Your favorite games to play when you're angry.

[Kyrian007]

I had a tendency of playing Perfect Dark. Go to the Combat Simulator, set up a match on Felicity, make all the enemies MeatSims, make the loadout my favorite weapons (Falcon 2, CMP-150, Laptop Gun, and a few others), go nuts for ten minutes or so.

So much this. My angry loadout always contains timed mines (for stickybomb headshots,) grenades (for bettys,) DY357 (headshots are satisfying,) combat knives (headshots are very satisfying,) and combat boosts (for maximum headshot making.)

Also good for gaming angry: Mercenaries or Just Cause 2. I also enjoy a good wrestling game for that purpose. Hammering a foe with a ring bell until he can't get up anymore is good... but no one has made a good wrestling game since No Mercy for N64.

 

[stormeris]

Ill just crawl into my uncomfortable, squeaky bed and stare at the cracking ceiling for a bit.

 

[tangoprime]

When I was younger, I used to play the SNES True Lies as a stress reliever. Good lord that game was brutal for an SNES title.

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When I was slightly less younger, Hitman: Silent Assassin, or Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.

 

[putowtin]

Falout New Vegas: I have a save just before Cottonwood Cove with Boone as a companion....

you can probably see where this is going!

 

[clippen05]

Generally I don't like to play games when I'm angry, as some the main games I play are stressful enough. (RO2, HON) But if I had to pick, Tropico 4 is pretty relaxing...

 

[Rooster893]

Mortal Kombat. Fatalities are very good for catharsis, especially after dealing with somebody unpleasant. Just ripping apart their appendages and watching them explode in fiery deaths is very satisfying.

 

[Quazimofo]

Given that my PC is busted, I've had to go back to console games to vent. Luckily I haven't been particularly pissed off recently, so it hasn't come up much. Anyway, for the games I play I wholeheartedly agree with this fellow's though process.

Vindictus or Dynasty Warriors.

There's just something calming about carving through hordes of enemies that just never stood a chance.

Of course, aforementioned PC issues (And no friends to play it with) keep me from Vindictus, and I don't own dynasty warriors. So, in their stead, I play bayonetta (on normal difficulty but with all of the health upgrades/weapons/trinkets I've gotten... which is just about all of them), Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (nothing says catharsis like slicing someone to little giblets, and the early levels are a cake-walk with upgrades), or Bulletstorm. It's really a shame that last one didn't sell enough to warrant a sequel. The humor was ridiculously childish, but as the game went on it grows on you, and some of those guns are just friggin' awesome. Shotgun with 4 barrels which blows away the entire upper body of someone at close range, gun which shoots exploding flails which also stick to/wrap around terrain, gun which shoots rocket-propelled drills capable of penetrating multiple people and sticking them into a wall, causing them to spin around helplessly, and then the whip which is fun for just thumping people into ceilings.
And then the incredibly childish but satisfying sniper rifle, which lets you guide the bullet. Enemies dodge out of the way making anything but body and headshots rather difficult, but if you manage to get someone in the nuts, drag them to someone else, then explode them both for uh..... 200 points? I think? it's just so fun on such a basic level I can keep coming back to it time and time again.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

Dynasty Warriors. Endless hordes of easy-to-slay fighters, massive combos, feelings of omnipotence: what more could you ask for in a game to reduce anger? I will add the qualifier that it must be on a difficulty less than Chaos, which is simply rage-inducing ("Oh this footsoldier just managed to defeat me in a single combo. How fun.")

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Prototype (1 or 2): Cause nothing relieves stress quite like elbow dropping a helicopter

Painkiller: Heavy metal music, arena style combat, hilarious physics engine, and a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.

Bulletstorm: Painkiller with a points system.

God of War: Reminds you that no matter how angry you are, you could be Kratos and be much angrier.

 

[kasperbbs]

It's either tekken or saints row 4, since i ran out of space on my hdd it's mostly tekken 5/6 emulated on my phone. It helps as long as i keep winning..

 

[SKBPinkie]

I've found that aggressive games don't really help when I'm in a bad mood.

Exercise is usually the best (usually with a comedy show), or if I had to play a game, it'd be Minecraft.

It's the perfect game to play while listening to a podcast / slow music, and spend hours building that moat that your castle desperately needs.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Funny thing is it's either Audio Surf or Anarchy Reigns. I love it games where I can just loose my mind to, ya know?

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Knew the answer immediately.

Fire up Rez HD, place 3 Xbox 360 controllers at perfect neck and back massage positions, turn off the lights and crank up the stereo.

 

[The White Hunter]

I tend to bounce around between a few games ebfore I get fed up and watch something instead and shut my brain off a bit

 

[ninjaRiv]

If I can get in a decent match, Call of Duty games work well at times. It's nice to clear out campers and snipers. It's nice when you briefly hear them swearing at you before they respawn only to take another of my bullets to the head.

But, when all else fails, there's The Punisher. I go on and on about this game a lot, but it's so fucking good. Just mowing down scum bags in nasty ways is a good bit of stress relief. Feed a guy to a shark! Rip his arms off! Feed him a grenade! I mean, the coffin bit alone with the Gnucci's is a good place to start.

 

[mezorin]

Warframe definitely fills that void for me. I just grab Nova and my best set of guns and go pulverize few levels. Warframe in the later levels is just pure cathartic violence where you mow down dozens of hapless Grinear or Corpus at a time with a character who's basically an overpowered super hero and none of them will ***** that you are too powerful on the forums later on and get you nerfed tomorrow.

Honorable mention goes to Starbound, where sometimes I just want to chill out and make a little farm/decorate the home base.

 

[CruxisCalling]

I'll generally play Xcom or Faster Than Light on a high difficulty level and expect to be busy for a few hours. When I'm angry I have a tendency to sit and stew over whatever caused it in the first place, so these difficult games help me focus on something else. Sure, I'll lose the first couple battles/missions because I'm mad and not paying attention, but that just makes me realize that I have to focus more or I'll get my arse handed to me. Doesn't take long before I'm completely invested in the game.

Alternatively, Mark of the Ninja can do wonders if I want to feel more directly active. Something about working out your victim's exact movements so you can get a perfect run, be it an all-kill run or a no-kill run.

 

[Fijiman]

I wish I had a game to play when I get mad(which is quite often), but I don't. I usually keep on playing whatever I'm playing until I decide to get off for the day.

 

[EHKOS]

Manhunt 2, Tekken, Fallout NV, and God of War. Most of the time when I play New Vegas I start a massacre until I stumble on a civilian, look down, realize my beef isn't with them, holster my weapon, and then my anger dissipates.