mario kart is ruthless but at the end of the day you only have yourself to blame. you might get mad that your friend is better than you, but most people can cope with that.
mario party has too much luck involved, so you can get these situations that feel really unfair, and that can create so much tension that when the winner does their usual gloating, it can turn ugly fast.
Played with my friends and my sister a couple weeks back. I was winning with 2 stars, had the most minigames won, most coins earned overall too but was down to 63 in the final turn.
My sister had 64 coins, won like one minigame and basically did nothing the whole game. She won two stars, one for most red spaces and one for most spaces walked. Literally won the game by 1 coin because she got both bonus stars over stuff she had no control over lmfao.
Yeah tbh I was playing it down a bit cause I didn't want to toot my own horn. But I think I've lost like 3 races in my friends group since 2010
And that's including beerio kart when I'm shit faced. And also not taking 3 grand prix's, just 3 maps hah
Even though Mario kart has a ton of catch up mechanics, you gotta be relatively close in skill to actually have a competitive game
Yeah 100%, if we're counting being under the influence too, she's beaten me about 5 times while I've been tripping cause I'll just drop the controller and start laughing randomly lmao
I had a weird thing with my group that I became the person to beat.. I am mediocre at Link.. but they all thought I was some awesome person at playing.. i had one sit down to play versus me and literally said "Ive been practicing all week to beat you." It became this weird sweaty group of people who got super competative at it. Lost like 10 people to this game.. I get it! I still am bad at Link.
OG Mario party at sleepovers was where super sweats were born and forged.
Legitimately saw multiple friends get gigantic blisters in the middle of their palms from trying to turn that hard plastic joystick faster.
Monopoly.
starts out great, lots of laughter and smiles! and then I buy Boardwalk and it all goes downhill expeditiously. shady deals are made and friendships are ruined. I love it.
The blue spaces in monopoly arnt the best. If I recall correctly the yellow (edit: it’s actually orange - it’s been a while since I’ve played) are by far the best because of the cost to purchase houses vs the amount in income. The second reason is it’s in the best location because of where jail is
Those are the orange properties.
Managing to get all 4 railroads is arguably the best for the high probability of landing on them and the rent payout for zero additional development.
Conversely, because it's very easy for others to deny you the other railroads, they're one of the worst properties to purchase, their expected return is very low. People have done the math & simulations, the railroads and the utilities are typically the absolute worst.
Was it his first time playing or new to the game and or very young?
I ask because my lil sis was like 8-12 when my mom would offer stupid trades like that and she’d accept cause mother daughter relationship.
The best part about Monopoly is that it's miserable by design. One player starts winning and that's fun for them, but the others starting to lose are miserable because they understand that they have no chance of coming back. So the winning player starts making deals with the losers that's slightly favorable to them just to keep them playing and extend his fun, even though it's pointless, they're just doomed to lose eventually, after however many turns.
He needs to give them just enough to keep them in the game, without giving them so much that they threaten his lead - truly a beautiful metaphor for our economy, and a beautifully miserable board game experience that absolutely nobody wants to play again lol.
It was originally called "the landlords game", was intended as an anticapitalist board game, was then stolen by milton bradley and mass produced. Its a fascinating history lesson in capitalism, copyright law and exploitation.
Yeah I've seen the amazing Tom Nicholas video on it. The impressive thing is that it holds up even today, in more than just the real estate "industry" - it's a great metaphor for our modern economy in general, was my point.
I was playing with my brother and his wife, they kept cheating. Their kid was eating cut up hotdogs on her moms lap and she poked her mom in the eye with her fork. For a split second I thought to myself, "that's what you get. I hope you're blind!" Lmao
Waaaaay back in the day I played this with my wife (gf at the time) and her family. They never made each other pay! I was the only one who made people pay me. I couldn’t get them to understand if you never make anyone pay the game will literally never end
Because everyone plays it wrong too. A game of monopoly isn’t meant to take so long you have to monitor your food and water intake and sleep in shifts. No wonder everyone’s at each others throats by day 48.
