Has any game frustrated you as much as DBD?

For Honor is super frustrating to me too, and oddly addicting.

Nothing ever has. Nothing ever will as much as dbd. Lol

Played the Souls Series since release. My tolerance for what frustrates me Is through the roof. The only thing that impressed me what after a decade of Souls that DBD took the toxic community award in a few months.

Hatemail has no effect on me, but I will indulge you between matches. Occasionally I get the unique and funny hate mail.

I usually play a tank or healer that raids in mmos.

This is one of my retirement games. Wee.

Definately. This game is the DEFINITION of SWEAT. If you're a killer you're sweating your balls off and because of that it can frustrate the hell out of you since any of the issues or imbalances the game has will jab you in the side like a entity leg.

I used to play fighting games all the time, like actually play them, competitively learn combos an git gud and all that and DBD pisses me off most of the time than even those. I think the only game to rival it is XCOM when the RNG buggers you.

The game has 3 problems with this:

1: Some killers aren't fun or aren't effective or you simply don't feel like you are a threatening presence. The devs are really unsure about making killers just...powerful. For some reason. Although over the years I've been playing DBD they have gotten better.

We are getting more varied killers and even reworks to make F tier powerful .I man freddy went from the bottom to the top or at least A tier in one rework. So credit where it is due. Problem is. They got like 7 other killers that need this treatment without messing it up. Tall order.

2: The maps are empty besides from vaults and pallets. Personally the maps should of been getting more stuff in them with each new killer but for some reason survivors get really powerful perks instead of enviromental things to take advantage of. Which makes no sense they are basely built around observing the enviroment and planning around that. Same with team work.

Devs seem to be aware of this. I think. Because the last two killers before oni both can spawn something on the map survivors can interact with-demagorgan and plague- they also added a survivor perk that lets them put back up pallets. Which makes sense, since they're mean to utilize their enviroment. Unlike DS which is an innate, immutable powerful skill. Which should of logically been an item. Like a knife.

But hey, the nerf to it made it a lot more circumstantial instead of body armor. Still should of been an item in my opinion.

3: Gen speeds.

You as killer just lack an innate ability to determine or reduce the speed of gens, not without wasting precious perks spots and even then, they are arguably effective at best. It';s not even that gens get done quick...it's just that all the anxiety is on YOU against an invisible clock .it's like having a bear trap on you all game...but you got to get 4 people who can loop and time waste. It's just not fun.

You don't feel in control at all. Which means you don't really feel like a power role. One would logically assume survivors should feel anxiety since this is done in a horror game theme and dynamic, but survivors taunt and loop because they know between the 4 of them, gens speeds, number of hooks you need and chase time standard the clock is SO against you.

We really need some secondary objectives or something because putting ALL the stress of time on the killer is just not fun. Maybe some times. But not all the time and it will quickly stress you out and make you have to sweat since you're literally counting seconds.

Then you get mad because you feel like the game constantly screaming at you GIT GUD when the points are counted up and you're like "WAIT up. I'm meant to be the power role here. Why am I sweating like a lunatic and get a anxiety spike when I see a survivor sprint burst away and increase this chase by 20 seconds" then you exit the game. You see that big RANK also tell you to git gud even in menu and lobby.

and eventually you realize. There's no reason to git gud. it's stopped being fun. So you uninstall for a while.

I've learned to enjoy the ultra-comeptitiveness myself but even for me. Sometimes I uninstall and I can't handle more than a couple a matches a day without it starting to rise my blood pressure.

Rust

Yes, For Honor. That game is SO unbalanced, it’s not even funny. Though, I have to thank that game for creating one of my favorite video game character, PK ⚔️🖤

To answer the original question, yes. If you’ve ever played Monster Hunter and had the creature limping, but ran out of time before you could trap it, then you know the true meaning of frustration! Also applies when hunting the same creature 10 times and STILL never getting that one material you need from it!

Madden in the most frustrating game I've ever played. There is even a series on YouTube of all the gamer rage that happens in that game. The dbd community on twitch is super chill compared to the madden one. I dont know of any dbd twitch streamer that gets super enraged by this game.

Many. Overwatch, COD, Apex Legends, Death Stranding, WWZ and many more!

Bennet Fody: getting over it

"There's no feeling more intense than starting over" 

The first Crash Bandicoot game

I’m noticing a trend here. The vast majority of games people mention here are the ones where they play with other people......

So is it the games that are frustrating? Or the “game” of humanity?

I never played many multiplayer games before DBD/F13, I always stuck with single player.

Only time I’d get frustrated is when I was going for an extremely hard trophy like surviving the ENTIRE game on Alien Isolation without dying. It’s scary at first but then if you get a long way without a checkpoint and you die it’s annoying as hell. The ship is like maze as well so I had to watch walkthroughs on how to complete a level. Still never completed the game yet :(

No other game triggers me as much as DBD. It’s not even the players that annoy me, it’s the fact that the game can be broken. Ya know what I mean. Ghost hits. Getting hit when you medium vault. Sound occlusion. Sound bugs. Myers and GF stalking being bugged. “Hook techs”. Getting hit through pallets. Dedicated servers, etc...