Anger Issues while playing games

[Atari5200]

i've punched doors off of cabinets, broken multiple controllers, broken systems, used profanities not even created yet, picked up random items to throw, etc.

 

yeah I have anger issues with gaming.

[kroogur]

I have mellowed alot, but the worst i ever did was my last year of high school my buddy an I were not doing well with Festers Quest so I kinda took it out to the driveway and set it in the lil dip at the end then backed my 1982 Buick Lesabre on to it then sent it to burnout hell

[Atari5200]

yeah I've mellowed a bit too, now I'm pretty much just limited to cursing and throwing controllers.

 

The worst thing I can remember doing is renting Earthworm Jim back in the day and hating it so much that I poured water into it and then returned it back to the video store. lol.

[Ross PK]

I very rarely get angry at games, and when I do, I'm not that angry.

 

However I do get PC rage, where I literally do, explode.

Edited September 26, 2008 by Ross PK

[AtariLeaf]

i've punched doors off of cabinets, broken multiple controllers, broken systems, used profanities not even created yet, picked up random items to throw, etc.

 

yeah I have anger issues with gaming.

 

LOL. Got any examples?

[joeybastard]

I'll curse and question the birth heritage of the programmers but I haven't broken a controller since I first played Pitfall II as a kid. If a game is too hard that it makes me want to break something, I shut it off.

Edited September 26, 2008 by joeybastard

[+kisrael]

Don't be the Angry German Kid

[+kisrael]

i've punched doors off of cabinets, broken multiple controllers, broken systems, used profanities not even created yet, picked up random items to throw, etc.

 

yeah I have anger issues with gaming.

 

LOL. Got any examples?

the list of fictional expletives (formerly on Wikipedia) had a bunch, though too many are 1-offs and euphemisms.

[Ryanw]

Mostly with computer games. I have spent like 150 bucks replacing headphones and mouses.

[Lord Thag]

Only when a game is being unfair. I have broken a controller once, but usually it's me swearing like a sailor.

[phaxda]

Playing Wii Mario Kart online--I have often bashed the little steering wheel against other nearby objects (couch, coffee table, my own leg) after losing a close race, or getting freaking blue-shelled at the finish line. Once when some jerk ran me off the tracks of Wario's Gold Mine right at the finish--sending me from 1st to 11th in a hotly-contested race where the average was well over 1600 rating points per racer--I whipped the whole shebang across the living room. Sigh. I am not graceful in defeat.

 

And, since this topic did not specify video games, I will also cop to sometimes getting a little irate when it comes to sports. I have thrown more than a few tennis rackets in my time and broke plenty of them when playing competitively in high school (that's why I bought the cheap aluminum ones). Also, when you play hockey, a little anger is not such a bad thing. Might put you into the penalty box every now and then, but if you don't get a little angry sometimes on the ice, you're playing the wrong sport.

[Lauren Tyler]

What sucks is when you are playing the Wii, and you forget the Wii-mote is strapped to your wrist, so you go to throw it across the room, and it comes back and pops you in the face

 

Kind of like the Three Stooges playing. I could see it now:

 

Curly <getting frustrated>: MMMMM! <throws Wiimote> Nyuk nyuk nyuk- <bonk> OWWW! <slaps his head, then he realizes it's strapped to his wrist, so he throws it after unstrapping it> Nyuk nyuk- <this time it hits Moe> Nyaaagh!

 

Moe: You imbecile! <whacks Curly with the Wiimote, then strangles him using the Nunchuk cord>

 

 

At any rate, I have many stories of Video Game Rage to tell you about:

 

My most notable ones come from when I play APB, especially when I get the infamous "LOUSY COP!!" screen, which results in me going ballistic!

 

One time, I got so mad at Killer Instinct on the SNES, that I called Fulgore a bastard. My mom came in and took the game away from me. Needless to say I was not happy.

 

In 1997, I hit my PlayStation out of frustration after being eaten by the Yawn in Resident Evil. Had to get it repaired. I lied to my mom that it was an accident, but the repairs found evidence of 'physical damage,' and so we argued about that.

 

In 1998, I was so mad at Grid Runner I threw my controller across the room so hard, it came out of the controller port. Amazingly it still works fine.

 

Also, I remember nearly getting kicked out of an arcade for swearing at Tekken 2. But hey, Wang is a cheap bastard, what can I say?