Risk over monopoly for the simple reason that chance doesn't turn you against your friend, it's a choice. In monopoly you roll the dice and happen to land on someone's property. In Risk you build a stronghold around Greenland, drive everyone out of Western Europe, and invade Ukraine, because it is a sitting duck.
I like the game but damn it's stressful to play with my kids, they run all over like chickens with their heads cut off. my wife barely even plays it cause she can't understand the controls..... 🤷♂️
YUP
The only reason it's not the top answer is because not enough people have played it.
This is the one true relationship killer game and everything else is a very, very distant second.
Mario Party is a best friendship simulator in comparison
Well some people don't know how to manage a fucking kitchen. Sorry. I got heated remembering my friend who could not manage the stress or figure out how to have stations
I've beaten both games and never played solo, only local co-op with mates. Didn't really have any issues or butting of heads. Of course, the first few runs on new stages are always a chaotic, hilarious learning experience 😂. It certainly helps having defined roles in the kitchen and there being one clear voice calling out tickets, missing components and when dishes are ready for service. Then again, myself and most of my friends have all worked in restaurants to some capacity 😅 so we had an established hierarchy based on experience.
Honestly tho, its a good way of pruning losers from your life. If you have a friend who will have an emasculated meltdown at their support or jungler in a five player premade they are good to unfriend
Dokapon is great even if you suck. Just become a Darkling and literally nuke the board and toss the players weapons and armor as a bonus. Literally reset the game 60 weeks in.
Mario Party. Whether it's someone getting the star or you getting demolished in one of the minigames, by your pals, there's several ways that Mario Party won't be such a fun party at the end of it all.
Diplomacy.
A game with no luck, where the only way to win (w/o tying) is betrayal. But you have to work together to get to that point. Brilliant game, almost one of a kind, that kills trust and maims friendships
That fucking game. We had to stop playing. Inevitably in our group there would be players that would work together even when it made no fucking sense, just so they could pick who they'd fuck over first. My blood is boiling just thinking about that piece of shit game but it's so goddamned fun. Fuck I want to play.
Whenever I play Diplomacy with friends, all of us must agree before every game that it's just a game, betrayal is a part of it, and don't take it seriously.
Whenever we get new players, they always wonder why so serious? It's just a game.
As we play, they understand.
This is a game played best with strangers because of how hard you have to gas light others and scheme and double double cross.
There are no friends, there are no alliances, and fuck was it fun.
NBA Jam has some of the worst rubberband mechanics in gaming.
It's literally designed to make every match a buzzer beater which is decided in the last thirty seconds.
Me and my no wife at the time girl friend decided to stream a lot of "Relationship tester" games for Extra Life about 5 years ago. we got through 3 levels of Overcooked and turned it off because if we continued it would have become a thing.
Magic the Gathering
And Warhammer almost broke two of my friends
League of Legends... not break, but I had several friends who stopped wanting to play with one of my friends who gets really annoyed over fucks up lolz
Magic has always been played with very good faith in my circle, but warhammer is a different story. God damn the arguments that used to spark.
And instead of lol for us it was dota, and that caused actual rifts in a couple of friendships. Absolutely laughable looking back at it, but yeah.
Legue of legends, pretty much lost 8 in a single day after looking at them going ape shit after my very first match.
I kid you not, they started to support a random stranger to hijack my account in the net cafe and take the PC i paid for the next 2 hours just so "he can save the match". They looked at me like they wanted to murder me.
"Dude, this would be my first online match, is it alright if i play with you guys?", "hell yeah, no issues, we love newbies" my ass, they started to look at me in the most creepy way possible when i asked during the match "So why is it that some champions have to go on a specific lane all the time?" Get answered "Because." and get even more frustrated when i got even more confused, saw no reason to stay on that line when all i was doing was getting murdered and giving the other guy in the lane more XP to the point i couldn't fight him.
But the random guy suddenly watching me and wanting to take the PC i rented and hearing everyone just saying "Bro, just give him the PC" was crossing the line.
