"Stress relief" game?

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reots

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Definately not Eve-Online, thats the game to play if your life is going too well
 

Ika

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Originally posted by: Imp
Any multiplayer shooting game. Nothing beats blowing strangers up and spamming grenades when you're down or pissed.

Needs to be one where you respawn instantly, otherwise there's too much downtime and you start to get pissed whenever you die.
 

dighn

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another vote for tf2. play demoman and spam like you don't care. you'll still blow stuff up, a lot.
 
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San Andreas. Blow shit up, drive car off hills into rivers as cops follow you down to their watrery graves, abandon car, swim around, catch a flight, jump out with a parachute right in the precinct's lot, blow shit up, jack a cop car, run over some pedestrians, jack a light aircraft, attempt land it on top of a running train, total aircraft, steal a bike, pop some wheelies...

Rinse and repeat. You don't even have to think - just run around causing mayhem. Sometimes when I want to indulge in some braindead gaming, I just fire up Need for Speed Most Wanted, load a car with Level 4 heat and unleash hell.
 

GundamSonicZeroX

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Originally posted by: angry hampster
Audiosurf! Available on Steam for less than 10 bucks. Lots of fun and you can use all your own tunes on it.

Hmm, playing a relaxing tune (ie. Tears of the Dragon by Bruce Dickinson) could really relieve stress.
 

NicColt

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Originally posted by: Fox5
Originally posted by: zixxer
I just received an 8800gts and I'm looking for a good stress relief game..


I bought crysis and have played through a good bit of it, but is there anything more like serious sam that's current? I kinda just want to walk around and blow sh!t up without worrying about ammo or dying..

Serious Sam 2?
Painkiller series (predates serious sam 2 however).
Doom 3/Quake 4.


Ok I've had painkiller and the bat outa hell expansion forever and never installed it, I'll give it a try now :)


what the... just checked and I have to d/l half Gig of updates
 

Sho'Nuff

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I hate to say it, but postal 2 is a good strss relief. You can do just about any messed up thing in that game, including pee on people.
 

hooflung

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I'd say Hellgate London would fit your bill nicely. Titan Quest would too, but HGL is a better buy right now and immensely more supported.
 

themisfit610

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unreal tournament 3 is freakin awesome fun for blasting things left and right. Turning people into gibs with the flak canon at close range is a very satisfying feeling.

~MiSfit
 

Dorkenstein

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Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
Originally posted by: angry hampster
Audiosurf! Available on Steam for less than 10 bucks. Lots of fun and you can use all your own tunes on it.

Hmm, playing a relaxing tune (ie. Tears of the Dragon by Bruce Dickinson) could really relieve stress.

Cool idea. I'm going to try it with "The Tower" or "Arc of Space".
 

Czar

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just something I rememberd work for me years ago

Playing Battlefield1942 while listening to Diana Krall..... nothing beats moving down ze germans with some relaxing tunes
 

Dorkenstein

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Pretty much any good game relieves stress for me, I will think of some special ones at some point.