 

To this day, there aren't that many games that frustrate me, although Final Fantasy 1 on GBA (yes, that one, even though it's on Easy Type, those extra dungeons they included are real PITAs!) and DBZ BT2 (I have yet to play 3) have caused some creative cussing from me.

[Atariboy]

Most I've ever done is hit the table with my fist once after a bad online race in a PC game.

 

Doesn't apply really to the topic, but I'll mention these since its funny.

 

I've fallen out of my chair during a long race in a N64 Formula One game when I rearended a slowing AI car that was about to retire, that I didn't notice until the last minute. This then scared my cat who was asleep on top of the tv so much that he also fell. I was in the zone I guess just logging laps until my first pit stop (Always ran full length GP's) and it caught me completely by surprise and ended my day about 60 minutes in.

 

Then later on, I was startled when I got wrecked in a PC racing game when it caught me off guard by surprise, leaving me on the floor with the wheel still in my hands when I jumped back and tipped the chair over.

Edited September 27, 2008 by Atariboy

[shadow460]

lol, that reminds me of a time when two of my friends were getting ready to leave my house, so I popped 98 Sega Rally into the PC. I clipped my Sidewinder wheel to the desk and loaded the game up. Their jaws dropped further and further as I raced. After racing the Mountain track, they looked at each other dumbfounded and one said "He didn't hit the wall one single time!" I was driving the Stratos.

 

I also used to get really heated in laser tag. This got me booted from a few games at first, then I realized it was better for me to storm out of a game on my own and go cool it with Gyruss or Raiden DX. There was a time I was shooting at a rather difficult target in Ultrazone at Waikiki. I took a risk of losing 10 to 20% of my score if I missed. A Game Master saw this, and he thought he was showing me mercy by using hiw Terminator to activate my shields. Duh, I've got a dead aim on the Sentinel, and I can't shoot through my own shield!

 

Another time, I was at Ultrazone in San Diego, CA, and this dude from Las Vegas (I think) was talking a little too much smack to me. He was revered in the San Diego site for his skill with 'Zone. My skill lay mainly with Q-Zar, but I was not easy to defeat in the Zone, either. The Zone folks assumed I had 100 game or so under my belt, but in reality, I had over a thousand Quasar/Q-Zar matches of experience. It showed.

So I catch the dude from Vegas inside the arena. I nail him, it takes his last "energy" (life, that is), and forces him to go and reload more energy. He comes back toward the ramp, and I'm waiting. At this point, I had absoultely had it with his mouth. His pie hole had been open out in the lobby while I was trying to show off on KI2, it was open in the vesting area, in the arena...I don't think he or his worshippers from the San Diego site stopped crowing at all that night...unitl I met him at the base of the ramp. I never broke any rules.

See, there's this quasar trick that allows you to keep anyone from ever firing a single shot until they go back to reload. You nail them and wait one second. Nail them again, wait two seconds, then nail them again. Rinse and repeat until they are out of lives. In Quasar, depending on the player's skill level, they have a half to eight second vulnerable time. Even if they're on easy, they still have to wait about half a second from the time the shield goes down to the time the laser is ready to fire. I found out this worked in Ultrazone as well, except that there is not always supposed to be a vulnerable time. The shield activates when you're hit, and the time it's active depends on several factors. Hit them in the chest panel, and they're down for a solid ten seconds unless they hold the trigger, then they're only down for three. They have a very limited number of these "quick ups", though, and when those are gone, it's a ten second wait. similarly, you can use a quick reload if you run out of energy or laser pulses (bullets).

There's another laser tag trick called "dogfighting". It's the practice of turning your body so that the sensors on the pack are open to shots from any direction except the ones where you have active opponents. One does not cover up any sensors during a dogfight. Getting caught covering sensors usually results in a penalty anyway, and can prevent use of special weapons. Generally, though, dogfights are between two players of opposing teams and the object is to try and move any part of your body that doesn't have a sensor in front of the other player's laser gun. There is a lot of unintentional physical contact during a dogfight, and most dogfighting players are within one to two inches of each other during the entire spectacle. The dogfight ends when one player runs out of lives or bullets AND special weapons, or when the participants are attacked (usually successfully) by a third party. Sometimes dogfights are ended by automated guns or "battlefield mines". I've seen larger dogfights, though, and I've seen them include any number of automated targets like bases that shoot back, mines, rogue referees, sentinels that shut down lasers for a LONG time, etc.