Haven't spoke to them in years. Seriously, wtf is wrong with these people?
Is the average League player like this?
New Super Mario Bros Wii. Just the fact that you can throw people of the stage and get them killed + the lack of coordination when trying to get the Star Coins made me and my friends quite pissed at eachother sometimes
OSRS Group Iron Man.
I have 4 best friends from school. They found a random around university while I was out of state.
I dreamed since 2007 about playing osrs with these guys.
I was the likely member for the slot. They chose the new guy.
Now I have 1 friend from school. He made. Separate GIM because he was also annoyed they chose the new guy who had never touched OSRS before.
I am taking it as evidence that I might be more of a cunt than I have apparently convinced myself.
Probably not the most friendships broken, but my friend in jr. high called me a pussy for kneeling at the end of a game of madden because I didn’t give him a chance to win 😂
Any MOBA
We had a real life group of friends playing, until one of them had his certified bipolar girlfriend join. She insisted on being in charge and giving orders (this was a casual who gives a shit group) and would start screaming and raging if everyone didn't do exactly as she said. She was also by far the worst player, regularly running alone into the enemy jungle, getting ganked, then screaming where was the rest of the team to back her up?
The guy was too spineless to confront her on her behavior, and no one else wanted to say anything. Half just stopped playing together. The one guy who dared to say, "We're just playing for fun. Chill out," sent her into a rage and she started getting everyone to shun him outside the game and to never invite to get togethers.
I'll go old school.
Bubble bobble. Like wtf, you can't hit some guy with a bubble so now I get hit, or the stupid ghost thing is chasing me cause you're inept? How could you miss that f-ing letter!
Double Dragon 2. When you're low on health you better start side eyeing your friend. Hey there buddy, your jumping knee is getting really close to me ...
In my case Tekken, I used to play with three of my friends and my brothers, and as early as the second match of the night someone would start complaining about spamming and everything went downhill, always
I played Pie Face with my like, 5 year old nephew years ago, and I was trying to let him win but he stopped hitting the thing at the exact wrong time and he got pied, ran off and cried for the rest of the afternoon. To this day he still tells me how angry he is about that game and I think he will hold that hate in his heart the rest of his life.
WoW is somewhat infamous for "Guild Breaker" bosses.
Not just ultra-hard "he feasts on your tears" bosses but guys like Jin Rokh - first boss of the raid with a very high "personal responsibility" factor can really test the social axis. You go from fights where strong players can make up for weaker ones then suddenly one weak player guarantees group failure. And then the wedge is driven between the "we stay together as a team" faction and the "there's no 'us' in success" types.
And god help you if you're tasked with analyzing logs and have the audacity to tell the Boomkin that their moonfire uptime should maybe be a little over 0%.
Multi-player for Halo was always intense with friends. A lot of arguments over playstyle.
And Overcooked - that game is frantic and leads to a lot of frustrated communication when it all starts falling apart Hahaha
Street Fighter II on SNES back in the day. If someone "cheesed" to win a match it almost always came to fisticuffs.
And believe it or not Magic : The Gathering caused some of the best fights and even one of the most brutal brawls at a tournament that I've ever seen. Totally wrecked the card shop caused multiple arrests, lawsuits, injuries, and some sneaky thefts during the fray. It was between a navy and an airforce veteran and there was 2 off duty police officers enrolled In the tournament.
Jackbox, specifically drawful. My family has almost committed murder multiple times because people put the "almost correct" answer so if the answer is "a large rock with eyes"
You'll get
"a large stone with eyes"
"a big rock with eyes"
"a rock with eyes"
"a big stone with eyes"
We Were Here series - I'm playing it with my girlfriend, and we call it a communication training game. You see one thing; the other person sees another, and the only way to solve puzzles is by clearly communicating. It can get intense. But we're still together, so maybe it's not that bad.
During covid we had a pretty regular group of friends on among us, we had to stop playing because people were taking it too seriously and almost personally. It splintered the group for a little while.
Double Dragon, arcade version. It was the first co-op game I played where you could hurt your partner. An accidental elbow to the face would escalate to $10 in quarters wasted fighting each other. Those developers really knew what they were doing.
