Me and a friend who love gaming share the same curse -- we love playing first person shooters, but they make us physically sick.  We call them first person pukers.  Does anyone else get motion sickness from these types of games?

The funny thing is, with some games the effect is really bad and with others it's not all that bad and I can usually get through the games (provided I take breaks).  Duke Nukem games were OK for me.  Valve games are the worst for me.  The effect with the Half-Life games is almost instant and very bad, same for Team Fortess 2 -- even Portal gets to me.  Halo on the PC was ok.  Resistance was ok.  COD 2 and COD 3 were ok but COD 4 is a puker.  UT3, Darkness and Turok = pukers and so on . . .

I'm not commenting on the games themselves.  Some are better than others but I like them all.  I just wonder why some games effect me more than others.  By the way, third person shooters are no problem at all. 

I got this very long ago, with Wolfenstein 3D. Luckily, this was the only game, which gave me motion sickness ...

My friend suffers this with Half Life 2, i thought he was lying but i guess he wasn't lol

I know people who get sick from Half-Life 2 but are fine with other FPS games. It just happens with some people.

I've never experienced motion sickness while playing any type of game. I'm even impervious to the widespread motion sickness that the Virtual Boy caused :)

never, but i got a nosebleed once from playing ut2004 for like 3 hours :(

Yeah, a lot of people experienced motion sickness while playing HL2, and it was because the field of view was at 75 degrees, slightly zoomed-in compared to mostly every other FPS at a farther-out 90 degrees. I had no problem with this since HL1 though and I only go sick when running around for a while with nothing happening... same for all Doom games before 3 and other older shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem... now that graphics are better this problem has stopped for me... I also hear some people got motrion sickness through games because they needed glasses and weren´t wearing any...

 Maybe you should back of from the screen a little...

I'm pretty envious of you guys that don't get sick -- which I think is the majority of gamers.  It'd be one thing if I didn't like the genre and could just ignore those games.  Everytime there's a new shooter I debate whether or not I should get it.  The thing is, there's no way for me to know ahead of time whether a particular game is going to be unplayable for me.  I usually just get the game anyway only to find out that I spent $60 for the opening credits and about 5 minutes of gameplay before I have to give up.  I'm going though this debate right now with Haze.  Third person shooters with a first person perspective for sniping are my favorite.    

 Yeah, that pobably would have been a good idea :)