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The Angriest You've Ever Been at a Video Game

Xenosaga 2. I was so hyped for it when it came out, which only made the disappointment hit me harder. I believe I was able to actually get it returned.

Ar Tonelico II was probably a runner up. I tore into that game hard for the half finished localization.
 
Battlefield 3 (already broke two PS3 controllers)
BF: Bad Company 2
Street Fighter IV (Seth, cheap ass mofo)
Football Manager on PC. Forgot what version, maybe 06
 
Jockel said:
F-Zero GX story mode.
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Oh God this. Until that point in my life I had beaten every game I bought with my own Money. Then I hit that last Fucking story mission. I have no idea how many times I tried to beat that thing only to have my hope dashed again and again on the same turn.

It took me a while to figure out "winning" was actually just giving up.

I still get a kick out of that SomethingAwful post about it!
 
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Roubjon said:
When I accidentally corrupted my Gamecube memory card by trying to turn on the system with my foot, causing me to lose my precious Smash Bros Melee save and as well as my Paper Mario 2 data. I was at the very end of the game too.

I haven't played it since.
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What a coincidence. This happened to me exactly. Lost all my Melee save data, and I had unlocked all the stages and characters. I also lost my Paper Mario 2 data and was at the final boss.

Though I worked up the resolve to play PM2 again and finish the game. It was worth it.
 
SSX 2012...or "How to Not Make a Fun SSX game", by Todd Batty. Seriously, with the exception of a handful of tracks, it's maybe the must frustrating game I've ever played.
 
I went full on bananas when my Dead Island save file corrupted seemingly on its own.

I was playing co op with a buddy and we were 2/3 of the way through-ish of the game and it crapped out. In blind rage I chucked a controller and went to amazon and posted the game to sell for 5 bucks
 
I used to time attack in Initial D: Arcade Stage competitively. You have no idea how frustrating it would be to get within tenths of a second of a track, area or car record and then come up short. But once you hit that record, it was one of the best feelings I've ever had.
 
I don't think anything has came close in recent memory before Cursed Mountain on Wii. Worst game(control wise) this generation, good creepy story. Some coin levels in Super Mario 3DLand 2nd walkthrough made me cuss too. I'm sure that Cursed Mountain would've made a good laugh if recorded
 
World of Warcraft. I have never been more angry at lag in my life.

I also threw my SOCOM II headseat out of the 7th floor dorm window.

Threw my original GB at my clothes in the closet and it slipped through some dress shirts and hit the wall.

I have anger issues but they have subsided greatly. YES THEY HAVE!!
 
Now that I think I remember the terrible Majora's Mask port of Collector's Edition, and when it froze in the Stone Tower Temple after two hours without saving and a lot of important and difficult stuff done. It made me almost hate the game and didn't touched it for months.
 
I used to rage so hard as a kid. The angriest I ever got was probably Vamp on Extreme in MGS2. I could not, for the life of me, beat him, so I slammed my controller against the floor. Good thing it was carpeted.

Other than that, fighting games online usually piss me off. I slammed my fist against the joystick so many times, I no longer play fighting games.

BF3 kind of pisses me off sometimes, but it doesn't really bother me too much. These days, I just switch to a different game before one can really set me off. Life's too short to be getting mad at games.

Just recently, the Deus Ex bossfights were really dumb, especially since I had a stealth build that carried nothing but stun gun darts and energy bars on Deus Ex difficulty. I pretty much cheated to get past the third boss since I couldn't even use my typhoon.
 
JasonMCG said:
SSX 2012...or "How to Not Make a Fun SSX game", by Todd Batty. Seriously, with the exception of a handful of tracks, it's maybe the must frustrating game I've ever played.
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- this

  • Have you checked out our lovely bunch of pits?
  • We have a nice pit over here for you.
  • Oh, you were having fun on this track? Here's a pit.
  • Restart, Pit, Restart, Pit. Repeat and have fun. What could be simpler?
 
