Stressful games.
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Whenever I get invaded in Dark Souls my heart starts beating a million times a minute and my palms get super sweaty. I love it. It's kind of like the stress of competition I get from fighters but it feels more poignant because it just kicks a hole in whatever single-player zen state I was just in as I anticipate dealing with the invader.
Currently, the new Mirror's Edge game. I finally beat it, but that was only after I realized how stressed and angry the side challenges were making me and thus gave up on them. I mean, there is ZERO room for error on even the simplest speed trials. I was missing things by a good fifteen seconds in some cases, and it was torture. So finally, I just said, "Screw it," and completed the story to get the game out of my system. I mean, I wasn't expecting a perfect ranking on everything, but I like to think I was good enough to at least finish in the maximum allowed time limit, but no.
Honorable mention: the new Resident Evil Beginning Hour trailer. Granted, it was almost midnight and I had work in the morning, but just walking through the house was starting to get my heart pounding. I picked up the bolt cutters (or was it a wrench?) and went upstairs before I just couldn't take it anymore. So yeah, I didn't even get to any part where anything shows up. I was just too stressed.
Going to give it another go though, once I'm not half asleep.
Honorable mention: the new Resident Evil Beginning Hour trailer. Granted, it was almost midnight and I had work in the morning, but just walking through the house was starting to get my heart pounding. I picked up the bolt cutters (or was it a wrench?) and went upstairs before I just couldn't take it anymore. So yeah, I didn't even get to any part where anything shows up. I was just too stressed.
Going to give it another go though, once I'm not half asleep.
Back when the game had players, 2010's AVP could end up a real blood pressure raiser. Part of it stemmed from good things, like the hectic nature of the 3 team gameplay, or the way that different species would stack up to each other in different situations, and part of it stemmed from the sheer amount of bullshit stuff the developers left in. A good game would draw you in, and leave you pissed, even if you won.
I've never actually done this in the hundreds of hours I've played. I always get greedy and end up wanting all of the land for myself.Saelune said:
OT: A rather recent game would be Dark Souls. Blight Town stressed me out so much that whenever I thought about booting up the game again, I remembered the swamps and though "maybe later." Having said that, it's been pretty smooth sailing since leaving that area.
The Dead Rising games.
(Well, DR2 and beyond at least. Never played the original.)
They give you a big ol' fuckabout zombie sandbox, then put fucking time limits on everything. The main story has a time limit and all the side quests have time limits. If you don't find and complete them in time they disappear permanently.
Complete bullshit. Negates the nature of a sandbox since every second spent messing about or exploring feels like a second wasted.
I instantly dismissed DR3 as soon as I saw it had kept the time limits.
(Well, DR2 and beyond at least. Never played the original.)
They give you a big ol' fuckabout zombie sandbox, then put fucking time limits on everything. The main story has a time limit and all the side quests have time limits. If you don't find and complete them in time they disappear permanently.
Complete bullshit. Negates the nature of a sandbox since every second spent messing about or exploring feels like a second wasted.
I instantly dismissed DR3 as soon as I saw it had kept the time limits.
Enter the gungeon. A fun rogue-lite bullethell game. Tons of fun though.
Fighting games in general. I'm currently on a SFV binge aince Ibuki came out. After a gaming session I'm drenched in so much sweat i feel like i just worked out at the gym.
Fighting games in general. I'm currently on a SFV binge aince Ibuki came out. After a gaming session I'm drenched in so much sweat i feel like i just worked out at the gym.
I got nothing against Dead Rising, since I would never play Dead Rising for the story anyway, but rather to kill zombies and tell Otis to SHUT UP!Zhukov said:
What I hate is time limits, though. Any of 'em. Screw 'em. Don't need 'em. Limiting potential funsies is always a sin.
That and Sens Fortress(for totally different reasons). I just beat O+S for the first time(which was a pain of it's own), but I pretty much went to do some more exploring, leveling up and upgrading before taking those two on. I had skipped the darkroot garden/basin before, went down there and after taking care of everything but Sif, decided "Okay, enough screwing around, time to take out biggie and smalls".RedDeadFred said:
Now I'm trying to decide which of the 4 areas to do first. I'm inclined towards the dukes archives, but I also feel like I should just do the catacombs and get it over with. It's stressful in it's own way because before I pretty much only had one way to go. Now I have 4 mostly equally unappealing choices to choose from.
I've been invaded a few times but I'm really not digging the mechanic. I'm fine with trying co-op once in a while(or just summoning one of the NPC's for a fight) but I spend like 95% of my time in game as a hollow because this game is painful enough sometimes without seeing *Jerkward Invaded*.ZombieProof said:
I've gone to New Londo after O and S. They weren't actually too bad for me, but I think that might just be my overly cautious playstyle (I killed them on my second try by just kiting them around and getting in the occasional strong attack that I knew would be safe). New Londo has been stressful in much the same way that Upper Blight Town was. I haven't died from the ghosts once, but I've fallen of the edges plenty of times...Dalisclock said:
I Concur, especially when it goes into overtime. I also had some REAL clutch games on payload defenses as Mei where I swear I was the only person actually holding back the objective for several minutes barely a few metres from the next checkpoint. I recorded that gameplay and you can tell watching it that I'm acting on pure instinct, dodging about like crazy, throwing up ice walls and self healing whilst twitching about like a loon watching for flankers all whilst unable to really move away from the point for fear of someone just walking up and nudging it over the line. Tense shit.Bobular said:
I had that feeling when I made it to Sen's Fortress my first time through. I went through the entire game spoiler-free So my road up to that point was less than optimal. As soon as I beat those snake dudes and saw those swinging pendulums, I literally gave my screen the finger and turned the game off hahahahaha!RedDeadFred said:
Dark Souls, man. I only got out of Undead Burg and already I'm psyched. I know what's ahead of me though so ho boy it's gonna be a ride
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If the game wasn't so vulnerable to glitchers and cheaters I'd feel the same way. But after about a half dozen instances of someone one shotting me after I spend 5 minutes whittling their health down to 5% (because the bastards are only vulnerable to backstabs) I pulled the plug and play offline til I do/find everything I want to do first lol.ZombieProof said: