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Posted by: SilverLugia456 Nov 29 2012, 04:16 PM

Have you ever had one of those moments were you couldn't beat a boss like 15 or 100 times no matter how hard you tried or played so much of your game then the system like a handheld system battery dies or you turn off your system and you forget to save all that data? Or you were about to beat a hard boss but then something happens and you ended up losing instead?

I know I have had some of those moments for example from Persona 4 there was this one boss that gave me so much trouble I think it was Kanji shadow because you had to get rid of certain ones first before you could attack the main shadow and it was just so annoying because my attacks would do little damage yet i would take a lot of damage from them, it took me like 20 times until I was able to defeat the boss which involved a lot of leveling up and restarts it was unbelievable.

Some other moments involve me playing through a game so far and then I have a moment where I turn off the game and completely forgot to save the work I did, I have done that a few times and it has been frustrating that I could forget to save the data before I turn off the game.

I don't think I ever got so mad that I though like a game controller of the system itself though, at least not yet xD

So what about you?

Posted by: purple umbreon Nov 29 2012, 04:21 PM

I had that a few times. I once got so mad for not being able to beat a certain boss, I trew the controller on the floor and just went away. I don't remember for what game that was. I think Dragon Quest. No matter how often I tried, I couldn't defeat Empyrea. I also had that with more games. The funny thing is, after not playing the game for a while, I could actually beat the boss/level I was stuck at.

Posted by: Jim Hawkins Nov 29 2012, 04:26 PM

Being unable to kill something on Skyrim.

Probably one of the Draugr Deathlords at one point. It was during the Thieves Guild quests, you have to go to Snowveil Sanctum to track down Karliah with Mercer Frey. At one point you get attacked by about 4 Draugr Deathlords, 3 Draugr Scourges and a few regular Draugr too. The annoying part is the fact the Scourges can summon Frost Atronachs along with some Freeze spell which slows you down. They can also use Dragon Shouts too (Unrelenting Force (or Fus Ro Dah to people who don't know)) which stops you as-well

Yeah needless to say I ended up getting pissed off at it, got some new armour and weapons and sorted it out >_>

OH AND ELDER DRAGONS. I STILL CAN'T BEAT THEM D<

Posted by: Synchronize Nov 29 2012, 04:39 PM

Of course I had. It's good that, like purple umbreon said, after taking a break, everything gets easier.

Posted by: Giraffe A Laugh Nov 29 2012, 04:47 PM

Oh my god pretty much this, sometimes getting to the point where i'm forced to change the difficulty settings just to beat the damn thing xp

My biggest one so far is borderlands 2, more specifically, the slaughterhouse quest xD
holy crap that gets incredibly annoying after a whiles.

Posted by: Indoor Survival Nov 29 2012, 05:23 PM

LittleBigPlanet 1 never had this issue ever, but LittleBigPlanet 2 used to crash at random while I was playing. (It doesn't really do that anymore for some reason, but I'm glad.) I can't tell you the number of times I'd be trying to play a hard level and the game would crash right as I was nearing the scoreboard. LBP2 has some levels that, while not hard normally, are really hard to Ace (beat without dying). I have several that I'm reluctant to try Ace runs of because they're really long and filled with splatter animations and explosions (some of the physics in the game that cause it to crash). I used to hate playing online because everyone would fill their levels with something like 20 splat animations in a row (that's the one that notoriously crashes my game). Most players have matured past that now, though, and use a wide variety of animations, as well as spreading them out through the level.

LBP1, however, did have the levels Boom Town and The Bunker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o8cCvLjGXA has, among other frustrations, you dragging sensitive explosives through a section filled with crush spikes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVfrxuBrJE has you attempting to avoid a ton of electrified obstacles with hairpin timing. Then there's the Ferris Wheel of Death at the very end that, if you haven't died yet in the level, you WILL use up your lives on. The final boss of the game was intentionally made easy to offset this one level. I eventually did Ace it, crying both before, during, and after the level. >:|

SSX:On Tour's final levels were so insanely difficult, I had to use cheat codes just to keep up with the AI. Even abusing cheats, you can't win the higher rank races and score challenges.

Ratchet and Clank 1 and Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction were both difficult for the exact same reasons. RC1 and RCF:TOD were both the first in their series for their respective consoles, the PS2 and PS3.

RC1's weapons were fixed: they could not upgrade, unlike all of the ensuing games. Your health couldn't upgrade with experience, either. Instead, later on in the game, you could buy 2 health upgrades that would boost you to 4 and then 8 hits. 8 was it. They were extremely expensive (45,000 and 80,000 in a game where all money collected bolts (money) had a value of 1, and enemies didn't drop that much).

Checkpoints were spaced differently on each planet, and there are several where there is no checkpoint. If you die, you go back to your ship at the beginning of the planet. Enemies would swarm you in closed spaces and respawn, the shield never properly protected you because it was a ring of small droids around you. If you got shot in the head or feet, or if enough of your droids got shot off so that they couldn't block the hit in time, you were dead. The Swingshot (grapplehook) could miss it's target, decorative spaceships in the background could knock you off of things, and changing weapons would not pause the game, so you could die on the freaking quick select screen. Strafing was limited to the jetpack version of Clank, and was really wonky to use. Being forced to spin all around to try to situate yourself to hit enemies was really annoying and often resulted in you getting killed since, again, most enemies swarmed you.

RCF:TOD had body armor and leveling weapons and health, but leveled weapons did minimal damage, there were enemies with shields who would swarm you, electrified enemies would chase you around the level and were designed to kill you in one hit, body armor made no difference, and a ton of other things that not only made the game frustrating, I hated playing it.

