Potential friendship destroying games

[BeerTent]

I have to second munchkin. That game just drones on and on and on, and you're just there like "Jesus fucking christ, let me kill the goddamn potted plant. I don't you to play a bunch of freeze and burn potions on me, and I don't want you to make it a giant scary potted plant. The humor died 3 hours ago!"

Though, I think games like L4D and Portal 2 were friendship building games. I guess I just like helping people out, and communicating my intentions with someone. Operation Flashpoint and Pandemic are also great friendship building games.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Smash Bros. can lead to much saltiness from first hand experience.

A random choice, but Zelda Four Swords Adventures on Gamecube. Just by being able to attack your friends to steal force gems which are tallied at the end of levels can lead to much bitterness.

 

[Mikejames]

Monopoly and Risk are the classics. One of the reasons I don't really play either of them. Some people just take them both way too seriously.

I cannot remember one time where either of those games ended with everyone better off for it.

 

[EyeReaper]

Damn. Both Munchkin and Dokapon were already taken. And I didn't even know other people had played Dokapon before this.
Well, The New Super Mario series is pretty bad, Given the fact that, you can pick up and throw your friends for some reason (Mostly to kill them, I think?) and the fact that if you jump on them, they gonna plummet. We've killed each other more just all trying to get to the end goal than any of the actual challenges have. Also, Nabbit can't use power ups. Nabbit gets a score bonus for grabbing power ups. That can only end in blood

Also, I think I only need to say one sentence more to prove my point for the last game on my list "The Elf shot the food!"

 

[The Hero Killer]

Basically any fighting game for me. If I train and I train and I still LOSE when I felt like I should be dominating, you better leave the room.

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

Wasn't there a story years ago with an early-on MMO in Asia, where there were two friends and one lent their account to the other to look after and he sold his best item (for real money), exceptionally rare item, and when his friend found out he killed him... in real life...?

Am I making this up? I swear I remember that being a thing. Therefore I would argue that that game could definitely be seen as a friendship-ender.. in the most extreme of senses, at least in this very weird instance.

 

[Granfaloon]

I remember some friendship damaging moments in the hundreds of hours me and some friends put into Soul Calibur 2. We got way too competitive with that one, many stinging insults were exchanged and there was a controller hurled at someone's head at one point. Thankfully no completely destroyed friendships though.

 

[FrozenLaughs]

I'll go off the trail a bit and say Munchkin.
I mean, it's a game about screwing your friends over

I'm actually surprised anyone said Munchkin! Ive got it and like 5 or 6 of the expansions, we play with my D&D group and we've always had nothing but fun, I seriously can't think of a time anyone has gotten mad.

Scrabble is the bane of our family nights. My mother in law owns a god damn Scrabble dictionary and argues *everything*

 

[Thaluikhain]

I've heard that Monopoly was designed for that very reason, to show the destructive nature of greed.

 

[StormShaun]

Lego.

When a structure falls, it takes a piece of your heart with it.
Then you can blame the asshat who toppled your masterpiece over,

I would say it is a great game to end a friendship.

 

[blackaddicus]

I'll go off the trail a bit and say Munchkin.
I mean, it's a game about screwing your friends over

I'm actually surprised anyone said Munchkin! Ive got it and like 5 or 6 of the expansions, we play with my D&D group and we've always had nothing but fun, I seriously can't think of a time anyone has gotten mad.

Scrabble is the bane of our family nights. My mother in law owns a god damn Scrabble dictionary and argues *everything*

i have found several new friends playing the various versions of Munchkin as well, so i wouldn't say it destroys friendships unless one of your friends cant take loosing.

 

[1066]

Vampire: The masquerade, or any other tabletop game, really, but especially the WoD. Some worse than others, but you learn a lot about people while playing it, especially the GMs. It's seldom as immediately rage-inducing as some of the ones mentioned, but it isn't hard to get into a situation where you've got someone constantly twisting a knife.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I'll go off the trail a bit and say Munchkin.
I mean, it's a game about screwing your friends over

Try Munchkin Chtulhu. It's basically Call of Chtulhu in cutesy form, and mostly involves finding ways to tackle a supposed friend or ally into the overall radius of Nyarlathotep's sanity-destroying true self. The last one to stay sane usually wins.

My money's on any multiplayer game whatsoever. If you have an adjusted attitude towards what's going on, your family ties and friendships won't suffer from it all. If you don't, and are the type who lets himself become excessively attached to a kill streak or any sort of positive feedback loop, getting it wrecked by someone you trust can be pretty nerve-wracking.

 

[Auberon]

Munchkin as already mentioned. I also recall Paranoia being an example, what with Friend Computer having everyone killed.

 

[Fireaxe]

Diablo 2 was a bugger for this with Multi-shot lightning enchanted monsters.

 

[Senor Koquonfaes]

Dungeons & Dragons comes to mind: on the most basic level, players can be very unpleasant to each other in-game, and the DM can be (suspected of) picking on someone. Then there are problems related to D&D that occur outside the campaign. For instance, I had severe problems in just setting up a session because it turns out that it's too much to ask for these five people plus myself to agree on a time and place (although I play two other campaigns where such problems do not exist, so what the fuck). To work around this, I began introducing more players, and one of the original ones was very loudly against this; apparently, he thinks it's better to have five players who never play the sodding campaign than six who do, which strikes me as incredibly selfish and obnoxious. There are eight players in the campaign now and I still have problems in setting shit up, and I fear that I may have to expel some of the more passive people and introduce more committed ones - which is problematic because these people are my friends still. In the worst-case scenario, I'll abandon my own stupid campaign and begin a new one with people who I can trust to commit a day every now and then. I bet that would stir up all manners of shitstorm among the players as well.

 

[Don't taze me bro]

League of Legends was the killer for my friends. 5v5 friendly matches, didn't end up very friendly. A few people raged, and even now, 3 years later will not speak to each other.

 

[Alcamonic]

I am fairly certain that Monaco: What's Yours is Mine will destroy or at least put a stress on most friendships.

"Seriously!? You tripped the alarm, AGAIN!?"

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Any sports games but especially FIFA. My friend cannot stand to lose...and i don't stay shit for long...perfect reipe for disaster. I've had to leave his house before because he was getting to the point where only a punch in the face would settle his ego back into place. I lose 10 times in a row and it's no big deal but he loses once and he goes mental...I'm not the only one either. He convinced another mate to buy the game and went mad when he scored first. When the second goal went in he was ranting like a lunatic and after the game finished my friend traded it in...not worth the hassle he said lol. Not so much the game as the person but it's been so close to a fight that i thought i should mention it.

Also a special mention to RTS games where you can break alliances...had some classic defeats come from assured victories because someone traitored on me while i was busy attacking the 'enemy'. It works both ways of course and revenge is always amusing. Even had the computer win because the 'allies' were so busy fighting, the AI player became unstoppable. Those are the best kinds of games...where nobody wins and everyone can see what their actions have cost them...good job i don't mind losing but the same can't be said of everyone...

 

[Qvar]

League of Legends. I basically just liked to play the occasional bot-game. An acquaintance who was nearly obsessed with it at the time decided he wanted to play a few games with me - for fun. I eventually told him I wasn't going to play with him anymore because he was bossy, quick to agitation, and was kind of a pain to play with. He didn't talk to me for a while. Apparently he's gotten over it, but didn't take it very well at first.

This. My girlfriend stopped talking to me for a day and eventually left me soon after because we were duo-laning and I was taking all the creeps' gold and kills. Yeah, I wish this was a joke.