10 Most STRESSFUL Things Gamers Do For FUN

Some gamers love to push their playtime TO THE LIMIT in some extremely stressful ways. Here are some of our favorite examples.
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[@JonGreen91]

As a trucker, who gets into the aforementioned jams, I can't think of a worse activity than to get on my laptop/PC, and play a game about my job and get in a jam while in a jam.

[@spacewolfcub]

As someone that has never had a driver’s license, I love the trucking in custom maps of Farming Simulator custom maps. It’s so peaceful… Then again, no traffic jams longer than 20sec there.

[@aa-uq1qj]

They also have a game where you can simulate working in a office cubicle lmao

[@pappo666]

i always wanted to be a Trucker but due to medical reasons i cant i find Euro Truck simulator to be as close as the real thing i can get

[@colossusX1]

jam-ception

[@stevepalpatine2828]

Yo dawg I herd you hate bad traffic...

[@wake2rbulence]

I’m actually an airline pilot and I gotta say, doing those 14-16 hour ultra long haul flights is soul crushing enough, doing it again at home? I’d rather stick my arm into a wood chipper

[@gameranxTV]

😂

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

So you’re saying the wood chipper is an option? Good to know.

[@IamaPERSON]

What would you say is the worst part about those flights?

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

@@IamaPERSON I imagine looking at the wood chipper next to the computer and deciding which is worse is probably in the top 5

[@IamaPERSON]

@@JoshuaJacobs83 yeesh. I'd think it's staying up for 14-16 hours straight

[@alanultimateplayer]

About playing the games on the hardest difficulty, I'd say I get bored when it's not challenging enough. There's some games that I absolutely love and I replay often. My satisfaction comes from becoming better and better at it

[@f8freak607]

you forgot about playing ghost recon breakpoint's immersive mode. the amounts of options the game gives the player is very impressive and all of that fun can seem like a chore and unnecessary difficulty in the eyes of a normal gamer.

[@spartanwar1185]

Literally any game with a ridiculous amount of options, controls or settings for anything Seeing the controls menu for Arma 3 nearly made my head explode, lol

[@h2oallegation]

@@spartanwar1185 dude i bought both arma 2 and 3 for that open world mod bullshit that was popular at the time but didn't understand shit about the menu and settings and after figuring it out, the servers were so incredible weird to figure out, it was such an unenjoyable experience

[@jointhekraize]

Playing RE7 in vr (one time I was doing this and my cat rubbed up against my leg and I damn near took all 9 of his lives)

[@agentt657]

💀

[@scotsava]

I laughed out loud reading this

[@burbahawa]

XD

[@jointhekraize]

@@scotsava wasn’t so funny when it happened… 😂

[@scotsava]

@@jointhekraize I 100% believe you dude

[@solocamo3654]

As I got older and my time more sparse, I just want to enjoy the game not stress myself out. Sure, I'm not as good as I once was but it's certainly more relaxing.

[@dbrx758]

Btw how old are now ??

[@joshmay2944]

Shit I’m in my mid 30s now and I’m better than ever, although I play action RPGs, not competitive fighters or shooters...

[@Chamelionroses]

I think it just depends on the person and such with life. There are gamers that are elderly minecraft to skyrim...shooter games to whatever. Time is sparce and financial issues made it difficult along way with family needs. Work can drain time of people out of gaming and energy to play for sure.

[@emilminrefsgaard]

Nothing seems more relatable

[@goodrum151]

Same here. Turning 30 I just want a quick relaxing hour or two. Used to binge for hours in my teens. Definitely my prime in fighting games

[@tentaclesmod]

Modding used to be a lot harder. Nowadays you have these nifty mod managers that have functions like auto-sort and allow you to easily remove mods without breaking anything, but back in the day modding often meant overwriting files, and if you got the order wrong, you had to scratch everything and start to install all your mods again. Worst case, you might even had to reinstall the game. I could never get deadly reflex to work in oblivion.

[@Davemonlee]

You ain’t lied. Man fuvk around and hit “overwrite all” when you shouldn’t have and kiss textures good bye and say hello to purple everything.

[@thedadfighter]

I was a difficulty purest for the last 20 years; always playing as hard as I possibly could. I finally decided this year to just play normal on my own time, and my god I feel set free 😂 Only go back if there’s a trophy involved

[@bustergundo516]

Congrats. I play on normal/hard when it fits the game.

[@Thelos90]

@@bustergundo516 agree, it always depends on the game itself ^^

[@vastreya3092]

I play the Horizon: Zero Dawn/Horizon: Forbidden West games on nightmare difficulty no matter what, and always have, simply based on the fact that killing an 80 ton robot dinosaur with a bow or stick should be adequately represented lol

[@maximilian2843]

@@bustergundo516 This! Especially survival games, but i remember games like Metro, Dishonored, Doom 2016 which create a special spicy gaming experience when playing in a high difficulty. Always worth it, but especially older games might suck because the difficulty system was often unbalanced (e.g. Far Cry 1 on veteran).

