Quote Originally Posted by Ceridwenae View Post
If at any point you think you are affected by flashing lights, you really owe it to yourself to bring it up with your doctor as soon as it's convenient. Games are often one of the first places issues are noticed, and because our triggers are different (to do with varying frequencies of light), it may have hitherto gone unnoticed because you haven't experienced those frequencies in that particular set-up. It could be you just need a slightly different set-up, like has been mentioned. Although, worst case scenario, if you or anyone else discovers you have PSE, moving your screen isn't going to help especially. During my seizures, I have been found moving from one side of a room to another, ending with my face literally pressed up against the monitor or tv and just being generally unnerving, before the predictable falling down and seizing. Have been injured lots by this. Even when feeling the oncoming seizure, closing my eyes would not help (far too late). Some people cover one eye, however, and find that works. It never has for me, however, so I can't personally vouch for it. I do know I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. All of that said, the old standard was to keep at least six feet away from the light source, but that was for older style monitors and TVs. Those were incredibly evil.
I've actually done the "covering one eye" thing instinctively when seeing lots of particle effects in this game. I'll bring it up with my eye doctor when I go in for my annual myopathy exam, I didn't know that could be associated with this sort of thing. Learning many new things this good morning.

I looked up blue-light-filter glasses, the fancy prescription ones are too expensive. But Amazon has some chunky ones that will fit over my everyday glasses so I went ahead and ordered those. Been thinking about getting them for a while but this post cemented it. Thanks for writing this all up.

I wish we knew more about what exactly gets back to the devs. There's no way for every day players to forward things to Square Enix and I worry that they won't do anything about it unless something really drastic happens. I hate the idea that we're reliant on Polygon or Kotaku writing splashy articles to get something done. But that's borrowing trouble I guess, should give it longer than a few hours, lol.

Quote Originally Posted by strawberrycake View Post
I am not diagnosed with epilepsy,but I would say at most some of the visials have triggered my motion sickness, espcially with Red Girl, but this also happened with Neir Automata as well. Nothing major to the point its unplayable, but it happens from time to time
Now this is troubling. I was thinking of checking out Nier games but if Yoko Taro just puts these visuals into his games regularly then I don't want to play them, it wouldn't be worth it.