Most Stressful Gaming Experiences

Gaming is often fun no? I mean, we game to relax, unwind, have fun, but gaming can raise our blood pressure too.

There's been numerous times where I've become stressed because of some unfair gaming mechanic, some annoying mission I can't get past.

Perhaps the worst of all is frustrating A.I, and no more so than the GTA games. In several missions, you have to clear out this area of thugs, and you have your friend/love interest inexplicably with you, either helping very slightly, or flat out walking in front of danger. How frustrating. You have to not only protect yourself from dying, but this companion of yours. Escort missions are a variation of the same idea, only this time they pretty much can NEVER help you. Fans of Resident Evil 4 no doubt share this.

And then there's things that aren't the game's fault but are just part of gaming. Being severely low on health for example. That's nerve-wracking, particularly for someone like me who flat out refuses to die in a game (I reset the system if I know I'm pretty much going to die). This pervades throughout most genres: fighting, RPG, action, etc.

Timed missions! How could I forget them. You can see that clock ticking down and you have to rush. Mistakes happen. Clock runs down further. Even worse is when games combine Timed Missions with having to escort someone.

In this thread, rant about stressful gaming experiences, mechanics, parts, whatever, stress here being the operative word.

Sonic '06

MMOs in general tend to be pretty stressful to me, sadly. I really enjoyed exploring the world and story of Vana'diel for the time that I was playing FFXI, but I'd get stressed out by all of the things I needed to do to be an adequate player. :laughing:

Besides that, I've heard that Pikmin 1 is pretty stressful. Trying to get through MGS1 without being seen was pretty stressful too. And trying to keep my pikmin from dying in Pikmin 2. :(

Via Infinito, Levels 81-99!

Oh god. This is stressfulness at its core. At any point there could be an encounter with an enemy formation you really don't want right now, they could ambush you, they could attack and KO your healer... urgh. The battles themselves are like that as well. It's always a struggle to survive. A lot of the battles I just barely pull through and come out on top... at other times, I don't.

Still, it gives you such an adrenaline rush that it's really awesome. It's so intense, you have to be completely focused and one mistake can cost you your life. A good kind of stressfulness, and it feels so good when you finally beat it.

I swear the stress from taking on Minerva in Crisis Core without Costly Punch cost me a few years of my life.

My initial experience with Nocturne.

My first random battle.

Round 1: Enemy critical hits, knocks me down and takes a second turn. Critical hits me. Game over.

Okay, reload and try again, I enter a random encounter.


Round 1: Enemy critical hits, knocks me down and takes a second turn. Critical hits me. Game over.

...Okay, this is a fluke, lets try again.


Round 1: Enemy critical hits, knocks me down and takes a second turn. Critical hits me. Game over.

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Funniest thing I've seen ALL DAY.

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I remember seeing this Cracked video that mocks Escort missions as well. Hang on, I'll link to it... here.

Pretty funny.

Mirror's Edge, at times.

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Sonic '06

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I never thought Sonic '06 was streessful. I actually thought it was relatively easy and fun, and the glitches I thought were mostly funny. That's what I was expecting though. The Crisis City section where you are running away from the tornado relatively stressful, though.

The timed Rouge section in Sonic Adventure 2 was extremely stressful for me, however. This isn't the case as I'm playing it now, but Majora's Mask was the most stressful game I ever played as a kid due to the time limit. I never understood what to do and just freaked out anytime I tried to play it.

Playing through Call of Duty: World at War's campaign on Veteran nearly made me break my controller and blow out my vocal cords. The ridiculous grenade spamming, awful allied AI, and numerous luck-based sections where you died over and over again for an hour straight made me frustrated to a point I haven't been since.

Second place goes to when I'm playing a competitive multiplayer game and get teammates who are terrible at the game and don't understand how to play as a team, forcing me to have to do nearly everything if I want to have any chance to win.

Despite being my favourite game of all time, my first playthrough of Ocarina of Time was brutal.

The Dead Money DLC in Fallout. I am prone to motion sickness and gaming sickness as it is, and running around the villas outside Sierra madre did me no favors. It took me a couple of weeks to be able to complete the quest. Minutes in, I'd get struck with sickness from the low light and camera angles and running around and there was nothing I could do to move further on. Between that and having to dodge smurfing radios and slink around to avoid ghost people while trying not to vomit or pass out, it was incredibly stressful. Thinking about it now is making me feel sick. :stare:

Also, timed quests definitely stress me out.

twelve smurfing hours spread out over three days of losing to this boss over and over

My most recent frustration towards a game wasn't caused by the game but, by my oh so cute kitty stepping on the power strip and shutting my PC down after 6 solid hours of Civ 5 without saving :mad2:


Or playing Oceanic time GW2 WvW and getting raped by the servers who have super Aussies while my server has very few.

