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GAFs biggest angry/rage moments
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this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
I got so pompous against a boss when I was young, that I started biting my tongue during every blow I managed to land.
I don't do it anymore, but it was a way to keep myself in the game.
I don't do it anymore, but it was a way to keep myself in the game.
Worst I ever did was slap my gamecube off my dresser and bite a controller hard enough to leave teeth marks trying to unlock Sonic and Tails in Melee. Not too big a deal though since the system still works fine to this day and I still use that same controller to play Brawl. Realizing it was an april fool's day joke a couple days later made me laugh
Oh, and trying to capture Suicine in Pokemon Crystal. I dunno if 11 year old me was just in a really bad mood that day or what since getting Suicune in Crystal isn't any more difficult than any other legendary, but after like 30 minutes I tore the cart out of my gameboy color, placed it in the trash can and punched it a few times to mix it in with the rest of the garbage (I dug it out before trash pickup though)
Reading these makes me sound like a monster
Oh, and trying to capture Suicine in Pokemon Crystal. I dunno if 11 year old me was just in a really bad mood that day or what since getting Suicune in Crystal isn't any more difficult than any other legendary, but after like 30 minutes I tore the cart out of my gameboy color, placed it in the trash can and punched it a few times to mix it in with the rest of the garbage (I dug it out before trash pickup though)
Reading these makes me sound like a monster
MW2 brought out a Mr. Hyde in me that I had no idea was lying dormant in my soul. I lost one controller and snapped not one - but two copies of the game in half before I decided to give up Call of Duty (and really, competitive shooters) for good. No game is worth that amount of frustration.
Life has been excellent ever since
Life has been excellent ever since
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Member
Spacechem has this effect on me, but its a self-loathing, inwardly-directed kind of rage.
"WHY AM I SO STUPID?"
"WHY AM I SO STUPID?"
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Yep. That was the one.
The only time I ever really lost it. Started biting the controller.... I was pretty mad.
Red Dead Redemption. The writing was offensively bad, but I put up with it anyways.
My controller-throwing moment came when I pushed FORWARD on my stick and John ran around in a little circle to the left, rather than, say, turning a few degrees to the right and moving forward. Now, this had been a problem the entire time I played the game, and I had already nearly thrown the controller when John refused to enter a house (and instead would run around in that circle and smack facefirst into the wall)... but this...
I was on a ledge. It's that part where you're climbing up a cliff into someone's base.
John ran his little circle thing (I swear, when I push forward, I should never, at any point, see the character running TOWARDS me so that he can eventually start moving forward)... and jumped off the cliff and died.
He did that through five separate reloads.
I fucking hate Rockstar now.
MP? SP? Bugs?
I started replaying MW2, which I absolutely enjoyed the first time I played it (because it's like being Sean Connery in The Rock, ffs. Who wouldn't want to be that?), but this time, I'm playing on a harder difficulty, and it's just not fun. This game was not designed at all for higher difficulties. It might actually be fun if you could do stuff like lean around corners, but I keep finding myself bumping into scenery or having some guy I had no way of seeing killing me with less than a quarter-second of fire.
So yeah. I love Call of Duty's single-player... but I only play it on Easy or Normal.
My controller-throwing moment came when I pushed FORWARD on my stick and John ran around in a little circle to the left, rather than, say, turning a few degrees to the right and moving forward. Now, this had been a problem the entire time I played the game, and I had already nearly thrown the controller when John refused to enter a house (and instead would run around in that circle and smack facefirst into the wall)... but this...
I was on a ledge. It's that part where you're climbing up a cliff into someone's base.
John ran his little circle thing (I swear, when I push forward, I should never, at any point, see the character running TOWARDS me so that he can eventually start moving forward)... and jumped off the cliff and died.
He did that through five separate reloads.
I fucking hate Rockstar now.
MW2 brought out a Mr. Hyde in me that I had no idea was lying dormant in my soul. I lost one controller and snapped not one - but two copies of the game in half before I decided to give up Call of Duty (and really, competitive shooters) for good. No game is worth that amount of frustration.
Life has been excellent ever since
MP? SP? Bugs?
I started replaying MW2, which I absolutely enjoyed the first time I played it (because it's like being Sean Connery in The Rock, ffs. Who wouldn't want to be that?), but this time, I'm playing on a harder difficulty, and it's just not fun. This game was not designed at all for higher difficulties. It might actually be fun if you could do stuff like lean around corners, but I keep finding myself bumping into scenery or having some guy I had no way of seeing killing me with less than a quarter-second of fire.
