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Does anyone else have a backwards brain when it comes to traditional games vs VR? Spyro the Dragon, Half Life 2, Psychonauts, Portal, etc all make me insta-hur

by dni0 2y ago

Does anyone else have a backwards brain when it comes to traditional games vs VR? Spyro the Dragon, Half Life 2, Psychonauts, Portal, etc all make me insta-hurl. Meanwhile flying around a space station at a million miles per hour in 50FPS VR, smashing into surfaces and flipping around like an olympic gymnast.... totally fine.

extraduder_ire 2y ago
I think VR sickness is very different to motion sickness in traditional games. I've gotten VR sickness a few times. (first time on a DK2 in HL episode 2 during the car toss sequence because the FoV changes) Watching a streamer play Hyperbolica gave me motion sickness, but playing the same game myself in VR gave me no issues at all.
DavidPiper 2y ago
Possibly me too. I haven't had a lot of VR experience, but what I have had was, remarkably, pretty fine ( > 30 mins each time). I've made a huge list of games that I've played over the years with notes on whether or not they make me motion sick. Spyro the Dragon was my first ever video game, and I played that series for years. Came back to it a few years ago and I could only last about 20 minutes before feeling sick for the rest of the day. The Airboat scene in HL2 made me motion sick at the time, but the whole game does now. These days it's very hit and miss, and new 3D games are something of a risk. E.g: - NieR:Automata (motion blur off), fine. NieR:Replicant (motion blur off), 20 mins tops. - Portal 2, Overwatch, Control, Talos Principle(s), default settings, fine. - Bioshock, back then and now, 20 mins tops. - Spyro Remastered, default settings, insta puke, less than 20 mins. Super Mario Odyssey, fine. BoTW/ToTK, fine. - Spyro un-remastered, I can watch on stream (lounge room TV) for ~15 mins before feeling ill. 1 hour if I'm watching it on an iPad. - Oblivion c2009, fine. Skyrim c2013, couldn't last 10 minutes. The list goes on. I watch all these sorts of threads with enormous interest so I can figure out exactly how to enjoy 3D video games again without a literally sickening trial-and-error experiment.

by dni0 2y ago

extraduder_ire 2y ago

I think VR sickness is very different to motion sickness in traditional games. I've gotten VR sickness a few times. (first time on a DK2 in HL episode 2 during the car toss sequence because the FoV changes) Watching a streamer play Hyperbolica gave me motion sickness, but playing the same game myself in VR gave me no issues at all.

DavidPiper 2y ago

Possibly me too. I haven't had a lot of VR experience, but what I have had was, remarkably, pretty fine ( > 30 mins each time). I've made a huge list of games that I've played over the years with notes on whether or not they make me motion sick. Spyro the Dragon was my first ever video game, and I played that series for years. Came back to it a few years ago and I could only last about 20 minutes before feeling sick for the rest of the day. The Airboat scene in HL2 made me motion sick at the time, but the whole game does now. These days it's very hit and miss, and new 3D games are something of a risk. E.g: - NieR:Automata (motion blur off), fine. NieR:Replicant (motion blur off), 20 mins tops. - Portal 2, Overwatch, Control, Talos Principle(s), default settings, fine. - Bioshock, back then and now, 20 mins tops. - Spyro Remastered, default settings, insta puke, less than 20 mins. Super Mario Odyssey, fine. BoTW/ToTK, fine. - Spyro un-remastered, I can watch on stream (lounge room TV) for ~15 mins before feeling ill. 1 hour if I'm watching it on an iPad. - Oblivion c2009, fine. Skyrim c2013, couldn't last 10 minutes. The list goes on. I watch all these sorts of threads with enormous interest so I can figure out exactly how to enjoy 3D video games again without a literally sickening trial-and-error experiment.