RAGE QUIT!!!1!11!! >:(

[Black Arrow Officer]

I rage occasionally in multiplayer, but I correct myself quickly by taking a deep breath or just reminding myself that everyone dies in video games. It's also important to not let yourself get too sucked in to the game, otherwise you'll start taking it way too seriously and flipping your shit every time you die. I've never gone to the point where I break or throw objects, although I slammed my desk once when I was riding in a helicopter in Battlefield 3 and our pilot crashed into an oil tank in Operation Firestorm, killing all five of us. Also, I think this is the best video game rage ever on the internet:


Just look at all the holes in his room! I also love how he blames the keyboard and monitor for him messing up.

 

[thethird0611]

One of my best rage quit stories?

Ok, playing dark souls, and fighting one of the bosses (I cant remember which one). Well I had him down to an inch of his health, and he sends an attack my way that takes out like half my health, which kills me. I stare at the screen in a 'im going to destroy everything' moment.

Well, I turn away from my box and throw my controller on the ground, which precedes to bounce right back up into my hands.

Right... back... up....

I... I dont even know. All my rage was gone. I sat wondering just what the hell happened.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Well, back in the day I played the game Black. There was one mission in an asylum and at the end of the mission it kept spawning baddies, I was always low on health so I always died and kept respawning back at a bad checkpoint. Anyway, many a rage quits were had in that game. I even broke one of my controllers.

There are probably more rage quit stories but that was the most memorable.

 

[Charli]

Most recent? Diablo 3. I quite literally, alt+f4'd, went outside, kicked a rock, and walked back in.

Yes that counts as rage for me. I don't get riled very easily. Haven't loaded the game since. No desire to.

 

[THE_MUFFIN_MAN15]

Metal arms: Glitch in the system. I was a kid at the time and I could not for the life of me figure out how to beat the Zombiebot king boss. I don't really regret anything since a year or so later I played the game again and looked up online how to beat him.

 

[sky14kemea]

When I died at the last proper boss fight in Resident Evil 2. I didn't have a memory card so I was doing the whole game in one go without saving.

So yeah, I wasn't about to go through the entire game again. Fuck that. *power off*.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I'm not 100% that "better" rage stories are good considering the interesting ones are going to involve a highly unnecessary lashing out in anger that's probably not very healthy but I know what you're going for. I hated myself [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/538.361147-So-very-angry] for doing this and have actually been much much better about it since realizing what an ass I'm making of myself but for your entertainment:

I was playing a match in FIFA 12. Someone at EA must be married to Cristiano Ronaldo because I swear to God that if he gets the ball, they'll get a goal no matter what. A shot from 50 yards out? GOAL! A cross with my big man in front of him? GOAL! Goalie boots it forward and Ronaldo dances past five of my guys? GOAL!

I could feel the rage building as goal after goal goes in. Finally, at 6-0, I threw my controller and shut my 360 down. A few chairs get punched and I'm pacing back and forth like a bull. One last kick...

I kick the garbage can, which flies into the bathroom. The plastic garbage can itself cracks and breaks. The can, while flying into the bathroom, hits the sliding door which shatters the wood around the magnetic strips that allows the door to close. The garbage can continues to fly and puts a large hole in the wall.

Spoiler

Spoiler

I'm really sorry, but this must be said...

GOAL!

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I don't rage quit. I sort of... boredom quit. When I'm bored, I quit. No fanfare. I just leave. Sometimes that coincides with, a steamroll in TF2. Sometimes it coincides with everyone else being so shit that there's no strategy or challenge involved. But yeah, I don't leave in anger anymore. Just disinterest.

That's team-based games though. I don't play many 1 v 1 sort of games but I tend to always "gg" and say thanks for the game afterwards, especially if I sucked. I hate playing against people who suck.

 

[Croix Sinistre]

I have never 'Rage Quit' anything.

Ask away.

