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I’ve never felt so anxious and unhappy when playing a game. In a horrible way I love this so much. It’s like Chessboxing if you were to play both simultaneousl
by Waterluvian 4y ago
I’ve never felt so anxious and unhappy when playing a game.
In a horrible way I love this so much. It’s like Chessboxing if you were to play both simultaneously. There’s such a mismatch between what you need from your brain with this.
- xnx 4y agoChessboxing is exactly where my mind went!
- jeanmayer 4y agoAfter playing for a few months (like I have) it becomes a bit more familiar, but there’s almost a complete mental freeze the first couple of times around.
- user3939382 4y ago> anxious and unhappy when playing a game That's basically Starcraft for me, which I guess is why I stopped playing it.
- ermir 4y agoThat's exactly what it was like for me when SC2 came out and I started playing the ladder, after a few weeks I got used to it. I then saw it again when I got my roommate to start playing, and I could feel his anxiety. I figured out that the main cause was the fog of war, people unused to scouting and extrapolating possible enemy forces are very prone to freaking out and turtling up, which will lose the game almost always.
- echelon 4y ago> I’ve never felt so anxious and unhappy when playing a game. This should become a new genre of game, with the level of discomfort the optimization criteria. There should exist games that make you feel bad as you play them, yet somehow still compel the player to continue. It would be an art form.
- Waterluvian 4y agoLike Papers Please? You can’t ever do well. You just do badly as slowly as possible.
- YellOh 4y agoThe moment they gave me the keys in Papers Please I was a constant anxious mess. Suddenly devoting 100% of my attention to the little numbers on the documents was bad, because I had to be ready to aim & fire a gun at any time. Terrible experience, would absolutely recommend. Papers Please is actually fun to sit next to someone and play together, though
- zestyping 4y agoSee: any game by Bennett Foddy. It feels like he invented this (brilliant) genre. YouTube is full of hilarious videos of people trying to play QWOP and Getting Over It. I suspect this genre could only exist in today's streaming/screencasting world. These are games you don't exactly want to play, you just want to watch someone else play.
- YellOh 4y agoThe best game I've ever played is by far Rain World, which I nominate for this category. It's the only video game so far to make me physically sweat from the stress