[@bustergundo516]

@@maximilian2843 people don't seem to realize that some games on hard suck!

[@stanettiels7367]

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure...” That’s how my adoptive father told me I was adopted.

[@Organicwatermelon123]

"and lemme tell you your not my treasure"

[@stanettiels7367]

@@Organicwatermelon123 Exactly that, lol.

[@Organicwatermelon123]

@@stanettiels7367 I just imagine somewhere a dad said this quote and them said "well you're my trash now"

[@stanettiels7367]

@@Organicwatermelon123 Lmfao.

[@stanettiels7367]

@@Organicwatermelon123 “....... you’re my trash now. Come ‘ere and give your dad a hug, sport..”, as your world has just been crushed. 😂😂.

[@rob-fb3ph]

I have to say one of the most ridiculous stressful thing I've done in a game was dodging 200 lightning continuously in final fantasy X for a weapon upgrade. You just can't explain these kind of things to a non gamer because they will never understand the "why".

[@dylanmcgregor6496]

Yeah, this one. Lulu's weapon and it's so worth having. I actually lost one of these attempts due to a rolling blackout LOL!

[@LEXICON-DEVIL]

There's a very specific spot you can stand where it will never hit. The power of KZbin has blessed us all. Growing up I ended up giving up on that part.

[@LEXICON-DEVIL]

Also, doing all the side quests Chocobo stuff in FF9. 🤦

[@Neis999]

@@LEXICON-DEVIL Kweh.

[@Victis_Rage]

Dude, same.. omg.

[@Megaman8880]

Pretty cool that you mentioned being a guild leader. I was the leader of a nice guild in a game called 12Sky back in the mid/late 2000's. It certainly could be stressful but it no doubt was the most satisfying experience I've ever had in a game. My guild was totally full and everyone was active, we sort of became like a family over the course of like two years. I miss those guys.

[@crispyjack428]

Ik the feeling

[@Davemonlee]

Yea I had that in WoW. I was a guild leader on a private server but never in retail. I can attest to the family feeling tho. I mean we were asking about each others kids’ health and stuff lol. One time a guy didn’t come online for days and we found his social media and phone number to check on him 😂😂😂

[@beardblanket8311]

For me the best thing I did was decide to start playing games on the hardest difficulty. Not even necessarily for the feel-good moment of beating a hard game, but to make even the smaller, mundane fights/interactions actually interesting.

[@BlueZD]

The most stressful thing I did for fun was getting all achievements or getting a platinum trophy in games which had online trophies/achievements. NEVER AGAIN 😅

[@JuanTorres-zo5xs]

Just experienced this with last of us what a slog I did it but yeah probably never again.

[@ronaneverett8202]

I was guttered when I realised ac black flag had multiplayer trophies, I was soo close to getting platinum. Same with Far Cry 5.

[@rose._fs]

I almost didn’t do the watch dogs 2 plat because of online trophies. It should be separate lists

[@nedson6503]

I don't mind, but when they cut the service there's no hope, and it's frustrating. I have loads of game I'll never be able to Plat, due to no service.

[@cdnpacker]

Yeah, 100% completion could probably be on the list

[@cheapshotninja]

Modding was such a time sink. You're definitely right about it being an oddly enjoyable process. It got to a wierd point where I would finish setting up the mods, I'd then play it for an hour or so, but I would be thinking about what else I could add to the game. Until I said "...ugh, these Mudcrabs aren't nearly sweary enough. And they look absolutely ridiculous without a monocle and top hat!"

[@TruBluMonkey]

The worst is spending days to weeks curating a mod list to perfection just to have it crash 57 hours in because… well. Cause you shouldn’t enjoy things.

[@TheMistyBlueLounge]

That happens to me everytime I've tried a heavily modded fallout game :'(

[@TruBluMonkey]

@BaxiTube these are real problems. It takes a lot to be brave enough just to re-download these games after a hard crash. Months, maybe even a year or two for me. Something about it hurts so deep your gut feels it anytime you see them again. At least for me. Hard man.

[@DobieMeltfire]

Not to mention all the hard drive space being used up. I have an 1tb hdd just for Skyrim/Assetto Corsa mods. Both use more than 2/3 of hdd. It easy to rack up so many mods like a junkie addict.

[@Perroden]

I will spend day getting mods for 1 game and getting them working before I really start playing it. And then I start playing the game and think... What else can get?

[@ShibaMiori]

3:45 getting help from the fuel rats because you forgot to include a fuel scoop to your Mining Cutter and your FC is a jump away is the best feeling ever.

[@Xaybas]

There's an easy cheese for the headless where if you can stay behind him he'll be locked in his turning animation, it takes practice but it also makes the fight quite easy

[@JG-lm9zh]

Yeah that didn't work for me so I went with old reliable GiTGuD and beat the first one (I think he was the hardest) without any confetti. Yeah it felt amazing... once I finally manage to catch my breath again lol souls games ruin me lol

[@Comander555666]

ahhh that good old feeling when you try to get mods running for 4hours and then only play 10min lol

[@flagondragon1854]

Mood

[@mackerz1015]

P

[@flagondragon1854]

@@mackerz1015 E

[@NinjaSushi2]

Try getting mods to work for days or weeks and then quit never to pick the game up.