It was so ridiculous because I adore all the other games in the series. They're really fun and fair, though still a good challenge, and I strongly recommend them to anyone looking for different games to play. (They are Playstation exclusive, so be aware of that.) Just don't start with either of these two. Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Deadlocked, and A Crack In Time are all way better, and funny to boot. You don't have Clank on your back at all in Deadlocked, though so you might want to save that for second. XD

EDIT: OMG, were the forums upgraded?! Linking to videos never did that before! :D

Posted by: Letan Nov 29 2012, 07:45 PM

For me, I don't legitimately get angry at a video game unless it has huge technical or design flaws. I can play Super Meat Boy and die constantly and I just turn off the game and play something else if I feel that I'm stuck, but it doesn't make me legitimately angry. Now, if it's something like this early part of Assassin's Creed III where you have to go around a fort and free a bunch of prisoners without being detected, then yes I will legitimately flip my shit. I swear I had to redo that part over and over again, and every time it'd put me back at the beginning of the area with 0 prisoners rescued. A proper solution to this would be to create a checkpoint after every prisoner.

Basically, if a game allows someone to fail a segment repeatedly and takes the player more than a minute to reach where they had died, it just makes me want to break my controller in half, and quite frankly it should make everyone angry because it's flawed design. There's a distinct difference between legitimate difficulty and shitty game design unintentionally adding a layer of difficulty onto the game, and AC3 definitely falls into the latter category for me. Other games that fit that category off the top of my head are Ocarina of Time due to the Shadow Temple (large rooms, frequent deaths at one spot that takes 5 minutes to reach from the respawn location), Borderlands 2 in some locations where a boss is very far away from a New-U Machine, and Donkey Kong Country.

Seriously, if playtesters frequently die in the same place, then the respawn point should be placed closer to that spot.

Oh and of course there's competitive multiplayer sometimes, but a lot of that has to do with poor balancing (hello Modern Warfare 2's unrealistic akimbo Model-1887s) or really shitty spawn systems that place you too close to enemies (Halo 4 does this sometimes and it sucks).

Finally, dying with a crapton of valuable resources in any game that penalizes death by dropping items. I'm looking at you, Minecraft.

Posted by: purple umbreon Nov 30 2012, 03:57 AM

This, so much this. Especially the last lvl is hard. I never even beat it. Not that I have tried for a long time, but still....

Jak 3 was also difficult. I didn't play later games. I died so many times in it but I managed to beat it 3 times. (I like that game so much.)
It was really difficult in the last levels.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time. Really, I'm stuck at that stupid water temple. I tried thousands of times to get to the boss but I just couldn't.

If a pokemon dies during a nuzlock challenge I also get pretty frustrated, especially if it was a pokemon you really liked.

Posted by: Wolf Link Nov 30 2012, 08:42 AM

When I play Zelda and I don't know what to do in a dungeon. I'll look up in guide books and such, but I always jack things up to where I can't fix 'em. I think the worse times are OOT Water Temple & TP Lakebed Temple (first go).
That's probably when I get most mad.
That, or playing Pokemon where some guy is really strong and I end up narrowing beating them. Then I leave with like 5 fainted Pokemon.

Posted by: Indoor Survival Nov 30 2012, 09:08 AM

Jak 3 used to be easy for me, but now it's extremely frustrating. In my current run, I can't make it past the Haven City mission where you have to stop the three Krimson Guard spider tanks from reaching the bar at the same time. They're spaced so far apart that by the time you beat one, the other two are already at the bar.

As hard as Jak 3 is, Jak 2 is even worse. That's why Jak 3 used to be easy for me. I had just gotten done ragequitting Jak 2. I never beat it, but my brother did, but he had so much trouble with the final boss, he nearly cried. Your ammo doesn't refill when you die! When you respawn, you won't have enough ammo to finish him off, and his health resets when you die. Me, I can't make it past Act 2 of the game. That mission where you get some artifact down by the slums and then a ton of Krimson Guard dropships drop soldiers every step of the way back to the city is one of the worst. If you go backwards after you've cleared a ship of guards, another comes up and you have to fight your way back to where you were. It undoes the progress you made.

Jak 3 is really awesome if you manage to Ironman your way through it, though, I agree. I love the ending. :)

Jak X Combat Racing is really fun, but it's riddled with bugs, especially a debilitating one where the save icon stays perpetually on screen and prevents you from saving your game and erases your data. You can prevent it on the PS3, though. Make one of those in-game memory cards and use it for only Jak X. When you play, save often. When the glitch occurs, immediately reset the game, go out to the PS3 main menu, and go back in to the game and keep playing. You might lose race data, and it may be tedious, but it's better than losing all the game data, and potentially some data from other PS2 games. Still, that's a fatal flaw. There's no excusing it. You can also fall through the floor at random times during a race. It happens a lot. You're best going into it with a mindset of goofing off rather than getting some serious progress done.

Oh man, I tried nuzlocking Black a few months ago and lost my poor little Tepig, named Graham, to a crit. That was heartbreaking. I was trying to name my whole team after King's Quest characters, but it felt pointless after losing King Graham, the main character of the game. :( I hate crits in general. I've been crit several times in a row by enemies. It's so annoying!

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten Nov 30 2012, 11:47 AM

Oh, yeah. I most certainly have. By game (if I can remember them):

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX:
The true miniboss of Level 8-Turtle Rock. (No, the repeat minibosses Rolling Bones, Hinox, Smasher, and Cue Ball (? I think. It's been a long time since I last played that far.) don't count.) Just- *roars in rage and frustration* Stupid guy has a stun jab, and if you get hit, he does a wind-up uppercut that sends you back to the start of the [REDACTED] dungeon! It got so bad, I had to vent about it to my mom. Which normally doesn't happen. Also figuring out how to use the Moving Tile in that dungeon, but I didn't go as far with my anger as I did with [REDACTED] Blaino. Moreso frustration, but I digress.

Pharaoh (PC game):
It's been a long time, so I don't remember some details, but I was doing this non-story mission, and my city's rating with the rest of the country was so low, I got invaded by other cities. This is notable, because my dad had to drag me away from my computer to get me to stop. I was pretty , even yelling at the computer some words which I shouldn't have known at that age.

