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Hmm... never heard of this before... ever ^_^. Perhaps you're simply having a negative effect to the flicker of the TV / Monitor screen. That problem can be enhanced by particuarly demanding games, and FPS games tend to be the most demanding on the market.
I think its a potential problem of what you play these games on. I find that console FPSs are slightly nauseating, because they flicker quite a bit (TV screens - particuarly European TV screens - have cruddy refresh rates of 50 or 60 hz.). They also tend to rendered at lower frames per second than PC FPSs (ack! too many things sharing the same acronym!). Comparatively, a good "non-flickery" PC screen refresh rate is seen at about 75hz and above. For this reason, I'd also avoid playing PC FPSs on Flatscreen monitors, unless you've paid some astronomical figure for the latest and greatest tech. (Those things are pretty much always slower at updating than good old "Fry you where you sit and take up all your desk-space" CRT monitors).
If you want the effect of Refresh Rates illustrated, you can change your PC monitor's refresh in
Control Panel > Display Settings > Settings > Advanced > Monitor
where, in the drop down menu, you can select your monitor refresh rate. Compare the flickery "butterfly's flutter" of 60hz versus 75hz. If those options don't appear, you monitor is either crap or you're using a too high Desktop Resolution. This goes onto another point: in PC games, don't put in the highest settings that are possible! Like it or not, theres a good chance that you can't actually run them. Plenty of people tell me that they can run the latest FPS game on the market in full resolution with full graphics options, but when I see it, they're playing an FPS slideshow! Try for a FPS of about 60, hopefully higher (and a constant FPS - not when you're staring at a wall!). If you want to see that FPS value, you usually have to type in something to the game's console:
In Unreal / UT99, type "Timedemo 1"
In UT2K3 / 2K4 type "stat fps 1"
(for instance, because I don't know any other commands for other games)
All in all, the flickering of the monitor and the slowness of your computer to render the image could be potential nausiating. A First Person Game is more reliant on full player concentration than any other (especially competative games like Quake or UT) Hell, these things will even make you a better player (I guarantee it, or your money back!).
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