Gaming Anger

I don't think I'm the only one who experiences this from time to time. It happens to me - I get beaten by a particularly cheap enemy a few times over, and began to get pissed. The next few times, I'm ready to throw the controller, and I'm cursing and yelling at the character onscreen.

Here's a few examples -

- I got pissed with Devil May Cry, and repeatedly smashed my PS2 pad onto the hardwood floor, placing a HUGE crack up the middle.

- I've almost thrown a few SNES controllers ( learning to beat Street Fighter Turbo on Level 8 ), and punched a whole in the wall of my closet door.

- I wanted to throw my Guilty Gear X DC disc out of the window after being cheaply beaten by Dizzy for the umpteenth time. I got pissed and simply turned off the machine, and didn't play that game for weeks afterward.

- Recently, in Buffy, I kept getting killed by enemies throwing molotov cocktail-type bombs, but I felt the anger brewing, and just shut off the machine.

I've had many more that I can't recall at the moment.

What are your worst episodes of gaming anger?

Genesis Madden Football-My friends & I damaged a couple of controllers hurling them against the wall during particulary frustrating moments.

Street Fighter II Arcade-I nearly came to blows one time with someone who was performing cheap moves; after we both had agreed not to use them (the chip, chip, chip, throw move).

Mike Tyson's Punchout-Man, Tyson is one tough son of a bitch, good thing those NES pads can take a beating.

I've mellowed as time has passed, but can still get extremely frustrated. However, I now have control over my temper.

I have complete control over my anger.

Medal of Honor: underground.

There's a level that involves an on rails sidecar shooting section. You jump into the sidecare while the other guy rides the bike and you act as gunner and shoot stuff as you ride around.

I just could not shoot 100% of the enemies in time to get the gold medallion or whatever for that level because the shitty game makes it so that the gun never shoots straight.

Result? many retries and many thrown controllers. I broke the rumble mechanism in my dual shock. That's probably the only time I've gotten frustrated at a game as I'm pretty calm and patience most of the time.
But try getting the gold on that level in medal of honour without missing anything while using a machine gun that never shoots perfectly straight and is pretty much random in an environment where you have a time limit to shoot everything before you pass them on the bike. I now hate games that impose time limits and lose patience very easily with them.

oh yeah another thing:
I was recently trying to play ghouls and ghosts on gba. Now there's this tower level (the one that rotates as you scale it) where, at the end this pig-like creatrue fall on top of you so fast that there is NO way you could avoid the attack unless you just weren't lucky enough to not be there. (if you are there at the time, you will not escape!) The is the single most annoying thing I have ever played in a game bar the medal of honor thing. It's sort of random but you walk so slow and it falls down so fast that it is mandatory. And the worst thing of all it comes last for that section. Meaning when you fail, you have to go right back and do that whole section over again just to get back to that extremely cheap area. I've died more than in any other part of the game. It's bad design by capcom's part.

No wonder I like ghouls and ghost better than super ghouls and ghosts. you can shoot up and down and have more control and can run faster.

Well, Even if game really pisses me off, I wont try to destroy the controller, since its expensive to replace, and if I really in need to punch something, I will punch the chair instead :)

Last time I was pissed off by the game, was when I discovered major fuck up in Drakkan Ancient Gates for PS2, that prevented me from finishing the game, and forced me to restart in the friggin middle of my quest !!!!!

Fighter X, Why did DMC angered you soo much?

Hey:

Back when I owned a U.S. PS2, I bought one of those Interact arcade sticks to use with Tekken Tag Tournament. It worked well enough for awhile, but one day it went haywire--I'd be standing there and my fighter would suddenly kick for no reason, etc. The sticks were not cheap and I had long since thrown away the reciept. I put the stick back in its box in the closet, hoping that if I let it sit for awhile it would fix itself or something.

A few months later, I pull the stick back out. Lo and behold, it was still broken. I took the stick and dropped it on the living room floor. My girlfriend was on the computer at the time and took no notice of it, until I returned with a baseball bat and summarily SMASHED THE STICK TO PIECES, UNLEASHING THE PUREST OF HUMAN EMOTIONS--RAGE--UPON IT. I scared the hell out of my girlfriend, who watched as this all went down. I followed up by spitting on the remnants of the stick. Now thats video game anger.

-Technosphile

I seek out challenging games, so I have a lot of moments of rage. There is actually a TNL feature already written about this, but not yet posted.