Super Smash Bros. Melee:
I just did this recently, so I remember a lot of this, but I was doing the Event Match 'Time For A Checkup', and I kept getting my ass kicked by Dr. Mario and Peach. Keep in mind, you play as Luigi in that EM, and I'm terribly gimped when it comes to playing as him. I'm a Marth/Roy/Zelda mainer, so you can imagine my frustration at having to use a character I'm horrible with. I actually threw stuff, including the controller and an empty pop bottle. To exabercate matters, dad got woken up by my behavior, and he had to come downstairs to find out what was going on.

Golden Sun:
The Deadbeard Bonus Boss fight on Crossbone Isle. He's really hard, even by that series' Bonus Boss standards (although Ancient Demon (GS: DD)/Dullahan (GS: TLA/GS: DD) easily exceed his difficulty.) I was alone and downstairs, so there was a lot of swearing going on in that fight, along with multiple soft resets to get favorable chances when fighting him.

Black/White Versions:
The Ghetsis fight at the end of the pre-credits part of the game. One phrase can be used to describe him: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsACheatingBastard.

Crystal Version:
The Battle Tower. Just... The [REDACTED] Battle Tower. I've had a hatred of every BT in subsequent Gens, and it all dates back to this. It should go without saying that even though this is the first of the BTs in the series, its Fan Nickname of 'Hax Tower' is very appropriate.

TL;DR: I'm easily frustrated/angered by 'unfair' moments in games.

Posted by: purple umbreon Nov 30 2012, 12:00 PM

Really? I thought Jak2 was easier. Probably my battle style. I think I only died once or twice during th boss battle.

Another thing that was frustrating was a boss in Final Fantasy 13. I know, not the best game but still....
You had to fight against another l'cie and no matter what you did, he always changed his tactic with yours. It was so hard.
I somehow managed to beat him, though....after trying so many times.

Posted by: Indoor Survival Nov 30 2012, 01:59 PM

I might go back and give Jak 2 another play to see if I'm any better at it. I haven't touched it in a while just because of those memories of it being so hard for me.

The Sly Cooper series rarely gave me any trouble, but I do remember, in the second Prague stage, you have to take Bentley into several crypts to collect some "bad juju". While the pack on your back collected the magic, you had to ward off werewolves who would beat you up if they got too close to you. To ward them off, you had to press buttons on several pedestals in the crypt that would set off booby traps to kill the wolves depending on where they were.

Once you activated a trap, the timer had to refill on it so that you could use it again. If your timing was off on trapping a werewolf, it would run past the trap and you'd have to activate the next one along the way to see if you could stop him. The wolf could potentially run all the way up to you if you had bad timing and all of the traps were still refilling. I had horrible timing with one of the crypts (the mission had you going into 4 different ones) and would always get stuck on the second one. The other three were fine. I don't know what it was, but I hated that mission with a passion.

It didn't help that Bentley is the weakest of the Cooper Gang and can only really inflict damage by luring foes into timed bombs. Sly is the acrobatic team member and middle strongest, so you can dodge and jump out of the way with him, allowing you to stall your way to victory. Murray is the muscle man and strongest guy, so the wolves would die in a hit or two. Bentley...kinda just sucks. Bombs, sleep darts, and computer hacking, since he's the smart guy of the team. The wolves take 8+ hits, and there's a ton of them coming after you. They also wield maces and can take half your health with a single hit.

Posted by: Banette Nov 30 2012, 03:46 PM

All the time. I have thrown things before (not proud of it and not advising it to anyone). Now, for a lot of games, I just laugh my butt off if something bad happens. I kept getting shot at several times in a row on Star Fox Assault and I was just laughing like a maniac the whole time...

Posted by: Dazmi Dec 1 2012, 07:01 PM

I don't usually get mad at a game for being difficult, but there are some things that I find tedious and can get frustrated with.

-Game breaking. Glitches, bugs, or just the bad luck of getting stuck in the wall.
-Artificial resource collection. Usually in the form of "Garbage items". World of Warcraft is an example.
-I often find myself hating minigames. I didn't mind the activities in Grand Theft Auto, but I hated Pazaak in Knights of the Old Republic for example. Bonus Points if your minigame is the center of the longest sidequest in the game.
-I don't mind cutscene-heavy games, but goddamn, you don't need one for every tiny bit of information. That's why Skyrim has books. That's why characters talk in-game, even if it's speech bubbles.

Posted by: Sora the Pikachu Dec 1 2012, 07:29 PM

All the time, my brother and I are really competitive, so when we play against each other, we are evenly match because we are twins. Our tensions rise so much that one flaw and we start throwing a fit. I'm not proud of it, and that's why I don't like to do multiplayer with my brother anymore.

I also have a friend who says he's better than me at Kid Icarus: Uprising...let's just say that I killed him 9 times before he could kill me once and he ended up rage quitting, though he's one of my best friends so I, naturally, don't hold it over his head.

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten Jan 2 2013, 04:18 PM

I have a new SSBM moment that made me : trying to clear the 'Puffballs Unite!' Event Match. Even using my mains (Marth/Roy/Zelda and the recently re-added Link/Young Link), I still couldn't beat it. Neither could my friend Koji (her mains are Pikachu/Ganondorf and sometimes Luigi). The enemy Kirbies end up spamming Vulcan Jab (A Neutral) and Final Cutter (B + Up) almost every time I do that EM. Not to mention that this EM takes place on Green Greens, AKA the 'bomb-block stage'. Even spamming Counter doesn't help very much. And adding the fact that you only have 2 minutes to KO 15 enemy Kirbies just increases the frustration level. Needless to say, both Koji and I were swearing a lot trying (and failing; I still don't have that EM cleared) to clear that one.

Posted by: Erliff Jan 2 2013, 04:37 PM

I don't get mad often when playing games, but I have bad times, mainly boss battles.
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - VAATI. I always lose to him at the second fight and then need to start all over with the "beat the Darknuts within the time limit" thing which I really hate doing.
Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass - Ocean Temple is a very cruel place. Especially going through all the previous floors.
All the Pokemon games I have(mainly BW2) - When I'm EV-Training and I only find pokemon that I'm not supposed to faint and could never find the pokemon I do need to faint. Especially since the pokemon I need to faint has like 75% chance or whatever of appearing and I always end up falling into the remaining. :c
SSBB - When I'm going against a friend or my brother and they keep repeating the same moves, like holding "A" when using Captain Falcon or whatever and then there is the never-ending punches along with them just using Down+B and A all the time. ;A;
Sims3 - When I just feed my Sim and like an hour later they're hungry again. wut.

