Frustration Inspired Killing Sprees?

[tkioz]

Do you ever get so frustrated in an RPG or other such game and just go murder happy?

Last night after spending 30mins trying to find a way up a hill in order to do a quest in Fallout New Vegas only to continually run into invisible walls I just said "stuff it", saved the game, and went murder happy on every NPC in a casino. There is something immensely satisfying about walking through a lobby of a hotel with a minigun shooting everything that moves / and or wouldn't give you the quest information you wanted.

Listening to the screams of innocent gamblers, strippers, and prostitutes as you mow down everything in your bath, the blood splattering the wall, body parts flying as you pause to empty a clip into the corpse of the guard who had the audacity to try and stop you...

So umm yea, do you ever get so fed up with a game, either because of bugs or just plain bad design, that you just go on a murder spree?

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

On Modern Warfare 2 when i was trying to beat it on Veteran...

... after many attempts (all ending in death),I'd sign into another file and play "No Russian" just as a stress reliever...

Does that make me a terrible person?

 

[Lust]

So umm yea, do you ever get so fed up with a game, either because of bugs or just plain bad design, that you just go on a murder spree?

I know what you mean.

I just put the difficulty on very easy and then go on a rampage. It also helps with achievements/trophies. So, it's all good. >

 

[Daffy F]

Listening to the screams of innocent gamblers, strippers, and prostitutes as you mow down everything in your bath

In your Bath?! Freudian slip perhaps?
OT: I was playing Fable 3, and in order to get a gold key and chest, you have to amass a treasure trove of over 5 million gold, and then get rid of it all and collect the chest left behind. Throughout the game my character had been the epitome of goodness, and as a result I had maximum goodness throughout the game. At this point, after the end of the game, I continued to play to finish some quests and such, and discovered this trick with the gold. So I amassed my treasure trove to about 5 million gold and collected the key by standing on it all, then transferred it to the kingdom so I could access the chest easily, an act that would surely ensure massively increased goodness, except I was already at max. Then, after opening the chest, I wanted my gold back (Not unreasonable, I might add) and promptly took it, only to find myself widely hated and shunned because of my supposed evil. So I figured I'd live up to my totally undeserved rep and butchered a load of civilians. Serves 'em right. Cunts.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

While playing Oblivion, I got so pissed I went and killed every NPC I could find. The Non-killable ones I dropped in a body of water and over-burdened with reverse-pickpocketing.

Ended up with several hundred kills. Was awesome.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Killing sprees on Fable 2/3 are so funny because you can almost see Peter Molyneux's frustrated face screaming "WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!" before sobbing uncontrolably into a blanket.

 

[KissofKetchup]

While playing Oblivion, I got so pissed I went and killed every NPC I could find. The Non-killable ones I dropped in a body of water and over-burdened with reverse-pickpocketing.

Ended up with several hundred kills. Was awesome.

I admire your ingenuity! I would have never thought of reverse pickpocketing an NPC with stuff so they can't move. I'll have to try that sometime.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

The name of the topic is scary.

Oh, well.

OT: Eh, well, I sometimes load up Combat Training and shoot up helpless bots in Black Ops... or in Counter-Strike for that matter.

 

[ultrachicken]

Yeah, in Fable 2 I killed my wife when she tried to divorce me, then when they took my kid away I went on a rampage. All the fucking gold I spent on them!

 

[WorldCritic]

I went on killing sprees in Fable 2 and Fallout 3 when the game just irritated me for whatever reason. I remember one time I started slaughtering people in Fable 2 and to just add to the sense that my character was completely psychotic I made them kill all of these people in their underwear.

 

[Patrick Dare]

Your post made me laugh as soon as I saw the title because this exactly describes what happens to me all too often in sandbox games. Often times I kill perfectly innocent NPCs for causing me offense or just get royally pissed about something and go ape-shit on some town. For example in Red Dead Redemption after I completed this one mission I had to ask this woman for info and she was such a ***** being all condescending and smug so I shot her in the back.

Edit: This often also befalls NPCs that refuse to get out of my way, that is one thing that really pisses me off (if I can't easily get around them).

