motion sickness anyone?

[mattish11]

I played this one back on PS4 and I was ok
I tried this one on PC and had to stop after 30 minutes for heavy motion sickness (something I have experienced only on a few games so far)
Will try again of course but that motion sickness feeling is something really unpleasant

[Onion Budgie]

Yes, I watched a gameplay video of this recently where motion sickness really affected the player in the first chapter, where there's nothing but white (and ink splashes). If you're able to reach the next part, where there's shade and a bit of colour, you should be ok. (The player in the video felt better, at any rate!)

[agt]

covered almost everywhere in black, and felt smothered, Nasty. Hesitate to try again.!

[Onion Budgie]

Originally posted by agt:

covered almost everywhere in black, and felt smothered, Nasty. Hesitate to try again.!

It does improve! In the next chapter the black ink will change to pale blue water splats that slowly evaporate. Everything is much easier to see from this point on, too. Don't give up.

[Mma Makutsi]

Originally posted by mattish11:

I played this one back on PS4 and I was ok
I tried this one on PC and had to stop after 30 minutes for heavy motion sickness (something I have experienced only on a few games so far)
Will try again of course but that motion sickness feeling is something really unpleasant

It's possible that turning down the sensitivity on your mouse may alleviate that--or just don't "thrash" as much when first trying to get your bearings. I play slow, and there is very little of that uneasiness. However, if I start trying to play fast by moving the mouse at a rapid rate, the sense of floating in space without a reference point kicks in. Kind of like the reverse of claustrophobia.

[Mma Makutsi]

Originally posted by Onion Budgie:

Originally posted by agt:

covered almost everywhere in black, and felt smothered, Nasty. Hesitate to try again.!

It does improve! In the next chapter the black ink will change to pale blue water splats that slowly evaporate. Everything is much easier to see from this point on, too. Don't give up.

I prefer the black myself. But my strategy was not to cover everything in black but to choose selective areas that would spatter nearby objects and walls to reveal edges and contours. Solid black is not very revealing. Corners of rooms and edges of walls/rocks/trees are good to hit because that insures less density of the spatter on surrounding objects. Maintaining white space between paint spatters helps a lot and creates faux shading of objects.

[Sheepqueen422]

Very dizzy. Feeling sick, really sick. I don't want to look at the computer screen any more

[joridiculous]

Not getting any motion sickness (seldom get it from games) but my eyes get *really* tired trying to find my way in a bright white level using really light-blue paint. Horrible colour choice.

[Zelrune]

Struggling to get out of the first area, I feel sick. Glad it's not like this for the rest of the game, would have to beg a refund.

[Silurean]

I just couldn't play it. I got major motion sickness. Not to mention it was so incredibly boring tossing paint balls around. I couldn't stomach more than 15 minutes.

[Dire Wombat]

I know this is an old thread, but yeah - pretty bad motion sickness after about 15 minutes of playing. I am pretty sure it's the low FOV (field of view) rather than the art style, as I got the same motion sickness from the developers' other game Edith Finch which is standard 3D graphics. In the discussions for that game there were a handful of other folks expressing the same issue too.

I found a convoluted hack to raise the FOV for Edith Finch to make it tolerable. Most current 3D games have adjustable FOV settings for just this very reason, I don't know why these guys don't. It's a legit accessibility issue.