Angriest you've ever been at a game.

[Denerynn]

Some platformers really piss me off, where you need to time certain jumps perfectly in order to be able to proceed. I remember one game in particular, I think it was called.... oh whatever. It was a gamecube game about a boy turned into a lizard because his neighbor is in fact part of a plot by these giant lizards from another dimmension to take over our world or something. Basically it's a platformer where you can fight enemies with a *few* special moves, and where you can grind around on rails (much like in Sonic). For one thing, I had to use cheats to because to get unlimited Static Bombs (or something like that) in order to defeat anything, and near the end even that wasn't enough. Also, you had no lives, so it's a trial and error game and often you'd find yourself memorizing parts of a level (after several tries) simply to get past it.

I remember playing the first Harry Potter game on PC (of which I'd gotten two copies at Christmas one year), and after a lot of annoyances with one of those hide-under-the-invisibility-cloak-and-try-not-to-make-noise-to-get-through-the-impossibly-huge-library type of levels, I finally made it to the end of the game, where you need to face Voldemort... I never could figure out how to beat him, only that it involved using a spell on the mirror, it would rotate, and then....

Of course there are those moments in Guild Wars (yes, I play that) where I find myself getting into random groups (also called PuG's, Pick Up Group) and ending up wanting to kill someone (not just in-game) because they are too stupid to understand that you've already done the mission, that you know exactly what needs to be done in order for things to go smoothly. Naturally they'll go around thinking they know everything, when in fact everything they do jeopardizes the group....

Alright, time to calm down...

Aside from those moments, I usually just get frustrated, get the feeling I want to kill someone, then it all goes away, because I have amazing self-control.

 

[Chaos Marine]

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Trying to get those gold medals was so bloody difficult!

 

[Palmetto13]

Where to start...

- GGaHT on Expert on Rock Band. My Fender now has an interesting rattling sound because of that song, not to mention the fact that it now kinda deploys star power whenever it deems it appropriate.
- The mission from Goldeneye on N64 where you have to protect Natalya while she's doing her AGONIZINGLY SLOOOOWWWWW hacker bit. My poor, poor controller.
- I know it has been mentioned, but seriously, the RC plane on San Andreas was freaking stupid.
- The time my NES nuked my save file on FF1 where I had grinded (ground?) to the point where everyone was level 99 (I think) and I was ready to tackle the last dungeon. I introduced that cartridge to my 5-iron.
- Escort missions.
- Sagat from SF2 used to literally make me cry with anger. If I ever hear "Tiger Uppercut!" again, I may kill someone. Also, I have a strange aversion to America's Funniest Home Videos.

However, I love video games...

 

[leugim789]

it was a long time ago, i was playing the hercules game for the ps one, i got to the last level when it froze and i forgot the codes (you cant save) i got so mad i snapped the controller in half,

 

[leugim789]

oh and i was playing the ninja warrior game on g4tv.com, i couldnt get past the damn rolling log so i deemed it appropiate to slam my fist on the desk, fortunately a spoon broke my fall, it then catapulted into my eye.

 

[StrangeButNoStranger]

Fighting Rugal from King of Fighters. ANY of them are frustrating enough to want to put your foot through the Television.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Fighting Rugal from King of Fighters. ANY of them are frustrating enough to want to put your foot through the Television.

Yeah. Rugal, Goenitz, Kryzalid, Orochi, take your pick. They are all the definition of "super cheap"

 

[MizzyKwikkid]

my friend convinced me to get tony hawks proving grounds for the wii. lets just say the timing in this game as far as reactions is a tad off and its extremely difficult and my gamer muscles were not happy, i couldnt get past the 3rd stage because of my arms hurting so much that i actually cried in frustration and chucked the game out the window. its not a very good game. if i was looking for a skating game with difficult controls i would have gotten skate. i've always loved the easy controls in TH games and now they're gone.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

I used to get controller-slamming mad with numerous games (particularly Mortal-Fucking-Kombat Trilogy. Damn you Shao-Kahn! Damn you!), but that all stopped once I played F-Zero GX. If I didn't exercise a lot of self-restraint, I would've had to replace the controller, something as a 14 year old I did not have the money to do (heck, the only reason I was able to get a GC was because they were selling it for $50 AU. This was in 2003, mind you). Since then, whenever I start getting frustrated with a game, I just stop playing it for a while and come back to it later.