So yeah. I love Call of Duty's single-player... but I only play it on Easy or Normal.
onken
Member
Oh when I was a kid I broke my old Genesis joystick playing against Mileena on Mortal Kombat (I forget which one). Snapped the stick right off. It was on it's way out anyway but still.
Seriously, fuck that game and it's bullshit AI. I could write a whole thread just about how fucking cheap that game is.
Seriously, fuck that game and it's bullshit AI. I could write a whole thread just about how fucking cheap that game is.
matrix-cat
Member
I do a lot of really sharp backswings with a controller in my hand, making like I'm about to spike it straight through the planet with all my might, but I never actually go through with them. I used to get really frustrated at games when I was younger and it always led to me doggedly playing some difficult part over and over until I beat it, at which point all possible satisfaction I might have gotten had been ruined hours ago. Thesedays I know when I'm struggling, and I force myself to stop playing immediately because I know for certain I'll get through that part on the first try the next time I play.
Roland Deschain
Member
The last treasure chest race in Rayman Origins almost got me agitated.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Haha, suck a classy picture. I love it.
This made me laugh so much, haha! (I posted in page 3)
Just because you put it like that, I feel like knocking my backup 360 Elite about with a hammer.
friskykillface
Banned
My brother and I went into full rage mode in call of duty modern warfare 2 a lot, so much that we broke the controller by slamming it once , we were stupid
Lol we taped it together B^)
Lol we taped it together B^)
ResidentDante
Member
Yiazmat is a nightmare. His HP is over 50 million, meaning that the battle can and will last for upwards of 3 hours (this is to date one of the only bosses in the series that allows you to save during it and come back later), and to make matters worse, your damage caps out at 6999 per hit once he's at half health.
By far his most annoying and infuriating tactic though, is casting Reflectga on your party when he's on his last legs, usually the second before you use Renew.
This restores his health back to full.
I think I actually bit my controller while fighting him.
Dear God.
I've broken both a GBC and a GBA by slapping their screens against my leg while playing Pokémon Pinball and Metroid Fusion.
Oh, and F-Zero GX. That game always drives me mad and puts me in a bad mood for the rest of the day. I even sold it, but I bought it again, it's as good as frustrating.
Oh, and F-Zero GX. That game always drives me mad and puts me in a bad mood for the rest of the day. I even sold it, but I bought it again, it's as good as frustrating.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
Ditto. But I always vow to not go back, take a couple of weeks off, and then there I am again.
i rage all too frequently. i am way too competitive. ive gotten a lot better about breaking shit though. lost a few headsets this gen though, chucked a few controllers im sure.
most recent games that have made me freak the fuck out would be VF5 and Spelunky; for obvious reasons.
Spelunky is so brutal though i can usually laugh it off and just turn it off if i have to, intstead of really getting pissed. its just too fucking brutal and i enjoy it too much to let it get to me. ive certainly let out some involuntary yelps of horror and pain though (scared the dogs more than a few times im sure). nothing broken over it thankfully.
lol. this got me.
most recent games that have made me freak the fuck out would be VF5 and Spelunky; for obvious reasons.
Spelunky is so brutal though i can usually laugh it off and just turn it off if i have to, intstead of really getting pissed. its just too fucking brutal and i enjoy it too much to let it get to me. ive certainly let out some involuntary yelps of horror and pain though (scared the dogs more than a few times im sure). nothing broken over it thankfully.
lol. this got me.
NinjaBoiX
Member
OK, so your pad is busted. That's rockstar's fault is it?
Also, what wrong with the writing? I thought it was pretty damn good, particularly for the standards of a video game.
Yeah, I have never understood how anyone can have so little self control that they physically throw something because they're mad at a game. I usually just come back later, and generally do it first or second attempt when I've calmed down a bit.
Wow, and I felt bad throwing my Pokémon Stadium cartridge at the wall. Not very hard, no damage, but I was aggravated. The Transfer Pak glitched and it erased my two official event Mews as well as a load of other really good Pokémon.
Speaking of erased Pokémon, I remember being sad that my Silver's battery died and I lost all the work I'd done on that, but didn't rage.
Speaking of erased Pokémon, I remember being sad that my Silver's battery died and I lost all the work I'd done on that, but didn't rage.
Oh I do have a generic dualshock-like Logitech gamepad with an analogue stick that's been pushed right back inside the controller, thinking about it.
I know I threw it at the floor but I don't know why, probably Trackmania, that was the only thing I ever used it for at the time.
I know I threw it at the floor but I don't know why, probably Trackmania, that was the only thing I ever used it for at the time.
