Games as anger management?

[outspaced]

After my crap day at work I'm going to set up Steel Battalion, fire up a 3rd generation mech and blow shit up. Hopefully that'll cheer me up.

Does this sort of thing work for anyone else around here?

[rgraves]

Stress is what the melee attack was made for......mmmmmm *thuuwwhummppp*

[jeff mills gran]

After my crap at work I'm going to set up Steel Battalion, fire up a 3rd generation mech and blow shit up. Hopefully that'll cheer me up.

Does this sort of thing work for anyone else around here?

yes.

[Davros sock drawer]

I tend to get drunk and watch something funny when I've had a shite day at work. I have to be in a good mood to play games.

[phastie]

I've had a fucking awful day!

But I'm looking foward to swishing down the slopes of 1080 to take the pain away.

[hughes]

Yeah I had a bad day today too, I don't think I've ever had a bad day that wasn't a Wednesday. I hate Wednesdays.

Stress relief? Need a game with guns, lots of guns.

[fasteasyfree]

My day hasn't been too bad. I got up at 9:30, went to uni to pick up my Welsh Assembly grant, came back home and had a full cooked breakfast meal. The stress of it all is unbearable.

[spanx]

Just don't play PES3. I nearly had a broken sitting room the other night due to the cheating bastard Nord team.

[Judas]

Agressive music can work was anger management. It might take the edge of your frustration/anger.

[fasteasyfree]

Agressive music can work was anger management. It might take the edge of your frustration/anger.

I actually find it fuels it. If I need to calm down, I relax with a book, and some classical music on in the background.

[AndyB]

I actually find it fuels it. If I need to calm down, I relax with a book, and some classical music on in the background.

BIG HUGE

[Lazychu]

It depends what game and how they're played.

Something like GTA III/VC with cheats on, just pissing about with no goals is great fun and almost cathartic.

As long as the game itself isn't frustrating and pretty simple to play, it can help.

[Rocko]

Definitely. Serious Sam did me nicely when I was pissed off in my last job. Big guns, hordes of enemies, volume turned up, brainless rock playing - good de-stress. Also playing "Speed Bond" on the N64 - the facility level, just running around like a headless chicken shooting anyone who appeared infront of you. Very satisfying.

Working for myself, however, has the effect of meaning there are less days like that.

[Liquid Myth]

Games can't act as anger management for me.

I find that, no matter if I win or lose, (and as fasteasyfree so blatantly put) games always get me angrier.

Me playing games, there.

[emjay2kay]

I can't play games when I'm angry. I need to be in a good mood first, as games are likely to just make my much more angry.

I shout and swear at the screen, usually on something like WE, and although it gets me angry, it does get everything out of the system. It's a good destresser, surpisingly, but I never play games with the specific intent of destressing, it's just, shallw e say, a by-product.

*Is that a word?

[McCoy]

If I want something to releave stress when I am angry then it has to be a real contact game. Killing things in Halo or going absolutly mental in Lord of the rings:TTT really helps me calm down. The game really neeeds to make me feel that I am really in control of that chracter and that I am just unstoppable when angry...

Actully, perhaps I should see a doctor?

[Hawkeye]

Super Bust-a-Move is my game to play and just chill out. I find it relaxing, and it's not the kind of game that I get fustrated at when playing.

[nohsa]

tetris.

[Van]

tetris.

We have a believer!!1

Normally I like to play guitar, loud, and shred the hell out of it. I play better when I'm pissed off.

But playing FPS doesn't really do it for me, playing games like SC and DoA do, and Tetris calms me down.

[Mike1812]

I just cruise in GTA or have a round of golf on Links.

[outspaced]

I find that games are great anger management, and the more frustrating and unfair the better.

How does this work? Simple, after spending 3 hours solid swearing, hitting joypads, and generally getting incredibly angry with a cheating computer/console, you have no anger left. Anything real life then throws at you is met with a casual shrug of the shoulders.

I guess that's what we call a 'meh'

Thing is I'm a very patient and tolerant person, and I think I have games to thank for this at least in part. They can be so frustrating sometimes, I just think they teach you to remain calm under stress.

[___]

Having just reached Meta Ridley, I would have to say NO!!!