Potential friendship destroying games

[SinisterGehe]

Crusader kings 2 is high up there but since people who play that game aren't in that huge of numbers the community pressure keeps you together so if you have friend who plays the game you will stay friends because of the fact finding new ones for that game is hard. Also good dose of humor is required to play that game in multiplayer.

Risk the board game.

Any multiplayer game with Mario in it.

Dota - unless you have friends you can trust to play well and/or understand the game. Loosing can break long term friendships. Also do not go into it with your ego - leave it behind. Also to prevent friend
I think LoL is even worse offender in this - by my experience.
All Moba games do this. tbh...

And worst offender of all the game that breaks families and beings up every tension and problem in a relationship.
Monopoly

 

[EHKOS]

I really fucking hate Diplomacy. People lying to each other is a garbage premise for a game. Plus, there's the fact that I suck at lying. So yeah - I absolutely hate what it does to people.

Never heard of the game, but it sounds like the same tactics used in Texas Hold 'em Poker.

OT: I've gotten pretty agitated over some Tekken matches. While not a friend and more my dad, I had just gotten my allowance of $10. I bet him one dollar I would beat him the next round. Ten crushing rounds later I found out he had always been holding back. He said he wanted to teach me that gambling was bad, and gave me five back. Still sticks with me, even then I thought it was pretty cool.

About all the L4D posts I feel pretty bad because I knew none of my friends wanted to play with me because I was "That Player." I have 500 hours logged on the first one, and I still managed to fuck up every game. I got flamed/kicked so many times because I dropped the ball in public matches. And that's why I don't play L4D2 anymore. I honestly don't know why I never got better at it.

 

[Dragonbums]

Every single Mario Party and Mario Kart racing game in existence.

 

[Winthrop]

Tabletop RPG's when people don't separate the player from the character. One girl in our party held everyone responsible for what our characters in the game did. This might not always be a problem, but we were an evil party and we are nice enough people in real life so assuming we are evil in real life because our characters murdered someone for money in the game kind of makes conversations awkward.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

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.

I wish it was a joke too. I imagine the rest your time together before she left wasn't particularly pleasant. I'm glad my husband and I managed to withstand the relationship ritual that League of Legends apparently is. Like walking naked through a wall of flames and hoping to come out okay on the other side.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Counter Strike:GO

The skill ceiling is so ridiculously high and the matches can be so tense that if you or your friend fucks up it can be crushing and very easily rage inducing.

 

[Evonisia]

WoW is a really good example. It can build friendships, but it can also destroy friendships. Just by existing, there are so many ways in which it can do this that I think I would consider counting how many brain cells I have dedicated to memorising them.

Monopoly, too, it's just designed to make you hate the other players forever. Jenga is also really bad for it, especially if they get the bottom piece but you cause it to collapse by taking the fifth tier piece.

 

[Raikas]

Just about every board game ever. I used to play Risk with a group of couples, but we got too competitive and ended up not speaking to each other for close to 6 years. My sister once played Cranium with her in-laws and that game ended up with her husband not talking to his brother's wife for 6 months.

 

[Augustine]

Two words: Dokapon Kingdom. The game box advertises it as being "The Friendship Destroying Game!". That is not an empty boast. The injustices you can heap upon whoever dares to play it with you are staggering. Stuff ranging from renaming them, drawing on their faces, making them wanted. the list goes on! Not to mention the game loves to pummel you until your comatose with random chance playing a major factor in the gameplay. Still, if you can get four peeps together, it can be a blast. Though I recommend setting a timer so the game doesn't drag on too long and too many feelings get hurt.

Oh dear god, that game is the most insidious tool known to man designed to ruin all kinships and ties to other people!
An absolute champion of subversion and backstabbing wrapped in a cutesy exterior. And yet... it. is. GOOD.

 

[StriderShinryu]

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.

Yeah, I mean I'm all for playing to win and doing what you can to beat the competition as long as it's within the rules, but, at the end of the day, they're just games. There's just something about Risk and Monopoly that makes people cross the line between competitive and personally affected.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

Any MOBA game if you let them get to you. Seriously, I think our one hilarious curbstomp game of DOTA 2 actually broke a friendship on the other team. Their Antimage was raging and at the end of the game, the rest of the team was saying stuff like "we don't play with Jack anymore"

It would be tragic if the Antimage wasn't so blind as to how shit his own skill level was. I thought I was bad at this game but you managed to feed with fucking ANTIMAGE. How? Worst comes to worst max Blink over Mana Break and you're set.

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.

I wish it was a joke too. I imagine the rest your time together before she left wasn't particularly pleasant. I'm glad my husband and I managed to withstand the relationship ritual that League of Legends apparently is. Like walking naked through a wall of flames and hoping to come out okay on the other side.

Yeah, not sure what it is with MOBAs and bad relations. I have two friends who argue constantly when playing the game and they play the game EVERY WEEK and are still week.

 

[Bellvedere]

I really fucking hate Diplomacy. People lying to each other is a garbage premise for a game. Plus, there's the fact that I suck at lying. So yeah - I absolutely hate what it does to people.

I hate Diplomacy too. I wouldn't say it's any more lying and spiteful than our regular boardgame sessions though... I hate it because it's so fucking long, and we've got this one friend that always wants to make a day out of it. 12+ hours of Diplomacy is horrendous. Plus even if you get knocked out early you have to wait for a couple more people to be knocked out before you can start playing something that doesn't take 10minutes to resolve a single turn.

Anyway, we have Pandemic specifically for the occasion of dissipating all the spite that has built up from playing other board games.

 

[Candidus]

Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 when the rules aren't properly understood by everyone.

The problem is that there's so much to remember. The vanilla rules, the special rules from your own codex and the capabilities of your enemies' codex.

People tend to get volatile when they're blindsided by a special rule that puts a wrench in their view of how the game was balanced, which in turn makes folly of a key decision they took a phase or two ago.