I’m talking more along the lines of, having simulator games where you work in a supermarket and you get to cause as much mayhem as possible. Not in terms of just simply killing, but more like, being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers. That game doesn’t exist to me and I wish it would.
Instead, we get more simulator games where you’re at the service of the people. That’s going backwards, if you ask me.
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.
Seems like the trend games are going in is “disney, family friendly, no controversy, safe for China.”
You might want to play Red Faction Guerilla or Just Cause 2/3, though the former does take a while to open up your choices of destruction.
Hmm, maybe a “Just Cause <workplace> edition” would be a fun game. Or just “you found the keys to the depot forklift”. The physics simulation would make your computer scream
Haha, nice game idea, call it “For Cause”!
Lots of call outs to Postal 2, but not a lot of talk about the GTA series? Weird. Postal 2 was “3 edgy 4 U” and all, there were definitely some hilarious and violent things you can do. I remember pissing in somebody’s mouth and they started throwing up, so I hit their head off with a shovel, and the vomit continued to shoot out of their neck into the sky. But once you get past the shock value the game is pretty bland. I played the hell out of the demo back in the day, and eventually got my hands on a copy and I remember thinking “oh, it’s just the same thing but with more levels”…
Anyway. The GTA series are actually good games. Like the controls, physics, story, comedy, etc etc… But also, you can go into a boutique clothing store in a affluent part of the city and murder all of the patrons and then when the cops show up - shoot rockets at their cars. Then pull somebody out of a high end vehicle and beat the shit out of them with a baseball bat and escape a high speed car chase. You can even play it in VR. Never done it myself but I remember seeing videos of beating people with blunt objects while they attempted to put their arms up in defense but succumbed to the blows and went unresponsive on the ground and though “holy fucking shit, that was really violent”.
Anyway… That also lost its shock value pretty fast, but at least the games remained fun when playing the objective.
I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?
CUNNING STUNT BONUS
I don’t want to take my stress out on randos, I want to take it out on the ones responsible for my stress
Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire?
I want to make a game where you seize all the assets of the rich and need to make decisions on how to best redistribute the wealth to the people and/or public serving projects and infrastructure. Of course whatever you choose, there will be someone unhappy with it, so you have to try and balance things to prevent angry riots or being overthrown by some other group who feels they can do better, while the deposed rich class and their sympathizers keep trying to cause trouble and regain power. Kind of like a Sim Revolution. Hmmm
Hitmangione 4
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.
So…The Sims.
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.
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
Untitled Goose Game?
Shoo! Shoo away from my garden, bird!!! SHOO!
Goat sim is better.
While I agree with you, untitled goose game had my daughter and I cramping from laughter. It’s a very fun and short game.
Yeah, I enjoyed it for what it was.
Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it’s a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.
It also has better graphics and takes more than an hour to complete. Plus great cultural and gaming references. When I first heard about the first game, I was like no fucking way that can be fun but after reading reviews, I bought it as a game I could play with my son, and we love it. (He’s a jerk to me on it tho)
Yeah, it is a really good looking and really thoughtfully made game. If you have been a gamer for decades there are tons of references and jokes you will appreciate. I appreciate the Sweden references too. I’m an American but I’ve gotten to visit the real-world equivalent of Goatenburg.
It is really good to play with a group that includes non-gamers or kids, because you can’t really die but you can use overpowered abilities and items on each other and NPCs. It is damn funny.
Absolutely, there are references to IKEA, IT, fallout, evil Knievel, etc. it’s way more clever than I initially gave it credit for. When I first heard about it I thought it was like just running around on cliffs and eating grass. I had no idea you could be a total asshole in it and I love that about it.
Yeah, and you start AND end the game riding with other goats through the farm on a replica of the Skyrim prisoner cart from the meme.
It’s a very solid game that more people need to try. Especially as cheap as it is now.
Warning : tasteless comment right here.
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.
Because Postal already exists.
And postal 2, 3, and 4What’s Postal 3?
Was after Postal 2
No, it was be4 Postal 4.
Naw, thats a blank. Don’t remember that one.
You mean the Postal 3 beta? The one that got cancelled so bad that its copy was worked into Postal 2 in the junkyard part of a level?
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
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
So you want a game where you can go… postal?
There’s already like hundreds and thousands of games where I can kill people in.
Bro there’s people who play Skyrim for 100hrs never leaving the first village or picking up a weapon.
There might not be a game tailored to what you want, but I’m sure a game exists where you can do what you want to, especially if on PC and with mods.
Like, you can just play a super market simulator, and instead of caring about score do what you get enjoyment from.
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.
Anyway, the chaos is very cathartic for a longtime gamer.
