GPL - A bit too real for some.................

My girlfriend came out to my place this weekend for the first time (we live about 2 hours apart), and she wanted to take a look at this "racing game" I've told her about. She used to live in Monaco, so she wanted to take a look at her old stomping grounds in GPL. So, I created a new player for her, driving the BRM with all the help on, and she did a slow tour of the circuit, marveling at the realism - she exclaimed "I know EXACTLY where I am!" as she passed through *** Square and down the hill to Mirabeau. Unfortunately, just like in real life, she started to get car sick after 1 lap and couldn't go any further:) She's thinking about trying again, but with the help of Dramamine........... Rick

About the car sickness part... A friend of mine got sick from a virus, that "attacks" the balance nerves(?) in the inner ear. I can tell you it was a lot of fun watching him trying to drive GPL. His face got greener and greener, until after about a minute he had to rush out to the bathroom. Things do get a little to real sometimes! Lars Gaarde :-)) On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:00:17 -0500, "Rick Baumhauer"

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>My girlfriend came out to my place this weekend for the first time (we live >about 2 hours apart), and she wanted to take a look at this "racing game" >I've told her about. She used to live in Monaco, so she wanted to take a >look at her old stomping grounds in GPL. >So, I created a new player for her, driving the BRM with all the help on, >and she did a slow tour of the circuit, marveling at the realism - she >exclaimed "I know EXACTLY where I am!" as she passed through *** Square >and down the hill to Mirabeau. >Unfortunately, just like in real life, she started to get car sick after 1 >lap and couldn't go any further:) She's thinking about trying again, but >with the help of Dramamine........... >Rick

I can sympathise....I am fine with racing sims, but 5 minutes of a Quake or Doom type game & I am feeling distinctly unwell! Was fine until I played too much Doom II a few years ago! - An affliction I've christened "Doom-eye"

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> About the car sickness part... > A friend of mine got sick from a virus, that "attacks" the balance > nerves(?) in the inner ear. > I can tell you it was a lot of fun watching him trying to drive GPL. > His face got greener and greener, until after about a minute he had to > rush out to the bathroom. > Things do get a little to real sometimes! > Lars Gaarde :-)) > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:00:17 -0500, "Rick Baumhauer" > >My girlfriend came out to my place this weekend for the first time (we

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> >about 2 hours apart), and she wanted to take a look at this "racing game" > >I've told her about. She used to live in Monaco, so she wanted to take a > >look at her old stomping grounds in GPL. > >So, I created a new player for her, driving the BRM with all the help on, > >and she did a slow tour of the circuit, marveling at the realism - she > >exclaimed "I know EXACTLY where I am!" as she passed through ***

Square > >and down the hill to Mirabeau. > >Unfortunately, just like in real life, she started to get car sick after 1 > >lap and couldn't go any further:) She's thinking about trying again, but > >with the help of Dramamine........... > >Rick

Have you tried Aliens vs. Predator playing as an Alien yet? Running up walls and along ceilings...got seriously queasy the first time. Better now...8^) ----------

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> My girlfriend came out to my place this weekend for the first time (we live > about 2 hours apart), and she wanted to take a look at this "racing game" > I've told her about. She used to live in Monaco, so she wanted to take a > look at her old stomping grounds in GPL. > So, I created a new player for her, driving the BRM with all the help on, > and she did a slow tour of the circuit, marveling at the realism - she > exclaimed "I know EXACTLY where I am!" as she passed through *** Square > and down the hill to Mirabeau. > Unfortunately, just like in real life, she started to get car sick after 1 > lap and couldn't go any further:) She's thinking about trying again, but > with the help of Dramamine........... > Rick

Interesting, I lost my ability to play these games at about that same time also! I can't even play Descent anymore. SLG

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>I can sympathise....I am fine with racing sims, but 5 minutes of a Quake or >Doom type game & I am feeling distinctly unwell! Was fine until I played too >much Doom II a few years ago! - An affliction I've christened "Doom-eye" >> About the car sickness part... >> A friend of mine got sick from a virus, that "attacks" the balance >> nerves(?) in the inner ear. >> I can tell you it was a lot of fun watching him trying to drive GPL. >> His face got greener and greener, until after about a minute he had to >> rush out to the bathroom. >> Things do get a little to real sometimes! >> Lars Gaarde :-)) >> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:00:17 -0500, "Rick Baumhauer" >> >My girlfriend came out to my place this weekend for the first time (we >live >> >about 2 hours apart), and she wanted to take a look at this "racing game" >> >I've told her about. She used to live in Monaco, so she wanted to take a >> >look at her old stomping grounds in GPL. >> >So, I created a new player for her, driving the BRM with all the help on, >> >and she did a slow tour of the circuit, marveling at the realism - she >> >exclaimed "I know EXACTLY where I am!" as she passed through *** >Square >> >and down the hill to Mirabeau. >> >Unfortunately, just like in real life, she started to get car sick after >1 >> >lap and couldn't go any further:) She's thinking about trying again, but >> >with the help of Dramamine........... >> >Rick

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>Interesting, I lost my ability to play these games at about that same >time also! I can't even play Descent anymore. Yes, I had a bad period with that. Some years ago I tried Wolfenstein; got sick in under 5 minutes! Halflife caused this problem for me, but just after an hour or so, but the feeling was bad just the same. Motion sickness, strangely enough I can almost feel myself getting sick just *thinking* about playing the game. Must un-Pavlov myself, for I am too much conditioned to feel sick, so I can't see if it's real of phsycological anymore. It's just a bit better nowadays. GPL has to be played so smoothly you don't have the effect, unlike Quake where you have to swerve, sway and sprint so the motions are TOO fast. >>I can sympathise....I am fine with racing sims, but 5 minutes of a Quake or >>Doom type game & I am feeling distinctly unwell! Was fine until I played too >>much Doom II a few years ago! - An affliction I've christened "Doom-eye" ... Ruud van Gaal MarketGraph / MachTech: http://www.marketgraph.nl Art: http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery

All my friends laugh when I tell them about this, but I've seen passing references in print before. I first got it with Wolfenstein 3D. One comment I read hypothesized that it was due to non-exact rotation matrices being used in computations, which makes the walls not behave quite right, which I guess the eye picks up on. For me, the nausea is worse if I'm watching than if I'm playing. The first time I ever saw Doom, I was watching a friend play, and I got sick within about 30 seconds. As a result of that, I haven't played many other first person games. I was able to get through Dark Forces, though I occasionally felt twinges, especially when I was trying to speed through the demo before the real game came out. Jedi Knight was better; I had almost no problems. Looking up and then rotating was a problem. When you do that, you can clearly see that something's not quite right in the way things are moving. There's definitely a psychological aspect to it, too. In the November PC Gamer, there's a Doom screenshot (50 Best Games article), and my stomach took a jump when I first saw it. I think it's probably psychology that got me through the Star Wars games, too. I also get sick very quickly looking at microfiches. It feels like my eyes are trying to track the words as they move. I have to make myself look at the carriage and not the screen every time I slew more than a page or so. Ob ras: I've never had any problems with any driving games, though my eye often notices that something's not quite right in the way the background moves at Monaco (the horizon image of the hill, not the trackside objects). -- Jonathan Bishop Remove "nospam" to reply

Back to PacMan ;-) Jens >Interesting, I lost my ability to play these games at about that same >time also! I can't even play Descent anymore. --------------------------------------------- Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address