[@davoid1792]

Every Bethesda game for me, I almost find joy in refining and patching together my own mod packs, only to delete it a week later… I should start keeping backups of those packs

[@jeffleach9023]

I'm barely even paying attention, not actually looking at the screen, and then I hear "Modding Skyrim." I instantly laughed and gave this video a like. Don't even need to hear what else there is to say on the subject, I know it's true.

[@SaintShion]

Same

[@littlesociopath69]

You voiced ghost in modern warfare 2019

[@jeffleach9023]

@@littlesociopath69 you're saying someone stole my name?

[@sergiokaminotanjo]

funny thing l didnt even heard that aprt, l was writing my comment lol... but why is so stressful to mod skyrim, l know there are some quite good

[@vorkosigan]

Modding Morrowind was the challenge. Doing the load order yourself was a pain in the butt. Very satisfying, though.

[@RB-H]

I have such little time these days with work, when I do get some “downtime”, I quite enjoy sim games. A drive in ETS 2, a Flight in Flight Sim or a long trek in Elite Dangerous. It’s the little moments of peace for me

[@gerarddelyrium3524]

8:03 I remember when back in the day I was modding Skyrim so hard that there were like 200 mods, maybe more. Then I played it, got bored because at that time I felt like I've seen all in this game, naturally I thought about adding other mods 🤔 Finally (FINALLY!!) I jumped to the conclusion that finding and installing mods was more exciting than actually playing the game 😅 Funny but it is what it is after so many hours.

[@Davemonlee]

This. So much this. Literally planning my days out around modding Skyrim “ok I work at 1 so I’ll have 4 hours to mod” 😂😂😂. You get all deep into it then put the game down for a few weeks and gotta do it all over again cause everything updated.

[@Phenom0100]

I only play games on the hardest difficulty if there is a trophy or achievement, other than that I'll play on medium or normal. Even though Sekiro does not have a difficulty setting I was able to get a platinum trophy.

[@GAsh0012]

Why do people care about trophies? Who do you show them to?

[@robinbanda1723]

@@GAsh0012 friends ? Shows you’re better at the game than others. Shows a lot of things.

[@TheScavengr]

@@GAsh0012 I actually do it for myself though, my own satisfaction.

[@alialmalki4905]

the best achivement i got was getting platinum trophy for bloodborne , it was really fun

[@auzzymotto]

@@GAsh0012 for the accomplishment and the incredible dopamine rush when you 100% a game

[@oldcdog91]

You forgot playing almost any game in “Permadeath” mode. You can lose hours upon hours of progress, not because you did something wrong, but because the game glitches or crashes 😢

[@agustin47]

Agreed! Maybe at least merging it with the Pokémon topic. (Btw, divinity 2 is dope in permadeath)

[@jakegovson1813]

YES, divinity 2 does difficulty in general perfectly, Literally on tactical mode its not so difficult as to force you to avoid the story, yet not so story focused as to remove the mechanics Its amazing (Loshe is best dos2 waifu and you cannot deny it..)

[@agustin47]

@@jakegovson1813 I see you are a man of culture as well

[@Megaman8880]

Welcome to the world of the original Nintendo or Sega Genesis :P Back in the day we had to play hardcore/permadeath mode on every game we played.

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

Isn’t that called not having a memory card in the PS2 era

[@jonnyDundead]

I had a house party 6 years ago with some close friends, I was 30 and single. One of my best friends got a ride to my house for the party from some girl he just met. Everyone was having the time of their life, but me and her immediately got hooked on my brand new PSVR(1). The game I just got and had to show her was RE7. She literally play the game straight through in VR and killed it. She has never left my side since that day and is now my wife of 5 and half years. It's so stressful , but amazing at the same time that if you can complete that with someone the both of you can accomplish anything.

[@Randallsilver]

I led a guild for almost two years and I regret it 😅 it was indeed very stressful and looking back, I could have had so much more fun playing all these different games. Catching up to those, though.

[@Kamakazi025]

Same, but I put it on job apps as "management skills" XD

[@wonderingeye98]

The elite dangerous one of the search parties gives me a little hope for humanity that there are people whose way of having fun is to search for and help those who are stranded out in space. When compared to the gamers that genuinely search for ways to ruin the fun for other people simply for the sadistic pleasure of ruining the fun.

[@charleswest782]

The Fuel Rats are damn amazing...

[@dickysatria7268]

That one huh , iirc theres someone that been saved by them after got stranded in outer area and they need around 2 months i think before the stranded one got saved by the fuel rats ?

[@AliciaDarky]

Haha, that one really caught my attention. I have the odd need of playing that game now.

[@Tomyironmane]

They sound like fun people. And I agree. I actually consistently take all the Rescue missions in Kerbal Space Program for a similar reason.