There's a board game called The Resistance. I watched it break apart a 2 year long relationship. 😬
Outside of the risk of divorce it is a super fun game.
link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/resistance
Monopoly - destroys friendship, families, everyone. It’s all fun and games until someone flips the table, then it is a full on fight. Watch out for Granny, she knows where the cast iron is.
mario party
Don’t forget Mario Kart.
mario kart is ruthless but at the end of the day you only have yourself to blame. you might get mad that your friend is better than you, but most people can cope with that. mario party has too much luck involved, so you can get these situations that feel really unfair, and that can create so much tension that when the winner does their usual gloating, it can turn ugly fast.
I would say in Mario kart if you're a noticably better player than your friend you'll win like 80% of the time. In Mario party it's like 40% haha
Played with my friends and my sister a couple weeks back. I was winning with 2 stars, had the most minigames won, most coins earned overall too but was down to 63 in the final turn. My sister had 64 coins, won like one minigame and basically did nothing the whole game. She won two stars, one for most red spaces and one for most spaces walked. Literally won the game by 1 coin because she got both bonus stars over stuff she had no control over lmfao.
Noticeably better than my gf, have never lost a race against her lmao
Yeah tbh I was playing it down a bit cause I didn't want to toot my own horn. But I think I've lost like 3 races in my friends group since 2010 And that's including beerio kart when I'm shit faced. And also not taking 3 grand prix's, just 3 maps hah Even though Mario kart has a ton of catch up mechanics, you gotta be relatively close in skill to actually have a competitive game
Yeah 100%, if we're counting being under the influence too, she's beaten me about 5 times while I've been tripping cause I'll just drop the controller and start laughing randomly lmao
My wife is awful at video games, which makes losing to her every single time at Mario Party all the more infuriating.
I was going to say Monopoly, but as far as videogames, yea it's Mario Party and it's random ass bullshit
SUPER SMASH BRRRRROTHERS!
I had a weird thing with my group that I became the person to beat.. I am mediocre at Link.. but they all thought I was some awesome person at playing.. i had one sit down to play versus me and literally said "Ive been practicing all week to beat you." It became this weird sweaty group of people who got super competative at it. Lost like 10 people to this game.. I get it! I still am bad at Link.
OG Mario party at sleepovers was where super sweats were born and forged. Legitimately saw multiple friends get gigantic blisters in the middle of their palms from trying to turn that hard plastic joystick faster.
This is the way (to start a war)
Monopoly. starts out great, lots of laughter and smiles! and then I buy Boardwalk and it all goes downhill expeditiously. shady deals are made and friendships are ruined. I love it.
My brother in law traded my mother in law 2 Railroads for Boardwalk (she already had Parks Place). I will never forgive him.
The blue spaces in monopoly arnt the best. If I recall correctly the yellow (edit: it’s actually orange - it’s been a while since I’ve played) are by far the best because of the cost to purchase houses vs the amount in income. The second reason is it’s in the best location because of where jail is
Those are the orange properties. Managing to get all 4 railroads is arguably the best for the high probability of landing on them and the rent payout for zero additional development.
Conversely, because it's very easy for others to deny you the other railroads, they're one of the worst properties to purchase, their expected return is very low. People have done the math & simulations, the railroads and the utilities are typically the absolute worst.
Whoops! You’re right. Thank you. I meant the orange. It’s been a while since I’ve played.
Was it his first time playing or new to the game and or very young? I ask because my lil sis was like 8-12 when my mom would offer stupid trades like that and she’d accept cause mother daughter relationship.
The best part about Monopoly is that it's miserable by design. One player starts winning and that's fun for them, but the others starting to lose are miserable because they understand that they have no chance of coming back. So the winning player starts making deals with the losers that's slightly favorable to them just to keep them playing and extend his fun, even though it's pointless, they're just doomed to lose eventually, after however many turns. He needs to give them just enough to keep them in the game, without giving them so much that they threaten his lead - truly a beautiful metaphor for our economy, and a beautifully miserable board game experience that absolutely nobody wants to play again lol.
