Freeverse sends word that a title update for Marathon: Durandal is now available. Among other things, the update gives players the option to choose a wider field of view. This option is supposed to help players that have experienced motion sickness whilst playing the game. We haven't personally experienced the alleged motion sickness, so we can't tell you whether or not a wider field of view fixes the problem. If you've fallen victim to the illness yourself, you may want to fire up Marathon and give the new setting a try. Once you're done, come back here and share the results with the rest of the class (unless the result is vomit; you don't need to share that).
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9-06-2007 @ 3:07PM
Adam said...
I have motion sickness problems from all FPS games. I don't care, I still play CoD games and Metroid 3 anyway.
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9-06-2007 @ 3:08PM
DjDATZ said...
This game is about halfway down the trial games list that I need to play. lol
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9-06-2007 @ 3:09PM
glimmerkirk said...
still a little vomit, but i just chew it down...
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9-06-2007 @ 3:14PM
Tony said...
Yeah, it's been changed for at least a week now. The view is changed significantly by it.
Personally, I've never had a problem.
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9-06-2007 @ 3:15PM
TORO said...
Got a lot of catching up to do Dj? Do u play Gears at all?
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9-06-2007 @ 3:16PM
Guy4 said...
How do you get motion sickness from watching a tv screen....
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9-06-2007 @ 3:26PM
TORO said...
This happens because they switched from 30fps to 60fps. The levels are small and you zip around them so fast you get motion sickness. I never got sick tho :)
Glimmerkirk that's sick!
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/809/809536p1.html
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9-06-2007 @ 4:09PM
brownc4 said...
I had some nausea going on after I played the trial right after it came out. But I never get that from FPS's not even the XBLA release of doom, I agree that its just the sheer speed of movement. Will have to give the improved version a shot.
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9-06-2007 @ 4:19PM
AttilaButurla said...
This is the first and only game that has ever given me monition sickness, and I have been playing video games since the 2600.
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9-06-2007 @ 4:41PM
Josh said...
I play 10-12 feet away from a 96" 720p projected image and have no problems with motion sickness in this game.
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9-06-2007 @ 4:42PM
Josh said...
I play 10-12 feet away from a 96" 720p projected image and have no problems with motion sickness in this game.
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9-06-2007 @ 4:48PM
navstar said...
You must be English. No Amurricun uses words like "whilst".
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9-06-2007 @ 5:23PM
Abscissa said...
"6. How do you get motion sickness from watching a tv screen...." - Guy4
Motion sickness is caused by an inconsistency between what you feel and what you see.
There are two types of motion sickness:
- Feeling motion, but not seeing it. This is what some people get when they try to read or play a videogame in a moving car. The vision portion of their mind removes the "jitter" and presents you with a steady readable image. But you still feel the motion, which makes some people (myself included) queasy.
- Seeing motion, but not feeling it. This is what happens for some people (not me, though) with FPS games. The vision portion of their mind filters out everything except the TV screen, so the screen, and the motion displayed on it, are effectively all that the person sees. But since they don't feel the motion, it make them queasy.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor.
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9-06-2007 @ 5:27PM
Richard Mitchell said...
"You must be English. No Amurricun uses words like "whilst"."
Nope. American born and bred. Gotta spice things up every once in a while, you know?
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9-06-2007 @ 6:00PM
mikey said...
anybody reading this i just got a e-mail from cod 4 ppl and the level rank cap is goin up yo 16
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9-06-2007 @ 6:49PM
Zaknafein said...
i played this game and i felt dizzy and sick i have played hundreds of games before and never had any effects so i just passed it off as some kind of failed mind control attempt, i just played for 20 mins and nothing so maybe they took it out
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9-06-2007 @ 7:02PM
ccc said...
This game sux, My second most regretable arcade purchase right behind Rush N attack.
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9-06-2007 @ 7:51PM
Techno-Kid said...
Hey, go fuck yourself.
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9-06-2007 @ 8:05PM
scnd said...
I felt it a little at first, but turning on camera bob fixed it for me.
I'll have to check out how this new update affects me.
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9-06-2007 @ 8:11PM
zduclos said...
richard you need a quote botton on here...mate
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