Posted by: Converse Jan 4 2013, 08:19 PM

I have bite marks on my DS from when I would get so mad. Man, that thing went through a lot. Most of my anger came from Pokemon but a good chunk of it was also caused from Mariokart DS and sometimes even Animal Crossing.

Trust me, it's hard not to get mad when you accidentally sell something to Nook.

Posted by: SaraPiplup Jan 4 2013, 09:39 PM

Usually for me, Kingdom Hearts bosses tend to be somewhat angering. But usually I just release that anger by yelling at the game.. Nothing too extreme since I would rather not break my DS or TV.

Posted by: Zer0hundred Feb 24 2013, 05:10 PM

^this is a post on a different topic, but i think it explains a bunch XD
Computers lag, boss monsters cheat, game breaks laws of physics and laws of the game just to beat me, characters in the game cant jump as high as i can irl, games do things i didnt select, and i loose my top
Nowadays im much more controlled, i can keep my anger at bay enough so i dont break anything, but i still get very angry sometimes

Posted by: StarNova Feb 24 2013, 05:37 PM

The gamer rage causing the dark spots on my DSLite's screen. Didn't mention, but I've done pretty much the same to my Toshiba's keyboard and screen several times. No spots or warped bits though.

Posted by: Rad Beoulve Feb 24 2013, 09:25 PM

Oh, I get these angry moments from time to time. Just before coming on here, I ragequit during Cave Story because of Sacred Grounds. Finishing today's Scavenger Hunt task actually calmed me down quite a bit.

Posted by: Mister Blah Feb 24 2013, 10:57 PM

The angriest I've ever gotten at a game is mumbling curse words and making weird gestures with my arms in anger. Never thrashed a controller or anything though, my anger has never been able to overshadow the knowledge that controllers cost money.

Posted by: Headstrong Feb 25 2013, 05:51 PM

I tend to get frustrated at games, for many different reasons.

CoD/Halo: Mainly the people that play it, spawning and balancing. I play on Xbox, so about half the people are little kids who shouldn't be playing it. Every now and then I find people who are "normal" (for lack of better terms). The spawning is always terrible, but at least 343 is good at fixing it, Treyarch is ok, and IW couldn't give a crap. Halo, for the most part, is balanced, except for grenade spamming. but in every CoD game, there's this one gun that's completely overpowered. Plus things like quickscoping, panic knifing, and, most recently, panic C4-throwing. What annoys me most is that none of these would be possible in real life, so why do it in here?

Borderlands 2: I just get stuck on the boss fights a lot. Mainly the Hyperion robots.

SSBB: I play with the Wii remote and nunchuck, and I learned how to play SSB on the Gamecube controller.

Posted by: joseo Feb 26 2013, 09:25 PM

yes ace of spades zombie mode for 3 reasons my computer closes the screen and i die,i die with under a minute on the clock or when a team mate kills me

Posted by: Lappys Mar 17 2013, 03:57 AM

Some of the more challenging levels in F-Zero: GP Legend made me so mad, I managed to damage the screen of my Gameboy Advance SP. I managed to eventually beat them (well, most of them), though.

Posted by: Kiwani Mar 24 2013, 12:44 PM

I do, what I like to call, a silent rage quit, I silently curse at the PS3 and just shut it off without saving...only if I saved recently saved or have a current autosave file. Now Angry Birds is really bad when I try to attempt to stay calm., seeing that I would want to throw the controler/phone. During a Golden Egg level, on Angry Birds Trilogy, I got so angry that I yelled "It's Bacon!" when I saw that I got the trophy for destroying 1000 pigs. So yeah, random things will be said and I will do random weird things. Fighting games I will show that I am not happy when I don't get a chance to get a move in. I chew on my lip, be very quiet, and don't want to play any more. Will make more mistakes when I continue playing though, and it ticks me more off.

Posted by: roshambxo Mar 25 2013, 03:57 AM

I think I get angriest most often with Katamari games. They drive me NUTS because I'm horrible at figuring out time management.

Though, my most memorable story was when I got frustrated playing No More Heroes a while back-- I was fighting Shinobu on Bitter and I got so aggressive shaking the Wiimote around that I punched myself in the lip and I had an indent from my teeth for about a week.

Posted by: StarNova Mar 25 2013, 10:37 AM

I have ragequitted several games in the last few games.


Explorers of Sky due to FREAKING MANECTRIC BOSS
DQIX because of Tyrantula [beat it later though]
Conquest because of how you gotta beat Nobunaga by January of Year 4

etc...

Posted by: Peter the Celebi Mar 30 2013, 07:08 AM

Definitely. I remember when I played Pokemon Rumble. Trying to get every Pokemon, it was crazy. First I had to find the rare Pokemon, which was hard enough. Then I had to kill it, pretty easy unless you count the fact that there are a million more common ones around you trying to kill you. After you kill, you just pray that it will befriend you. Easy for the common ones, but we're looking for rare so it's hard. I think my blood pressure went up permanently by 50 before I was done with that game.

And getting the bonus for the extras on PokePark, forget it. I nearly smashed the Wii, TV, controller, and everyone in the room trying to get Suicune it's bonus.

Posted by: StarNova Mar 30 2013, 11:32 AM

Yeah, Suicune is fast, but NOT FAST ENOUGH AARGH -deep breath-



As far as I know the only way to beat that Rotom boss on Pokemon Rumble is to RUN IN CIRCLES WHILE SPAMMING MAGICAL LEAF.

Posted by: Peter the Celebi Mar 30 2013, 01:41 PM

XD

Also, here is the real way to play Call Of Duty/Battlefield/Halo/any other multiplayer shooting game.