Games are for fun, if I'm not having fun, I stop playing, I have never raged at a game before. Maybe a controller issue, but never at a game.

I was crazy pissed at the God of War game I forced myself to play. This one part, the camera deliberately tries to fuck you over while jumping from beam to beam... I was pissed off, but I forced myself to beat the damn game. I did so just so I could have a complete and honest opinion on the shit series that is GoW..

: P

Honestly, if a form of entertainment is making you truly feel the emotion of RAGE...

Then you're doing it wrong.

Agreed. I've gotten frustrated with all kinds of games for all kinds of reasons. But never to the point where I felt I had to take out my negativity physically on something. The whole idea of doing so is just seems like a lack a maturity, or at least a lack of emotional control.

Then again, I'm probably one of most mellow people I know not much brings me down. In fact I can recall the last couple of times I was ears red angry, and it wasn't because of a video game.

 

[Random Fella]

I hate the person in TF2 who came up with the idea of random critical hits. No, mini-crits and critical hits are fine, if you earn them by doing a specific task. My favorite weapons, such as the Kritzreig, Sniper Rifle, Eyelander, Axetinguisher, and the Frontier Justice all are weapons that reward the player with playing well by giving you critical hits.

But random critical hits? There is literally NO other reason for them to exist BUT to screw some guy over who probably should not have died so fucking pathetically. It's the most chickenshit strategy for a newbie to get ahead over the advanced player, by sheer, bullshitted, 'of COURSE you got that' luck. You have better gear, skill, health, backup, and perception of the problem at hand, BUT YOU WILL FUCKING LOSE BECAUSE OF A 4% CHANCE THAT HAPPENS TO *YOU* AND ONLY *YOU*, AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY IN VANILLA SERVERS.

You have four heads on your Eyelander, you're running almost as fast as a Scout, you have more health than a Soldier, you have a shield granting damage resistance to the biggest hitters of damage, BUT THAT ONE SNIPER WILL HIT YOU *ONCE* WITH A CRITWACKA AND END IT

You fighting a Pyro and spamming flames? WHOOPS SON HIS FLAMETHROWER GOT A RANDOM CRIT FUCK YOU

You running around a corner from a Heavy? WELL HEY THERE, I'M JUST A CRIT BULLET THAT HE RANDOMLY GOT THAT IS GOING TO TRAVEL AROUND THE CORNER AND KILL YOU

Trying to melee that fucking Spy who OH HEY ONE CRIT BULLET THAT IS GOING TO SUCK DOWN AT THE MINIMUM HALF OF YOUR HEALTH

Fuck them. But the worst rage I've had is where I screamed myself hoarse (alone at home) and repeatedly bashed on my desk.

Have full uber charge
"Incoming stray randomly fired crocket"

What annoys me is ping on TF2, and Dead ringer spies, 10% is way too little, way too overpowered in pugs, it also defeats the point of a spy, to be careful.

 

[Random Fella]

Yeah aren't they just the funnest thing ever *eyetwitch*

For some reason if the same spy kills me over and over it just drives me insane. Seems so cheap when you are on the receiving end.

well that's just it, with even remotely decent gear, any spy can be the biggest piece of shit in the world, they can sit in any random corner that people usually don't run into, but run by, and get bare minimum one kill.

a remotely decent percent with JUST okay gear as a spy? most annoying fucking thing in the world, even as a pyro, you won't counter them sometimes just on the fact they can either sometimes jump into water or have the dead ringer and it's hard as hell to chase them down when you don't remotely run as fast or same speed as them.

You do realise that the pyro has the exact same speed as the spy right?
Also, what do you mean by gear? The best gear for spy is the vanilla gear, which you get at the start of the game
Dead ringer is pretty op though tbh

 

[Killspre]

The one I always remember is when I rented superman 64. That game pissed me off so much with that bullshit ring course right off the bat. My brother and I got so mad at it we returned it the same day we rented it.

