Sometimes, you want to play a video game to figure out a puzzle, or romance an NPC, or complete a particular objective. Sometimes, there’s an enormous story mode that you have to move your PC through, and other times there’s an open sandbox world. Sometimes, there’s even both! But sometimes, just sometimes… You just want random mayhem. My kid used to play Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe so that she could spam Shazams against her foes, while my wife sometimes just looks for a fight in the World of Warcraft. As for me, I either wander the world of Sanctuary blowing things up in Diablo III, or wander the streets of Los Santos looking for super-cars and fist-fights. It’s a great way to burn off aggression and leads us to today’s 8th generation query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) will sometimes look for pedestrians with hats that you can just punch off their heads, because the animation is hilarious, asking: What is YOUR go-to video game for random mayhem?
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GTA 2 was a classic for a long while. The top-down pov made it feel more like a very advanced, mature audiences NES game, without all the RPG quest-taking trappings of the subsequent games.
Tony Hawk 2 was a fun one too for some non-destructive mayhem…just free skating around the rooftops of Venice Beach listening to that great soundtrack.
Akiba’s Trip. Undead and Undressed has been my comfort game for years now. You fight synthetic vampires hiding amongst crowd by stripping their clothes to expose them to sunlight by using everyday items as weapon. Yeah, its about as silly as it sounds but its also one of the funniest things around.