Play, Rage Quit, Come back later, Play, Rage Quit, Come back even later, play, Explode

Posted by: Me Gusta Apr 5 2013, 08:31 AM

i've broken two playstation controllers, fucked up a playstation's disk drive with a hammer fist, made a ps2 game unusable the same way, broke a ps2 controller, made a couple of holes in a wall, and broke psp's screen with a headbutt.

The playstation stuff was most likely soul edge and i think the game that i fucked up was nfs most wanted and i remember punching a wall when i was playing dbz budokai 2 (which kinda sucked). That was in my teenage years though, the psp thing happened about a year ago while i was playing tekken 6.

Posted by: StarNova Apr 13 2013, 07:12 PM

>sees shiny weedle in ss

>unable to catch pokemon yet

>proceeds to flip table

Posted by: Aura Dynasty Apr 13 2013, 07:37 PM

Same thing there too! I was tending to do a quest for the Bards College, damn 3 dragons attacked me... and one of them was an Elder dragon... it appeared as if it didn't want to let me get inside the dungeon, leave alone near it... But I finally killed the bastard yesterday (7th time's the charm)

Posted by: ItEndsHere Apr 13 2013, 09:05 PM

Yeah several times, especially while playing MGS(Metal Gear Solid).

Posted by: Felly Jun 29 2013, 02:15 PM

Yes! When Hurricane Sandy was just leaving my area, I decided to play Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Long story short, my power went out, & I had just leveled up Emil in preparation for the final battle with Alice & Decus. I was kind of upset. n_n It came back on right after, but I still lost the level. ;~; & also pretty much every time I do the final battle with Alice & Decus since I keep losing against them. ;~;

Posted by: neko android vampire demon Jul 2 2013, 09:13 AM

i have gotten mad at my game plenty of times...

Posted by: roxieraven327 Jul 14 2013, 04:33 PM

im so guilty of getting angry with games if i cant beat them and i work so hard to try and beat them

Posted by: Vade Jul 14 2013, 04:52 PM

well yea
i dont know any gamer that hasnt
theres quite a few games off the top of my head that anger me
like fallout new vegas
it took me forever to actually manage myself around giant radscoripions that were all over the place and i always got frustrated and on edge whenever i was out walking in the wasteland cause any ambush would kill me

and recently ive been getting frustrated over tf2 mostly because of pyro swarms and cheap rushes

starfox adventures is a prime example of a game that frustrates me from beginning to end
i mean at least tf2 and fallout are fun but playing that game makes me want to gouge my eyes out

Posted by: King of the Eevees Jul 26 2013, 02:33 PM

That's happened to me so much in different Pokemon games. Like in HeartGold, I was on my Nuzlocke and I had just beat Whitney, and then my system turned off before I could save. I actually punched my DS for the first time. And on Black, I was fighting Marshal of the Elite Four, and I was just about to knock out his last Pokemon (Conkeldurr) with my Kyurem, nicknamed Kyle (Dragon-Ice type, not a good idea). It was my last Pokemon in my party. His Conkeldurr was at about 5-10% HP, and in red. Kyurem was at some 87-90%. "Conkeldurr used Hammer Arm!" How in heck is it faster than my Kyurem with two huge rocks in either hand? "It's super effective!" "Kyle fainted!" WHA- NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I then proceeded to slam my DS on the floor, turn it off, fall on my bed and start pounding it with my fists, laughing/crying hysterically. And I hadn't saved since before Grimsley, so I had to go through him again. It was easy, what with my Cobalion and Gurdurr. Then Marshal again. Same thing as before. Conkeldurr at 7% maybe, and Kyurem at 85%. Conkeldurr uses Hammer Arm, which is super-effective against Kyle, who gets KO'd. That repeated about 2-3 more times, each time my rage building, finally peaking at me throwing my DS against the floor and repeatedly stomping on it and cursing it (MAY YOUR DATA DISAPPEAR INTO NOTHINGNESS, YOU VILE GAME!) for about 5 minutes.

Posted by: nokrow889 Jul 28 2013, 03:39 PM

Megaman X and earthbound recently they are both games i dominated when i was a kid so i bought them on my Wii U virtual console and i cant seem to beat shit in them i feel ashamed

Posted by: flamefiends Aug 1 2013, 07:35 PM

Yeah, I'll get angry at them. Like in my Tales of the Abyss game, I can't beat this one character (still can't beat him) and he drives me up the wall! It's the one time you're supposed to beat him and I just cant!

Posted by: Indoor Survival Aug 1 2013, 08:05 PM

I've been playing through the generations again, and ended up playing a diceroll of Black 1. (Just some rules I made up when bored. Roll a random number from 1-6 to see how many party members you're restricted to, then roll a random number from 1-649 or whatever the cap of the gen you're playing to see what pokemon you use. Repeat step 2 until you fill your allotted slots. Landing on an evolution means using the base form and then evolving it all the way to whatever you want. You can roll 1-17/18 for type restrictions, too. I used Random.org to generate my numbers.)

I rolled 2, Gothita, and Nosepass. HAO NOSEPASS DIE TO LENORA, AND GOTHITA CLEAN UP JUST FINE?! That made me so angry. It was a Normal type move that crit on him, he was above half health, and he was leveled right where she was. Gothita, on the other hand, tanked Watchog's Crunch and then facerolled it with Psybeam. That...I was just legitimately angry that I won that match. Thank God it wasn't Nuzlocke.

Posted by: Dark psychic Aug 16 2013, 10:30 AM

Yes when I first started playing pokemon I didn't know how to save the game so i had to start all over again from the very beginning. And in pokemon ranger:Guardian signs, the final trial(the square cube where you couldn't step on a smaller square inside the cube) I tried so many times and I kept having to start all over again and that... REALLY TICKED ME OFF...

Posted by: Jen Aug 18 2013, 11:16 PM

Recent one player game - Slender: The Arrival. It became more frustrating than scary.

