Gaming Anger

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Originally posted by FighterX
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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Originally posted by Teddman
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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Originally posted by FighterX
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.