Angriest you've ever been at a game.

[Icedrake402]

God of War - Hell...god damn hell. It wasn't the enemies that were a bother, it was when you have to walk on spiked moving pillars while dodging arrows tying to rape your ass. Then you have to climb up the wall of death and one damn touch sends you back to the beginning. I remember everytime I fail I would punch my bed and scream with insane frustration.

I didn't have too much trouble with that section. The bit that reduced me to a gibbering fury was the balance puzzles in the Hades section of Pandora's Temple. Jump at just this moment, or instant death! And maybe my controller was just wonky, but I could not seem to land on the beams after jumping.

But it didn't compare with the final fight of "Max Payne 2", which nearly managed to retroactively ruin the rest of the game. Run arond this tiny area trying to shoot four tiny targets. You can't stop or take aim, or you get hit with instant-death dynamite. Oh, and as the fight goes on, holes get blown in the floor. Fall down one of them (because you wrestled the camera into looking up at the tiny targets), and you get a scene of Max falling to his death--because we all love unskippable cutscenes before we can get back into a fight! Oh, and for some reason you can't just throw a grenade up where the bad guy is standing and kill him that way. I made myself hoarse from shrieking at the screen.

This comic strip sums it up pretty well: http://adamwarren.deviantart.com/art/Videogame-Frustration-Olympics-48306846

 

[TheIceface]

Halo,
I went over to my friend's house and saw that he had an Xbox. As if that wasn't bad enough, he was playing Halo, it might have been the second or third one; unimportant. Either way, he started telling me how awesome it was. As soon as the word storyline, exited his mouth, I picked up is POSbox and threw it out the window, cords and controllers trailing it all the way to the street. Mind you the window was closed at the time, so I had to help fix it later.

I sat him down with a N64 and Goldeneye 007, and he relinquished he old ways. He realized what a pile the Halo series was despite hype, and even compared to outdated comparisons.

 

[ReverseEngineered]

I've had my share of bile playing video games, but the only time I ever got violently angry was while playing Counterstrike. I was good. I played in CAL and our team did quite well. We practised a lot. But my god, if I didn't meet some of the most unbelievably perfect players in pub servers. Maybe it was hacks, maybe they were just that good, but repeatedly getting mowed down as you turned a corner by someone you can't see is the most infuriating thing in the world. That and getting sniped in the head by an assault rifle from across the map.

It didn't help that my mouse cord tended to get stuck on the back of my desk, causing me to not quite raise my gun high enough to get the kill. It pissed me off one too many times, then suddenly I had pulled the wire completely out of the mouse.

I eventually realized that Counterstrike's physics left a lot to be desired.

 

[Onima]

Losing to another human in RTS games.........broke several desks. Silly particle-board.

 

[hbomb]

Team Fortress 2'a crits. Just....THOSE DAMN CRITS! GAH!

 

[EOT]

At the moment. Call of Duty 4, on Veteran, the Chernobyl ferris wheel part. I only haven't smashed my controller because they don't make Halo 3 ones anymore. But i have solely wanted to for so long. I have completely given up on it now...its never going to get done.

 

[Slash12]

Funny to see this thread just now, Mine happened a couple of minutes ago. *SPOILERS?*

GTA4 Last mission on the "deal" side. I'm playing through the story again to get liberty city minute (Got 100% first time through). So I have no problem killing all the guys protecting Dimitri, get to the helicopter cut scene, I get into the boat to chase him down and as soon as I get in the drivers seat *Boom* rocket hits me... Mission Failed. Re-load get to same part, I get in the boat this time but I was too far behind the helicopter so getting in Jacobs helicopter was physically impossible... Mission Failed. Re-load get to the cut scene, as soon as cut scene ends with me falling into the water I die... As soon as I hit the water Niko apparently breaks all of his bones and impales his vital organs... Mission Failed. I finally beat it on my 4th try, but there was still a lot of shouting and profanity involved.

At the moment. Call of Duty 4, on Veteran, the Chernobyl ferris wheel part. I only haven't smashed my controller because they don't make Halo 3 ones anymore. But i have solely wanted to for so long. I have completely given up on it now...its never going to get done.

Just hide in the shed to the right of the ferris wheel if your facing it and go prone inside there. All you have to do is sit and throw the occasional grenade that gets in there out of the door. Once the helicopter gets there, run and gun to it.

 

[Firvagor]

And the final part of 'One Shot, One Kill' when you have to defend yourself until the helicopter arrives. I ran full tilt to the helicopter, but the armed men inside were declining to fire. I was shot to shit and was sent back to the last checkpoint, with the helicopter still 6km away.

Yes!! I never actually got angry at it, though, just frustrated enough to not play CoD4 for a over a week. Then after finding a strategy and trying a few more times, I finally got it. That took the longest time to beat out of the entire game. Finishing the Epilogue on Veteran didn't take as long (which I guess could go either way).
The only time I got truly angry was CoD4 multiplayer, but not because of lag. Just people and their cheap tactics, or me just falling for the same tricks or just plain old sucking, and I threw my controller a couple times. I threw it at my backpack, though, so while it made a satisfying smack I wasn't worried about it breaking. Sometimes I just beat on it with my fist, too, but only I know people won't see me looking like an idiot.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

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.