Two player game: I end up getting more frustrated at my partner instead of the game itself lol

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten Aug 24 2013, 10:37 PM

Yet another moment for me: trying to clear 15-Minute Brawl in SSBB. The farthest I've gotten is somewhere around the 4-minute mark with my main. What really irritates me is that the Alloys start edge-guarding around the time you hit the 100% damage mark. (Which for me, depending on how much basic-combo spam the Red and Green Alloys subject me to, tends to be around the 10-minute point, give or take.)
Eventually, I got to a point where "Fuck you. ya fuckin' ass!" was being said distressingly often. All I want to do is to finally clear that hellfest. Is that too much to ask, game?

Posted by: Dragon of time Aug 25 2013, 12:43 PM

So I got dissidia 012, and started playing. After awhile, I played the arcade mode a few times.
Bartz vs Golberz or-however-you-spell-it.

It was the first time I got angry enough to do anything apart from ragequitting and yelling. I actually slammed my then-new psp against my knee several times before my grandma got me to go cool off for a while.

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten Oct 17 2013, 12:41 PM

Just have to add my latest aggravation in gaming: trying to clear SSBM's final Event Match, 'The Showdown'. You have to KO Giga Bowser, Ganondorf, and Mewtwo three times each without losing all three of your stocks. It's the only EM I need to finish and I'll have finished all of them. But there's one thing I must say: The AI is a [REDACTED][VERY REDACTED] BASTARD THAT DESERVES TO BE *untranslatable Ancient Weyardian profanities*!

Ganging up on you? Check.
Edge-guarding like it's going out of style? Check.
Spamming? Check-*untranslatable angrish*mate.

Characters I've used so far:
Yoshi (who I suck hard at playing at even a beginner's level of skill despite the fact that I'm an experienced Smasher)
Marth (my main, with whom I'm pretty damn good at playing as)
Roy (my other main, with whom I'm pretty decent at playing as)
Capt. Falcon (just for the Gehennom of it)

It got to the point where I actually started crying due to the unfair tactics of the CPU, which I rarely if ever do. Most of the time, if I get angry at a game, I'll cuss it out/go outside to primal yell my frustration out (which my parents have told me to stop doing, lest our neighbors call the cops on us. *sulks*) and then try to cool off somehow, usually by beating the shit out of the fighter that angered me. Even that's not helping me any. So, for now, I'm just beating the shit out of Bowser, Ganny, and Mewtwo AIs set at L1 in VS mode with various characters.

Posted by: Wastelander Oct 17 2013, 01:18 PM

I feel ya there. Jak 3 is probably the game of the whole series that I have played the most times through, especially after I unlocked all the cheats and had unlimited everything haha. But, despite that, I always struggle with the wasteland vehicle missions. They're so annoying, but the worst is the first stage of the final boss fight. When I got to it for the first time on ps3, it took me a solid 20 tries to bring that huge thing down. Such a pain, and annoyed me quite a bit considering I'd done it lots of times before on ps2. T___T



I clearly remember playing Jak 2 back in the day and was stuck at something like 49% for ages because no matter how hard I'd try I couldn't beat the mission where you had to shoot down those 5 hellcat cruisers.



Oh damn yes. That is also a MAJOR pain, which again had me stuck for a time when playing it on ps3. But a cheap way of beating it, I discovered, is that if you can use Dark Jak, jump off the walkway and Dark Bomb the water which destroys the sentry machine thing so you can simply swim to the end rather than tear through the hordes of KG swarming the place.

I beat Jak X too but again, that was a game that caused me much angst, despite loving the idea of combat racing, so I never bothered trying to Hero Mode it.

Now then, what other things have really annoyed me in games?

I have to say the multiplayer in Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. I f***ing HATE spammers, ESPECIALLY chain spammers (looking at YOU, Dante!) where people just loop combos until they get supers and you can't even block or break out of it until either the player lets you or they screw up. Drake, invisible Sly, Issac (Grr), Kat, Radec, and Sackboy, among several others, are all other spammed chars that truly drive me to curse like a sailor while tackling the online. It's so unfair that these losers are the same ones getting the red belts and fancy titles. Needless to say, the game is very much broken and unbalanced. And the worse part is, Sony seems to have turned its back on the thing completely by now, so yeah.

What else. Vexx was an old game that I could never beat. Not for a lack of trying, mind you, but because I couldn't hack having to collect everything and clear entire levels without so much as taking a hit. Gaaah. And I'm sure there were times throughout the AC games and God Of War games that caused me a great deal of distress. The last few fights in AC1 come to mind, as do a few boss fights in GOW. Gaaah...

Also. DMC1. Goddammit. Only managed to beat it by way of sheer luck. >< And OHOHOHHH. Hollow Vergil, in the dlc for the latest DMC game by ninja theory. I haven't yet managed to beat that Bleach-wanna be on Hell & Hell difficulty. I got the plat for the game itself and had no trouble playing through the other levels in the DLC on Hell & Hell but that stupid, frigging boss fiiiiiighhhhttttt. No way in hell am I gonna try tackle it again simply to get the last two bronze trophies I'm missing. Psh. Hell nawww.

Posted by: Secondhand Stardust Oct 17 2013, 01:26 PM

Evolving Sligoo into Goodra made me so pissed off. It rained the first day I caught Goomy, but he was nowhere near ready to evolve. Once he was (about a day later), it stopped raining for several days. I was running all over creation chasing down the rain, not finding anything. I found it on Route 15 once, but stupid Moltres appeared and the rain stopped after he ran away from me. Even after that, I kept Sliggoo close to level up in case I ran into some rain somewhere. Unfortunately, some stupid extra trainers I forgot to take out on different routes would ambush me and force him to level so I had to grind him back up again. One was even behind a Cut bush when I went item scavenging! >:/ I just evolved him today because I caught it raining in Cyllage City. Level freaking 80. I'm glad it's done, but my goodness, evolving a Pokemon has never been this complicated for me. I won't even go into the frustration of sites just stating "lolrain" without specifying that it had to be overworld rain. I kept coordinating Rain Dance for nothing.

