Stressful games.

[Zombie Proof]

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.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

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.

 

[silver wolf009]

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.

 

[Leg End]

EVE Online. The PVP is often the only PVP of any game that gets any player's blood pumping. And that's not even getting into Market PVP.

 

[Trunkage]

I found Dead Space stressfully during the times you had regenerating enemy. It feels like you can't get a breather and chewing through limited ammo.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Currently Mount and Blade...since I am trying to support a claimant to the Swadian Throne. Basically supporting claimants is hard mode, but I am too stubborn to start a new character.

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.

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.

 

[Zhukov]

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.

 

[Odbarc]

Stressful games are any that you play where someone else's computer slows down the game for everyone or because they lag and felt like that's an okay way to play.

 

[FPLOON]

Bullet hell games... Unless you reach memorization zen, they are not something I play causally...

Other than that, competitive Splatoon... Then again, the stress makes me play more just to keep my rank in check...

 

[Lufia Erim]

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.

 

[FalloutJack]

Time limits

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!

What I hate is time limits, though. Any of 'em. Screw 'em. Don't need 'em. Limiting potential funsies is always a sin.

 

[Dalisclock]

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.

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".

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.

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.

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*.

 

[RedDeadFred]

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.

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 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...

 

[pookie101]

only one game has ever done it to me and that was alien isolation.. the constant on edge having to hide, do i move?, was that the alien? meant i would only play it for an hour or two at a time

 

[Hawk of Battle]

I find Overwatch stressful when playing competitive mode. I guess its the knowledge that if I screw up the rest of the team goes down with me, but rather than making me not want to play Overwatch, it just makes me want to play more, I love the feeling you get after going through a stressful game that is neck and neck throughout and then just managing to win. That is why I play online, normally I would just play single player.

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.

 

[Zombie Proof]

Currently Mount and Blade...since I am trying to support a claimant to the Swadian Throne. Basically supporting claimants is hard mode, but I am too stubborn to start a new character.

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.

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.

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!

 

[stormtrooper9091]

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

 

[Worgen]

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.

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.

 

[Dalisclock]

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!

Welcome to Sens Funhouse, where the fun literally never stops. If you want proof that the game hates you, look no further. It's a toss up between whether I hated that or Blightown more.

At least it makes Anor Londo feel easy by comparison(at least until you reach the boss(es)). To sum that up:

1. Reach the center of the Royal Cathedral in Anor Lando.
2. Meet Orstein and Smough.
3. Realize you have to fight both at the same time.
4. Cry.

 

[Dalisclock]

only one game has ever done it to me and that was alien isolation.. the constant on edge having to hide, do i move?, was that the alien? meant i would only play it for an hour or two at a time

It's funny, because that's how I felt about Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I had to play with the lights on and I couldn't play for more then an hour or so at a time.

I don't think any other game has even come close to that for me. Even SOMA, which was creepy, wasn't nearly as bad.