The only time a actually have ever Raged when playing a game was back in the PS1 era.

The game Beyond the Beyond, i was stuck in some darn tower for what seemed like ages looking for a specific item (hammer or mallet or something), kept getting sucked into random battles, my one player was "cursed", i was running out of healing items etc. Over the course of 2 days i tried to find the missing item while dealing with all of the crap, finally i was so frustrated that after i died (again) in combat I ripped the games out of the PS1 and threw it like a frisbee across the room, it hit a dresser but amazingly did not shatter....

Weeks passed and i decided to pop that game back in, i in less then 5 min located the missing item.... felt like a fool..... but never did continue playing through the game...
 
The Four Kings on NG+ in dark souls, I was plowing through NG+ like a champ until them, I had to resort to cheap tactics of pyromancy in the end.
 
Saroyan said:
I smashed an SNES controller against the floor when I was playing Street Fighter II. I grabbed it by the cord and flailed it on the concrete, pieces flew everywhere haha, thankfully I learned some self control since then.
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LOL, let me tell you my rage story...

I smashed an SNES controller against a little marble table when I was playing Street Fighter II. I grabbed it by the cord and flailed it on the marble table, pieces flew everywhere haha, thankfully I learned some self control since then.
 
Derrick01 said:
Modern Warfare 2 online, around launch when it was the most unbalanced and buggiest MP game ever.

I had already had the cops called on me once for all the screaming I was doing at my TV so after some more fuckery by the lovely COD crowd I was trying so hard not to scream that I squeezed my 360 pad pretty hard and the thing obliterated into a thousand pieces.
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lol, well done mate.

As for me, BF3 multiplayer. And TW2, which is pretty hard.
 
Stupid me, I used to Warcraft III online in the 2vs2 ladder, but solo so it matched me with a partner. At the time there was a trend of teamkilling, so 50% of my games matched me with a partner who would wall my base in or attack my workers with his and let the enemy stomp on through. I would see red and bitch about it on the Battle.net boards, which only made things worse because people would defend that behavior as freedom of speech or some such nonsense.
 
Dead Space Chapter 4: Almost quit the game over that bullshit cannon sequence.

Fighting Game Bosses: Fuck Seth, but double fuck Gill. I don't really play SNK fighters, but I have SamSho Anthology, and the last guy of SS6. WOW. I don't even have a word for the number of fucks for that guy. I'd turn the difficulty to the lowest setting, set it so he has to win five rounds while I only have to win 1, and I *STILL* took like an hour or something to finally win. In my defense, I'm not very great at fighting games, and have very little experience outside of SF titles. But still, my first exposure to SNK Boss Syndrome was not pleasant.

Little Nemo: Not something the game did, but I had made it further than I ever had before (Nemo's House) when my little brother got mad about me for hogging the NES all the time (Which I did, I admit), so he turned the power off. RAAAAAAGE. I don't think I ever hit him so hard as that time. That game was fucking hard!

Nothing beats Puzzle Fighter though. My friends and I almost came to blows over the absurd number of times we had assured victory snatched from our grasp at the last moment...
 
At most points while playing MW2. usually quickly followed by turning the game off and stepping away from the console for a while.
 
Taborcarn said:
Stupid me, I used to Warcraft III online in the 2vs2 ladder, but solo so it matched me with a partner. At the time there was a trend of teamkilling, so 50% of my games matched me with a partner who would wall my base in or attack my workers with his and let the enemy stomp on through. I would see red and bitch about it on the Battle.net boards, which only made things worse because people would defend that behavior as freedom of speech or some such nonsense.
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This fucking mentality...
 
Zia said:
I tend not to get too upset, but just recently I was very, very angry at some people in WoW. It was one of the recent holiday dailies, the one that had you killing mobs in Uldum? I was grinding and this Troll Shaman flies down and ganks me. Okay, whatever. But then he starts spitting and sitting on me. "What the fuck?" I try to res and he kills me again, and does the same: /spit /spit /spit /spit. And again. I didn't do anything to this person. I'm all up for world PvP, or even giving someone a hard time for a few minutes, but I detest being spat upon.

