Does this happen to you?

[Schall]

I actually get light-headed when i jump off high building on Half Life and other source games. Lol maybe i'm just to in to it?

 

[Ennui]

Yes. In other games too. It's worst in GTAIV when I copter to the top of the tallest building and jump off. Games like Crackdown do it to me too.

 

[kineaesth]

Oh goodness yes, sometimes I even get a pang of nausea, it's pretty intense! Only in Source games, really.

 

[lefty]

I almost wanted to vote before I read the post. Just having this clear-cut decision with seemingly no consequences or context was very tempting.

Anyway, no, that has never happened to me.

 

[amaranth]

No.

But I sometimes forget how high a ledge is, jump off it to get somewhere else quickly, and die.

 

[tschumann]

It doesn't happen to me.

 

[gFrohman]

Occasionally, but only if I'm not expecting it.

For some reason I got a wee bit motion-sick when driving the airboat in HL2 for the first time too (doesn't happen anymore).

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

Occasionally, but only if I'm not expecting it.

For some reason I got a wee bit motion-sick when driving the airboat in HL2 for the first time too (doesn't happen anymore).

Yeah, that's a pretty intense one. I read that they were originally planning to have a jetski instead of the airboat, but the bumpy motion made all the playtesters nauseous.

I don't get motion sickness from games, but one of my friend's can't play HL2 at all because of it.

 

[gFrohman]

Yeah, I think it's because I already get pretty wicked motion sickness in cars & buses (buses are worse - the fumes drive me nuts). Never get it on planes though.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Never in any game, but I kind of wish I did...knowing I'd be more engrossed.

 

[swan_song1973]

the only time a video game affects me physically is whenever i play Wolf3D and i get a headache.

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

Sometimes i feel like i am choking when i am in water in half life 1.

 

[Ennui]

I get that light fluttery feeling in my stomach which is exactly the same as I get looking over a huge drop in real life or when driving fast over the top of a steepish hill. I think games with motion blur are more likely to do it. For example: DOD:S, jumping off the top of the church in avalanche (which I do pretty much any time my team loses, because suicide > getting shot by the winning team).

 

[Reflex]

Who doesn't do it, LOL.
It's soo funny!

 

[Schall]

I get that light fluttery feeling in my stomach which is exactly the same as I get looking over a huge drop in real life or when driving fast over the top of a steepish hill. I think games with motion blur are more likely to do it. For example: DOD:S, jumping off the top of the church in avalanche (which I do pretty much any time my team loses, because suicide > getting shot by the winning team).

Exactly how i feel. lol

 

[kupocake]

Never in any game, but I kind of wish I did...knowing I'd be more engrossed.

This. Not even Mirror's Edge (which for all its lame points, presents the single most advanced modelling of the First Person perspective yet) makes me feel that bothered when I miss scaffolding and fall 40 stories before blacking out.

 

[Ennui]

IIRC I didn't get vertigo while playing Mirror's Edge. The big three in my mind are any Source game, GTAIV, and Crackdown.

 

[kupocake]

I suppose the whole 'oh f*** you' factor of failing in Mirror's Edge does kind of take your mind off it all.

 

[jeepis]

No offence, but if you guys get such effects frim video games, you should see a doctor.
Don't let the smiley fool you, I'm dead serious... srsly!

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

No offence, but if you guys get such effects frim video games, you should see a doctor.

Don't let the smiley fool you, I'm dead serious... srsly!

Fixed the smiley for you to be srs.

A 'no' on the lightheadedness for me. I don't know what substance you take to feel that sensation while gaming, but I think I want some.

 

[jeepis]

The smiley needed no fixing... I meant the happy one...

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

No offence, but if you guys get such effects frim video games, you should see a doctor.
Don't let the smiley fool you, I'm dead serious... srsly!

Motion sickness via computer games and other screen-media is not an uncommon thing. He's not ill.