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Beowolf, only played the first act, it went from ridiculously easy to a stupid boss fight, where I would miss a button by less than 0.2 seconds I get beaten.
 

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Relaxation: I play Garry's Mod, just for the fun of doing basically anything you want. If you load up any of the Half Life 2 maps, you can just play the entire game with G-Mod powers.

Stressful: DOTA, that custom game for Warcraft 3. Once in a while, you get some normal people as teammates, but the rest of the time it's just slander and hate. I don't play it much anymore. People are unbelievably up tight about it.

The Iron Ninja post=9.70880.707112 said:
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is stressful, especially in terrorist hunt, where the enemies have the magic ability to spawn in rooms you have just cleared out and are now facing away from.
QFT.
 

The Iron Ninja

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The proper term for what we are now that Quantum Field Theory has been mastered by said terrorists would probably get me put on probation (at least) if repeated here.

I found all of Warcraft 3 to be very much stressful, I sucked at it. The computer on easy could beat me when it had less units, lower level heroes and 50 percent of it's normal health.

Shooting the annoying squirells in the head with a sniper rifle in Conker: Live and reloaded was very good at releiving stress. Though I have no idea why, since I love squirells.
 

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relaxing call of duty 4 im allwase in my grove
stressful battle field (bad comp) when im not in my grove
 

BleachedBlind

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Stressful: N+ for the DS. I don't know why I keep playing it. It is one of the games most likely to cause me to throw my DS into a wall, but the sense of accomplishment from beating each level is great.

Relaxing: Solitaire with a huge pair of headphones and loud music. Solitaire is just really relaxing to me for some reason as long as I'm listening to something.
 

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I find RTSs can be stressful if there's too much going on and you can't manage it all at once. A lot of games do a good job of balancing how much you have to do like Company of Heroes (Best RTS ever as far as I'm concerned), but if they don't you end up racing around the map saving your units from destruction and having no time to plan your next move (like the 1v1 maps in the Endwar beta).
 
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The Iron Ninja post=9.70880.707112 said:
Just Cause, flying a plane up to as high as you can go (very high indeed), jumping out, then declining to use the parachute at any point. That is relaxing.
Ah! Like at the end of Crank!
 

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juandonde post=9.70880.707253 said:
Imitation Saccharin post=9.70880.707245 said:
The Iron Ninja post=9.70880.707112 said:
Just Cause, flying a plane up to as high as you can go (very high indeed), jumping out, then declining to use the parachute at any point. That is relaxing.
Ah! Like at the end of Crank!
I can't believe they are making a sequel to that movie. Yes you read that right a sequel. No, not a prequel a sequel as in he survives falling of a helicopter and landing on a car, then bounces of the car, then survives that fall.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121931/
Sadly enough, that is exactly what can happen in Just Cause. The fall damage system is really weird. I've died from falling off a two story building, but survived a drop from ten thousand feet.
 
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The Iron Ninja post=9.70880.707264 said:
Sadly enough, that is exactly what can happen in Just Cause. The fall damage system is really weird. I've died from falling off a two story building, but survived a drop from ten thousand feet.
That's because it grades by awesome
 

SimuLord

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Relaxing: The Sims 2. I also find ESPN College Hoops 2K5 to be very relaxing because I've beaten the living hell out of it and can breeze through a season without breaking a sweat---if the opposing team has a lead other than, say, 2-0 or 5-4, it's unusual.

Stressful: The Europa Universalis series, because those games are designed for the hardcore strategy gamer and I have a nearly religious dislike of playing any game as the "easiest" factions (with the lone exception of Rome: Total War because the Julii are just that awesome.)
 

Noamuth

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Klonoa: Lunatea's Veil. The boarding levels are so bloody peaceful and fun it's ridiculous.

As for stressful.. Can't think of any at the moment. I know GodHand, as much as I love that game, makes me rage sometimes, but I wouldn't say it's a pain overall.
 

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Relaxing: Everygame on low difficulty except Splinter Cell's 1,2 and 3 (dunno about the rest.)

Stressful: Splinter Cell's 1,2 and 3 when your up against a wall in the dark (pitch black shadow of a shadow black) and some random guy walks passed and suddenly shoots you for no obvious reason. Same again when your on the ceiling above your target and they instantly see you and blow you into tiny bits. I mean seriously an enemy facing the wrong way can't fucking see you.
 

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unabomberman post=9.70880.706898 said:
Fuck you LOLO3, just fuck you...
That is hilarious. I remember trying one of those friggin' LoLo games - he looks so cute and the game looks like it will be right up a kids alley - oh no, don't be fooled by that crap.

One of the most stressful games for me was WoW on a PVP server. Trying to level up with the opposing faction roaming and area doing Kill On Sight... I had to stop and ask myself, "Why am I paying to play this and get so pissed off!?"

Lately my cool-down game has been GTA 4. I can jump in a car, drive around and listen to music, and blow off steam - not to mention punch people (at random) in the face. RIGHT IN THE FACE!
 

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i can only think of relaxing games cause about every other game irritates me to the point of finding the creators and killing them

ok now the relaxing games starting with:god of war for the absolute endless and pointless amounts of enemys tht r easy to kill with the grab button or as Yahtzee calls it he fuck you button
another game:halo the computer version the very first one with the mod tht makes it so when u shoot more and more flood come and get u off the edge of the map at a point it looks like wht ever the hell spawns them has dioreah(how ever the hell u spell it)
and finally:burnout 3 due to u can go a game mode where the whole point is to crash as many oppents as possible with out crashing yourself

wait i thought of an iritating game:spider man mainly for the controls