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* Are you dissatisfied with ''{{Homestuck}}'''s recent turn of events? Are you tired of [[CompleteMonster Vriska]] and wish she could get her comeuppance? [[http://maroonracoon.deviantart.com/art/PUNCH-VRISKA-flash-190666438 We feel your pain.]]
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**[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=84 Kat shows us how it's done.]]
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** When the map starts to split up into areas that are either military controlled or plague-infected, there's an uncommon amount of fun to be had in stealing someone's identity ([[BodySnatcher along with]] [[ImAHumanitarian the rest of them]]), proceeding to go into the red zones, and promptly playing what amounts to DoubleDragon 3D: Zombie Edition.
** Occasionally, the game will throw moments at you that are funny, cathartic, and not actively your doing. The combination of freely moving NPC pedestrians [[ArtificialStupidity with all the common sense of a barrel of bricks]] and an actual flow of traffic sometimes results in instances of genuine vehicle-pedestrian accidents, complete with the vehicle trying to slow down in a screech of tires (and very often, a just-barely-delayed thud). Incidentally, soldiers are also not immune to a rusty sedan hitting them as they rush across a crosswalk to investigate suspicious noises. Apparently the Army doesn't train its soldiers to look both ways before crossing the street.

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* Mount and Blade, from firing a hail of arrows with your troops while defending a castle to riding down infantry while heavily armored shrugging off blows, provides a lot of this.

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* Mount and Blade, MountAndBlade, from firing a hail of arrows with your troops while defending a castle to riding down infantry while heavily armored shrugging off blows, provides a lot of this.this.
** There is a particular amount of entertainment to be had in the sequel, Warband, which allows you to still do things like chase after looters. The introduction of a weapon which can only be described as an extra-long baseball bat with nails in it lends newfound hilarity to the idea of chasing down peasants and clubbing them senseless with said weapon. Or [[CherryTapping you can get a literal plain old stick and whack them about the head with that too.]]
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* In Fable III, there is very little more satisfying than a fully charged fire + vortex weaved spell in a crowd of villagers.
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** Or ''dropping someone into the exhibit'' full of orca whales.
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** This Troper spent many an evening after a crappy day at work running at guards and assassinating them for no reason. Stabbing your twin hidden blades [[EyeScream in their eyes with a beautiful squirt of blood]] made everything better.
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* Hit them out of the ballpark with the Home Run Bat, perhaps? The resulting ''KREEEENG!!!'' is perhaps the most satisfying sound in ''Smash''...

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* ** Hit them out of the ballpark with the Home Run Bat, perhaps? The resulting ''KREEEENG!!!'' is perhaps the most satisfying sound in ''Smash''...
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* Yes, there are days in {{TeamFortress2}} where things just won't go your way. And then there's the days when you're playing as a demoman and a friendly medic gives you a kritzkrieg, basically turning you into the anti-god allowing you to one hit kill every living thing that dared to spawn on the other team.

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* Yes, there are days in {{TeamFortress2}} ''TeamFortress2'' where things just won't go your way. And then there's the days when you're playing as a demoman and a friendly medic gives you a kritzkrieg, basically turning you into the anti-god allowing you to one hit kill every living thing that dared to spawn on the other team.
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* Yes, there are days in [[TeamFortress2]] where things just won't go your way. And then there's the days when you're playing as a demoman and a friendly medic gives you a kritzkrieg, basically turning you into the anti-god allowing you to one hit kill every living thing that dared to spawn on the other team.

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* Yes, there are days in [[TeamFortress2]] {{TeamFortress2}} where things just won't go your way. And then there's the days when you're playing as a demoman and a friendly medic gives you a kritzkrieg, basically turning you into the anti-god allowing you to one hit kill every living thing that dared to spawn on the other team.
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* Yes, there are days in [[TeamFortress2]] where things just won't go your way. And then there's the days when you're playing as a demoman and a friendly medic gives you a kritzkrieg, basically turning you into the anti-god allowing you to one hit kill every living thing that dared to spawn on the other team.

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* RatchetAndClank, but Up Your Arsenal and the Tools of Destruction trilogy in particular. Eswpecially with New Game Plus.

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* RatchetAndClank, but Up Your Arsenal and the Tools of Destruction trilogy in particular. Eswpecially Especially with New Game Plus.


