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Have you ever experienced a strong adrenaline rush while gaming?

Have you ever experienced a strong adrenaline rush while gaming?

  • Yes, commonly.

    Votes: 6 9.8%
  • Yes, rarely.

    Votes: 44 72.1%
  • No.

    Votes: 11 18.0%

  • Total voters
    61

PorkaMorka

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Have you ever experienced a strong adrenaline rush while gaming? If so, what types of games triggered it?

The term adrenaline rush is thrown around a lot in gaming circles, but I'm not convinced it is always used literally.

I'm talking about the true physical fight or flight adrenaline rush, like what you might experience from a real life fight, sports moment or situation where you narrowly avoided serious injury.

I voted "Yes, rarely".

As far as I remember, I have only experienced a true adrenaline rush from player vs player combat in multiplayer online RPGs. Mostly Ultima Online, but occasionally in PVP situations in other MMORPGs as well.

I believe that the characteristics which may have contributed to this were:

- No save game
- Playing against other humans
- Significant consequences for death
- Social environment where the unit I controlled functioned as a digital avatar of myself, not just a character in a game.

I've never gotten a similar adrenaline rush from a pure action game, except possibly (I don't remember for sure) when I played in a competitive FPS clan briefly. If I did get one there, it wasn't very strong or very often. Maybe only in super high stakes situations?

What about you guys?
 

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Yes, from time to time. The last time was while playing Silent Hill 2, but maybe, that was more "emotion" than "adrenaline" thing, but stilll... Oh, yeah, I get it, while playing finale stages in the L4D's - in the those last moments, after last wave of horde, when multiple tanks rushed at you and you have a few seconds to get to the Safe Point. Very adrenalineally situation.
 

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Competitive multiplayer games are about the only games that lead to such things for me, and I barely ever play them; can probably count the situations where it actually happened on one hand as well, a couple of occasions in the Jedi Academy Movie Battles mod are all that spring to mind immediately. Maybe the occasional skin-of-my-teeth 1%-hull Freespace 2 battle or something as well, but it's rarely strong enough to be memorable.
 

Renegen

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Almost all mine were in multiplayer FPS games. I find deathmatch triggers it more often than team-based objectives.
 

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the part in saints row the third when holding out for a hero starts playing, very visceral stuff

fighting gold bosses in guilty gear survival mode was the last high intensity peak I experienced I think

40 minutes of non-stop survival mode is more than enough to require a break
 
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Only happens to me when I feel like shit is on the line. I.e. 15-20% HP left of a challenging raidboss you've been wiping on for a long time in some MMORPG, or a fountain/1rax vs. fountain/1rax situation in a 70-minute long game of DotA.
 

SerratedBiz

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Never had a real adrenaline surge in MMOs, more like a heightened awareness thing. I'm tense, really focused, but nothing like an adrenaline rush.

Escape scenes in games, OTOH, those really get me going. The hotel one in DCotE like jcd mentioned, your Silent Hills, the first time I ran into those octopus headed guards in Demon Souls... basically anything where your back is turned to the threat and you're scrambling for your life.
 

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I don't know if this counts, but I remember when I was a kid playing games I'd get so excited and into the game that I would turn the controller the direction I'd be trying to go and be moving all around because I was excited. Once I got use to it, I sort of became desensitized and just stayed still while playing games.
 
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Saved red team from a humiliating defeat on the last point of Badwater TF2. I felt pretty good about carrying the team from hopelessness to victory and the feeling was enhanced by

 

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Yes. A friend and I spent months acquiring all the "suicidal" and some of the "Hell on Earth" map achievements in Killing Floor (it took a while because we were doing it on pubs and dealing with shit/useless joiners).

If we got close to the end or we were really pushing a wave (last few waves, lots of deaths, carrying the team), I'd often be hit with a huge adrenaline rush, my teeth would be clenched for a solid 2 hours I'd put totally upright in combat mode. Would take a while to relax afterwards. It was alot easier if we got the map achievement and I could feel like we'd really kicked some ass.
 

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the part in saints row the third when holding out for a hero starts playing, very visceral stuff
Yessssssssssss. That game is far better than it has any right being. I would be excited about the upcoming expansion if the mission DLC wasn't so crappy/short.
 

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Yessssssssssss. That game is far better than it has any right being. I would be excited about the upcoming expansion if the mission DLC wasn't so crappy/short.

I honestly thought they would go nuts with dlc and have at least three times the amount they put out so far

seriously that game is just right for bolting on extra shit, who gives a shit about the plot let me have a boxing match minigame on the back of a vtol jet commented on by a man who lapses into german swearing or something

do these volition guys not want money or what
 

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Strong adrenaline rushes? Not really. Otherwise I do get an adrenaline rush sometimes, yeah.
 

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Yes, rarely, though I'd rather say occasionally. Multiplayer is good for this, PVP or PVE - otherwise, I've gotten it before when:
(A) Ironman and you pull something off, most recently Dungeons of Dredmor where I teleported to pick up and eat food just in time to offset poison;
(B) The moment when you realise what a game is offering you. Yes, C&C can give you adrenaline rushes. I don't mean the retarded FO3 flash of light, but when you realise you're walking up the spine to talk to Myrkul, or you're speaking to the Good Incarnation, that is a thrilling experience.
(C) Occasionally, sports games, action games and the like, though that's rare.
 

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Playing the aliens in Tremulous is always a rush. In particular the dretch (it's so weak and you have to get so close) and the Dragoon (awesome pouncing action).
 

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No, I am pretty relaxed when I play games. If I am not feeling relaxed, it won't be long before I stop playing.
 

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While playing PES, hotseat with friends - every match that wasn't one sided.
I remember one particular match Real(me) vs Barca, with a friend who hated both Real and particularly Raul. I won 4 - 3 after extra time, Raul scoring 4 goals. I had a 10 minute high.
Also for a short while on America's Army, I was a competent player, and I very much liked remaining the last on the team vs. 3 or 4 enemies, gunning them all down with an AR.
 

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No, I am pretty relaxed when I play games. If I am not feeling relaxed, it won't be long before I stop playing.

This. It's the reason I generally don't like horror and RTS games (if they don't have a pause feature).
 

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Yes. When I purchased Oblivion CE for $66 and started playing just to find out soon enough it's a terrible piece of shit and waiting for it for such a long time was a mistake.

Apart from that? No, no adrenaline rushes. I do get "emotionally engaged" in games, quite often even, however it's far from raising my adrenaline a lot. I feel the tension in some games, melancholy, amusement, , some excitement... but to a limited levels. I can't really imagine boosting my adrenaline while playing. I do encounter it from time to time in case of others when playing online.
 

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Had it in Prince of Persia Warrior Within when that big dark thing chases you, same in Alice: Madness returns with the giant joker.

But the most intense adrenalin rush would have to be Penumbra: The Black Plague, and Amnesia. Those 2 were actually draining to play.
 

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Yeah, occasionally.

PVP in Haven & Hearth

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Trying to micro infantry, tanks, AT and artillery against co-ordinated enemy in Men of War: Assault Squad

Permadeath against human opponent, that's the stuff.
 

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I got that when beating God of War 2 Challenge of the Titans and Devil May Cry 3 Bloody Palace survival modes. Was a weird feeling in the last stages that I was playing by instinct, not anymore by thinking or even pressing buttons...

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Survival games sometimes trigger those, Nemesis chases in RE3 as CK pointed out, and more recently Amnesia patroling guards

It's hard to get that feeling in RPGs, especially due to hit rolls...you can be playing masterfully well and about to land the killing blow, but see [miss]...
 

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