Another thing that got me mad, though far less so, was when I was grinding for the high rank PokePuffs in Pokemon-Amie. The grinding is easy: just play the Hard and Unlimited levels of the minigames over and over. The angering part was that so many internet people that scroll across your touchscreen drop of lower ranking ones, that I ran out of space for Pokepuffs. Either that, or I haven't fed as many Pokepuffs as I though to free up space. It sucks to finish a game, see those +4 and +5 candies, and then see the "Yo have no more room!" message. Right now, I'm making a concerted effort to let walking increase my Pokemon's hunger instead of games, so I can get rid of all the extra +1 to +3 Pokepuffs I have and make an entire inventory of +4 and +5.

Posted by: Lava Squad Nov 12 2013, 05:21 PM

Deathclaws on Fallout 3. It's not that I can't beat them, it's just that they piss me off because of the amount of Stimpacks I end up using when fighting against them. And the amount of damage they do to my armor...RIP T51b Power Armor. Also, the Presidential Metro in the Broken Steel DLC. Holy crap, I cannot even. Like a million Feral Ghouls, half of which are Reavers (Highest level and throw weird radioactive grenade type things, plus have an insane amount of health) and a crap ton of Sentry Bots of which are meant to be shooting the Ghouls but then decided to shoot me because, you know, that's what happens in Fallout. Everything wants to kill you. It's like Australia.

My first Tigrex experience on Monster Hunter Freedom 2 was hell aswell. 20th try with failiure, I launched my PSP with every ounce of strength I had in me. Left it for about a week, came back, got new armor and weapon, slaughtered that bohl first try after. Needless to say once I had a solid strategy I farmed the hell out of him for revenge and ended up with like 3 sets of armor and all his weapons. But god damn, this dude didn't want to die beforehand, he just wanted to enter rage mode all the time and 1 hit KO me constantly.

Posted by: DragonDoesMinecraft Dec 6 2013, 09:20 PM

Yes.
When my Minecraft is too laggy to load properly.
When I can't get past the stupid trainers with the two Furfrou----- (I eventually beat them)

Posted by: Gambrinous Antiscian Dec 7 2013, 03:12 AM

Let's just say I've spent more on controllers than speeding fines.

Posted by: SlaughterMelon Dec 7 2013, 07:34 AM

Let's see, mainly in FPS games (Battlefield) I get angry in the multiplayer

Posted by: Historia Reiss Feb 15 2014, 01:40 AM

I get pissed off a lot when playing World of Warcraft, but it's mostly frustration at other players... Specifically, me getting severely outplayed by them in PvP. ;v;

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten Oct 20 2014, 01:46 PM

Since it seems that Smash Bros. and I have a history of this together, it shouldn't be surprising that even Smash 4 3DS has triggered this. I remember I was trying to clear Classic on Intensity 9.0, and failed repeatedly, and I got to the point where I was making sounds like I was being strangled. Whininess included. I even ranted about how unfair I thought Master Core was on TPP Chat and ended up getting banned for a bit because the modbot thought I was spamming with all the letters I put in my message. I've also had moments where I was getting in doing All-Star Mode on Hard, and kept getting beaten on stage 3 after managing to make it fairly far the previous night. And even though I didn't rage like the previous two instances, I've gotten all "Oh, come ON!" when I lose in the final battle in Smash Run, usually because I didn't boost the relevant stat enough and felt like I got cheated out of a win. Like, last night, I was doing SR with Link and lost both the Run! and Climb! final battles because my Speed and Jump weren't high enough for me to win.

Posted by: Arkinine Oct 25 2014, 01:11 PM

I usually wind up cussing out Skyrim in frustration for one reason or another, but the one game I really remember being mad at was Starfox Assault. There was this one boss I just could not get past, so I ragequit. Then we sold the gamecube and my brother took the Wii to college so I haven't been able to re-try it.

Posted by: The Majestic Mr L Oct 25 2014, 04:36 PM

Ohohoho, yes, I do. In fact off the top of my head, I remember getting super pissed a Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. There's one part where you have to fight Bowser, and I could not beat him for the life of me, and I actually gave up the game for like three years because of it.
Other than that, Halo I get angry at, but that's probably either because my team is really bad, or my opponents are cheap a-holes. Even Pokemon can get on my nerves if I'm fighting, say, a Double Team spammer and I end up losing because of it.
Some games I don't get angry at, but in the case of, say, Smash Bros. or even Pokemon, if a computer does something really cheap I'll say something like "You d***!"

Posted by: Bonnie Clyde Oct 26 2014, 10:08 AM

Oh, I'm always getting mad at games. Especially Smash Bros. (mainly when I play one-on-one with my brother). Also, Master Core is TERRIBLE. The main thing I get mad at during games is when I have to keep doing something over and over and over. I also get mad if something really cheap happens. When I've been in first place on Mario Kart the entire race, then I get hit by something at the end and get passed up, that annoys the crap out of me. I remember getting really irritated with Skyward Sword. I don't quite remember what got on my nerves, I think it was the Silent Realm thing. Though there may have been things that annoyed me more than it normally would have since me and my brother were racing against each other to beat the game first (and I won, but I probably ruined the game for myself for not taking time to check out everything).

Posted by: The Majestic Mr L Oct 26 2014, 12:40 PM

Oh, jeez, the Silent Realm is literally the definition of EVIL. And for me, in SS, if I ever got mad at something, I'd either run in swinging my sword like a madman or stand still and just slash at nothing, again like a madman.

Posted by: Tom29193 Nov 14 2014, 12:05 AM

I try not to get terribly angry at games any more after I raged at Sonic Unleashed for it's awful Werehog levels. I had been having a bad day and having to put up with those levels while I try to enjoy the day levels wasn't particularly helpful. Threw my PS3 controller on the ground and part of the plastic broke off. Couldn't get it back on so now it just haunts me as a reminder to not get angry and that it could have been worse. :/ So whenever I start getting mad at the game I just switch to something else or put on some music.