 

[MoNKeyYy]

Awe, for a second I thought we were talking about real life. And I had so many good stories.

Well in video games I think I've done that in every video game which has the option to kill people. Highlights generally include GTA4 or San Andreas though. Tank massacres can be very relaxing. Then again, so can martial arts. I wonder what that says about my character...?

 

[likalaruku]

I went on a killing spree in Morrowind once (& in god mode because 16 guards & every citizen in town would attack you on sight if you had a warrent on your head). I was in a blissfull mood & did it for shits & giggles.

I got REALLY frustrated with a few levels of PSychonaughts. I ended up almost having an anxiety attack. Didn't play any games for a week after that.

 

[FoxVI]

Whenever I have a really hard time with a frustrating game, I plug in my PS2 and play psi ops.
Play as the general on any difficulty with cheats, gotta love making soliders commit suicide.

 

[jamradar]

Fable 2.

I went for a mostly good playthrough (my only bad decision was to keep my youth). Even going so far as to pick the sacfrice ending. But at the same time I wanted to live in the castle,I mean I earned it. So I set some of my houses to high rent and then did the money glitch(where you disconnect from XBL and set the clock way in the future). Only to find that I was fully corrupted and everyone hated me.

So after all I did for you people this is what I get.I sacfriced my dog for you people MY DOG.
*goes on killing spree*
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Yeah, in Fable 2 I killed my wife when she tried to divorce me, then when they took my kid away I went on a rampage. All the fucking gold I spent on them!

This happened to me to. But I gave my wife a custom nickname. So I just tracked her down and shot her.

 

[Omikron009]

Spoiler: Spoiler tags just in case, but it's nothing major.

On both missions where you have to infiltrate the Castel Sant'Angelo in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood where the full synchronization objective was to not be detected, I ended up being detected by like, the very last guard after already retrying once or twice. Only after thinking "screw it, I'll replay this later" did I keep going and realize it was at the very end of the mission. After the missions were done I went and murdered every guard in sight.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I went on one in Fallout 3, but that was really out of boredom then anything else. I decided I wanted to start over, but before I did, I'd attempt to kill every NPC in the game.

I ended up killing:

-Everyone in Oasis, including Harold/Bob.
-Everyone in Rivet City(excluding a certain doctor who kept returning from the grave for unknown reasons)
-Everyone in Megaton(naturally)
-Everyone in Tenpenny Tower. Twice. (Once with the feral ghoul massacre, and once with good ol' fashioned running and gunning)
-Everyone in the Temple of the Union
-Everyone in Paradise Falls(that includes all slavers AND slaves. I'm an equal oppertunity murderer.)
-Everyone in the Canterburry Commons.
-Everyone in the Republic of Dave
-Everyone in Bigtown
-Several "independent" NPCs, including but not limited to:
--The guy that gives you money in exchange for the ears of good NPCs
--That sweet old lady that wants you to find her violin from a vault.
--The crazy Russian Guy with the prostitutes. (and the prostitutes)
--The friendly Super Mutant who's name I forget (Not Fawkes, there's another one. He's just wandering around the wastes, I don't think you can get him to follow you)

I did NOT, however, attack the Citadel. I figured they would eat me alive.

 

[Arayle]

I have mini frustration kill streaks in games like Assassins Creed.

On missions where you cannot be detected, sometimes (not my fault! the game broke/ran out of batteries/screen died >.> yeah, that'll do...) I'll just go around killing as much as i can before the loading screen appears.

Then when the mission reloads, instead of carefully going around the guards I sneaked past previously, I'll just go on a stealthy, hopefully not detected, rampage. =)

 

[TrollOgerElf]

Yes every thief game made
one step away from sapping him he spins around bam bam dead
:rage reload: :murder happy: :reload try again:

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I experiment with the most fucked up ways I can kill people in RDD (tie them up in Tall Trees and put bait on them, put them on train tracks, tie 4 of them up and near each other and BURN THEM)

Yeah, I'm not mentally disturbed at all *twitch*