[@ItsJustToe]

@@Tomyironmane There was one where the guy was on a low gravity planet and was in just floating around in the SRV. The Fuel rats came and "bopped" him back to the ground. It was fun to watch

[@chuck7699]

Yeah, playing on Max difficulty is like kicking a bees nest not expecting to get stung. Meanwhile your friends that didn't kick it are telling you how great the honey is.

[@alexandertye3244]

I love this Analogy man

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

It’s like picking a fight with a coked up tiger and miraculously walking out unscathed (“DODGE” -Piccolo TFS)

[@darthcaedus9130]

Soulsbourne: I have no such weakness. Beating horizon zero dawn and last of us on the hardest difficulty was amazing but never again

[@evertonashcroft2575]

@@darthcaedus9130 I haven’t quite finished horizon (on the highest difficulty)yet but my dad played both last of us games on the highest difficulty and even he said never again And sometimes the soulsborne game can be harder than most games with difficulty options

[@aa-uq1qj]

The way I see it, playing any game on a difficulty less than hard is like giving yourself a medal just for participating.

[@TheExuuberant]

I can binge watch this entire channel. It's so good.

[@mtl47]

This is a hilarious video. A couple of years ago I realized how stressed out I'd get playing horror games while playing "Outlast". That's why I decided to leave them behind.

[@dima_keller]

Is Outlast considered as a scary game? What's the scariest game you played and how scarier is it in comparison to Outlast? I wanna get into horror games, but so far they're mostly boring (Outlast) and/or hilarious (in a bad way)

[@mtl47]

@Dima Keller I consider Outlast a horror game. I'm almost 100% sure they sold it as a horror game too.

[@dima_keller]

@@mtl47 that's not what I meant, but it doesn't matter. How about the second half of the comment?

[@owengarner5505]

@@dima_keller scariest game I’ve ever played is outlast

[@styx8975]

8:04 this video comes out a couple hours after I’ve reinstalled Skyrim and I’m reinstalling my 100+ mods.

[@gameranxTV]

😅

[@spacewolfcub]

It’s been a month… You’re still installing and troubleshooting, aren’t you?

[@ZombieKiller2019]

Oh god, the headless was the bane of my existence while I was playing that! At least underwater you could run away from them fairly quickly. It might be time to replay that.

[@ollehkacb]

You know I didn't have that hard a time fighting him. Only problem I had was the finding the pills to be able to hit him.

[@JayHog1992]

Simulators can be great, depending on the type. House flipper can be an amazing game about remodeling places at the costumer's or at your choice. Alongside achievement hunting too.

[@manaraxjendo7900]

MS flight simulator is actually the software used in many professional flight simulators. And there is a reason. It's the most accurate. So most who do this are actually training to fly.

[@1wayroad935]

>Most STRESSFUL Things Gamers Do For FUN Buy a $2500 gaming rig

[@gameranxTV]

Oh boy...😅

[@InMaTeofDeath]

Want stressful? This year I bought a 3080 Ti from a dude I met on Discord only about a week before getting it. Drove an hour to meet in person to buy it off him for 300 over MSRP which for this specific EVGA 3080 Ti means it ends up being 1700 all cash. Thankfully everything went exactly as planned and I have my new card which murders all the games I throw at it. But yeah those days leading up to buying it my anxiety levels were off the charts.

[@iambiggus]

Or when that gaming pc suddenly refuses to boot up and you can't figure out why 😞 Wish me luck.

[@nickgarcia1292]

That's just a GPU

[@nickgarcia1292]

@@iambiggus hmm did it crash shut down? Does anything power on? I'm always curious why peoples pcs wont work

[@odethious5639]

"A lot of the mods have bugs." But the bugs shipped with a bit of skyrim anyway.

[@zwabbah4841]

Pp

[@Filtiarin]

The headless really messed me up in sekiro early game not gonna lie. Then you figure out that you can use divine confetti and akos sugar (think thats the red one) and just wreck them to kingdom come with no effort. Gotta hand it to FromSoftware for always rewarding good strategic combat.

[@kardoszoltan7202]

and then you realize that the purple umbrella makes them a joke

[@midnightmoron332]

I love the edits when he casually says sometimes accidents happen and it cuts to Trevor blowing up 4 cars

[@3shphantom]

The most stressful thing I have ever done in a game was probably attempting to be Doom Eternal on Ultra Nightmare. I was never able to do it but damn I was sweating like hell.

[@Destroyer_13]

they really increased the difficulty in Eternal. If youre playing on console youre lucky if you can beat a level on ultra violence.

[@SkinnyBichus]

Yep made a comment about this too somewhere on this video. My friends told me if you dont beat it on hard it wont feel "rewarding" 4 months later it remains unbeaten.

[@kj25]

0:56 Even Falcon can't hold his laugh. lmao.