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My most recent frustration towards a game wasn't caused by the game but, by my oh so cute kitty stepping on the power strip and shutting my PC down after 6 solid hours of Civ 5 without saving :mad2:

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Oooooo. :frust:

Too many random encounters. You know that feeling when you just want to get through an area towards the next major mission and every 2 steps, some stupid enemy challenges you. Especially when it's a Zubat.

Timed missions. When the countdown reaches zero, I blow up.

Also, the first time I fought a Lambent Berseker in Gears of War 3 on Hard. Stupid muther keeps on chasing me so I had to dodge and roll half the time instead of shooting, which is pretty easy until she starts leaking imulsion and kills me on contact.

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Too many random encounters. You know that feeling when you just want to get through an area towards the next major mission and every 2 steps, some stupid enemy challenges you. Especially when it's a Zubat.

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Zubat uses Supersonic!

[Your Pokemon] is confused!

It hurt itself in it's own confusion

10 SMURFING TIMES.

Zubat. I think that really should be the end of this thread.

Another extremely stressful gaming experience for me was always the last half of a Halo party at a friend's house. I am terrible at that game as it is, and everyone just gets in such bad moods after the first hour or so. I would get yelled at for sucking, people would be cussing each other out, people would be mad each other even the next day. So stressful for me, haha.

Blue dragon xbox360


I couldn't get to disc 2 because I couldn't press "a" fast enough at the end of disc one....

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Sonic '06

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I immediately thought of Game Grumps xD

This might sound a little weird, but when your character is in a hitting slump in MLB: The Show it is the worst thing ever. LIke 10 games in a row of going hitless is enough to make me want to throw things all over the place.

Fire Emblem Awakening
Classic Mode
Lunatic Difficulty
Castle Apotheosis
The Secret Battles

Six fights, no saving, against some of the absolute cheapest enemies I've seen in almost any game I remember playing. Stats higher than your maximums (I saw an enemy with 99 Luck), Skills you can never acquire (like Hawkeye: enemy attacks always hit, and Dragonskin: protects against Counter damage, critical hits, and cuts all damage in half), outnumbering you, and relentless as can be.

The further you get, the more the stress ramps up, because you never want to lose a character.

I am not looking forward to Lunatic+.

Catching any legendaries in pokemon games....
I swear, even when they're at like 20% health left, asleep, and insulted enough to be insecure and self-conscious.... it either takes 500000 balls of every type.... or you get it in like 5.
And thats not even bringing up the number of times you RANDOMLY crit and kill them OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU DO THAT HYPNO YOU ASSHOLE I WILL DISOWN YOU AND SELL YOU INTO POKESLAVERY.

Trying to do Blitzes with a Turbo Touch 360.

Yeah, that didn't last long.

RIP my Turbo Touch 360, by the way.

QTE, QTE, QTE, QTE, QTE. Don't time it perfectly and you die and have to do it all again. This is why I never finished Bayonetta.

Anything that involves playing with other people, basically. Big part of why I stopped playing WoW: because my social anxiety was spreading to dungeons in game.

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twelve smurfing hours spread out over three days of losing to this boss over and over

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It seems your pathetic magic BETRAAAYED YOOOU!

The optional dungeons in ANY Star Ocean game, specifically Sphere 255. 255 floors, most looking alike, with harder versions of the main story bosses on select floors, ending with a hard as HELL fight at the top of the dungeon.

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Originally Posted by Synoptikal

It seems your pathetic magic BETRAAAYED YOOOU!

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Originally Posted by Pike

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Originally Posted by Synoptikal

It seems your pathetic magic BETRAAAYED YOOOU!

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And who can forget:

We named him Dranosh!

WoW raid quotes thread?

WoW raid quotes thread.

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WoW raid quotes thread?

WoW raid quotes thread.

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'Twas merely a setback.

VANCLEEF PAY BIG FOR YOUR HEAD

(RIP old Deadmines :cry: )

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Star Ocean

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'IT'S THE ENEMY'

'Oh, it's just them'

Basically all the voice acting in Star Ocean 2 on the PSX.

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Originally Posted by Synoptikal

Star Ocean

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'IT'S THE ENEMY'

'Oh, it's just them'

Basically all the voice acting in Star Ocean 2 on the PSX.

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You forgot Dias' arrogant quote:

"...Ten seconds."

Babel Tower in Xenogears...

The last bit before the hellish dungeon is over....

One jump.

Miss it and you fall ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SCREEN AND HAVE TO REPEAT ALL THE PLATFORMING AGAIN.

Guess who did that their first playthrough. Guess who almost has a heart attack each subsequent playthrough when he gets to that jump.

I am bad at video games and find very few of them to be stressless.

>>>FF13-2..:luca: