I love 3D, honestly just bought my TV because of the picture quality and the 3D features were just a bonus but I played Uncharted 3 in 3d and wow it blew my socks away. Didn't really expect much but it really does do a rather great job with immersion. 

Originally posted by Z3R01

I dislike 3D because it gives me a headache and im forced to cut my gaming sessions short (under an hour).

It has nothing to do with affording the hardware.

 

I have the same feeling with you 

When TV was first invented and not shown to the public yet, it was 3D, the inventor then dropped that design for a 2D display design for the simple fact, we see it as 3D on 2D screen anyway. When you play 2D, you don't view your fps game as 2D when playing, your mind sees it as 3D, you sense depth, you have a sense of 3D objects and world. So you'll always have people whose minds get on with with 3D'ing their 3d mind,  if that makes sense, and people whose minds don't get on with it, for this reason, 3D gaming, and media in general, will never put a stop to gaming/movie watching on 2D monitors/screens as its the visual form of Marmite, you either hate it or love it.

I don't see the '3D' part of it. I just see a blurry image. I'm alos one of those people that don't see the 'magic eye' puzzles, or most optical illusions.

3D movies were invented in what, the 50s?  From what I'm told they fell out of popular use because people were vomiting at drive-in theaters because their eyes could not handle the strain of certain popular horror films in 3D.

read the first few pages

I have 120hz monitor and nvidia 3d tech

First points, the 3d effect is drastically superior to anything i have seen in the cinema with a few caveats below

The 3d effect is adjustable via the nvidia software the depth and convergence, and with some tweaking there are some massively drasmatic effects

However, to properly experience the greater depth effects you need to slowly build up your adjustment to it. In fact, for the first few hours i saw nothing at all except confusing imagery.

Certain games work better than others, anything with a UI may cause issues, as do games which use sprites for things like blood splatter on the screen. Although nowadays most main stream games are handled correctly.

favourite games and comments:

Battlefield 3: really really good but takes some serious hardware

Trine 2: little gem of a game, very fun, fantastic 3d effect, nice side scrolling with occasional pop out for hte occasional surprise, ui is a bit funky.

Batman arkham city. very good 3d effect not too hardware intensive.

I laugh at people who bring "3D" into a discussion... Seriously, this is no new invention. It's just a re-marketing of an excisting product that has not recieved much attention in the past.

I went into two so called "full 3D movies" - again, laugh at that term... what is "half 3D?" (yes I know, only some highlights) - and got headache twice.

You simply go auto-hatred when this topic comes up - because mainly it's a pure rip-off.

currently there isnt anything on the market that is really 3d.. and with that caveat perhaps i'd better explain better, what passes for 3d currently is just a clever phasing of the viewable image that fools the brain into thinking its looking at something with depth.. achieved either by wearing glasses that mechanically operate shutters to keep one open while the other is not, or the more 'popular' passive variety..  either way, its just a 'trick' to fool the eyes.. and not really all that impressive either, and doesnt work for around 1 in 10 people anyway...  so.. yes.. current 3d displays 'suck'

seems im not alone, the real issue I have with 3D is the additional eye-strain it gives me. I managed to sit through avatar just about in 3D but couldn't work for days after. I can work all day then game all night without issue. drop an hour of 3D into the mix and its a trip to the real world for me for the next day or two.

Once the technology improves somewhat sure, but for now not for me.

I dont understand all this hype about 3D games.  With the graphics nowadays, like skyrim, the detail is mind boggling, if you have the computer to run it turned up.

These new games with enhanced graphics actually give you the feeling of 3D.  Do I need some Orcs axe touching my nose?  hell no.

3D is very exhausting for my eyes after a while.  That's one of main reason I don't like it.

Same with cinema. I can watch 3D movie once in a while ,but really I could not watch them all the time. One of reasons I visit cinemas less often cause like 2/3 of times when movie is shown is in 3D. It is just not so great imo + is very tiring and in some movies it can even cause head pain.  My sister have it even worse she can't watch it longer than 15-20 min, cause she get nausea and dizzynes, etc

So 3D is just a 'funky feature' for me.

I can't unerstand how someone could play games / watch movies with 3D all the time. It is just worse. (for me ofc).

I wish I had a console to test my TV.  It converts 2D to 3D on the fly, and is pretty decent at it, especially animated stuff.

PC gaming has some huge hurdles to overcome for 3D.  You need a vid card that CONSISTENTLY does 60 FPS, no moer, no less, or else it'll just be horrendous.

I've seen demos for 3D gaming though, and when it happens it'll be worth it.  It's so much easier to see what's going on.

I don't like 3D movies and having to wear glasses and I don't see the reason to add an additional cost to gaming.

I tried MANY games on Nvidia 3d glasses and 120 Hz display, and the ONLY one that is really great in 3D and really enhances your gameplay experience is Batman: Arkham city.

You need to experience hopping around from building to building in 3D in this game before you write off the whole 3D concept.

Batman: Arkham city developers showed to all how it's done.

Honestly I still think the whole 3D everything is still just as much a gimmic as it was back in the early 90's. I actually avoid the 3d crap as it does put a lot of strain on the eyes, and only makes stuff cost more.

With that said... I do think the movie Avatar (The thing that brought back this last era gimmic again.) was phenominal in 3D even though my eyes hurt like hell after the movie. It was the movie that was awsome, not the 3D. I wish the morons doing all the 3d stuff now had figured that out and were working on better creativity and wonder in stuff rather than the gimmic stuff.

after losing an eye in a paperclip incident, I've found the whole 3D thing to be highly overrated.

I have slight color blindness and Im near sighted...So no 3d for me.  They make me dizzy.  VERY DIZZY

Originally posted by eyelolled

after losing an eye in a paperclip incident, I've found the whole 3D thing to be highly overrated.

is this where your forum name comes from? :P