[@x7ameedo700]

Oww Skyrim. You don't know how right you are regarding this one and how you made me smile, as a person with 250 active mod running together seemlesly (i know people have like 800 mods but im okay with mine), you don't know the trial and errors I've done to make them work, i actually mod Skyrim more than playing it, but it is so satisfying when they all work perfectly. And the highest difficulty was my thing before, but i got older and busier and i just don't have enough time to keep failing all the time and slowly progress through the game, so i go for normal mode just to progress and complete other games in my lists, besides, bieng completionist is the hard road, nowadays i just want to complete the game and play the next one, because no enough time, mabe in future when i have more time I'll try to complete them all.

[@lukewatkins7354]

As someone who ran 250+ mods on OG Skyrim, I can attest that it is indeed very stressful and time consuming, but worth it in the end

[@thealdoc]

The Fuel Rats are absolute legends

[@demonstone0]

They saved my bacon once.

[@GileadGaming]

Oh yes they are

[@Victor-xt6ll]

I know a lot of people who play flight simulator for hours on end, just love the feeling a being an actual pilot. For many it’s like playing your dream job

[@SaintShion]

Im getting my pilots license its extremely stressful but fun, playing FS during Cvid was actually relaxing

[@kevindemille-gray166]

@@SaintShion what do mean by fs

[@Victor-xt6ll]

@@SaintShion That’s awesome man, looking to get mine in 2 years

[@Victor-xt6ll]

@@kevindemille-gray166 he meant flight simulator

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

It’s not my dream job but Euro Truck Simulator was that way for me. It was widely relaxing and fun. And when I did crash into a car, I actually started apologizing to the drivers. Totally unlike GTA

[@kyoroth8580]

Ahhh modding Skyrim, I must have spend hundreds of hours on that in total. I have done a lot of different playthroughs with different mod setups and the more times I did it, the less time I actually spend playing the game itself. Eventually it got to the point where I got bored before I even finished modding and that was when I decided to finally move on from Skyrim.

[@paladin_83]

It was the same for me. I've modded a few games and each time it's fun to a point. Once I went past that point it seemed to suck out and destroy all of the love I once had for the game. I've been considering getting back into Skyrim, though. I wonder if I can find and walk that fine line this time.

[@nordvestgaming1238]

@@paladin_83 I'm like 5 months late, but there is a cool new feature when you use Vortex and Nexus where people can upload their modlist, and you can just download all the mods at once, with all the load orders and dependencies already taken care of. Granted you do lose a lot of the control you get with modding it yourself, but if you want to get back into Skyrim but want it to look better you can just find a modlist you like and download it, and then just play the game.

[@paladin_83]

@@nordvestgaming1238 That sounds like something I could use. I'm on console though, and I'd bet this isn't something available for Xbox.

[@juansalcedo9787]

I love playing games on the hardest or nearly hardest difficulty because it forces me to get really good at the game. The beginning is usually the most frustrating but once u get the hang of it it can be really rewarding.

[@smug880]

another thing on the skyrim modding part: when you've installed tons of mods, and the game suddenly don't work. you literally have to disable every individual mod one after the other to find out what causes your game to crash.

[@CL-rm6sb]

Not if you use a binary tree / divide and conquer approach where you test one half vs the other and keep reducing the result by half. Max 8 steps to isolate a mod amongst 256.

[@zeening]

and that is ALWAYS where i just get pissed and uninstall because i've already dumped an entire day or 2 at that point

[@spartanwar1185]

@@CL-rm6sb You can avoid all of this if your game prints errors or crashes to something, then if you know what to look for, you can find out exactly what mod(s) are causing problems That's what i usually do anyways I'll also know exactly who to complain to _about_ said errors or crashes, lol

[@ItzViscy]

Dark souls fans be like, "I'm a masochist"

[@blackvalio4060]

Nah we just gud

[@rounaksaxena2804]

i searched the word and now I regret my life choices

[@Organicwatermelon123]

@@rounaksaxena2804 lmao

[@snooppp8873]

speaking of hard games, God of War's give me god of war mode has been torturing me everytime I play.

[@Antenna17701...]

@@snooppp8873 took me a long time to beat that one a real long time

[@durdened]

I also felt the Guild Leader one before in Guild Wars 2. Having to constantly be on to defend in WvW Stonemist Castle. That was stressful when you always have to lead and give orders.

[@GabrielFrost]

I once ran out of fuel playing Elite Dangerous and had the Fuel Rats come out and save me. Was one of my top gaming experiences ever, really felt like we hit the heart of cooperative play.

[@realworldplay]

Resident Evil 7 in VR was stressful, but really good nonetheless.

[@koltonkrulicki677]

I always thought that game would be stressful in VR... Also very terrifying.

[@thefaceturner2248]

That’s the scariest game I’ve played In vr

[@realworldplay]

@@thefaceturner2248 same here 👍

[@DobieMeltfire]

Honorable mention: Endurance racing Sims. I have seen KZbinrs very committed in a 4 hour online race with a steering wheel. I recently got into sim racing but only in a brief 30 minutes races.