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*** For the record, the RYNO V is the latest in a line of the ultimate {{BFG}}s. This particular model is a multi-barrel rocket launching chain gun with a multi-barrel homing missle launcher wrapped around it that ''plays the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome 1812 Overture]] during sustained fire.'' You ''' ''will'' ''' achieve nirvana using this gun.
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** For those of you with the second game:[[LudicrousGibs ~ map c1m1_hotel mutation 14]]. You're welcome.
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* TotalAnnihilation has flying transport units that can "transport" enemy units, especially if they're AI...Oh, the possibilities!
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->"Now the first ModernWarfare, by the same token, appeared to have been made with more than just a slightest nod in the direction of the Military-FPS genre's "angrier fans." Particularly the ones who felt the constant focus on boring old WWII meant there weren't enough ''desert-dwelling brown people'' to shoot, thus making it that much harder for them to use the game as their personal 9-11 revenge simulators."

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->"Now the first ModernWarfare, by the same token, appeared to have been made with more than just a slightest nod in the direction of the Military-FPS genre's "angrier fans." Particularly the ones who felt the constant focus on boring old WWII meant there weren't enough ''desert-dwelling '''[[AcceptableTargets desert-dwelling brown people'' people]]''' to shoot, thus making it that much harder for them to use the game as their personal 9-11 revenge simulators."
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* Similarly, {{Nazi Zombies}}.
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** Which can sometimes be necessary catharsis ''while you're playing the game'', given the [[ArtificialStupidity infuriating AI]]...
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** Oh ''yes''. You do not ''know'' catharsis until you've eradicated all life on some lonely little asteroid with the [[BFG behemoth of a gun]] that is the RYNO 5.

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** Oh ''yes''. You do not ''know'' catharsis until you've eradicated all life on some lonely little asteroid with the [[BFG behemoth of a gun]] gun that is the RYNO 5.
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** Oh ''yes''. You do not ''know'' catharsis until you've eradicated all life on some lonely little asteroid with the [[BFG behemoth of a gun]] that is the RYNO 5.
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** Along with RuleofFunny, this has ''got'' to be why you can use pyrokinesis on squirrels in the camp. Raz himself seemed to acknowledge this trope both in Sasha's Shooting Gallery ("Shooting things is fun and useful!") and Waterloo World ("I can set wood on fire with my mind, you know") to a wooden game piece). The second is kind of justified, given the day he'd been having...
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* ''{{Prototype}}''. It is MADE of this trope. There's nothing like a negative impact for the wholesale slaughter of New Yorkers and military personnel or smashing up dozens to hundreds of vehicles just by going from A to B, using civilians as projectiles to smash vehicles, [[CarFu using vehicles as projectiles to smash civilians]], [[BadAss using cars as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome using busted tanks as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], [[RuleOfFunny using downed helicopters as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], [[CrazyAwesome using]] ''[[CrazyAwesome civilians]]'' [[CrazyAwesome as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], using '''[[MadeOfIron YOURSELF]]''' as a projectile to shoot down helicopters and ''everything else''. Need I go on? And by the end of [[strike: the game]] each play session you will have killed [[strike: at least a thousand]] over 9000 civilians '''by accident'''. Then add up another ten thousand or twenty that you kill ''willingly'' ([[VideogameCrueltyPotential because you will, no exceptions]]).

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* ''{{Prototype}}''. It is MADE of this trope. There's nothing like a negative impact for the wholesale slaughter of New Yorkers and military personnel or smashing up dozens to hundreds of vehicles just by going from A to B, [[GrievousHarmWithABody using civilians as projectiles to smash vehicles, vehicles]], [[CarFu using vehicles as projectiles to smash civilians]], [[BadAss using cars as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome using busted tanks as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], [[RuleOfFunny using downed helicopters as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], [[CrazyAwesome using]] ''[[CrazyAwesome civilians]]'' [[CrazyAwesome as projectiles to shoot down helicopters]], using '''[[MadeOfIron YOURSELF]]''' as a projectile to shoot down helicopters and ''everything else''. Need I go on? And by the end of [[strike: the game]] each play session you will have killed [[strike: at least a thousand]] over 9000 civilians '''by accident'''. Then add up another ten thousand or twenty that you kill ''willingly'' ([[VideogameCrueltyPotential because you will, no exceptions]]).
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The NES game is the third game in the series, not the first. (The actual first game has Glass Joe, but no "rounds")


** In the first game, sometimes it's more satisfying to spend all three rounds walloping on Glass Joe, countering his every attack and letting him hang on by a thread rather than just catch him in his titular glass jaw and knock him out in one shot.