Speaking of Pokemon, I sometimes feel like throwing my 3DS across the room because enemy pokemon can sleep my pokemon for a long time, but when I use the damn move it only lasts for like one turn!!!
Dark Souls. Ornstein and Smough.
I didn't brake anything, but I can't stand the game anymore. The design of that boss battle is fucking lazy (it just doesn't fit the way the gameplay and camera work).
I had many ultra hard boss battles before (like in DMC or KH2 FM+ on critical), but in those cases I always felt it was my fault I lost. Very unlike those two fuckers where it's just bad design and randomness that kills you.
I didn't brake anything, but I can't stand the game anymore. The design of that boss battle is fucking lazy (it just doesn't fit the way the gameplay and camera work).
I had many ultra hard boss battles before (like in DMC or KH2 FM+ on critical), but in those cases I always felt it was my fault I lost. Very unlike those two fuckers where it's just bad design and randomness that kills you.
Lapidus' Beard
Member
A friend came over to show me something in Final Fantasy V on PSX. He popped his memory card in slot B, did his thing and saved (as a habit) in slot A. We watched in silence as the process bar proceeded and my 40 hour file was overwritten...
Every now and then Final Fantasy V pops up in a conversation, I just have to look at him and he starts to apologize like a madman.
Every now and then Final Fantasy V pops up in a conversation, I just have to look at him and he starts to apologize like a madman.
Dyni Crippler
Member
I was dumb enough to play Borderlands alone with the Soldier. I punched the desk in anger after dying against a boss again and again. The 360 was on the desk.
Bum. Disk pretty much broken. Had to borrow a friend's copy to finish it.
Bum. Disk pretty much broken. Had to borrow a friend's copy to finish it.
Cannon Goose
Member
I think I bit my 360 controller in anger while trying to beat Call of Duty 4 on veteran difficulty. Apart from that just the usual swearing and the occasional couch punch.
I don't really get super mad playing games. However, during the last colossus in Shadow of the Colossus I was flipping out and losing my shit. Could not make the jumps correctly and kept falling all the way back to the bottom so many times.
Then to top it all off, when I finally beat that part the game froze about ten seconds into the following cut scene!
I don't really get super mad playing games. However, during the last colossus in Shadow of the Colossus I was flipping out and losing my shit. Could not make the jumps correctly and kept falling all the way back to the bottom so many times.
Then to top it all off, when I finally beat that part the game froze about ten seconds into the following cut scene!
Strange, I didn't think it was THAT hard. I even managed to beat him on my first try playing in Veteran difficulty (the Trilogy version).
Prime 2's final boss though, that's a completely different story. Couldn't kill him even after reading a guide, and I never made it to
his second phase.
drugstore_cowboy
Member
Had an imported Japanese Saturn and gagging for something to play one weekend. There was a guy selling games about 60 miles from me, I gave him a call and he recommended Gran Chaser, said it was awesome. The game plus travel was almost £100.
It was fucking terrible, cost me almost a week's wages at the time. Took it some mate's houses to see if they liked the look of it, thought maybe I rake some of it back and they laughed at how bad it was.
Went home and smashed it to bits.
It was fucking terrible, cost me almost a week's wages at the time. Took it some mate's houses to see if they liked the look of it, thought maybe I rake some of it back and they laughed at how bad it was.
Went home and smashed it to bits.
Wow, this thread is amazing. Especially Yoshichan 
Usually, when I get angry at a game, I just grit my teeth, mutter things to myself, occasionally slap my couch and force myself to keep playing until I beat whatever I'm stuck on. It's like the game is taunting me and I won't give in! I must teach it a lesson!
Mario Strikers Charged was pretty rage inducing at times. Also Mario Tennis GBA, when you get to the final tournaments and face some ridiculous opponents.
Also, Donkey Kong 64. My sister decides that she wants to start a file. So she's like, 'Oh, it's full. I need to erase a file. Hmm, file 1 is 99% complete. Let's erase that one!' I was literally just about to face the final boss... Yeah, we didn't get along that day.
Usually, when I get angry at a game, I just grit my teeth, mutter things to myself, occasionally slap my couch and force myself to keep playing until I beat whatever I'm stuck on. It's like the game is taunting me and I won't give in! I must teach it a lesson!
Mario Strikers Charged was pretty rage inducing at times. Also Mario Tennis GBA, when you get to the final tournaments and face some ridiculous opponents.
Also, Donkey Kong 64. My sister decides that she wants to start a file. So she's like, 'Oh, it's full. I need to erase a file. Hmm, file 1 is 99% complete. Let's erase that one!' I was literally just about to face the final boss... Yeah, we didn't get along that day.
