Why Dayz is the most tense game there is

[archamedes 238]

I have played many games over the years, some scary, some that make you jump (outlast) and others that frustrate you because you never get the timing right and you die all the time, but Dayz is the ONLY game I have ever played where I am genuinly always on edge. You walk towards a town and you are always afrraid that someone is going to pop out and kill you. You may be able to scope out a townbefore moving in, but you can never shake that feeling that you are being watched, is there someone there, watching everything i do? did i check all the windows first before stepping out?

 

The one incident i had a few days ago really put me on edge. I had been killed & all my mates were at the army camp south of the nw airfield, so i had a lot of ground to cover to get back to them before we were all due to link up again. So after a few days of scaveging and getting kit I finally made it there. I only had an sks with 5 rounds, but before spawning out i decided to check the barracks and the big military jail building first. One of the main things i do when on my own is close doors behind me, because when you see a door open you immediatly becoime cautious as this means someone is nearby or someone is still inside. So anyway I'm in the 2nd barracks room (all doors closed) then suddenly some guy burst through the door. He then kind of panics as he wasn't expecting a guy to be in here, he jumps back, I jump back (Cornered in this room) and he starts opening fire. I didnt have my headset on so i couldn't tell him i was friendly, but by this point it wouldnt of mattered. The guy makes 3 attempts to run past my door and spraying the room with his M4 and somehow misses me with every shot. I tried to return fire with my sks & I swear i must have winged him, but now I hear the deadmans click. I got no ammo, I got no other weapon & im cornered in teh barracks with some guy toting an M4. Its taken me 3 days to get back here where my friends are and now THIS happens. I kid you not My heart was beating out of my chest & my hands were shaking like I was having a fit, almost to the point where i couldn't hold the mouse. This game was the only game ever to put me in such a real life panic that I was geniunly afraid & didn't want to die. I was quite embarresed to be honest as its just a game... but it didnt feel like that at the time.

 

So bak to the story, I'm cornered in the room, unarmed and vulnerable. Then i hear the sound of a gun reloading, so I don't think, I dont hesitate, I get up and i run, but i got it on free look and walk so im panic pressing the keys to get myself into a proper sprint and i make it out into the corridor, I don't see him, but i know hes there, I then sprint to the door and make it outside, I don't hear a shot, but i dont look back. I then sprint to some of the closed sheds in the area and i dont stop, I keep running and get out of view. I reach the perimeter wall and open the main gate. After this i run up the dirt track that has a bunch of trees going along side it and i keep running til I make quite a bit of distance. I then drop prone, hide in the bushes and i wait. I look and in the distance i see the player run out from behind the concrete wall and hes scanning. I do not move an inch, relying only on freelook to minimise any sudden movements that will attract his eye. He lost me. I should not have survived this encounter, but somehow I did & i think i injured him in the process. He turns around and runs off away from me and the base. And this is why Dayz is the most scary & tense game there is. I jumped out the game after that just to calm down a bit.

[Shrub Rocketeer ™ 879]

yes nice story is true play dayz = permanent stress mind state, you always think do some m4 bandit clan seeing me? i am safe here  or is time for go out of the town fast sprint in the forest? every moment in dayz is tension stress when you playing full server

[Grimey Rick 3417]

I am fear. I am paranoia. I am the evil force stalking you. I long for your possessions. I yearn for your very soul.

 

I am the terror that flaps in the night; I am the spoon you eat your cereal with; I am...

 

DARKWING DUCK!

EDIT: moar DW

Edited July 19, 2014 by Grimey Rick

[archamedes 238]

I am ashame to admit but I am the guy that runs away from a fight unless I got my mates to back me up. Cowardly you may say, yes this is true, but cowards live longer

[blacklabel79 949]

we call it "tactical retreat" 

 

plus, read "the art of war"  it is even in game :D

Edited July 19, 2014 by {Core}BlackLabel

[Shrub Rocketeer ™ 879]

I am ashame to admit but I am the guy that runs away from a fight unless I got my mates to back me up. Cowardly you may say, yes this is true, but cowards live longer

 

 

point of dayz is survive not die like idiot you making good sense decide don't be ashame feel sad for guys who always walk from the beach feeling brave

[Irish. 4886]

Socom is the only other multiplayer game that I have got that adrenaline rush feel from that I get in DayZ..

 

If you did not play the game, it had a standard game mode that essentially could leave you as the last player on your team alive.. with all of your teammates watching play on their death screens. 

 

You could end up the last player alive, the only hope for your team, against at times an entire team.. and you always knew everyone on your team was watching you. Rooting you on, laughing and groaning when you got it wrong.. and sometimes, every now and then, you would actually win the match and the cheers you would be greeted with were always the best reward.

 

DayZ has that "feeling" just playing alone at times.. its an amazing game. When you play in groups, its inexplainable. Words cannot describe how good it is. 

Edited July 19, 2014 by lrish

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

And here I thought DayZ was the least tents game.

[ld-airgrafix 403]

Its only tense if you are looting around the coast for me. Otherwise i just hold the W key and watch my cat amuse itself with my wifes hair tie.

[Jesterarts 85]

Completely agree. DayZ is the only game that is able to genuinely give me an adrenaline fix.

Good times.

[Acher0n 39]

I used to be, until i realised the secret of this:

 

Now the game is total easymode.

[maninthewall 470]

 

 

DARKWING DUCK!

 

When there's trouble you call the W

 

Man my fav cartoon of all time.

[archamedes 238]

And here I thought DayZ was the least tents game.

well tents will be coming shortly

[KiskilleAcronym 43]

You actually don't need to tell stories why DayZ is tense...

[LeeVanSpliff 156]

Nothin quite like a good war story ...

[theirongiant 200]

For all the bitching and clunkiness I've still never played a game where even after playing it solid for 2 years my hand still shakes with adrenaline after a tense firefight.

[blowurselfup 54]

TACTICAL RETREAT is REAL

 

Run like a beotch unless you have the advantage

 

or Die

 

your choice

[Reg Park 160]

I strive for the intense gun fights, I win some, lose some- such adrenaline rush either way.

[execpro22 128]

I am ashame to admit but I am the guy that runs away from a fight unless I got my mates to back me up. Cowardly you may say, yes this is true, but cowards live longer

 

 

If you can call your existence "living" that is.....

[Zombie Milkman 167]

Lol, great story.  I crawled through a zombie over ridden military base with a busted leg trying to find all the parts of a splint.  The tension is awesome.

 

The players who kill medics with no weapons... not so much.

[solodude23 649]

This is why I can't smoke weed and then play DayZ. Shit freaks me out. 

[blacklabel79 949]

This is why I can't smoke weed and then play DayZ. Shit freaks me out. 

 

hehe, the paranoia gets to you easy. I for one LOVE it. Add in some beers and you are all set...