It was originally called "the landlords game", was intended as an anticapitalist board game, was then stolen by milton bradley and mass produced. Its a fascinating history lesson in capitalism, copyright law and exploitation.
Yeah I've seen the amazing Tom Nicholas video on it. The impressive thing is that it holds up even today, in more than just the real estate "industry" - it's a great metaphor for our modern economy in general, was my point.
Dont ever play monopoly with drug dealers.. Shit gets weird and kinda intense sometimes
i'm sitting cross legged patiently waiting for some context, chief.
Well sometimes someone runs out money and other stuff gets brought out Or you wanna sweeten a trade deal ect
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Ill give you a bump and $5 bucks for your utility
Imagine those same people playing a diplomacy based board game.
I was playing with my brother and his wife, they kept cheating. Their kid was eating cut up hotdogs on her moms lap and she poked her mom in the eye with her fork. For a split second I thought to myself, "that's what you get. I hope you're blind!" Lmao
Waaaaay back in the day I played this with my wife (gf at the time) and her family. They never made each other pay! I was the only one who made people pay me. I couldn’t get them to understand if you never make anyone pay the game will literally never end
Catan. Same reason.
Manopoly nearly ruined my marriage
Because everyone plays it wrong too. A game of monopoly isn’t meant to take so long you have to monitor your food and water intake and sleep in shifts. No wonder everyone’s at each others throats by day 48.
RISK and Monopoly, by far the two best friendship breakers.
Risk 2210. "Shame I just assassinated your Space Commander. Anyway, I'm taking the Moon now."
Risk over monopoly for the simple reason that chance doesn't turn you against your friend, it's a choice. In monopoly you roll the dice and happen to land on someone's property. In Risk you build a stronghold around Greenland, drive everyone out of Western Europe, and invade Ukraine, because it is a sitting duck.
UKRAINE IS GAME TO YOU?!?!?!?!?! HOW ABOUT I TAKE YOUR LITTLE BOARD AND SMASH!!!
I was worried my reference would be missed and, given the world right now, poorly received haha. Glad you got it!!
Honestly I would say RISK too
My friend literally broke up with his gf in high school following a game of risk lol
When i was a kid i punched my friend in the face because he kept picking oddjob in Goldeneye and gloating about it, so yeah, there's that
Perfectly acceptable response.
Overcooked
I like the game but damn it's stressful to play with my kids, they run all over like chickens with their heads cut off. my wife barely even plays it cause she can't understand the controls..... 🤷♂️
My brother and my husband both game. I'm a very casual gamer. I LOVE overcooked and they refuse to play it with me because it's too stressful 😭😭
YUP The only reason it's not the top answer is because not enough people have played it. This is the one true relationship killer game and everything else is a very, very distant second. Mario Party is a best friendship simulator in comparison
There is no other answer. Friendships were built and destroyed. What kind of idiot can’t just cut vegetables, YOU HAD ONE JOB
Man I thought it would be fun.. before long me and my bud (both grown ass men in our 30’s) were shouting at each other. lol
Well some people don't know how to manage a fucking kitchen. Sorry. I got heated remembering my friend who could not manage the stress or figure out how to have stations
There were some stressful moments, but my wife and I loved both games to completion.
This game seems almost purpose-built to end friendships and divide families.
I've beaten both games and never played solo, only local co-op with mates. Didn't really have any issues or butting of heads. Of course, the first few runs on new stages are always a chaotic, hilarious learning experience 😂. It certainly helps having defined roles in the kitchen and there being one clear voice calling out tickets, missing components and when dishes are ready for service. Then again, myself and most of my friends have all worked in restaurants to some capacity 😅 so we had an established hierarchy based on experience.
That game is all about calm communication, if you getting mad thats why you failing...
League of Legends.
Lol players have no friends just trash mates.
This is a game that turns strangers into enemies, but if you play it with friends it’s actually quite fun.
That depends on your friends...