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** In the first NES game, sometimes it's more satisfying to spend all three rounds walloping on Glass Joe, countering his every attack and letting him hang on by a thread rather than just catch him in his titular glass jaw and knock him out in one shot.
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** This troper's particular favourite is on the Death Star level of the game. Notoriously difficult and stress-inducing, but then you find a particular chamber featuring the Death Star's laser. Enjoy levitating the most annoying enemies in the path of the weapon and giggling as they disintegrate.
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** Not to mention with the addition of "Create A Storyline" features, you can not only make the person who you hate, you can write a storyline featuring them and watch your most favorite wrestlers insult them to their face, disparage them, and make them cry, ''then'' beat the crap out of them, maybe even with your own avatar. Juvenile, maybe, but giggle-inducing after even the worst day? Oh hell yeah.

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** You forgot being able to shove two hidden blades into [[EyeScream an armored guard's eye slits]]. Takes off a bad day at work right there.




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* Well.. this is a substantial reason for {{Painkiller}}'s existance. You have hordes upon hordes of mooks and some of the most creative weapons ever to reduce them to LudicrousGibs with. Arsenal and enjoyment options include (but are not limited to):
** The titular '''Painkiller''' - a staff with a crown of rotating blades at the end (jumping with that in a horde of zombies), which can be ''launched'' at enemies, either pulling them toward you or shredding them to pieces.
** '''Shotgun/freezer''' - freezing an invincible monster rushing at you and then blasting it to pieces with the shotgun (or freezing a flying one and watch it drop like a stone and shatter on the ground)
** The epic Stakegun - a '''pneumatic catapult that launches metre-long wooden stakes''' which can pin enemies to walls, floors, ceilings, support beams and ''other enemies'', combined with a grenade launcher for dispersing that pesky crowd that gets in the way of the above activity (this is the weapon that ''will'' chew off a big chunk of your time and you'll love it), or you can impale a grenade on a stake effectively turning yourself into a fully mobile artillery gun which can blow up almost anything anywhere
** The famous '''rocket launcher/chaingun combo''', often praised as the most practical gun ever, with one of the hardest but most satisfying activities - propelling enemies into the air by shooting a rocket at their feet, then blowing them apart in mid-air with a perfectly timed second one (seriously, watch a video of this)
** And of course the '''shuriken launcher/electrodriver''' - turning mooks into pin cushions, frying them, or the combo mode - charge and shoot the whole disc with shurikens which will electrocute everything around it.
Endless. Phun. And then there's [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Demon Morph]] mode...
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** You forgot being able to shove two hidden blades into [[EyeScream an armored guard's eye slits]]. Takes off a bad day at work right there.
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** Deleting the fence around the lion exhibit in "ZooTycoon"

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** There's also biotically lifting enemies, then pushing them off into bottomless pits.
* In ''DragonAge'', you can hit people in the face with a shield. Repeat, ''you can hit people in the face with a shield''. You can build an entire character around hitting people in the face with a shield; while you won't be nearly as powerful as a [[GameBreaker mage]], it'll all be worthwhile for the sheer cathartic factor.





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\n* TheForceUnleashed is basically GodOfWar with force powers, so yes, you can hit some poor sap with a lightsabre then set him on lightning and throw him into a bottomless pit.

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* "StarCraft". Loading up a game online against one of your noob friends or an easy computer and utterly demolishing them with a "Zerg Rush". Good times.

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* "StarCraft"."StarCraft", as well as its sequel. Loading up a game online against one of your noob friends or an easy computer and utterly demolishing them with a "Zerg Rush". Good times.times.
** Or perhaps not rushing them, but waiting, teching up and steamrolling the crap out of them with some of the more epic units. (Carriers, Thors, Battlecruisers, etc.) Oh, and the occasional [[NukeEm nuke]] of course.
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*** Wait, the Godhand only helps you ''until'' it gets NintendoHard? What a tease.

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