 

Fuming heavily, I waited at the bottom of a ramp for the Vegas dude to head up towards a Sentinel. I nailed him square in the chest and then a "dogfight" began, only I was the only person who could shoot. I counted the seconds and I listened closely to his pack. I knew exactly when the shield went down, and I nailed him each time. He started with eight lives, and I took him down to zero. He quick reloaded and the next time, he used most of his quick ups. He got me a couple of times, but my own quick ups and some good dogfighting allowed me to keep him hit, and his laser useless for at least two minutes. He used most, if not all, of his special weapons during this dogfight. I sent him packing back to his reload station and actually caught him again a few seconds before the game ended.

 

I was accused of all kinds of cheating for that by staff, the dude himself, and many of the regular players. None of the Game Masters could find any rules I had broken at all. Not one. I simply outclassed him, by a huge margin at that. Not one single comment about this dude's skill was made to me after that--instead all of his fans accused me of cheating.

 

Several times I came home from Ultrazone at Va Beach and my first wife would be just furious over something. I'd ask her what it was and she honestly believed that I was singling her out as a target. I finally asked why she thought that, and she told me that my laser fire was hitting her from across the arena. I told her that yes, I was able to shoot accurately over those distances, but that I was shooting at all the targets I could get. The reason she got hit more often is that she picked up on my strategy and her playing patterns were similar to my early ones. I didn't notice this, and I definitely could not tell who she was from over 100 feet away. I still had to sleep on the couch a few times over it, though.

 

When the second Q-Zar opened in San Diego, we had some smack talkers there. I showed them who was boss, and I took on two of the best players in a two on one match. They scored about 20% more points than I did, but they were expected to beat me by 50 to 100%.

Later I went to the first Q-Zar in San Diego to renew my membership. They allowed players to cover up their packs. I stormed out and threw my old membership card into the bushes nearby.

 

last laser tag story...this is good...

back to 'Zone in San Diego, CA...

I'm a red player, and these two fellas from the yellow team follow me into the green base. They didn't realize that the bases shot back...lol... Anyway, I get into the base first with the intent of attacking. There's a target in the wall you gotta shoot repeatedly to score a successful hit. I get on shot into it and these guys start stunning me alternately. This didn't activate my shield, but it shut down my laser and aggravated me. I hunkered down under the target, which is where the base shoots from. It's firing pattern is that of a shotgun, and if one were to hunker down directly under the barrel of a shotgun they'd be safe, right? The base itself was able to fire over most of its own interior this way, but the spot I picked was just out of its reach.

So these guys stun me a few times and they take pot shots at the base's target. I let them stun me. After a few seconds, the base spoke a warning, but these guys were too dense to leave their ripe little stun target. After telling them they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone my chest or back panel, I turned my chest plate so that it was easy to hit. One of them nailed my chest plate immediately, which threw up my shield. A split second later the base opened fire on all of us. Their repeated stuns had earned them a couple hundred point each and that's it. When the base shot them both, their shields went up for thirty seconds and it cost them a total of six thousand points!! I, on the other hand, walked out of the base unscathed under the protection of my shield. It dropped after ten seconds, I picked off a couple of folks, and I successfully attacked the base as soon as it stopped shooting. And yes, I hightailed it out of there before it started shooting at me again.

 

Oh, and if anyone wonders what the odd phrases are next to my avatar, most of them are related to laser tag. More specifically, they are related to San Diego's second Q-Zar site which was in a sports bar by the Navy base. And then there's the reference to the Sears game Gunslinger. I figured it fit in with the rest!

Edited September 27, 2008 by shadow460

[Jess Ragan]

I have mellowed alot, but the worst i ever did was my last year of high school my buddy an I were not doing well with Festers Quest so I kinda took it out to the driveway and set it in the lil dip at the end then backed my 1982 Buick Lesabre on to it then sent it to burnout hell

 

I discovered the hard way that winning that game was even worse than losing at it. Never shout "I beat Fester!" within earshot of your brother... he'll never let you forget it.

