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.
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
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.
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.
I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?
CUNNING STUNT BONUS
Because Postal already exists.
And postal 2, 3, and 4What’s Postal 3?
Was after Postal 2
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?
No, it was be4 Postal 4.
Naw, thats a blank. Don’t remember that one.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other
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
Untitled Goose Game is what you are looking for :)
That takes like an hour to beat.
Assassinations aside, Hitman has loads of ways to mess with people.
What do you think the minigun is for in GTA5?
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