Mario Sunshine / Gamecube
I swear, this game is full of jank, primarily around the camera and movement controls. It infuriates me. Sometimes I imagine being a playtester before release of this game with one of the developers watching me play, so they could see how angry and frustrated I get with their game and feel appropriate shame. It calms me somewhat.
Just some of the many frustrating moments:
- Sandbird level of slippery tilting blocks. Trying to stay on the damn bird when it does a loop de loop, even with the hover nozzle, was an exercise in heart crushing rage.
- Wall jumping up a long column with the awful camera, especially at speed is a pain in the ass. You have to adjust the camera to be perpendicular, any slight deviation and you'll drift 'out' of the column forwards (leaping into space) or backwards (hitting the back wall) and start all over again.
- Clinging from lattices and climbing. In one of the Shitnuts village levels, you went underneath the village above a death drop and had to clamber around on the lattices. Sometimes these would drop and you had to quickly move from one surface to the next. So you push forward to climb up a lattice, then press A to switch to the ceiling then all your contextual controls swap. Don't press forward again, or as soon as you transfer to the ceiling, mario will helpful climb back onto the surface you left, which then drops into doom and you get to repeat the whole process all over again.
- How long it takes from death to return to the same stage and star.
- Chasing shadow mario
- Your water squirt shoots ahead, but not at the ground directly in front of your feet. If you run around cleaning a large area, you easily run into paint or enemies directly in front of you. Run a little, do a little pirouette, move back to get a bit you missed, dodge an enemy you were facing and shooting at, but you squirted over their head. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
- Pulling tentacles off the squid is gross and cruel.
- I could go on all day.
When angry, I tend to squeeze gamepads while making a furious face. In Street fighter games, I also mutter swear words and the word scrub randomly. I sometimes also invent and verbalise little passive aggressive soliloques eg. "OF COURSE you would teleport behind me and do that f###ing scrub piledriver move"...but quietly if the wife is asleep. I busted the shoulder button on one SNES controller once, but those things were hardy.
I swear, this game is full of jank, primarily around the camera and movement controls. It infuriates me. Sometimes I imagine being a playtester before release of this game with one of the developers watching me play, so they could see how angry and frustrated I get with their game and feel appropriate shame. It calms me somewhat.
Just some of the many frustrating moments:
- Sandbird level of slippery tilting blocks. Trying to stay on the damn bird when it does a loop de loop, even with the hover nozzle, was an exercise in heart crushing rage.
- Wall jumping up a long column with the awful camera, especially at speed is a pain in the ass. You have to adjust the camera to be perpendicular, any slight deviation and you'll drift 'out' of the column forwards (leaping into space) or backwards (hitting the back wall) and start all over again.
- Clinging from lattices and climbing. In one of the Shitnuts village levels, you went underneath the village above a death drop and had to clamber around on the lattices. Sometimes these would drop and you had to quickly move from one surface to the next. So you push forward to climb up a lattice, then press A to switch to the ceiling then all your contextual controls swap. Don't press forward again, or as soon as you transfer to the ceiling, mario will helpful climb back onto the surface you left, which then drops into doom and you get to repeat the whole process all over again.
- How long it takes from death to return to the same stage and star.
- Chasing shadow mario
- Your water squirt shoots ahead, but not at the ground directly in front of your feet. If you run around cleaning a large area, you easily run into paint or enemies directly in front of you. Run a little, do a little pirouette, move back to get a bit you missed, dodge an enemy you were facing and shooting at, but you squirted over their head. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
- Pulling tentacles off the squid is gross and cruel.
- I could go on all day.
When angry, I tend to squeeze gamepads while making a furious face. In Street fighter games, I also mutter swear words and the word scrub randomly. I sometimes also invent and verbalise little passive aggressive soliloques eg. "OF COURSE you would teleport behind me and do that f###ing scrub piledriver move"...but quietly if the wife is asleep. I busted the shoulder button on one SNES controller once, but those things were hardy.
I honestly don't know whether to be more concerned over the fact that you raged hard enough to eat video game covers, or that you genuinely seem to be enjoying the attention of doing such.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
It was embarrassing at first; now it's just old news so I'm not ashamed of it at all.
Zack & Wiki. The volcano level with these rolling mechs. I guessed what to do more than half of the time, but overly strict positioning requirements or just straight up buggy bullshit caused my actions not to work half the time. Platforms wouldn't rise, couldn't get on or off a mech when I needed to, couldn't manipulate items when I needed to, etc.
The last straw came at the end of the level, when I'd run out of lives. You had to run away from a bunch of mechs and hit this set of switches before they reach you. You're not in direct control of your movement when playing as Zack, you just point and "click" and he runs where you've indicated. So I click directly on the set of switches.
