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Ha ha, it's funny reading this immediately after a 4 hour long session of Supermarket Together. Chatting with friends, slacking off, causing mischief (like renaming the store, moving shelves), and being a menace in general - to robbers, innocent customers, employees, or other players.
There's a whole genre of games you're describing. Single and coop. Many are free to play.
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I found that one of the bars you go to in cyberpunk on a side mission, the police won't enter no matter how wanted you are. It's crowded, too. And it feels pretty therapeutic to do a mass shooting in there. Start with a grenade onto the dancefloor then pick people off as they panic and flee.
IRL I'm totally non-violent, but there's something about doing this that takes the edge off my stress. I've returned to that save point several times.
I'm playing Postal 2, I think this is kind of what you're looking for lol
Played it, beaten it. Gets a bit samey at times.
given the history of video games, and video game censorship, i know this has a low likelihood of coming to fruition. however, i would adore a game where i massacre a bunch of capitalists like ultrakill
I don't want to take my stress out on randos, I want to take it out on the ones responsible for my stress
Luigis haunted mansion?
Haunted by billionaires
Exactly. I want a shopping sim game where I can stand in line and beat the shit out of the lady who's dog pooped on the floor.
I think we all just destress differently & there's some games where you can make a mess or cause chaos, but some folks like a challenge to overcome like souls games finally beating a boss, climb a leaderboard, get x rank elo, etc. Others build a farm or speedrun shooting demons or just keep replaying the same nostalgic games.
Also, I don’t remember asking for armchair psychologists to come here and start dropping unasked thoughts about how to best relieve stress. Check those at the door.
oshi-- you guys its the king of fediverse
I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other
For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you're normalizing that behavior in your brain.
But as for why we don't see more games along those lines, I don't know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to "destroy" your windows desktop (an image of it).
much like abusing animals doesn't "get it out of your system," it just makes your behaviour more extreme
That said, showing love to animals in response to negative emotions is an effective solution
Assassinations aside, Hitman has loads of ways to mess with people.
If you want to shoot Nazis and klan members there are Wolfenstein games.
I bought just for some cathartic relief. Unfortunately the first person camera jostled around too much and gave me too much motion sickness.
Damn. Really needed that.
Here is a cool video from a small time creator about why we don't get Nazi-killing games anymore.
In a similar-to-original-Wolfenstein way there's Darkenstein. It's a bit tounge-in-cheek, fairly silly, a lot of fun and free! Your dog has been stolen by Nazis and you have to try to rescue it. You gain health by drinking beer and eating sausage. What's not to like?
One of us, one of us. The newer Wolfenstein games are fun as hell, but holy shit do they make me nauseous. I wish I could play them more, but that camera is awful and messing with the FOV only marginally helps.
I’d especially like to see more games making a modern take on this battle. We used to view Nazis as a historical, comically evil villain. I’d like something new that makes every one of them alive feel thoroughly unwanted in this world.
At one time it wasn't controversial to make Nazis an unsympathetic villain.
I want eat the rich the game
Technically the final level of Manhunt 1 counts.
Rich dude lets a criminal on death row on the loose in some "TV sets", with orders to kill everyone in sight. When the criminal survives the series finale, he fights through the cops and the rich guy's personal guard, and chops the rich guy to pieces with a chainsaw.
Because Postal already exists.
And postal 2, 3, and 4
Check out the Youtube channel Let's Game It Out. Josh is very creative in finding ways to torment the NPCs of various simulator and tycoon games.
Came here to recommend LGIO too. Cracks me up, I've seen basically every video.
Some of the best stuff these days is actually on the unofficial youtube channel where they repost segments from the twitch streams, esp. when Josh collabs with other folks. There's this UK streamer, Lollipop or something (I really need to look her up) and she might be even funnier than him. But they're great together.
We do have these, they're just not super popular or are not intended to be played that way.
Like your first example of causing chaos in a shop? You can do that in Supermarket Simulator. It just isn't what you're meant to do unless you're Josh from Let's Game it Out. 🤷♂️
I am watching Let's Game It Out and Josh makes things a lot more creatively entertaining than I think I could do in the games he plays.
My feeling, that I've learned after many years of doing it wrong, is that 'taking out' your stress with violent or aggressive acts, even virtual ones, isn't a healthy way to deal with it. It reinforces it rather than releasing it. Calming exercises, deep breathing and letting stress go is a much more useful way to deal with it.
In that vein, I recommend Tiny Glade for stress relief. Or any so called 'cosy' game.
What do you think the minigun is for in GTA5?
Or like Saints Row 3 and beyond. You mean I can wear a hotdog costume while terrorizing a city from my fighter jet? Yes please.
Reminds me of why I like driving games so much. Sure it's nice to be in the driver's seat on a street or racetrack in a way where it feels like I'm really there taking a hairpin turn in Times Square without any personal risk.
But there's nothing quite like doing literally what my mind can come up with in a game with arcade physics, keeping just enough realism to give feedback on collision damage without breaking immersion.
I saw an ad a few days ago for a game called Roadside Research.
It's a gas station management sim where you play as an alien disguised as a human, running a gas station and "researching" humanity.
It looks pretty fun.
It just came out.
It’s fun, but I think it needs a bit more time to cook… it’s a bit tedious currently
Postal 2 immediately comes to mind for me. Just some dude trying to do mundane errands around town. Definitely a lot of killing tho..
It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.
Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.
I guess getting to do the thing you know without all the bullshit is relaxing.