Most Stressing Game?

[Jmarcelo]

What is the most Stressing game currently? I know Crysis is up there but isn't there anything more stressing?

[mikeymm]

I don't game much lately, but I thought area 51 looked stressing and maybe deadspace 2, also the new resident evil. (forget which # RE is on now) but it looked stressing to me in the new trailer I saw the other night.

[Anomo]

When you say stressing. Do you mean on the player or the computer?

[David M]

The most stress I have ever felt with a game is an approach in a 737-800 in Microsoft Flight Simulator in limited visibility weather at night with high crosswinds on three monitors. It seems VERY real. The physiological reaction I get is somewhat surprising. The stress is much more than any FPS I have played.

If I don't collapse a landing gear or drag a wing, I find myself thinking in the taxiway, "(expletive)!, that was intense!"

[birddog_61]

Probably crisis warhead or metro 2033, crisis 2 is due out this month and should raise the bar again hopefully.

[David M]

Multiplayer warfare FPS games are pretty intense, going against other humans most of which are better than myself.

[Jmarcelo]

I really meant on a computer but a psyc perspective is interesting.

[Entsure]

How about Supreme Commander maxxed out?

In terms of psychologically stressing, atm for me has to be Doritos Crash Course on XBLA. Free download and well worth it - platformer "Wipeout" style game... very funny 2 player, yet maddeningly, hideously frustrating when you get right to the end of a difficult series of jumps and slides only to balls up the final jump. Arrgghhhh!

[David M]

Originally Posted by Jmarcelo I really meant on a computer but a psyc perspective is interesting.

For a graphics card, Crysis, because it was written with a very inefficient game engine. It's so bad that even with a 5970 you cannot turn up the game settings all the way and have playable frame rates. Crytec now has CryEngine 2 and the second version of Crysis, Crysis Warhead is less demanding on the graphics card. It's one of the better games I have played and look forward to the third version which is coming out on March 22.

As far as putting a load on the CPU for games or a simulator, I think Microsoft Flight Simulator X does that by the greatest amount. In one of the flight sim forums people are saying it is nice that CPU's are catching up to the demand this software is capable of putting on a CPU. Microsoft stopped development of MFS in 2007 which is a strange decision because the software still sells quite a bit. Fortunately there is X-Plane which has an active development team and is better than MFS in many ways and keeps improving. The flight physics are supposedly very realistic.

[Hi Ho]

I haven't played a game more demanding (or better looking) than Crysis. I haven't played it for a while but it really is a benchmark game as far as graphics quality. Maybe my definition of playable framerates is different but I have no problems running both the original Crysis and Warhead at the max settings on a 5870 all the way through the campaign.