[@joshmay2944]

Sounds like nascar for weebs lol

[@niewyimaginowany87]

4 hts isn't that much, there are also 24 hrs, ofc drivers are changing like irl but still it's demanding

[@andremalerba5281]

That's just insane! I feel bored if there's much more than 3 laps on the same track already! LOL The biggest endurance I remember doing was one on I believe GT4 which had 30 laps on Trial Mountain, I never dared to even start the other endurances LOL

[@estudiordl]

First turn and I just u turn and crash every car I can.

[@axeltank06]

I totally agree with falcon I play games to progress, relax and to experience the story without having to fight extremely hard to do so. I'd feel like I wasted what limited free time I have if I spent the last hour or so dying and repeating. If I wanted to be stressed out I'd just wake up in the morning.

[@Chadseltje]

i gotta say that the music choice for this video is very good!

[@Nipplator99999999999]

Having ran a corp in EVE Online for a while, I agree with you 100%. My best advice is to not do it no matter how much you hate yourself.

[@Elsinnombre-ez5dn]

I think I developed PTSD from sekiro Every time it’s brought up I have a million flashbacks of death in that game

[@InMaTeofDeath]

Demon of Hatred was the worst for me, I'm glad I refused to face the final boss before I beat him since I'm pretty sure I would have said fuck it if I went back after.

[@YuniorGamboa]

😆😆

[@dbrx758]

I haven’t played sekiro but I can relate it because of Dark souls 3...

[@first_timer_]

@@dbrx758 dude ds3 is an walk in the park compared to sekiro, well at least for your first sekiro play through , it’s completely different it’s like parry city but once you get it down it’s all good , basically every boss in sekiro for someone coming from dark souls is like the nameless king, but bro i would totally recommend it’s extremely fun

[@joshmay2944]

@@first_timer_ fuckin nameless king took me 3 days to beat and I’ve always sucked at parrying in Souls... could Sekiro be the game that finally makes me GIT GUD?!

[@WaLLy_]

It's so cool the FuelRats from Elite Dangerous als features in the video. There is a requirement list if you want to become a Rat. It's super awsome when you are stranded with your ship and all your valuable cargo and you are running out of O2 and have no fuel left, those guy's come to help. Absolute amazing group.

[@50shadesofgandalfthegrey]

my dad is a pilot and flight instructor, and he said the only time he doesn't skip in flight simulator is when he's training his students. he wants them to get used to waiting and the fact that flying has it's "boring" parts (he thinks it's ALL exciting). so it DOES have a purpose.

[@a1elemental740]

Playing difficult games that’s my fun heh

[@gameranxTV]

👍

[@kingshadow8782]

Very good!

[@dawidfinke3569]

Spec ops : the line on fubar was a fun nightmare

[@Disciple7218]

Same my man

[@JBrandonMercer123]

@Dedue Do I play games on the hardest difficulty and I am pretty bad.

[@AndoniOlea]

Some time ago, after passing the Ghost of Tsushima on normal difficulty, I decided to play it again on hard; but my brother convinced me to change it to lethal. Now it is impossible for me to go back to difficult, out of pure pride. Also when you finally complete a mission, you really relax and feel good.

[@leverage1990]

I'm a filthy casual and settled for playing it at the second highest difficulty, but it really makes the game rewarding experience

[@andrieslategan4139]

Man I love watching your videos, it soothes me

[@TheRealOGnick]

The idea of people putting together search parties for other players is so cool to me haha

[@explorationgmer1336]

😉

[@skykaptain007]

For those 13 hour flights in FS I take off then get to cruse altitude then go to bed/work then do the decent and landing. Or for smaller flights do chores around the house. autopilot FTW

[@StorkNest]

I agree with the ones I know and understand. Surprised you did not include playing Solo in online gaming. While people have reasons to do it, I have, there are ways online gaming causes more stress than fun and sometimes you wonder why continue.

[@coolkid_ghost2722]

When ever I play games I don't get mad or rage because I'm not gonna get mad over a game for no reason

[@NookaNifty]

Lol! The flightsim part hit waaay too close 🤣🤣🤣 Not doing those crazy-long hauls, but 3-4 hour flights regularly, and they are tedious enough 😅

[@danielthomas7193]

This is specific for me. Whenever I play ANY Mega Man game (classic, X, etc.), I always play Buster Only. The only exceptions are when you need powers to get extras (E-Tanks, Heart Tanks) or if it is a boss that is literally immune to the Buster. They will only take damage from a special. Then I have no choice.

[@DeltaBananas]

I started gaming from around age 10 - from 2000. I gave up somewhere in 2006 because of studies, after that I built my own computer first time in 2020 during pandemic. Now I have a backlog of almost 15 years of games. And mind you I am not limited to any particular genre. That alone is so much stressful and fun for me to watch my library of games to grow infinitely and never end.

[@niewyimaginowany87]

Most stressfull thing I'm doing is participating in Dirt Rally 2.0 series called survivathon, in general in every event are 12 long stages to go without any service area, so basically your 1,5-2 hrs run may end earlier because of single accident. I love it, every finished rally is like win ;)

[@crimace9703]

Wow, that modding skyrim part couldnt have come at a better time. Im playing modded skyrim rn, and I just booted up the nexus to see if theres anything else I "need".