My advice: be kind to your controllers and punch yourself in the leg in those moments of seething hatred. You will either get good at the game or get good and crippled for a few days.

SFIII: Gill.

what a cheap fucker

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Originally posted by Technosphile

A few months later, I pull the stick back out. Lo and behold, it was still broken. I took the stick and dropped it on the living room floor. My girlfriend was on the computer at the time and took no notice of it, until I returned with a baseball bat and summarily SMASHED THE STICK TO PIECES, UNLEASHING THE PUREST OF HUMAN EMOTIONS--RAGE--UPON IT. I scared the hell out of my girlfriend, who watched as this all went down. I followed up by spitting on the remnants of the stick. Now thats video game anger.

-Technosphile

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That is awesome :lol:

The only time my anger ever got out of control was with Robo Pit back when it was still somewhat new. For some reason, I felt the game was cheating. Whether or not it was I can't remember. All I know is it got me so enraged that I stood up and punched a hole right into the wall. Directly after that, I went back and beat the crap out of the robot I was stuck on on my first try. Surprisingly I've been able to control my temper otherwise when it comes to games. Sure, some games cause me to scream obscenities(Ninja Jajamaru Kun's final boss comes to mind. Such horrid camera angles), but none have since resulted in any action. It's funny, it took Robo Pit, of all games to anger me enough for "phsyical violence". All those years of Battletoads, Ghosts N Goblins, etc.... and not one incident.

Oh, though not exactly because of a game, my anger did shine another time. This time it was due to my Netlink, which was my only connection to the internet at that time. Well, my Saturn was giving me trouble about recognizing the modem(which goes in the cart slot). Little did I know this was due to using a third pary memory cart messing with my cart slot. I figured my Netlink modem got ruined somehow and was getting really angry. It ended with me slamming the Ntlink on the floor a few times, punting it in the air, throwing it across the room and all manner of torture. At this time, Netlinks could be had for $17 from Toys R Us so I wasn't too worried about breaking the thing, besides, I thought it already was broke. You should've sen my face when I found out the problem was with my cart slot. Boy I felt like an ass. That was my only instance of anger towards one of my gaming posessions. Though, If my Ps2 happens to break down after the warranty is up, it's got an appointment with Mr.Sledgehammer. ;)

I punched a friend of mine in the balls back in '92 over a game of Street Fighter II.

the medal of honor games are just plain horrible and not good for and angry prone fellow like me. enemies shoot thru walls, horrible clipping...et cetera.

i hate how racing games still use the drone car syndrome. the other cars can bash into you causing you to loose control while they simply cruise on by loosing neither control, speed or placement.

ahhh tecnho....you make me happy. ive also broken things and spat on them. i once took a genny controller and swung it overhead style into the floor. it didnt break which for some reason which angered me more. so i stomped on it and swung it overhead several more times before it shattered on the floor. the sound was blessed. then i spat on it :D

and i also hate EA hockey games lately. that bullshit rubber band goal scoring AI is the crappiest thing ever. whats that? im winning 35-0 and suddenly my goalie is letting in 45' shots. riiiight.

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Fighter X, Why did DMC angered you soo much?

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Well DMC pissed me off probably more than any other game in recent history because I love it so much and wanted to perfect it and kill bosses without using items or anything. So this led to many, many times of anger, especially in DMD mode, which I haven't finished yet....I'll finish it someday...

I think for me, usually the games that piss me off the most, are the ones I most like...(but sometimes they piss me off and just suck...)

Perfect examples of how videogames are just "Violence Simulators" and make our nations children more aggresive.

Fighter X, Why did DMC angered you soo much? [/QUOTE]

I can't remember the particular part, but I know my first few run-ins with the second level boss ( the Lava Spider ) and the next one weren't exactly pleasant. The at-times awkward camera angles didn't help matters either.

No game has inspired more anger in me than Perfect Dark on the "perfect agent" difficulty setting.

Gill from Street Fighter 3: Third Strike is a close second.

Ok. Thats pretty much what I thought. Many people get frustrated by DMC camera, or challenging bosses.

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SFIII: Gill.

what a cheap fucker

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he is a pain in the ass :mad:

Same can be said about Justice in Guilty Gears. One of the cheapest bosses ever.

I've never damaged any videogame goods in fits of anger. The worst you'll get out of me when I get frustrated is a verbal tirade that makes no sense. :p

In French?