Posted by: Shinehollow Nov 16 2014, 01:30 PM

When I play Fire Emblem games 1-11,or 12 and 13 with perma-death on.On FE7,I spent about a week raging over how Legault kept dying in Battle Before Dawn because I was trying to keep him alive for the Fell Contract.I was so angry I ended up just letting him die.

Also,the insane platforming in Crisis City (Classic and Modern) in Sonic Generations.I keeping falling every time I try to get this one red ring in Classic.I even need the Bubble Shield!I suck at platformers...

Posted by: Jalakins Dec 4 2014, 07:02 PM

I get mad at games on a daily basis.

My most memorable maddening gaming moment was in Tekken 3 (a little old school xD) a long time ago. I couldn't beat this one guy on a harder level. I got to the point where I had been playing so long I had this huge blister on my thumb and I got to the point where it was too painful to play. I threw the controller down and turned off the game. I lost all my progress on that difficulty. Boo.

Other games that stick out in my mind that I got sooo mad were FFX, Ragnarok Online, and Mario. Not terribly difficult, I know, but I get frustrated easily.

Posted by: Mega Rayquaza Jan 25 2015, 09:20 PM

Smash Run in Super Smash Bros. 3DS really gets on my nerves. I go in, with a fully defensive character, and things like the Clubberskull, Bonkers, Darknuts, and the Polar Bear still do unfathomable amounts of damage and take ages to kill. Even at 30% they send me flying halfway across the screen to the point where they despawn.
There's a tip that says to use powers early. Why on EARTH would I use all my powers early on knowing that I'm probably gonna run into one of these powerhouse enemies? Even my highest level Horizon Beam takes two or three uses to take down some of these characters. Why Nintendo would put such overpowered enemies in the feature is beyond me.
And that's not even counting the other enemies. Sometimes I feel like a pinball, being bounced between enemies.

On a side note, I officially despise the Bullorb, or however you freaking spell it. I was just killed three times in a row by the same attack while only having roughly 49% after the attack had hit.

Posted by: Ravyne Apr 16 2015, 09:08 PM

When playing Ocarina of Time, I get mad if I can't defeat a certain enemy after dying a bunch of times, or if I get lost in a dungeon with absolutely no idea how to progress. Other than that, I don't really get mad because the other games I play are mostly music and dancing games.

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten Apr 17 2015, 12:12 PM

I've been playing Hyrule Warriors in Adventure Mode a lot lately and trying for A-ranks on all the battles. And some scenarios have criteria that make that REALLY *** hard. *glares at the Fake Difficulty Rogue Forces Cuccos* Those are probably the worst, the RF Cuccos. Basically, some scenarios have a pair of gold ones show up and start fighting in one of the keeps. You have to hightail it over to that exact keep to stop the fight (usually by beating the *** out of them), and they take for-***-ever to kill, because they take FAR more hits than should be necessary to go down. If I'm playing as a really strong Warrior, like Ganondorf, then they're not much of a threat. Anyone else? *scoffs* Good luck. Especially if you're playing as one who doesn't hit all that hard. And the Cuccos also deal crazy amounts of damage (~3 and 1/2 hearts) which makes staying under the damage threshold really hard. You pretty much have to take them out with ranged attacks/items or block/dodge like a madman/woman.

Some other things that make me in that game are: allied Captains being suicidal and trying to take on enemies that are WAY too hard for them, which means they get their ass kicked and I have to stop whatever I'm doing and go save them. As well as allied Warriors who are too cautious and won't go after high-priority targets like enemy Warriors (and I usually want them to do that exact thing as well, which ends up eating tons of time if I'm trying for an A-rank), and scenarios where you have to take out two armies (and no matter which side you take out first, the opposing side gets a morale boost, which makes them hit harder and take less damage. "Dash gallantly into battle!" (Lv. 2 Summoning Gate battle), I'm looking at you here. )

tl;dr: HW is a great game, but it can get infuriating at times.

Posted by: royalbite Apr 18 2015, 11:46 PM

Actually can't remember the last time i truly lost it at a game, i'm not too easy to anger. but i am very easily irritated, and easily bored. I am the first to give up if a level is too difficult or repetitive. I don't have much willpower when it comes to video games unfortunately (maybe that's why i'm bad at finishing them <<)

Posted by: Mars Adept Enten May 13 2015, 11:18 AM

Expanding on my HW post earlier, I have to say, the Lv. 3 Baton scenario (where you have to A-rank it to get the Lv. 3 Baton, mind you) in Adventure Mode pissed me off to no end, mostly because of my side losing morale thanks to getting our keeps taken by the opposing side. I managed to complete it with an A-rank, surprisingly. And as you can probably guess, There Was Much Rejoicing. I was yelling so much, I scared one of my cats. The first time I did the scenario, I just got so pissed off with it that I was all "Y'know what? Fuck this. I need to go maim something now." Which refers to my tendency to go buck-wild with Ganondorf on a relatively-easy scenario to vent my frustrations.

Posted by: Lord Raven May 16 2015, 05:45 PM

Anyone play fucking drakengard and drakengard 3?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6w0Q_vh2BI

Start at around 5 minutes in and go till the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B09qyRzXU_4

Awful.

Posted by: Shurri May 3 2016, 07:03 PM

The last time I got angry was when I was playing Ark Survival Evolved (it has dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures). I was riding my ancient dolphin creature through the water looking for oil rocks, keeping an eye out for megalodons (sharks). I managed to mine the oil pretty well for a while. So the last time I mined, it was pretty deep in the ocean, deeper than the other times I mined but I looked around and thought I could handle it. I dismounted and mine a couple rocks and then out of the blue, there was a shark after me. My dolphin ran off cause I set it on passive mode. I tried desperately to swim back to land but the shark was much faster. I died and went back to my house, so I decide to get my other dolphin (I had two) and swim back to where I died to get my stuff back and see if I could find the other dolphin. I didn't, my second dolphin died, and I died again trying to get back home. I just got angry with myself and stopped playing for a while.