My christ! i cannot do some of the story missions on F-Zero GX, no matter how hard i try!
and i've never unlocked diamond cup because the 'easier' ones on hard are nigh-on impossible

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

The maddest I've ever been is hard to pinpoint, though I know the maddest my grandfather has ever been.

My late grandfather got me into gaming, and would explain my half obsession with the Zelda franchise. We played the games together, exchanged pointers, discussed the puzzles. Granted I was only seven when we started doing this right up till the end (I was fourteen when he passed away), I was still hooked, and my favorite genre are still platformers, particularly story rich, puzzle solving ones.

But I digress. When I was ten, my grandfather picked up a little game called Mischief Makers for his N64 whose main character, Ultra-Intergalactic-Cybot G Marina Liteyears (Why I remember that is both beyond me and rather sad I'm sure) is tasked in finding her beloved creator, Professor Theo who has been kidnapped by the Empire for lord only knows why, and rescuing the absent minded old man.

The game, rather weird to say the least offered some very significantly hard challenges, one in particular required Marina to jump over a tall wall whilst holding a pot. The wall was too high for a normal jump, and the pot hindered her movements considerably. With ten years of video game puzzle solving under his belt, my grandfather couldn't for the life of him get Marina over the wall. He even went to that new fangled internet to look for answers, going as far as to post on a forum asking for help only getting snide replies like "Just jump stupid." Anyway, fed up he waited for a visit from my family to ask me to help him out. He explained the situation, and I listened eager to help him out, and he handed me the controller.

Seconds later Marina was on the other side of the wall, holding the pot and I was looking to my grandfather inquisitively wondering what the fuss was all about while he stared at the screen wide eyed before he stormed out of the room cursing. My mother had explained to me how long he had been trying and that he even went on the internet to look for help. Only being ten I didn't quite catch the subtlety of the situation until a few years later when I filed it away as one of my more fonder memories of him.

On an ironic note though, on subsequent visits to the aforementioned wall I have just as much trouble as he had getting over it with that bloody pot as he seemed to.

 

[DrFoxbard]

I hate any system that gives rewards to people who have more experience at the game. Call of Duty 4 is the worst (recently). There's nothing quite like the feeling of getting killed multiple times with Matyrdom(sp) when you can't do anything about it and don't know how to avoid it. I finally get it and now my deaths are productive, great, are we even now? Lord no! Next I try sniping, I do fine until they counter-snipe, with more experience they kill me, oh and also they have the 50-cal sniper rifle of doom. Ok I switch to Close combat, shotguns? Nope they use SMGs, SMG? They pull out the FAMAS, I go for assault rifles, they have the same rifle (or better) with perks and with a huge scope, and I die once more.

Other games have this system, but it isn't as bad, for example, Rainbow Six has unlockable weapons, but some of the best assault rifles are starting weapons. The only really good guns you get later on (for me) are the Desert Eagle and the 2 shotguns.

 

[fix-the-spade]

I broke my original Playstation playing Crash Bandicoot 2.

Never got mad at 2 because it was always so funny to see little Crash get his ass handed to him.

Crash Bandicoot 1 on the other hand, AAARGH!!

Getting the good ending meant getting all the gems, ALL the gems. Then jumping from gem to gem over a death pit to get to the end. What happens if you missed a gem?
There's a gap in the line that you can't jump over, so you have to jump backwards BLIND back the way you came.
Should you survive this, your reward? You have to fight Cortex, one of the hardest bosses ever, did I mention that one hit from anything kills you and tree are NO masks.

That made me throw a controller so hard the cable tore out of it.

 

[korn0413]

I made this avatar just as i saw this post for one reason:
jumping jack flash .... (elite beat agents)
beat it tonight on chieftan after about 2 hours worth of attempts, was so happy.

Although ties/runner-ups would have to also to Alma (ninja gaiden), got to her with no healing items and 1/4 a life bar my first play through, wont mention how long that took.

And quite possibly getting invincibility on goldeneye, or even 100% that game if you will, beat every stage on every difficulty and unlocked every cheat the hard way, invin easily being the hardest.

