Poll: What game helps relax you?

[Michael Dagastino]

You ever have a bad day, or something in one game frustrates you to the point that you contemplate tossing your tv out a window? I have. So I want to know what game do you play to vent some of that steam? I have yet to find a good one myself, but one that i have that will do til i find a good one is Saints Row 2.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Rainbow 6 vegas. or Quantum of Solace or Mindsweeper
Just a nice simple game doesn't require a lot of thought and feels good when you win

and I never throw TVs out windows

 

[Donttazemehbro]

God of War is great for working off frustration. Every time I'm pissed i load the final boss fight of God of War 3 and beat the final boss to a pulp with quick time events, mainly the circle button

 

[Dancingman]

I've broken controllers before, haven't ever thrown my TV out.

 

[Luke5515]

A good relaxing server on tf2 like coustom maps with a friendly community.
Prop hunt and pyro dodgeball are great too.

 

[Jark212]

Command & Conquer: Generals always helps me relax...

 

[Instant K4rma]

Fallout 3. Nothing helps me relieve stress like going into Megaton, finding that fucking annoying Moira Brown, and hitting her head off with a variety of melee weapons in slow motion VATS cinematics. I would sometimes spend up to an hours just reloading my save to find a new weapon with which to end her.

 

[darth jacen]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I don't even need to play, the music alone calms me, but killing things and running around do help a lot.

 

[ethaninja]

Postal 2. Something about walking around the streets and lighting people on fire.. relaxes me >=)
I've never intended to toss my computer out the window... I dunno why I would I've punched my monitor before though, that was fun.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Good old Super Mario Bros. 3. It calms me down as long as I'm in the first six worlds.

 

[Travis Austin]

Playing Sonic Advance 2 for the GBA on my DS is pretty relaxing to me.

 

[Fidelias]

The Halo games. Say what you will about them, but there's always a challenging, yet winnable difficulty for everyone. And if I get REALLY angry, I can just load a mission with the spartan laser and use it on everything that looks at me funny. Including the marines.

 

[Crimson King]

I break out my old Gameboy and play some Super Mario World

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Civilization Revolution is a nice, relaxing game. But when it's hardcore stress relief I need, I pop in Oblivion. I pay a call to my Adoring fan. Invite him up to my Tower of Wizardry for some magical club sandwiches or whatever. Then I take him up to the very top, and shoot him in the face with an arrow and watch him fall.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Stepmania helped keep me sane at one point. It still helps to this day.

Other than that, my visual novels help me unwind.

 

[crudus]

Good cathartic games like Devil May Cry (3) or Saint's Row 2. Any game where I can easily just murder mass amounts of anything is a good way to cool me off.

 

[BrEnNo1023]

Forza 3 relaxes me greatly. I love the game, it has allowed me to catch up on those few missed hours of sleep many many times. Not saying it's a bad game, i mean it when i say 'i love the game'. It just seems to make me so tired

 

[DoctorNick]

I've never thrown a TV out of a window, say what you will about the materialistic compulsion to gather stuff and clutter but it does tend to lead to me taking care of the things I have. Plus on top of that my TV is a fairly large flat-screen I got on sale for ~$400, that's not a deal I'm likely to find again any time soon nor would I be able to afford even that much to replace it. As such, if I was going to violently vent my frustration on something I own my TV would be just about on the bottom of the list of potential victims.

Anyway, I don't usually play games to calm down because often times the game itself becomes the source of frustration. About the closest thing I have to a calming game is more of a procedure really:

1) Get a Dr. Pepper
2) Fire up the latest episode of Fear the Boot. [http://www.feartheboot.com/ftb/]
3) Play solitare while listening to above latest episode.
4) Relax. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEPq0FvFm3g]

That's just what I do personally.