What has that to do with games?

Well it happens to me while playing them.

Prince of Persia,
Mirrors Edge (the level in the sewers where you have this stupid round hole you have to climb down and later up again?)
Even some old 2D plattformers, like the old Prince of Persia makes me feel anxious sometimes.

I actually dislike playing horror-games because they don't work on me, but if I want some fear-gripping experience I just fire up some platformer.

Strange thing is, this doesn't happen with Skyrim or Risen or other RPG where falling down still can happen but it doesn't feel like vertigo. Doesn't work with Thomas Was Alone. Though I love those three games.

Does that happen to you as well? Or something similiar?
I know people hate spiders and have trouble with the spider-infected caverns in Skyrim.

I wonder why only some games do affect me, while others don't though they feature heights and falling down from them.
What do you think?

[edit] Hah! Have watched too many Alfred Hitchcock films, It's not like vertigo but acrophobia I suffer from.

In Prototype I like to do elbow drops from the Empire State building. But when I jump off something ridiculously tall in Minecraft it affects me far more. Maybe it's because of the perspective, or because I know I can die from it in Minecraft - not sure.

Never no problem;
when i go to countryside i sacrifice chickens, ducks for food
No game can surprise me.

I get motion sickness if I'm tired and play driving games, like NFS of Burnout

I find this interesting. I suffer from acrophobia ever since I stopped climbing trees in early junior high school and began sitting in front of the computer a lot but I noticed half of the games I play I'm not bothered by. Any Spider Man game when you're on top of a building and I jump down I start to sweat and become nervous immediately but I never suffered from this in Prototype.

There's a difference though in the fear of heights and fear of falling as fear of falling is very common in platformers for me but I would never find the height bothersome at all.

I recently played Far Cry 3 and when you climb certain buildings and look down it didn't feel far at all but at the end of the game the climbing becomes harder and I realized I become cautious because I didn't want to fall down.

I do suffer from motion sickness being passenger in vehicles..

For videogames, i got it from Serious Sam HD and STALKER, to the point of being white / green with chills and about to puke it all out, after a few minutes of exposure..

Because of that bobbling move feature making your screen shake at every step along with the moving, i could disable it in the Serious Sam's options and found a patch for STALKER.

Ugh. Yes. I've think the first time I noticed was in the Dark Forces games. I feel something inside "wince"; it's hard to explain. Strangely enough, I get it even in situations that I know have no lethal falling damage, e.g. the leap of faith in the Assassin's Creed game or doing a ground pound from the fifth floor in Crackdown.

Likely a form of motion sickness I would think - I get it with motion blur on many games so perhaps some setting could sort you out.

My better half get it from playing anything in first person view. It is not that uncommon, it is generally called Simulator Sickness and it is related to motion sickness. I read somewhere that 1 out of 4 suffers from this in various degrees. It has all to do with focus points for eyes and signals to the brain not corresponding... which is why it is not so bad in 3'd person, as the eyes uses the char as a focus point. But it is not the same for all, and there are many variations.

Some 3d shooters make me feel sick but that is it.

I've noticed this in a few games, but it's not so frequent or so bad that I consciously avoid certain situations like I do in real life.

The worst thing ever is playing a first-person racing game in a car or bus, because the action on the screen very rarely matches the G forces that the actual vehicle is experiencing. The absolute worst for me is decelerating in-game during a corner while the actual vehicle is accelerating and turning in the opposite direction.

Probably, but I don't think so, as I'm not feeling sick - no nausea , just "fear". The "fear" of falling down. The "fear" of missing the right jump, stumbling and free fall to death afterwards.
It's quite interesting as I don't suffer much from vertigo in real life, I went up several european gothic cathedrals enjoying the view, but always holding the handrail in a tight grip.
It feels exactly the same in the video game and it doesn't have nothing to do with movement.
I remember actively experiencing this in a reflective way when I played Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb a very good old game worthy of this site, you might want to vote for it next time you are in the wishlist section.
When he is in Prague he climbs up some castle walls, interestingly - its in 3rd person perspective and I was very afraid that the cgi-model of Harrison Ford just falls down the castle.

yeah... vertigo isnt anything to do with heights - its more to do with disorientation - often seated within the ear for many sufferers, some it can be due to nervous damage, other still head trauma.
I know quite a few people with it, including my aunt - she cant turn her head around its so bad, she has to slowly turn her entire body.
what you're actually on about is pretty much a fear of heights / falling / lack of solid ground underfoot.

Apologies, typical language-barrier problem. :-D



*In case of doubt, always blame bad translations...

Heheh!
Thin gis your initial description also fits in with vertigo to a degree