Do you find that playing video games causes you to have adrenaline rushes...

On a consistent basis?A flight or fight experience,when I say video games I do indeed mean all video games (rpgs, fps, action adventure...). Vote and leave a small comment with your feelings on the subject matter. Als olet me know if you do, and if it causes a large amount of anxiety and prevents you from falling asleep?

I used to get that "Counter strike high". 8)

If throwing controllers at the ground and punching my couch counts as "adrenaline," then yes.Alex3796

Only on kill streaks. I hit 3 or 4 guys killed, I start camping. When their team bumrushes me and manages to take me out, I realise that my heart has been pounding rapidly.

Otherwise, in single player, rarely if ever.

Used to when i played competive, and some times when it gets intense in like bc2 i get it.

Disappointingly, no. Only if its a horror game. I don't even play that much and I've been desensitized to stuff..

Bad company 2... Dogtag matches with friends; I got palpitations followed by the shakes on a come down from the rush.

When I get in the zone

No, not really. Actaually, video games help calm me down a lot of time.

Oops, voted for the wrong one! subtract one from the last, and into the first... some reason I didn't read the first one. WoW duels are the only thing that get the adrenaline going, for some reason, a ton too, however it's rare for it to happen, usually I'm calm.

I don't get adrenaline rushes, I only get frustrated :/

yes depends on the game.

Mass Effect 1 and 2, have given me that thrill

Doing well on Battlefield Bad Company 2's MP combine with the sound and effects gets a real big kick out of me.

Crysis 2 MP and story gave me a huge rush

Portal 2 and Mirror's Edge high flying jumps would give me a thrill.

The greatest thrills happen when it seems like i am doing something amazing with some chance of failure and are not entirely scripted.

I was literally on the edge of my seat at the end of Mass Effect 2 at the suicide mission. I had sent Tali through the vents and hearing her calling out my name as it was getting too hot was literally having my heart pumping. didn't want to lose her. in that one momentary moment in a game i actually got absorbed into the story and i gave a ****. I love Tali so much, so i was going above and beyond to save her.

In most games there is no chance of failure, so the wind and emotional build up gets knocked out.

Yeah sometimes when I play shooters and what not but I really get a rush when I play sonic games

Sometimes.

The only game that I can really think of that gives me some sort of rush is Battlefield 2, and that's only sometimes.

There's a few other games that give that feeling for me, but I don't usually like them enough to play them for any large amount of time, or the negatives of the game outweight the positives. Battlefield 2 is one of the few exceptions to that for me.

I need to play soon though. See if a game that's actually scarey gives that feeling too. x_x

Usually during chase sequences in horror games, such as the great one in Call of Cthulu on the original xbox towards (warning, possible spoiler alert) the beginning of the game in the little hotel room sequence. Silent Hill 3 also had a lot of these moments since you always felt like you were one move away from dying. Same goes for Dead Space when you find yourself with almost no ammo and little health. Demon's Souls tends to do that to me as well, but I think that's more frustration than anything. Other than that I usually am able to simply play a game and enjoy it.

Nope. I get angry as hell though, thats all.

Yes, it does. It feels like I just want to jump out of the seat and do what the characters are doing. Helps time fly (well you get the idea)

P.S. Thank You, I guess I'm not the only one doing this.

on LAN playing with my friends, yes because he can see me and vice versa, who will come out victorious with a kill.

online not so much.

I do sometimes. I was playing Halo Reach online not long ago and was on a 30 kill streak and had not died at any point in the match, so technically it was worth 2 perfection medals, although I only got one.

Anyway while I was playing my heart was going like crazy and I kept thinking "come on don't die, don't die, don't die! If I die I can't boast to my friends! Come on, come on!" and stuff.

So yeah I get an adrenaline rush sometimes.

Oh yes! That Glee Karaoke game really got my adrenaline rushing!

When hitting a 20 plus round of zombies and being the only player still standing online.

the only time it happend is when i played cod:4 when it first came out.

that ghilles in the mist misson was so intense my hands were all sweaty :p

Oh yeah, definitely. Nothing raises my heart beat to near explosion levels like being the last man alive in Counter Strike or Search and Destroy in MW. I actually threw up once as a result, my stomach felt ill as the kill count in a match went up and when it was just me and one guy (after I took out everyone else solo), he knifed me and BARF, all over the floor from the surprise. I have the worst defense mechanisms, I'm like a sea cucumber in that sense.

Demon's Souls also got me a little pumped, but not in the same way. It was more foreboding and tense instead of instant and quick.

Personally CoD is a great game, I prefer others and all, but the one thing it does better for me than any other game online (or off, in the set pieces of 4 at least) is get my blood pumping. MW2 and MW1 both gave me a ton of moments and even though I like BC2 and had moments where it was more fun, I've never had that same thrill and rush with any other game. CoD is just so fast paced and the stakes can be pretty high in S&D, as well as in getting a nuke.

in survival horror games (when done right) and sometimes in ctf type matches when i get the "flag"

I don't know if its adrenaline or jsut excitemnt, but at the endgame boss is usually when it hits.

It's very rare.

The only times it's ever happened are when I'm super close to getting a win or achievement, when I want to reach a certain killstreak and I'm super close, and when I'm the last guy alive on my team in Gears of War 2.

The only games that seem to give me an adrenaline rush are horror games like Resident Evil, the Dead Space series, and Alan Wake.

totally depends on the game I'm playing. MGS for instance is incredibly intense and yeah I get an adrenaline rush. On the other hand say I'm playing Animal Crossing I get an extreme sense of calm from that game.