Getting dizzy when playing the original half life.

Half-Life Series
#1

'ello.

When playing the original half life series, blue shift and opposing force included, I always get dizzy and get headaches and shit. A little off-topic, but this also happens with the Dutch game “De Blob”, the original version.
Is it because of the graphics?
Is it because of the inaccurate perspective?
I don’t have epilepsy or something.
Please tell me, this doesn’t happen with Half life 2 and source games.

PS: I am new.

PPS: Is the though guy smiley supposed to be Gordon Freeman? :freeman:

Signed, a concerned citizen.

#2

What?

I can’t see any proper reason for why this is happening particularly for these games, maybe it’s because you are used to playing games made on a different engine?

#3

This happened when I used to play Ratchet and Clank, I found it was the brightness of the chicken gun. Maybe try turning your brightness down?

#4

I don’t think it is the engine or the brightness.
Maybe it’s just that every gamer has its game to get dizzy of, while many haven’t found it yet.
Guess black mesa source is just what I needed.

#5

Perhaps it’s the FOV…I heard that people were getting dizzy when HL2 came out because of the FOV…maybe that’s the cause…I dunno. Worth a shot, at least…

#6

Oh so this is the thread I was looking for!
I have a certain itch on my nutsack while fighting Gonarch!Any ideas?

#7

I suggest you to unlock the green twomp in mario kart 64.
I heard that it solves any problems related down-stairs.

#8

Rule 34 helps a bit more.

#9

It’s for the same reason you’ll get (probably) dizzy when you play Mirror’s edge you can’t watch at 1 way designs (1 colored walls) if this moves fast across your eye’s.

#10

It’s weird, I’ve never gotten dizzy playing any FPS game in the last 15+ years until I played Portal recently. It wasn’t playing the game that did it, it was the menu screen panning across the sleep chamber that made me sort of dizzy. Once I loaded a save game, I was ok again. BTW, I don’t count those times I’ve played drunk or played for hours and then suddenly gone outside and become light-headed while walking around.

#11

Happens to me too when I play new games from a new engine. It’s when I’m not used to it yet and I feel extremley out of place.

Example: Moving into a new house.

#12

I used to get headaches and similar symptoms playing Age of Empires for hours on end.

#13

I live to play computer games, I never feel dizzy or disoriented in a video game.

#14

Half Life got my heart rate up in a few places, when you have to walk across a chasm or something while balanced on a 2cm pipe, and you look down and have no feet so you can’t tell how close to falling off the edge you are.

#15

Sounds like simulator sickness, a form of motion sickness brought on by simulations/games…if you feel ill after playing for a while then you should probably take a break.

Do you get sick when you’re a passenger in a car or when you’re on an airplane/boat?

#16

I get dizzy whenever I play Borderlands, for some reason. No idea why, but i think the FOV screws with my eyes

#17

And I got dizzy when I played Vice City on the PS2 with motion blur.

#18

Borderlands has fucked up shaders too, almost like a cartoon.

#19

Have a word with your optician is my advice.

It can be caused by flickering, such as fluorescent lights, strobe lighting or the refresh rate of a screen. If Half-Life has a lower frame rate that could be doing it

#20

If the room is spinning, you feel sick, and are disorientated (cant speak, move, etc) then you have have Vertigo. One of the reasons to suspect Vertigo is due to the headaches associated with the dizziness. I suggest going to the doctor for eye/ear exams.

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