I think it was deadline for the holiday and I really wanted to get this done. Angry, I manage to get my body, fly off, switch to PvP gear and spec and fly back down and kill his stupid ass in about two hits. He resurrects, and I kill him again. I'm standing over his corpse and an Alliance player flies down and apologizes to him and tells me to, "Get a life." I tell her, "Um, he is an obsessive psycho who ganked me first and was spamming /spit on my corpse?" She disappears.

He resurrects and I kill him again. A Warlock comes out of nowhere, apparently having spoken to him, and they kill me. I res, thinking I can take them, but I can't quite as he keeps chain-fearing me into mobs, and I'm aggro'ing like ten 85(s) at a time. I angrily quit, look at that clock and decide to come back in an hour. I come back, finish my quest and get a PM from the Alliance player that saw me killing the Troll: "How'd you like being picked on? You're pathetic." My face turned red. I don't know what I said to the person but it wasn't very nice, and I sent her to my ignore list. The BF stopped me from posting on the realm forum and embarrassing myself.

Grr.
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Yeah I've seen a lot of stories like that. Those people are human garbage. I've had my share of wow-induced rage freakouts. I don't know why I ever play on PVP servers, glutton for punishment I guess.
Getting revenge is so sweet sometimes I guess it's worth it. The thing is you've got to get your victory and gtfo of there or log for the night. This ensures they don't get the last word and get to stew on it. Nothing more rewarding.
 
Gui_PT said:
Also: The last boss Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 9

Haven't even finished the game because of it
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I actually found this to be not particularly difficult. If you dash and jump over Shao Kahn, it completely throws off the AI. Dash, jump over, uppercut. Rinse and repeat.

Now there's one challenge in the tower that is freakin' insane. I think it's beat three Goros and Shao Kahn in a single life bar. It's nuts.
 
sn00zer said:
After playing Okami Zelda seems so cumbersome....everything from movement to item selection to using items...its like the antithesis to Mario Galaxy controls, just complicated and no fun
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Yes, yes, YES!!!!!!!!!! When I finished TP, I was angry due to its lameness. I know that this is not a popular views but it was an irritating game. I also played it after Okami so that had a role.
 
Oh you know, just the usual.

Like punching my computer monitor because I was getting killed in Halo which resulted in a broken hand.

Everyone here has done that... right?
 
Left 4 Dead 2's awful mutation mode where you're the only survivor. On fucking Hard Rain's finale. Shit was god damn cheap and near impossible, I gave up. I've never been so pissed at a game before.

FUCK THAT MUTATION! I'd seriously fucking rather play 1/3 of Sonic 06 over that god damn awful piece of shit on Hard Rain ever again.

EDIT: Before anyone get any wrong ideas, I don't hate L4D2, just that shitty mode that should never existed.
 
Uno on XBLA.

Seriously. They guy just drew a card and immediately dropped a Wildcard. Why on earth would you challenge it?

Guy plays a wildcard and changes color to yellow. Then one of two things happens:
1) Next guy plays a draw 2 even though he will have a yellow 4 for example but not giving everyone a chance to change the color and stop the first guy from winning

2) Plays a reverse yellow even though he has a regular yellow to play...

People who think the point of the game is to change the color constantly.

Stupid I know but annoys me to no end.

Oh and MW3: get into an assualt rifle vs SMG dueling match from 50 yardes away. My opponent runs out of ammo and pulls out a machine pistol and headshots me with one bullet....stopped playing MW3 right then.
 
I've never done any physical damage to anything (or anyone :) ) due to frustration in a video game, and I don't normally let anything get to me. However, that changed when I played The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

I voiced a certain amount of rage at basically any part of the game that required the thrusting sword motion, because in the heat of battle I found it very difficult to get the game to recognize a thrust instead of a swing.