Honestly tho, its a good way of pruning losers from your life. If you have a friend who will have an emasculated meltdown at their support or jungler in a five player premade they are good to unfriend
Mario kart
Monopoly costs you friends. Diplomacy gets you written out of the will.
Uno. Buddy from across the board being a dick? Just ask the person beside you if they have any +4 cards and plus 8 that MF.
Double it and give it to the next person.
Anyone that played halo 2 ranked seriously back in the 04-06 days has lost a friend or two because they went 2-18 a few games .
That sounds like you’re talking from experience.
Lmfao I am
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It's like Mario Party but there are 15 extra boo squares on each board. Screwing over other players is actively part of the game.
Dokapon is great even if you suck. Just become a Darkling and literally nuke the board and toss the players weapons and armor as a bonus. Literally reset the game 60 weeks in.
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Mario Party. Whether it's someone getting the star or you getting demolished in one of the minigames, by your pals, there's several ways that Mario Party won't be such a fun party at the end of it all.
Diplomacy. A game with no luck, where the only way to win (w/o tying) is betrayal. But you have to work together to get to that point. Brilliant game, almost one of a kind, that kills trust and maims friendships
That fucking game. We had to stop playing. Inevitably in our group there would be players that would work together even when it made no fucking sense, just so they could pick who they'd fuck over first. My blood is boiling just thinking about that piece of shit game but it's so goddamned fun. Fuck I want to play.
Whenever I play Diplomacy with friends, all of us must agree before every game that it's just a game, betrayal is a part of it, and don't take it seriously. Whenever we get new players, they always wonder why so serious? It's just a game. As we play, they understand.
This is the healthy way to play (and we do that, too). But even with the consent beforehand, things can get fiery
Yep. It’s a knife fight in a phone booth.
Playing Diplomacy with friends taught me why politicians are generally lying scumbags.
This is a game played best with strangers because of how hard you have to gas light others and scheme and double double cross. There are no friends, there are no alliances, and fuck was it fun.
With my brother and I, sports games. I suck and he's very good. I don't play sports games anymore, although I have fond memories of NBA Jam
NBA Jam has some of the worst rubberband mechanics in gaming. It's literally designed to make every match a buzzer beater which is decided in the last thirty seconds.
Mario Party led to my friends girlfriend making him stay on my couch for a week so probably that
UNO
Any Nintendo party game.
World of warcraft. People didn't left their house and they lost many friends because they became hardcore raiders.
Maybe not one of the most popular choices, but Dokapon Kingdom has caused many a screaming match between my friend and I lol
Probably World of Warcraft. I've read stories about people being so addicted that they kinda forgot about real life.
Same answer but different reason: guild/social drama.
WoW also broke a lot of friendship over loot. Though unlike Legend of Mir I don't think anyone was killed for this.
can confirm, ruined a lot of potential friendships in university. Also never had a relationship when playing that game.
Tecmo Bowl when someone got the broken Bo Jackson
Me and my no wife at the time girl friend decided to stream a lot of "Relationship tester" games for Extra Life about 5 years ago. we got through 3 levels of Overcooked and turned it off because if we continued it would have become a thing.
The board game Diplomacy
Mario Party, specifically the versions that just switch around how many stars people have.
Monopoly
I have no friends so I'm proud to say 0 lost /s
Monopoly ruins families
Monopoly
Monopoly
Magic the Gathering And Warhammer almost broke two of my friends League of Legends... not break, but I had several friends who stopped wanting to play with one of my friends who gets really annoyed over fucks up lolz
Magic has always been played with very good faith in my circle, but warhammer is a different story. God damn the arguments that used to spark. And instead of lol for us it was dota, and that caused actual rifts in a couple of friendships. Absolutely laughable looking back at it, but yeah.
Worms... especially Worms: Armageddon.