 

[Ambarato]

I could list about a million instances but there is one that stands above all the rest. Ninja Gaiden Sigma. In the penultimat fight you have to move around this dude that's firing lasers at you with these ball things. It's hard to describe. The problem is you have to avoid them, but whichever direction they go in (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) is comnpletely random. This gives you no means to defend yourself and you just have to hope you are lucky. This bwasn't helped by me being on Hard mode and having to walk up a load of stairs before the fight. If you do manage to ebat it however you have to dodge about 50 fucking skulls coming at you all at once. This isn't too bad as one of your weapons is pretty affective. The problem is that a massive skull comes after you, it's almost impossible to avoid and you have to block the other skulls while you are doing it. I still have the game but I vow never to play it again. Also the ghost fish in the game are a stupid enemy. So are the cat-women, I mean for goodness sake you're a ninja what's the point of having something faster than you?

Rant END.

 

[BraziCholo]

GTA: Vice City the driver i really wanted to shoot that redhead. i mean the cars are so unbalanced

 

[Rath709]

Project Sylpheed, in it's entirety. The box and the manual made it seem like the concept of awesome incarnate, half way between Martian Successor Nadesico and Wing Commander. A decent story hampered by a bad game built around it. I expected better given it's a Square-Enix game, but no, seems Rogue Squadron 2 remains top of my arcade style space fighter game list. And that was years ago, so you can imagine my frustration when Project Sylpheed wasn't as good as Lylat Wars, or even the original Starwing/Starfox.

 

[LordCraigus]

Halo 2 and 3... Not once can I play with friends without ALL of us shouting stuff like "WHAT!?" or "HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?" multiple times during a game. For a game based around combat we'll all agree it seems horribly random how it detects hits. Yet, we still play it almost every Friday night, because underneath this thick layer annoyance it can be fairly fun.

I can't play it on Live on my own long before getting pissed off with it and turning it off. In fact I haven't played it on my own since a few weeks after I bought it.

 

[EOT]

Ok. I obviously just needed some time on CoD4 now i'm at another bit of the game waiting for pick up an i have to go through a hoard of enemies to get to the bottom of the hill. I don't remember it being that hard before. Infact it was a piece of piss on noral. No so now. Lots of gnashing of teeth and shouting in the last hour or so. I just think i shouldn't bother with the CoD series, they've always done this to me.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Several months ago:
Guitar Hero 2, hard, Psychobilly Freakout. Gahhhh. Plastic guitar hurtles towards the floor, helpfully remaining undamaged.

Last night:
Guitar Hero 2, expert... naturally, Psychobilly sodding Freakout again. This time, plastic guitar hurtles towards the wall at high speed. It now has a nice rattle to it but still functions perfectly (at least, as perfectly as those bloody Les Paul things ever did).

Attempting the 5* in both cases, just to clarify. I got the hard 5* after a bit of grinding, the expert one is still a loooong way off... which really needles me 'cos I've got the 5* on Raining Blood, One, Free Bird, Institutionalized, etc.

EDIT: Actually, that reminds me... Trauma Center: Under The Knife. Partly because it's monstrously difficult anyway - I genuinely regard it as one of the hardest games I've ever played - but the anger really came from the fact that the very edges of the touch screen on my original DS had zero sensitivity, rendering some of the scenarios physically impossible.

 

[Magnetic2]

Far Cry. Too many instances of clearing out some 20+ baddies just to have someone pop out of nowhere and kill you with one shot. Not even a hard guy, just a regular,"missed me" guy.

 

[miller483]

Usually anything involved with babysitting a bunch of suicidal retards that I have to escort or otherwise protect.

*coughDeadRisingcough*

I broke my original Playstation playing Crash Bandicoot 2.

 

[MidnightRising]

Call of Duty 4's "One Shot One Kill" on Veteran.

 

[Rath709]

Oh, before I forget - The Curse Of Monkey Island.

- Should not have been made without Ron Gilbert on the team, thus beginning the game with a damn retcon of the end of LeChucks' Revenge.

- Featured a Flying Welshman who was neither Welsh nor able to fly.

 

[HeavyBlade]

super mario world, in the 'SPECIAL' area above the starroad... the (was it second or third level?) where you have to fly through the whole level with the balloons, and once you get hit, its over... try again. i spend my childhood get through that level... and still today, i don't dare plug my snes on for the ballon-thing-level.

I passed that level. Once. To this day, I have no idea how I did it.

I hear you. Completely - I don't remember how I finally beat that cursed level either. That was truly horrible. But I can't label it as the most infuriating game experience.

While escort NPCs in Fable display almost disturbing levels of suicidal intent - so much that it makes you wonder why you bother, I can't label that as the most infuriating game experience.

The most angry I have ever been at a game is hands-down while playing "I Wanna Be The Guy." A fan-game made to be abusively difficult. Check out the videos on you tube if you don't believe me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7pSOotZ4Bk

It is perhaps ironic then, that it was also the most satisfying to beat.
To be honest, I'm very surprised it hasn't already been mentioned.