Naah, I mainly just say a string of English curses and words that don't make any sense together. ;)

My French is not very good and I don't know many curses. Plus most French curses are based on religion. Maybe I will start yelling "tabernac!" when I fall to my doom in Shinobi though. :p

Two words:



Black Belt


...on Master System. Damn if this game didn't piss me off. It was the first one to actually make me throw my controller.


On another occasion, I was going to trade Thunder Force 3 Joe Montana Sport's Talk Football (the 2nd one). The kid who was going to trade it to me came over my house so I could play it. I started out enjoying it but then the utter crap cheapness of the game overcame me. I ripped it out of my Genesis without even shutting off the system and threw the cart as hard as I could against the porcelain floor. It shattered like cheap glass. I can still remember the expression of sheer horror on that kid's face. Needless to say, he walked away with TH3. :(

Nowadays, I just slap my knee and cuss like a sailor in Spanish. Bad words seem to sound so much nastier in Spanish. Very therapeutic.

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Nowadays, I just slap my knee and cuss like a sailor in Spanish. Bad words seem to sound so much nastier in Spanish. Very therapeutic

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:lol:

Majin,

¡Tu lo sabes, papá! :lol:

Seguro, diciendo puñeta! se descarga más tensión que diciendo fuck! :lol:

Well, I tend to swear in both Russian and English, when game gets on my nerves :)

I cuss like a sailor at games.....but I've never broken anything. My brother kicked a hole in the wall, and broke a few controllers while playing various Sonic games on the genesis.....but me, I am cool, calm, and collected. ^_^





well, unless that stupid Parasite bos in PSO keeps killing me when I've got like a few shots to go.......ROOOOOOAR!!!!!

Merde.

I loved my old TG-16. I had it since 1993, when Kim Campbell walked into a pumpkin patch and made fun of her competitor's (and our/my future Prime Minister's) facial deformaty by saying "do you want this for your next PM?"

Memories.

Anyhoo. One day I was playing Solider Blade. After getting slaughtered around level 5, as usual, I went to remove the game. The plastic came out but the chip still remained inside the system. Yep, I was fucked.

The screws in the back of the TG-16 were proprietary so I couldn't just unscrew the back. I got all sorts of tools, and for the next 5 years tried desperately to get the game out.

Wasn't happening.

Couple this was a severe TG-16 shortage in my area, and you had a very unhappy teenager. Sometime around 2 years ago, I finally got the thing to open. I removed the chip and put in another game.

Blank.

I tried 20 times but nothing happened.

Now, I'm not an idiot. I know why the system didn't work. The abuse it endured while I tried to pry the system open and get the game out of the slot more than destroyed the cart slot. However, I had my heart set on seeing the beginning of Keith Courage's open screen again. It was something I was looking forward too. My project, if you will.

So, out of no where, my blood boils. I run into the garage, grab the biggest, heaviest hammer I could find, and beat the living shit out of that system. Bits and peices flew so high and so hard that it cut me. I never ceased my attack, though. I didn't stop until it was a mess of circuit slivers.

awesome..

i mean, sorry about your system, but nice story.. :)

Well I get angry at games all the time. But I never attack things in my room. I used to always slap the floor/bed/chair really hard with my hands. And then I started to pound on my knees/thighs with my fists. And now I just smack my self in the forehead a few times. I am sure pretty soon I will be stabbing my self with knives or something.

I also argue with the Television like Football Coachs argue with Refs. I point at the TV and yell things like, "Oh you got to be kidding me! Thats so damn cheap! Just plain retarded!"

My brother one time when playing Super Mario World was getting really frustrated at something, and took the SNES controller and pitched it into the stairs like Nolan Ryan. The controllers was fine, Nintendo makes strong stuff in my experiance. Now that I think about it my brother threw the controllers a lot in the old NES/SNES days.

Things I see a lot in Arcades is when people lose they slam the stick in a direction as hard as possiable, that can't be good for the sticks.

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Originally posted by Technosphile
Hey:

...A few months later, I pull the stick back out. Lo and behold, it was still broken. I took the stick and dropped it on the living room floor. My girlfriend was on the computer at the time and took no notice of it, until I returned with a baseball bat and summarily SMASHED THE STICK TO PIECES, UNLEASHING THE PUREST OF HUMAN EMOTIONS--RAGE--UPON IT. I scared the hell out of my girlfriend, who watched as this all went down. I followed up by spitting on the remnants of the stick. Now thats video game anger.