I actually felt bad about losing my cool. (And really, other than that one move, I really liked SS's motion controls.)
 
1. The 'Chase the Gunman' level in Driver 2. I really liked the game, especially the 'free roam' mode where you could choose different cities to explore. But I never finished it because of this mission:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVNmuB16vgk


After many failed attempts, I ended up assuming that you had to wreck the Gunman's car or push it off the cliff before he could get away. The damage meters (which aren't present in the rest of the game) kind of suggest that, but judging by the above video you just have to keep following him. Harder than it looks, though.

2. A game called 'Fervour'. It's a relatively obscure British game, and I've never heard anyone else talk about it. I played it when I was about six on an Acorn computer. I had a lot of tantrums at that age anyway, but this game added to them quite a bit.

This is the only video I can find of it, which doesn't show any difficulty. Basically though, all the different coloured tiles do different things to the ball - make it bounce, speed it up, etc. But the ball can't go backwards OR jump (without touching a bounce tile), so if you were stuck in front of a pit you were forced to go forward and die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCr642yjEvg

Has anyone else played this game?

Edit: Found a video which shows some other early levels. Love the music in this game. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=misN2jbpo1Y&feature=related
 
Resident Evil 2 - One shot run without saving

Dying by poison, finished by a zombie because I wasn't able to run because of my health that was in 'danger. I was at the end when the alarm for auto-destruction was activated. Closed the console and left the game alone for a good year straight, low blow. :P


Star Ocean 4 - Seven Stars dungeon

Getting beaten by a 'surprise' 2nd boss on the same floor...after like 2 hours of gameplay\grinding without saving, ouch.

Yep, those two were quite frustrating. :(
 
U n i o n 0015 said:
I actually found this to be not particularly difficult. If you dash and jump over Shao Kahn, it completely throws off the AI. Dash, jump over, uppercut. Rinse and repeat.

Now there's one challenge in the tower that is freakin' insane. I think it's beat three Goros and Shao Kahn in a single life bar. It's nuts.
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Thanks! Will try!
 
From what I can remember, TMNT for the NES. It was during the water stage where you had to disarm the bomb before the time ran out. Every single time I get real close to the bomb, the timer reached 0. I can remember crying whenever I got close to finishing the stage.

Ramsus in his Wyvern from Xenogears. Cheap as hell.

Also, The Ultimate Being from Parasite Eve, once he got to his 3rd form. I couldn't stop raging.
 
I honestly don't know. That's probably a good thing.

EDIT: Oh it was Virtua Fighter 4 I think. I kind of broke my PS2 because of it (slammed my fist on the PS2 and since then it wouldn't read discs anymore)
 
Angriest? I'm not completely sure but I do know that the host shotgun from Gears 1 used to pissed me off to no ends. Not just the shotgun but everything having to do with the host.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efpMAcAtXYA

Shit like that happened every other game. I'm getting annoyed right now just remembering it.
 
I raged pretty badly in some Left 4 Dead 2 matches. Nothing's worse than thinking you're great at a game and have a very cohesive group of friends... then getting annihilated by someone.
 
The bug in Deadly Premonition that prevented me from finishing the game after putting 30+hrs into it was the only time I've actually broken a controller. I slammed the bastard into the floor and fucked up one of the shoulder buttons. I was fucking LIVID!
 
pancakesandsex said:
Xenosaga 2. I was so hyped for it when it came out, which only made the disappointment hit me harder. I believe I was able to actually get it returned.

Ar Tonelico II was probably a runner up. I tore into that game hard for the half finished localization.
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I seem to remember using various FAQ becuase I hated the battle system in Xenosaga 2 so much. Like you had to do some very specific set of moves to hurt anyone and it was irritating as shit. Plus Shion's voice was randomly wrong.
 
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