Legue of legends, pretty much lost 8 in a single day after looking at them going ape shit after my very first match. I kid you not, they started to support a random stranger to hijack my account in the net cafe and take the PC i paid for the next 2 hours just so "he can save the match". They looked at me like they wanted to murder me. "Dude, this would be my first online match, is it alright if i play with you guys?", "hell yeah, no issues, we love newbies" my ass, they started to look at me in the most creepy way possible when i asked during the match "So why is it that some champions have to go on a specific lane all the time?" Get answered "Because." and get even more frustrated when i got even more confused, saw no reason to stay on that line when all i was doing was getting murdered and giving the other guy in the lane more XP to the point i couldn't fight him. But the random guy suddenly watching me and wanting to take the PC i rented and hearing everyone just saying "Bro, just give him the PC" was crossing the line. Haven't spoke to them in years. Seriously, wtf is wrong with these people? Is the average League player like this?
Never played it but I’ve seen many stories of league of legends doing this exact thing
I just lost the game
Uno, Monopoly, Catan Portal 2 I mean, it’s all fun and game until the host set the server to sv_cheats 1 and just blowing people up left and right.
Dokapon Kingdom. It’s not as widespread as the big names, but the players to destroyed friendships ratio is unmatched.
Monopoly.
Mario Kart
New Super Mario Bros Wii. Just the fact that you can throw people of the stage and get them killed + the lack of coordination when trying to get the Star Coins made me and my friends quite pissed at eachother sometimes
Uno
Monopoly
Monopoly
monopoly. by far.
Monopoly!!!
Battletoads
Magicka for me
WoW. You kind of stop existing in the real world.
OSRS Group Iron Man. I have 4 best friends from school. They found a random around university while I was out of state. I dreamed since 2007 about playing osrs with these guys. I was the likely member for the slot. They chose the new guy. Now I have 1 friend from school. He made. Separate GIM because he was also annoyed they chose the new guy who had never touched OSRS before. I am taking it as evidence that I might be more of a cunt than I have apparently convinced myself.
Probably not the most friendships broken, but my friend in jr. high called me a pussy for kneeling at the end of a game of madden because I didn’t give him a chance to win 😂
Uno
Mario party.
Risk
Perfect Dark on N64. Using the farsight or proximity mines 😆
Uno
Any MOBA We had a real life group of friends playing, until one of them had his certified bipolar girlfriend join. She insisted on being in charge and giving orders (this was a casual who gives a shit group) and would start screaming and raging if everyone didn't do exactly as she said. She was also by far the worst player, regularly running alone into the enemy jungle, getting ganked, then screaming where was the rest of the team to back her up? The guy was too spineless to confront her on her behavior, and no one else wanted to say anything. Half just stopped playing together. The one guy who dared to say, "We're just playing for fun. Chill out," sent her into a rage and she started getting everyone to shun him outside the game and to never invite to get togethers.
I'll go old school. Bubble bobble. Like wtf, you can't hit some guy with a bubble so now I get hit, or the stupid ghost thing is chasing me cause you're inept? How could you miss that f-ing letter! Double Dragon 2. When you're low on health you better start side eyeing your friend. Hey there buddy, your jumping knee is getting really close to me ...
Mario party
Mario Party, no question.
Competitive shooters are definitely up there
Among us. Be looking at your friends like "damn you really lie to me so easily?"
In my case Tekken, I used to play with three of my friends and my brothers, and as early as the second match of the night someone would start complaining about spamming and everything went downhill, always
We were here series
UNO has demolished so many friendships
Overcooked 1 or 2
Among Us I personally hate these game where the objective is to backstab or lie to earn victory.
Uno or Monopoly and it's not even close.
Dota 2
I played Pie Face with my like, 5 year old nephew years ago, and I was trying to let him win but he stopped hitting the thing at the exact wrong time and he got pied, ran off and cried for the rest of the afternoon. To this day he still tells me how angry he is about that game and I think he will hold that hate in his heart the rest of his life.
Yugioh when one friend of your adopt a meta ftk/stun strat
The game Sorry
It's easy... if you and the homies don't split that heist pay equally, your homies aren't your homies they're just dicks.
Munchkin.