-Technosphile

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:lol: I can so picture you doing that... but as for me, back in the day of Mortal Kombat I was up late playing the genny with my friend brett and he kept doing that Kano, curl in a ball and fly at you move and I would ALWAYS get hit by it..so after a match of him just doing that one move I yelled "fuck you" and punched him in the stomach. lol...I haven't talked ot him in a LONG time.

Around 3rd grade, I was over at my buddy's house playing Top Gun for NES during a sleepover. My friend was pretty good at the game and was on the last level, the space station boss on the moon (how ridiculous to fly an F-16 Tomcat to the moon in retrospect).

We had gotten to that boss like three times and died after lengthy battles everytime. This time, I believe he got hit by a missle just as the station was exploding! The boss was dying, the game was over and he was robbed of his hard-fought victory!

He ripped the cartridge out of the NES and calmly walked downstairs to the garage, then grabbed a hammer and smashed it to smithereens on the floor. I watched in awe as he swept the pieces into a brown paper lunch bag, which we then took to the front driveway and set on fire. We danced around the flames until it flickered out, then tossed the charred remains into the trash can outside.

His parents never woke up or found out, and he claimed he lost the game or something... His folks actually bought him a new one!

-Oh yeah, I had my own bout of NES rage when a friend and I lost to the last boss of Legendary Wings. I slammed my fist directly on top of the NES, cracking the little flip-top plastic door in half and putting a big fault-line in the top of the system.

But it always worked fine in spite of the abuse...

I remember that rail level GameHED. Were you trying that on Hard? I did that on Hard and it took so long to get that Gold. Ever get it? And how long did it take you?

Funny this topic should come up, since I just beat Stuntman earlier this week.

I got plenty frustrated while playing that game, but I'm happy to say that no controllers were harmed. I shout and curse a blue streak when playing difficult games, but I never destroy controllers or other video game paraphernalia. It's just not worth the expense.

Sakura in Alpha 3 is a bitch. I usually don't get that angry though.

I've already listed my two destroyed PS' and broken GG in other threads of similar nature. But I broke a PS2 controller recently thanks to GGXX and that absolutely horrible GOLD EX HEALING DIZZY WITH INFINITE SUPERS WHO IS INVINCIBLE TO MY SUPERS AND I CAN'T FUCKING JUMP.

So I now have a perfectly functional PS2 controller aside from the R2 button cover missing and the right handle is no longer one connected piece. It doesn't look very pretty and makes playing a couple games a bit more difficult.

[edit] I'm also certain that if you grip the PS2 controller tight enough and twist, it can be broken in half. At least, it certainly strains enough when I do that, but the thought of a $30 controller usually halts my rage from going too far.

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I've already listed my two destroyed PS' and broken GG in other threads of similar nature. But I broke a PS2 controller recently thanks to GGXX and that absolutely horrible GOLD EX HEALING DIZZY WITH INFINITE SUPERS WHO IS INVINCIBLE TO MY SUPERS AND I CAN'T FUCKING JUMP.

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Thanks for the warning, cuz now I'll be on the lookout for that. Justice kicked me arse, too. I've seen that he loves that Infinite Super Meter too much.

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I remember that rail level GameHED. Were you trying that on Hard? I did that on Hard and it took so long to get that Gold. Ever get it? And how long did it take you?

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Yep. I got all golds in all other levels except that one. Until of course the cheat code become unlocked that quadruple the rate of fire so you can fire more bullets at a time. I beleive that if a game is no longer giving you fun and you've reached the plateu and you just want to see what happens after you get everything, the only other option is to succumb to the temptation to use the cheat code given within the game to help you. (this is not true for a game that I think is balanced and fair though. Games like that do give way once you're skills improve.)

But in the case of this part of the game, you just can't control which direction the bullet will travel because it is random and never truly aims where the cross hair is placed. So really what's the point? You just got to be lucky a bullet will hit something based on the randomness of the gun.

Another moment I remember:

Darkstalkers 1 boss on ps1. For some reason the last boss is uber cheap, uber powerful and and uber damaging, and combos like a madman while each move has instant start up and recovery time, never leaving him vulnerable to anything... and that's on normal. Way worse than gill from the sf3 games imo. At least gill has openings and you can poke and force him into doing the wrong move so you can counter with another one while he is recovering. The darkstalkers 1 boss is one of the hardest bosses I've fought.