[@SparkyThePikachu100]

Honestly surprised full odds shiny hunting in Pokémon wasn’t on here but nuzlocking was

[@shahnaaustin302]

I though that to. But at least you can "keep" the shiny Pokemon even when it faints. But in nuzlock when encountering literally ANYTHING in battle it can one shot a Pokemon you're trying to level up. And leveling up can just get repeatative and boring after a while. Plus if you get attached to certain Pokemon (like me) them "dying" will just make it harder.

[@rikweeds2306]

They should have put beating a game without getting spotted and without killing anyone

[@mbatistas]

When I saw the title, all I could think about was to get all collectables for an achievement. You know, that game with 250 collectables hidden across the map with no way to track other than making notes yourself. You miss one, now you have to check everything again, one by one. Happened to me on Infamous 2 and GTA V stunt jumps.

[@fumionce]

i think the speedrunning one should be rated higher only because the level speedrunning goes to. like every checkpoint of every game is tagged and used in speedrunning for optimization, which in its own is incredible if you think about how many games have been made and how much time people have put in to perfecting every game to date

[@Techybryan]

Bro i just love Gameranx cause he says the real things keep up bro🤟🤟

[@gameranxTV]

🤟

[@InMaTeofDeath]

Getting all the mods I want for skyrim/fallout has actually become kinda fun for me since usually it ends up taking at least one whole day if my intent is to go as all out as I'm willing to go. Probably never went beyond 200 mods on a game but 100-150 is quite common for me. It feels like the game before the game where you get to build it up to be as awesome as you want it to be. Slightly worried about modding these days though, I haven't done any heavy modding to a game since the whole nexus fiasco with the creators leaving. Hopefully that doesn't make things too much more difficult.

[@emilio_jimenez]

Modding Fallout 4 rn on PlayStation and boy is it a chore 😅. Non-gamers could never.

[@shinrailp1416]

IT's always fun with a new game. You start the game in vanilla and after a while you think to yourself "I wonder if it already hase some mods?" and then you download one, and then another one and so on until the mods take up more disc space than the game itself. Building my own experience bit by bit like that is just really fun and and i will NEVER understand publishers/developers who are against mods(in an offline setting)

[@InMaTeofDeath]

@@Mars_Rigisamus For me I've had the most success with Fallout New Vegas. Despite being a buggy mess the writing and crazy world is rarely boring. Doesn't hurt that it has the best RPG mechanics either, now if only it had Fallout 4's gunplay and it'd be the perfect Fallout.

[@mdahsenmirza2536]

I save my mods folder

[@luklopskywalk]

Morrowind.

[@klittle5627]

Led a guild in a large MMO. Built it to be one of the top 10 largest. Did nothing but tend to guild politics and had no time to actually play the game anymore. Gave the guild to a willing person. Returned to happiness and bliss.

[@abigailhowe8302]

"speedrunning is stressful" I mean, when I was a member of the Perfect Dark Elite community, it took me like 2 or 3 days of replaying the first mission to get time for 2/3 of the levels (first mission is 3 levels) down to the qualifying threshold for the site. I still remember the weirdly oblong loop you had to angle-run from the roof access room down to the elevators at the CEO floor...then repeat it again at the lobby level in order to maximize efficiency... But sometimes it really is the STRESS that is the fun part.

[@paulb4604]

Ok yeah I'm one of those flight sim guys. I've been flying flight sims for almost 25 years. I've done hundreds of long haul flights, though these days I usually limit it to 2 or 3 hour flights. I'd love to say that you're missing the point of flying the long hauls, and well you sort of are, but I can see the side you're discussing. But there are online networks that host thousands of guys every day flying their flight simulators while interracting with live air traffic control provided by other simmers sitting at their computers. So I can see how to someone who isn't into flying how it can be dumb to sit there for an entire flight. But for hardcore simulation fans, the sitting there is part of the experience. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! LOL

[@user-bx6wd1yb5s]

Re7 is maybe the most stressful of the series. You always feel exposed somehow.

[@Anthonial_Mjj]

As a founder of a very old, HIGHLY successful and active Destiny 2 clan, I can confirm that sometimes it does get a bit stressful, the worst part is when there is drama amongst members, it's pathetic, it's something you don't wanna deal with, but need to in order to show that you care, even though you actually think having drama in a game is ridiculous, it's worse yet when it's between admin. It's also a full time job, especially when, like myself you're in the top 1 percent of players, and a leading Sherpa player, so there are expectations. HOWEVER, the pay off outweighs the negatives astronomically, always having solid friends to play with, people you can bank on when things get tense in a raid, or when you need someone patient to lean on and pick up some slack while teaching new raiders how things work, or even just setting up silly events, like soccer games, Halloween costume contests, raid races, etc etc, and I'll never get tired of the way people count on me and come to me for advice, or confidence either in-game or out. It truly is an amazing feeling.