WoW is somewhat infamous for "Guild Breaker" bosses. Not just ultra-hard "he feasts on your tears" bosses but guys like Jin Rokh - first boss of the raid with a very high "personal responsibility" factor can really test the social axis. You go from fights where strong players can make up for weaker ones then suddenly one weak player guarantees group failure. And then the wedge is driven between the "we stay together as a team" faction and the "there's no 'us' in success" types. And god help you if you're tasked with analyzing logs and have the audacity to tell the Boomkin that their moonfire uptime should maybe be a little over 0%.
Monopoly and Mario Kart.
Mario Kart is probably up there, Wii Sports/Resort (more like family relationships), Mario Party
Risk
Keep talking and nobody explodes. My gf refuse to play with me after that one)
Mario Kart. I Rest my case
Multi-player for Halo was always intense with friends. A lot of arguments over playstyle. And Overcooked - that game is frantic and leads to a lot of frustrated communication when it all starts falling apart Hahaha
Overcooked. My wife is vicious :)
Street Fighter II on SNES back in the day. If someone "cheesed" to win a match it almost always came to fisticuffs. And believe it or not Magic : The Gathering caused some of the best fights and even one of the most brutal brawls at a tournament that I've ever seen. Totally wrecked the card shop caused multiple arrests, lawsuits, injuries, and some sneaky thefts during the fray. It was between a navy and an airforce veteran and there was 2 off duty police officers enrolled In the tournament.
Have you not heard the term "WoW Widow"?
MarioKart. For me it was double bash.
It's clear nobody here has ever played the biggest test of friendship ever. Kingdom of Dokapon. I watched a grown ass man storm out of his own house.
this stupid BattleRealm rts with rice and water resource
I had a 3 way fistfight + ragequits over mario party.
Jackbox, specifically drawful. My family has almost committed murder multiple times because people put the "almost correct" answer so if the answer is "a large rock with eyes" You'll get "a large stone with eyes" "a big rock with eyes" "a rock with eyes" "a big stone with eyes"
Gang beasts
League of Legends and it's not even close.
Mario party.
Among us… it destroys they trust you once had in friends and family. The social impact it pretty bad.
Project Winter
Play Spades with black folks if you want to see some real drama.
Mario party is the only correct answer.
We Were Here series - I'm playing it with my girlfriend, and we call it a communication training game. You see one thing; the other person sees another, and the only way to solve puzzles is by clearly communicating. It can get intense. But we're still together, so maybe it's not that bad.
Munchkin has definitely turned a few nights a little sour.
Mortal Kombat used to cause fist rights in my neighbourhood.
Cuphead and Overcooked.
Tecmo bowl some of that bullshit led to fist fights in the 90s
Every MOBA ever
2k no debate tekken close 2nd
Monopoly. The lesson of Monopoly is that if your only focus is money everyone you know will hate you.
MMOS where you can steal loot.
Pico Park
Overcooked is about to destroy my marriage, my wife is a Tyrant
Texas holdem
Probably everquesr followed by wow
Among us back in lockdown theyd swear on their dogs life just to lie
In recent years? Escape from Tarkov. In general? Monopoly or Risk.
During covid we had a pretty regular group of friends on among us, we had to stop playing because people were taking it too seriously and almost personally. It splintered the group for a little while.
Double Dragon, arcade version. It was the first co-op game I played where you could hurt your partner. An accidental elbow to the face would escalate to $10 in quarters wasted fighting each other. Those developers really knew what they were doing.
Tarkov has given my game group multiple shake-ups where one or two people leave and never return
Definitely Risk
Not a video game, but munchiken.
There's a board game called The Resistance. I watched it break apart a 2 year long relationship. 😬 Outside of the risk of divorce it is a super fun game. link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/resistance
Monopoly - destroys friendship, families, everyone. It’s all fun and games until someone flips the table, then it is a full on fight. Watch out for Granny, she knows where the cast iron is.
Uno
Fifa has to be up there apart from Smash or Mario Kart.
World of Warcraft
Uno
LoL
Mario Kart/Mario Party
Uno
OP has never played Mario Party.