Gaming Anger

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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?

[warnpro]

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.

[Zorro]

I have complete control over my anger.

[GameHED]

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.

[Despair]

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?

[Technosphile]

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

[Nick]

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.

[johnk_]

SFIII: Gill.

what a cheap fucker

[GohanX]

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

That is awesome

[UndeadKing]

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.