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Another moment I remember:

Darkstalkers 1 boss on ps1. For some reason the last boss is uber cheap, uber powerful and damaging, and combos like a madman... and that's on normal. Way worse than gill from the sf3 games imo. At least gill has openings and you can poke and force him into doing the wrong move so you can counter with another one while he is recovering.

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Yes, that was Pyron in his heyday :)

Another moment for me, is playing Splinter Cell. Tell me why I'm 4 feet aways from an enemy soldier, and still missing when I try to shoot him? It's happened ( and gotten me killed ) many MANY times.

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Thanks for the warning, cuz now I'll be on the lookout for that. Justice kicked me arse, too. I've seen that he loves that Infinite Super Meter too much.

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If you get frustrated easily, for the love of god stay the hell away from Mission Mode, it will only break you.

It's pissed me off more times then I can remember, and the whole house usually knows once I get stuck. One day a roomie came up to the attic and said, "Sounds like someone's getting their ass handed to them up here." That was responded to with a string of words not unlike what my TV was getting.

Eh, a few "fucks," "mother fucks" and numerous variations of said curse consist of 90% of anger venting. Sometimes I slam my palm on my DC arcade stick if I get pissy when playing some cheap CPU fool in a fighting game, though.

Cursing candidates: DDP, Ikaruga... well, any game when I fuck up on a good score run. Or just fuck up.

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Another moment for me, is playing Splinter Cell. Tell me why I'm 4 feet aways from an enemy soldier, and still missing when I try to shoot him? It's happened ( and gotten me killed ) many MANY times.

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I think you've got to squeeze the trigger very slowly rather than yanking at it. Try this and it may increase your accuracy. You may even hear something as an audible cue. I think this is a common problem with the game a lot of people have had. I hate guns that don't aim directly in the centre.(MOH:U) But in this, I find I never miss the target if I line it up carefully, squeeze the left trigger to make Sam hold his breath, and then shoot. Before i started making him hold his breath I had all sorts of problems aiming.
Unlike action games this relies heavily on your ability to make one-shot, one-kill terminations without ever leaving a trace. the less you kill the less time you waste having to hide bodies and shit. So there are multiple strategies for the same thing.

Same with the "falling down from above silently without making noise" thing.
There is a technique you have to employ that ensures a guard will not hear your feet thumping the ground and turning around to see who is sneaking behind them. If they do turn around you've failed to do it properly.

At first I also disliked the AI system at times. Say you get spotted in the dark and I mean pitch black the guards will start to fire at you but as you run away they will keep on firing at you even though they can't see where you are. When you see it, it will tick you off real bad. ...Until I learnt from a friend that the guards can see you in pitch black if you are right in front of their noses and they are looking directly at you. Doh. You need to stay out of their way as well as be in the dark.

They can also hear where you're going if you're running, and if they are close and have spotted you they can see you move even though it's dark - this makes sense to me too.

I love the line of sight, light and proximity implementation in the AI. The only fault I've found in the game so far is that there are some clipping issues with dead bodies' feet sticking through walls, and sometimes going down stairs Sam's feet aren't touching the stairs properly. Loading between levels is also fairly long but it doesn't hurt the gameplay. The menus are a little cumbersome but I think that's being a bit nit-picky.

Ah, I see.

Adds depth to the game! Maybe that will help me out.

Danke. :D

Shinobi PS2- During the fight with that damn Benisuzume, I hung in there while spewing some obscenities and eventually offed her with a couple tate attacks.

Dodonpachi, Grid Seeker, & Giga Wing- Sometimes reaching for the reset button after getting killed in a part of the game where I should've done better, or if I think I'm scoring lousy. Occasional utterances of "damn", "fuck", or "shit" will accompany this.

NHL Hockey (Genesis)- Instigating a fight with the other team immediately after they scored a goal. I usually played with penalties turned on so I could see how much I could get away with... Nothing gets by that ref; I racked up about 71 minutes worth in one game. :eek:

KOF'94 Rugal- What a cheap fucknut and way worse than his '98 incarnation (SNK must've gotten a hint to tone him down some). I'll resort to using King's slow venom strikes against his 2nd form- if you can keep it going then this is an easy way to kill him.

KOF 2001 (bosses)- When using a 3-1 team, I was annoyed that Zero only took 1 hitpoint of damage per hit inflicted upon him. I resorted to the CPU 1/3 life continue service... later on, I tried a 1-3 team with Robert taking him on alone. Bye, sucka!