Im not really too angry a person so i guess i cant say ive broken any controllers, systems, tvs, or keyboards, but phew my DS almost got it tonight.

 

[serwolfe]

I remember getting mad at castlevania 2. Hard to remember now but there was this one point i could never get past.

 

[L4Y Duke]

I broke my original Playstation playing Crash Bandicoot 2.

Never got mad at 2 because it was always so funny to see little Crash get his ass handed to him.

Crash Bandicoot 1 on the other hand, AAARGH!!

Getting the good ending meant getting all the gems, ALL the gems. Then jumping from gem to gem over a death pit to get to the end. What happens if you missed a gem?
There's a gap in the line that you can't jump over, so you have to jump backwards BLIND back the way you came.
Should you survive this, your reward? You have to fight Cortex, one of the hardest bosses ever, did I mention that one hit from anything kills you and tree are NO masks.

That made me throw a controller so hard the cable tore out of it.

Actually, if you got all the gems, you bypassed Cortex and got the good ending, if I recall correctly.

Besides, Crash 3 was the hardest of the 'good Crash' games. *shuns Twinsanity*

One particular level, in order to get the gem for getting 100% of the boxes, involved getting all the way to the end, hitting the green "!" to detonate all the nitro crates in the level, backtracking all the way to the death platform and completing the secret death stage.

The trick? Unless you died in the death stage, dying will cause the death platform to disappear. That means that you have to essentially do the level backwards and forwards without dying, then doing the even harder death stage, whilst getting every box in both the level and the death stage in order to get this gem.

Tough.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I remember being pretty angry at Kya: Dark Lineage. The details are a little fuzzy, since it's been a while, but I after about a zillion hours wandering through the first zone I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing, so gave up on the game forever... and that was that.

 

[The Noob Pwn3r]

The rather Ghey ending to a rather ghey game
"halo 3"

 

[portuga-man]

nothing beats being 8 hours trying to do the beginning of through the fire and flames, get the hang of it, and lose right at the end of the intro.

 

[tagMaverick]

Hero Battle Automated Tournament in Guild Wars. They have these tournaments that give you points to get into the monthly tournament, in which you could win computer parts. So I'm in the AT and i rape some kid until i Disconnect and load back in to see him win.

Of course, I'm not really an angry person, you know. All I really did was throw my barricuda ($160 razor headset) into my 21" acer monitor (id say like $200 ish), breaking both instantly. Imagine breaking a pencil, but a monitor instead. Yeah.

My friend broke his TV in the same way, lol I have a vent recording of that one.

 

[Ravenstien]

The one that stands out for me was Need For Speed: ProStreet drifting. Don't for one second think that you can drift on this game if you could own drift on NFS:Carbon. They don't tell you at all how to drift, just a shitty little intro paragraph. Twice I completed everything except the final Noise Bomb race day, simply because I didn't know what I was doing wrong. It took a lot of self-restraint to not smash my controller on the desk. Eventually I sold my RX7 and got a 240SX and I owned their asses...stupid fucking game...they need a tutorial.

Most of the time I get utterly infuriated at a game when I lose/die because of something that's out of my control, can't do anything about or because of a glitch, or when a game is needlessly difficult.

Mario Kart Wii annoyed me as quite frequently it's a question of who gets the shells and luck. Sure there's some skill in hurling green shells or bananas, but most of the time, whoever gets red shells is the winner. Many times I've nearly broken the wheel in half when I get hit by a blue shell 5ft from the finish line.

Burnout Paradise was pointlessly difficult, especially some of the burning routes for the later cars. See Yahtzee's review for more info.

The boss battles on GH3. I hope to god that they're gone in GH4. They were just a question of who could get the best powerups first. The only way to beat Lou on Hard (I haven't even bothered on Expert) was to be lucky enough that he got a Whammy Bar powerup as his first (how unfair is that? The guy who can do it perfect gets the powerups first!!) one, so you can whammy it off in time to get your next one. Then it was a question of simply getting three powerups in at once, then hitting him with all three at the same time in a solo. At least it was eventually do-able, and the satisfaction for doing so quite made up for it. Shame Raining Blood is fucking impossible on Expert.