pain. Like, dude, I was spread out on my couch begging for mercy...hoping I didn't vomit. I'll never forget that shit. But again, I haven't played the Witness so idk if it'd have that effect on me. But I definitely can relate to those experiencing it.
Honestly, I looked at this thread last night after playing The Witness for the first time, about 60 minutes, and I thought: "Man, these guys are really screwed up, must be some medical problem!" But of course, I would not write something like that, no point in provoking and ridiculing people.
I never ever, gaming for a long time had any sort of problems with any game of any genre. So I thought that all those people have some health issues.
Then I started again this morning, about 30 minutes ago. I am writing this now because I am flat on my back on the bed, I feel like puking. It started slowly, a bit of a stomach tingling, and within 5-10 minutes I felt like I'm sailing on a series of tsunamis. First time I feel sick like this...I've been down for about 10 minutes, and I'm still ill.
I tried out the Witness this afternoon and enjoyed it, but felt oddly queasy afterwards. Chopped it up to what I had for lunch, until a lot of people in the official Witness thread mentioned the same thing- nausea, dizzyness, etc.
It's weird because I never get sick with games, so this is kind of crazy to me. Since there's a ton of activity in the OT about puzzle solutions I thought I'd break it out into a new thread and ask...has anyone gotten a little queasy from the Witness? Some are saying its the FOV, the lack of a center cursor, etc. Gonna try it again tomorrow on an empty stomach.
edit: on PS4 here.
Apologies if suggested already, but try standing a game box right beside the TV when you're playing the game. I used the same trick (successfully) when Half-Life Episodes gave me motion sickness due to the narrow FoV. The PC versions of HL (bar HL2) were the same, but at least on those you could increase the FoV.
Wait, what does that do?