Magneto (Saturn X-Men COTA)- He's worse than in the arcade game for some reason.

I don't attack my equipment. Usually you'll hear a few choice words... in the worst situations, I'll get up to eject the game and put it back in the case.

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Around 3rd grade, I was over at my buddy's house playing Top Gun for NES during a sleepover. My friend was pretty good at the game and was on the last level, the space station boss on the moon (how ridiculous to fly an F-16 Tomcat to the moon in retrospect).

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:lol: Lt. Pete Mitchell would've never thunk it. This in a game based on the movie Top Gun?!?

mech...ive twisted a regular psx dogbone controller into oblivion before......just went and snapped in two so im sure a dual shock should do the same :)

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Another moment for me, is playing Splinter Cell. Tell me why I'm 4 feet aways from an enemy soldier, and still missing when I try to shoot him? It's happened ( and gotten me killed ) many MANY times.

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To quote the interview from the latest EGM:

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EGM: What's up with the aiming system? Sometimes we'd be standing right next to a guy and still wouldn't hit him.
MF: There are two things about the reticle - one that is known by the player and one that is unknown.
The thing that is known is when you move, your reticle expands, and you need to wait until it recovers for better precision. So, if you wait for two seconds or so, depending on how fast you were moving, your reticle will recover, and then you'll have much better precision. Depending on how far you are from the enemy, your shot should be quite precise, just like in real life. If the reticle's not recovered, you will randomly shoot within the boundaries of the reticle - your shot could go anywhere within that area.
The thing that players don't know is that you get more accuracy when you're shooting objects [as opposed to people]. For instance, you can shoot a light from much farther away than you can shoot an enemy. We did that becaause we wanted to encourage players to adapt the environment to their way of playing, instead of just shooting all the enemies.
Another thing is that sometimes enemies are wearing helmets. So, it may hapen that, even if you shoot them in the head, they won't die instantly - you might need an additional shot.

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I've broken a stock DC pad playing Alpha 3 using Guy against R.Mika. I also back in the day got pretty damned pissed at Justice in Guilty Gear and almost broke my friend's lent out PSone controller. Dizzy got me pretty damn pissed on GGX as well, she's way worse than Justice.

I also slammed a 3rd party turbo Genesis pad on the hard tile floor on some game, probably Street Fighter 2 Hyper fighting. Beyond these though I never got TOO mad at a current generation game to attempt to break a controller.
Once you break it and you're all calmed down you'll be like "Damn what the fuck was I thinking? Now I have to buy another fucking controller because I got so pissed at the heat of the moment." I do admit though, the moment you break your controller without thinking it is pretty satisfying in a primal anger sort of way.

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Originally posted by MechDeus
I've already listed my two destroyed PS' and broken GG in other threads of similar nature. But I broke a PS2 controller recently thanks to GGXX and that absolutely horrible GOLD EX HEALING DIZZY WITH INFINITE SUPERS WHO IS INVINCIBLE TO MY SUPERS AND I CAN'T FUCKING JUMP.

So I now have a perfectly functional PS2 controller aside from the R2 button cover missing and the right handle is no longer one connected piece. It doesn't look very pretty and makes playing a couple games a bit more difficult.

[edit] I'm also certain that if you grip the PS2 controller tight enough and twist, it can be broken in half. At least, it certainly strains enough when I do that, but the thought of a $30 controller usually halts my rage from going too far.

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I tend to just switch games off when I begin to get too angry. It's a good habit to get into. With GGX on the DC though, I eventually got so frustrated that I just left my system on pause indefinitely. Every couple hours or so I'd give Dizzy another few tries, and pause again...This went on for about two days, I think. In the end, something in the video stopped working in my DC. I never again could get it to work right, and had to swap some parts into another system to have one complete.

I have a few third party memory cards that I received as gifts many years back. I didn't intend on putting anything important on them because of all the horror stories I had read. Eventually I ran out of space on my Sony cards and I needed to save, so I just went ahead and put it on a third party card. They always worked fine, so I continued using them for some important stuff, lazily and cheaply putting off another Sony. Well, I didn't have much cash either. So this went on for quite a while and a year or so later I went to check what was on the cards. To my horror my PS didn't recognize them. With my FFV/VI saves (among others) now decimated, I was reduced to tears. My sadness soon turned to absolute rage and I yanked the cards out and shook them about in a violent fit of primal ape anger. After shaking them for a while I hurled them at the floor. Shockingly, they didn't break open (good thing they hit the rug). I sat around for a while cursing and then put them back in the PS. It read them! Soon after I bought a few Sony cards and copied the saves.

