Excessive head bob hints at how weak gamers are in real life

[Higher Game]

Vanilla STALKER is probably the worst, but it wasn't as bad as I remember because I had a larger monitor with lower resolution then, a CRT, but now it's unplayable without mods. Then again, I think it might just be a result of my lifting, because pencil necked geeks with horrifically bad posture apparently don't even notice it. They literally think it's realistic for the camera to shake around in every FPS, just as realistic as being absolutely out of breath after running 15 seconds. Sure. I bet I could grab them by the collar and get anything I want from them.

Or maybe it's a traditional Slavic game and being in a drunken stupor all the time is normal. I could understand that, too.

 

[Tweed]

Somehow I just knew this was going to be about STALKER. I started playing Anomaly the other day and it almost made me motion sick.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

slavs are perpetually drunk, this is normal movement for them

 

[CruduxCruo]

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And suddenly you can play it without making a mess on your keyboard.

 

[anvi]

I imagine he is running like Phoebe.

 

[Gerrard]

If you get motion sickness from video games, that means only one thing: you're weak. Sorry bro.

 

[Higher Game]

How the average FPS protagonist walks. Makes you think.

Actual bro walk. Rapid, efficiently spaced steps from relatively small legs to carry a massively developed and straight upper body, like a lightbulb, that doesn't wobble around involuntarily in the wind or in the face of the opposite sex.

 

[JDR13]

Dude, who do you think you're fooling? The only thing you lift is a bottlle of lube.

 

[Gregz]

head bob and weapon sway are cancer

 

[Higher Game]

head bob and weapon sway are cancer

The only good weapon sway is the thrusting and pumping of the Quake 1 weapons.

 

[Tiger]

Holy shit this is me. I'm a virgin? Why has nobody told me?

 

[Latro]

i like to rotate a full 360 degrees as i walk

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

i like to rotate a full 360 degrees as i walk

Git gud.

 

[AwesomeButton]

What kind of a mangina plays Stalker in English? Learn the language of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Ruki Bazuki before you dare to start up this game.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i like to rotate a full 360 degrees as i walk

mandatory no-scope.

 

[anvi]

i like to rotate a full 360 degrees as i walk

Like Michael Jackson.

 

[Chippy]

Only game that really fucked me up was Thief 3. I played through it just to see Garret off, but once was enough. And I modded/reduced the bob as well.

 

[Konjad]

head bob in Arma 2 annoyed me a lot too. It was even worse than in Stalker as far as I remember.

 

[Chippy]

Holy shit this is me. I'm a virgin? Why has nobody told me?

This guide doesn't take into account what it's like to live in cities like London. Most kids have to walk around like this to prevent from being enriched by a blade to the guts.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

Here in the USA we have bullet-proof backpacks for the kids to use at school. Perhaps the limeys in the UK should invest in some knife-proof hoodies.

Or get good at Judo or Karate and learn how to disarm radical whatever-ists. *I'd recommend skipping the martial arts option and just buy a gun, but empowering yourself is apparently illegal now in England.*

 

[J1M]

Somehow I just knew this was going to be about STALKER. I started playing Anomaly the other day and it almost made me motion sick.

The worst game for this is Thief 4.

 

[soulburner]

First person games *without* head bob are cancer. I hated it in Red Faction, Half-Life 2 or nu-Doom, for example (oh, and Morrowind, Oblivion, F3 and FNV). Probably Unreal had the best bobbing out there, next to original Doom and Blood 1. Even delicate bobbing, like used in Quake 2 and 3 (aaaand Skyrim and Fallout 4) is something I need, otherwise, without head bobbing at all, it feels like my player character is rolling on, well, rollers, which immediately breaks muh immersion.

Anyway, I did not remember this being so excessive in Stalker, something ain't right here.

edit - added other game examples the Codex should approve of