...I get to them, but a split second later the mechs catch up and bludgeon me to death. There was literally nothing I could do.
I'm typically so calm when things go pear-shaped that my fiancé has (jokingly) accused me of being on ludes. Upon the rare occasion I get so angry that I can't just nap it off, I'm more likely to clean my things than break them. So it's a pretty significant thing when I say I ragequit this fuckin' game. Traded it in at Best Buy during their 200% trade-in promotion they did recently and though I have no idea what I got, whatever amount was WORTH IT knowing that shit was out of my house.
The last straw came at the end of the level, when I'd run out of lives. You had to run away from a bunch of mechs and hit this set of switches before they reach you. You're not in direct control of your movement when playing as Zack, you just point and "click" and he runs where you've indicated. So I click directly on the set of switches.
...I get to them, but a split second later the mechs catch up and bludgeon me to death. There was literally nothing I could do.
I'm typically so calm when things go pear-shaped that my fiancé has (jokingly) accused me of being on ludes. Upon the rare occasion I get so angry that I can't just nap it off, I'm more likely to clean my things than break them. So it's a pretty significant thing when I say I ragequit this fuckin' game. Traded it in at Best Buy during their 200% trade-in promotion they did recently and though I have no idea what I got, whatever amount was WORTH IT knowing that shit was out of my house.
Gamble
Member
ouch.....I'm sorry :-(
Got so mad once that I threw a yoyo at my brother for beating me in Smash Brothers. Hit him right in the chest and he had to go to the hospital because apparently it made his heart skip a beat or something.
Smashed my PS3 controller against my computer desk and actually had the corner of the desk snap off. The controller was fine!
Slammed my fists against my desk, which made my 360 tumble down on top of my monitor (it was on a shelf above) which then broke my monitor. 360 was fine. I posted an illustration of it on GAF a long time ago.
When I was younger I was so mad at a game that my father came downstairs, took my game, and threw it outside. He said if it wasn't there tomorrow he'd throw my PS2 out there too.
Smashed my PS3 controller against my computer desk and actually had the corner of the desk snap off. The controller was fine!
Slammed my fists against my desk, which made my 360 tumble down on top of my monitor (it was on a shelf above) which then broke my monitor. 360 was fine. I posted an illustration of it on GAF a long time ago.
When I was younger I was so mad at a game that my father came downstairs, took my game, and threw it outside. He said if it wasn't there tomorrow he'd throw my PS2 out there too.
Velcro Fly
Member
I've broken tons of controllers. I must have gone through about 5 PS2 controllers, either dropping them on the floor accidentally or just stomping the shit out of them because I was pissed. I also threw a PS2 FIFA game like a frisbee and it hit a wall and it broke into about 10 or 12 pieces.
Melchiah
Member
I think it was Tomb Raider III, which made me lost my temper during some timed running part. First I threw the controller on the floor, then I got even more enraged as it didn't agree to fall apart. Next I got a hammer and smashed it to little pieces. Boy, those PS1 controllers were tough.
When I was younger, I once managed to rip the joystick's handle apart from its base, when I lost my temper with Ghosts'n Goblins on C64. I told my father I had played some sports game, which resulted with those games being banned from me. Luckily I didn't like playing sports games, and still don't.
When I was younger, I once managed to rip the joystick's handle apart from its base, when I lost my temper with Ghosts'n Goblins on C64. I told my father I had played some sports game, which resulted with those games being banned from me. Luckily I didn't like playing sports games, and still don't.
Vinegar Joe
Member
I have a magic SNES controller.
It's an otherwise unremarkable 3rd party controller that has one invaluable feature - you can nearly break it in two (complete with satisfying cracking sound) and it will simply snap back together again and carry on working as if nothing had ever happened.
I'm sure I could really snap it in two if I tried hard enough - but the very fact there's a visible crack that opens up right across the middle of the pad always bought me back to reality and the realisation that I would have to buy another pad to replace it.
I always thought a breakable pad would make a neat feature - and looking through this thread I think I'd make a lot of money.
It's an otherwise unremarkable 3rd party controller that has one invaluable feature - you can nearly break it in two (complete with satisfying cracking sound) and it will simply snap back together again and carry on working as if nothing had ever happened.
I'm sure I could really snap it in two if I tried hard enough - but the very fact there's a visible crack that opens up right across the middle of the pad always bought me back to reality and the realisation that I would have to buy another pad to replace it.
I always thought a breakable pad would make a neat feature - and looking through this thread I think I'd make a lot of money.