That was probably the most violent I've been with something gaming related. I've tossed a few SNES controllers around too. Fighting games and shooters usually get me the angriest. Recently Ikaruga (dying during a high chain as a result of something stupid) and Capcom Vs SNK 2 (Shin Gouki) have had me wanted to throw a brick at the screen. I usually just punch the couch and swear.

Just now, here are a couple GA instances with Shienryu:

1) "You bastard!" After the restart point, I meet the same enemy 10 seconds later and say "You're going down THIS time!". I then throw a bomb on the sucker and laugh derisively.

2) I flip the good ol' bird at another enemy that downs me a bit later.

-Castlevania-

Crying horribly after dying thirty times (I was 10) on the stage 5 fights, then breaking my second nes controller after dying ten more times beating dracula.

Then breaking my copy of castlevania.



-Street Fighter Alpha-

Putting the PSX version up to level 8 and realizing two things. I hate the PSX controller for 2D fighting games, and the AI was nothing more than blocking everything you did, and hitting you for way more damage than you could deal out.


I took it out and scratched it across the ground.


-Criticom-

Heh, one day my friend Mike and I (we lived in a house with two other people), saw these on sale at our local Funco for 25 cents. We bought 20 of them, and whenever we through a party, we broke out the criti-coaster @tm.

Also I hated that game so much I beat a puppy with a baby seal.


-Halo-

That game will turn you against your own mother.

The trash talking, the fights, the random knifings in the dark, etc...




well you know how it is.

I play a lot of shooters, so as you can probably imagine I'm prone to frequent profane outbursts. The funny thing is that it's such an instinctive, spontaneous thing that it rarely makes any sense at all. Usually some combination of shit, f uck, etc. but occasionally I come up with something truly hilarious. I'm not a wall puncher, and I'm thankful for that. I will hit the back of the chair if I'm sitting in one though.

I did almost kill my computer today, however- MSN has taken to logging me off every 30 seconds to a minute, and it's slowly driving me insane. At one point I smacked the computer and it started making this whirring noise. Another smack and it was good as new. At that point I decided I'd better find something else to destroy, so I ripped the hell out a National Geographic sitting by the desk.

" I put the stick back in its box in the closet, hoping that if I let it sit for awhile it would fix itself or something."

That's pretty funny.

when I was 9, I punched a kid who was trash talking while we were playing Madden on the Genesis. Well, that and he was an all-around ass anyway who beat me up a few times before. Everyone was just suprised that I was the one who did it.

There are only two things that I can think of that I broke...

The first was when I was young I got frustrated playing a Colecovision game (probably Donkey Kong) and I threw the controller to the ground, breaking it.

The second time was when I was in high school I got a Sega CD with Sewer Shark second hand. The disc had a small scratch that made it freeze up during a cinema right in the middle of the game, and since it was a FMV game you couldn't skip it. After paying $5 for another copy, the old one was beaten by a hammer into oblivion.

I have also been known to destroy shitty games, but not really out of rage.

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I have also been known to destroy shitty games, but not really out of rage.

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just doing your part to try to preserve the purity of the good games huh? :D

Contra: SS. It's not so bad when I play alone, but when I play WITH someone things get out of hand. I'll probably have to buy a new copy.

Guilty Gear...All of them.
Being beaten by bosses...Trying for hours on end.
My most recent was against I-no in Guilty Gear X2. I got so mad I slammed my PS2 controller on the floor and actually cracked it open. That day, I learned how to fix one.

The 2nd mission in the Eastern Europe campaign of Thunder Strike: Operation Phoenix had me uttering a lot of choice words. Here a train is carrying a nuke toward Kosovo, and you have to shoot it in a couple places to free the hostages. If your aim is slightly off, you'll wreck the train... even if you use only guns. Midway through this one, the enemies seem to enjoy taking potshots at the train- apparently, they derailed it a few times. :mad: If the train derails, you're gonna fry with it because the bomb goes off and it's back to the start.

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-Street Fighter Alpha-

Putting the PSX version up to level 8 and realizing two things. I hate the PSX controller for 2D fighting games, and the AI was nothing more than blocking everything you did, and hitting you for way more damage than you could deal out.

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I feel your pain.