I'm Sure I'd Love Dishonored… If It Didn't Make Me Sick

Kotaku: I really want to keep playing Dishonored.

I have a digital copy, all neatly installed via Steam. It works perfectly well. I've loaded it and started playing, more than once. The controls are nothing I can't handle, and I have the long patience for a game full of stealth. I play nearly every game slowly and stealthily! This one was practically made for me, and I've been dying to get my hands on it for months.

But Dishonored, sadly, makes me sick.

[MxRBrobaFett]

Ok

[MattyG]

What a well constructed comment. Tell me more!

[MxRBrobaFett]

Alright

[Army_of_Darkness]

So this article is basically about his own personal issue regarding his motion sickness?!?! who gives a shit cause The only reason why people actually came to this article is because he added a popular game in the title, so damn Lame and desperate for hits...
shit, I would of read the whole article but quarter way through I started getting extremely drowsy... fell asleep, then woke up and wrote this 15mins later.

[MeatAbstract]

I loved playing Black Mesa but it gave me violent diarrhea. Watch this space for my article.

[wastedcells]

I've heard that before but with an extremely sore drippy bonner as well.

[deadfrag]

this people need to do an eyes check!I had suffer from this motion sickeness in games for a long time until i whent to do an eyes check and learn i needed glasses!

[GillHarrison]

The default FOV is very narrow for playing on a larger TV, but on a computer the FOV needs to be turned up if you're feeling ill or getting headaches. There is a slider in the options but I personally had to go into the config files and increase it much larger.

[Basjohn]

I can never understand FoV complaints. Higher FoV's always look more warped and fisheyeyyy than default. Hell, I have a rather serious auto-immune disease with a chance of random blindness and I DON'T even get the "sick from games" thing.

I've also worked A LOT in 3D modeling in my time and what FoV "seems" to translate to is them wanting a skewed zoom, which quite naturally is a warped version of the original. (Compare magnifying glass zoom in 3dsmax with ">" symbol zoom and you'll see what I mean.)

But then again "3D" makes my brain fart shits, though that's expected when it's a trick of perception in the first place.

[GillHarrison]

I always thought of it as an illusion of looking through a window. The closer you are to the screen, the more you should see.

[Ducky]

It depends entirely on what the default FOV is.

A good FOV depends on the size of the screen, and the distance of the viewer from it. This is why having an FOV option on PC is so important, because no fixed value will work for everyone. (I'd actually prefer console games to have the option too, but there might be hardware concerns regarding that)

The fisheye effect might look odd when you look at the image as a whole, but when your view is focused to the center, the experience feels more natural than a lower FOV. That, and the fisheye-ness is usually a case of the FOV being too high. In most 3rd person games, the camera has a high FOV, and I doubt that appears 'warped' to most people.
A proper FOV also helps add a bit of depth and makes you feel like you're actually seeing thing from a person's eyes, rather than through a camcorder jabbed into the protagonists head.

I still don't get that sick from low FOV (unlike 3D), but it does feel noticeable/annoying. It depends on the individual, some people are more prone to sickness than others (same goes for 3D)

[MWH]

the only time i had motion sickeness was while playing Dark Forces back in the 90's.. made me sick in bed for 2 days.

but it was my fault because even when i started having the symptom i forced myself and kept playing.

i hate you Dark Forces.

[MariaHelFutura]

I love this comment.

[MWH]

a sincere and beautiful word like that in a place like this.. humanity still has hope.

quite nice of you, thank you.

[Somebody]

So far I found two games that can me feel nauseous. The first was Soldier of Fortune. It was one the first game I first encountered when I started gaming and I played it in cyber cafes. When I personally got a copy and brought it home during the holidays. Then I (along with my dad and sisters who gave it a try) started to get nauseous after just several minutes of playing. It was strange since I have no problem playing it at the cyber cafes for months prior.

The second one was about third person game, a sequel, about some guy who have some sort of demon inside him making an escape during a prison riot. I forgot the title.

This was before I discovered what POV is and those two games are still buried somewhere deep under our house.

[wastedcells]

Do drugs it makes everything better they say.

[air1]

That sucks... My head starts to hurt after about half an hour playing darksiders 2 and that sucks too but im glad not many games make me feel like that. The worse is if the screen bounces to replicate going up steps, i hate that!

[TheModernKamikaze]

Happend to me also