[kroogur]

I have mellowed alot, but the worst i ever did was my last year of high school my buddy an I were not doing well with Festers Quest so I kinda took it out to the driveway and set it in the lil dip at the end then backed my 1982 Buick Lesabre on to it then sent it to burnout hell

 

I discovered the hard way that winning that game was even worse than losing at it. Never shout "I beat Fester!" within earshot of your brother... he'll never let you forget it.

 

:D

 

I picked the game up recently at a yard sale for $.50 and finally finished it. That game is way to long and way more difficult than it needs to be.

[+kisrael]

I have mellowed alot, but the worst i ever did was my last year of high school my buddy an I were not doing well with Festers Quest so I kinda took it out to the driveway and set it in the lil dip at the end then backed my 1982 Buick Lesabre on to it then sent it to burnout hell

 

I discovered the hard way that winning that game was even worse than losing at it. Never shout "I beat Fester!" within earshot of your brother... he'll never let you forget it.

 

:D

 

I picked the game up recently at a yard sale for $.50 and finally finished it. That game is way to long and way more difficult than it needs to be.

Looking at some of the video reviews... ugh, why would they make a game out of the worst part of Blaster Master?

(Actually, didn't they take the same approach for the first GB "port" of Blaster Master?)

[DracIsBack]

Yeah though not as much now. Occasionally flares up. My wife hid Zelda Twilight Princess for a week because it was pissing me off so much. I finished when she went away for the weekend, packed it up and sold it 24 hours later (along with other Zelda games).

 

Also remember getting pretty annoyed with Resident Evil 4 during the first fight with Krauser ("what kind of stupid jackass thinks this is actually entertainment??????!!!") and also the final chase level in the Dreamcast version of Spider-Man ("die, die, dieeeeeeeeee")

[Eltigro]

There were many times that I threw the NES controller at the system and hit it hard enough that the cartridge popped up.

 

I have a TurboGrafx controller with bite marks on it. I blamed the dog.

 

I'm surprised I haven't twisted my Playstation controllers in half as many times as I've forcefully squeezed and twisted them. Good construction. Kudos to Sony on those...

[shadow460]

("what kind of stupid jackass thinks this is actually entertainment??????!!!") ... ("die, die, dieeeeeeeeee")

 

Wow, I think I said both of those many times while playing Crisis Core! To the designer's credit, it does get easier...with items like the Divine Slayer and the Heike Soul... (good luck winning them!)

[Vic George 2K3]

Some sections of certain games that are so tough to get past, that get me killed over and over, just make me shout (and even sing to the tune of "Puff The Magic Dragon") "come the flipping on" at the screen, but I hardly remember a time when I would be angry to the point of destructive abuse toward my gaming equipment. Anyway, I prefer playing those particular games when there's nobody around to hear me rant and rave toward the screen, so there's little chance of anyone being offended or being stupid enough to add insult to my digital injury.

[Rik]

Nope.A little cursing sure,but serious temper tantrums no.Life would be pretty difficult if you let minute things like video games make you go postal.

Edited September 27, 2008 by Rik

[the maddestman]

I used to have the same reaction as some others - yell at the screen "But I pressed the button!" as I threw the joystick/control pad across the room. When I got my first hand-held portable game system, I stopped doing that, I didn't want to break it!

 

These days I have calmed down, and merely yell at the screen and use words that would make a sailor blush, but don't use physical violence - I broke more then my fair share of things when younger, and now don't want my son learning to do that from me, LOL!

[+kisrael]

I used to have the same reaction as some others - yell at the screen "But I pressed the button!" as I threw the joystick/control pad across the room.

 

Heh, ever do that thing where you hold up the controller to SHOW the screen that YES YOU WERE PRESSING THE DAMN STICK AND BUTTON!!!!

 

It never seemed to believe me...

[misspent_youth]

I have my share of tossed controllers (the NES controllers were pretty tough, so it was like a license to abuse them), but I pale in comparison to one of my high school buddies.

 

We used to go to his place and have NHL hockey tourneys on his SNES, and at one point I looked into a corner and saw a smallish pile (maybe 3 or 4) NES controllers that looked like they'd been through the wringer. I commented on it, he laughed, and then I looked a little closer. Most of them had deeply ingrained bite marks on the corners, as well as smash damage. He told me that he sometimes got so frustrated that he just chomped down on the controllers as hard as he could. He never broke a tooth though.

Edited September 28, 2008 by misspent_youth