10 Video Games That Make Losing Truly Painful

10. World Of Warcraft

Growing up you're always told "fail to prepare, prepare to fail", and high ranking players of Blizzards genre defining MMORPG live by this mantra. It's not uncommon to see crowds of players working together for hours to gain buffs for an advantage in a single forthcoming raid.

This behaviour is necessary to make progress in the late game. It asks for hours of your time while placing the possibility of losing it all around almost every corner.

When your whole party does wipe, and they will, its a choice between walking the immeasurable distance back or resurrection sickness... god forbid. Either way all of those hours you put into gaining your buffs are meaningless now. The only thing saving you from the descent into madness is the fact that your whole party feels the same way.

So why endure this outright abuse? Well, for loot obviously. Loot is the mechanism to keep players engaged... and enraged because there's two dice rolls for every drop. Firstly the loot you're there for has to actually spawn. Then, get this, you have to win another roll for the single piece of loot between your party members.

However, this ever-present adversity is exactly what makes World of Warcraft so rewarding.