[@dechrigaming5936]

I have two additions: 1. Sim racing. It can be awesome, but it can be damn stressful. The close battles for the win while not being sure if someone just bumps you out of existense and thus ending your race. 2. Games where you gather a ton of resources, like minecraft and conan exiles and then you need to get a ton of valuable resources a long journey into your home through a butt load of dangerous obstacles. Like minecraft can be a true horror game sometimes.

[@iammaxhailme]

"Think about what my life could have been if I had decided to buy a guitar instead of a Gamecube when I was 11"

[@BusterBuizel]

Number Zero: Playing Escape From Tarkov

[@jomahawk7488]

7:09 The reason a Nuzlocke is called a Nuzlocke is because of the first person to come up with the challenge: An Artist from Cali named Nick Franco. He originally just called it “Pokemon Ruby Hard Mode,” and drew a comic about his run through Pokemon Ruby with his added rules. The “Nuzlocke” name came from the “floating head” that Franco came up with to narrate the comic: The head of Nuzleaf, one of his favorite Pokemon, with the face of Locke from the show Lost.

[@BobMerlinx]

No mention of challenges like "If you die, you start over", something that makes Souls-like games and many others, EXTREMELY hard and stressful.

[@believeinmatter]

Never used too, but recently i’ve been cranking the difficulties of any games i’ve been playing in the last year or so, i think its got me a lot more of out experiences by really having to learn the mechanics to survive

[@blablup1214]

I am the opposite. Nowadays I have much less time. So to reach the end of games I quit playing on hardest mode :D and play only on "normal" or "hard"...

[@clericofchaos1]

I knew that the simulation games would be on here. No sane person should want to spend 18 hours, in real time, driving or flying across the country, and yet people do it. Not me, damn sure not me, I would need a very real paycheck for that.

[@DomagojSkokg00gleplussuckz]

I share same opinion as you do on everything you mentioned. For me one of the most frustrating part of gaming was playing League of Legends ranked for 4 years for which as i grew older seemed like a waste of time. Now that i have less time i like to enjoy playing AAA games on consoles (still can't get a hold of PS5).

[@Cry_ct]

The reason most people do number 9 is because some people have fun flying a plane, I myself have done that a few times, even when I wasn't bored, it's enjoyable having a feeling of power and control of a plane, unlike in real life.

[@SunBrohan]

Ultimate gamers stress Olympics: Playing through the entire souls series without taking a single hit..... With invasions..... Yes it's been done.

[@psychonautic7779]

That’s insane

[@SunBrohan]

@@psychonautic7779 Imagine how he felt when he beat the Lord of cinder at the end of DS3.

[@djhart25]

I will never be convinced that the headless aren't the most boring, useless, unimaginative, and overall shite boss in the entire From Software line of games. Would genuinely love to hear the devs thinking behind them. They aren't even satisfying once you beat them.

[@kooperhoy9690]

bad.

[@z_e_ph_y_r8926]

The modding thing is so true, I spent so much time for modding gta sa, gta v, skyrim etc. But its really satisfying when everything works well at the end.

[@mewinful]

Euro truck really helps me calm down after a very stressful day, just driving around and listing to radio 😅

[@daleanguiano6780]

How is killing optional bosses stressful? I mean, to some degree yes, in be stressful. But people who are into these hard fights usually do them to show their competence in the game. We do it for the challenge most of the time. I do at any rate. If it was just for an item I probably wouldn't be as into it.

[@ashilmanoj175]

Keeping daddy joel as thumbnail sure will give this video alot of clicks.

[@justinbayless8284]

I found the underwater headless to be so much easier than above water. The side sprint underwater makes dodging so easy.

[@lolcatsravenight]

On flight sims, they're amazing for real pilots & people learning to become pilots, ESPECIALLY the boring parts!! If you can't sit in your office flying for four hours... you can't do it in a real plane. It's boring as hell but it also keeps your mind focused on not-dying, and, when funds are low (or weather is absolute garbage) keep your skills sharp for the next time you get up in the air. But if you're a casual non-pilot and you do that shit you're heckin crazy

[@corkbulb2895]

About #3, it's not just modding specifically Skyrim that is tedious and time consuming, it's modding ANY game. I used to make custom maps for half life and quake, and it took FOREVER to make them even close to decent and playable. Not to mention getting everything to work right, and then trying to balance the difficulty and enemy and item placement. I spent hundreds of hours making my series of levels, and I think they came out great and love to play them. However, some of my friends who have played them said they suck and hated them. I made them mainly for my own sake. But the amount of time and effort I put into those maps was rediculous. I salute game developers for their hard work, and understand that making games is not all that fun most of the time.

[@AdoteAzhar]

There was a time, when I can't wait to get home to my PC so I can mod Syrim (installing mods, not making em); till 3 or 4 a.m, & then head straight to bed (not even playing the game). This exact scenarios happened not just to me, but many others in the community as well.

[@Xtariz]

Elite one is actually really someone else spending days flying out to a remote part of the galaxy just to help another person

[@jesseseogeek]

Another good one that is super specific is playing any of the From Software games with modifiers. Like not getting hit or no armor. That's just insanity