 

[Dorano]

My best was playing Fire Emblem, arena leveling my characters. After at least 10 hours I finally got to the last guy. He misses an 89% chance to hit and kill and then gets crit by a 13% chance to hit 1% chance to crit. I haven't played it since.

 

[Chunga the Great]

Every time I play Counter Strike Source. That game is so fucking awful. I'm fine with a learning curve and I'm fine with being beat because I'm new to the game but for fucks sake I can't even play online because everyone in every server I play on has had the game since launch and plays it obsessively. It's fucking terrible.

The same thing is also true of multiplayer RTS. Got a game 2 years after launch? Want to play a quick game online just to see how it is? Well fuck you, everyone who still plays the game has 700+ hours clocked and has every strategy for every faction on every map planned! Good luck trying to play the damn game! I've pretty much told multiplayer RTS to go fuck itself at this point.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I have never rage quit a video game, I sort of just.... tired of this shit, oh well, quit. I give a big sigh, get to the next save point and go do something else.
I have rage quit golf though. My brother was beating me and had been giving me shit for it the entire course. My ball somehow managed to get stuck against a lamppost. I was just yelling about who puts a fucking lamppost on a golf course and walked off.

 

[lacktheknack]

I've never rage-quit. The closest I've gotten is where I was literally shrieking and monkey-pounding my keyboard because this is the fifty sixth bloody time I'm fighting Seth with Sakura in Street Fighter IV.

BUT I BEAT HIM, DANGIT. I BEAT HIM.

And I felt soooooo goooooooood.

 

[Gunner 51]

I have never 'Rage Quit' anything.

Ask away.

Games are for fun, if I'm not having fun, I stop playing, I have never raged at a game before. Maybe a controller issue, but never at a game.

I was crazy pissed at the God of War game I forced myself to play. This one part, the camera deliberately tries to fuck you over while jumping from beam to beam... I was pissed off, but I forced myself to beat the damn game. I did so just so I could have a complete and honest opinion on the shit series that is GoW..

: P

Honestly, if a form of entertainment is making you truly feel the emotion of RAGE...

Then you're doing it wrong.

You sir, have won the internet.
I am in complete agreement, if someone is feeling the need to lash out violently by punching, hitting and throwing things - they should simply take a break and raid the fridge or something.

If video games are making them that angry at home - where the gamer should be most comfortable, the raging gamer won't stand a chance outside in the real world (consequences and all) in knowing how to deal with truly annoying things like unreasonable bosses at work for example.

I guess I'll wrap this up as I seem to be going off on a tangeant.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Onimusha 1 on PS2. I already hate old Resident Evil-style controls, but I tolerated them because I loved Onimusha 3 and 4 and wanted to give the original a chance. I started enjoying the combat a bit. It's very dry and repetitive, but it still has its charm. But then came the first boss, about half an hour through. His attacks were basically unavoidable. I could block most of them except one, but that one attack was extremely powerful. The controls were too shit for me to dodge them, and three or four hits killed me. I tried it about again and again, always with the same result: I barely touched him and he annihilated me. Every time I got angrier and angrier, and after dying for the thitieth time, I ejected the disc from the PS2 and snapped it in half.

And then I played Onimusha 4, an actually good game. And I was happy again.

 

[Agent Cross]

I've gotten pretty frustrated with a game before, campaign and multiplayer, but I've never rage-quit. Overcoming that obstacle in gaming brings me joy, and I usually don't go all out on multiplayer until the situation deems it necessary. So I usually can one up the person that thinks he/she is dominating me by simply turning up the dial. Which can sometimes make everybody else pissed. Thus, I'll wait for things to become dire, and hopefully that's towards the end of a match.

Closest I've ever came to it though. When my brother and I played Super Mario Bros. together when we were little. Everytime I would jump a gap, he would pause the game. Asshole.

 

[infernovolver]

Spoiler: post

I hate the person in TF2 who came up with the idea of random critical hits. No, mini-crits and critical hits are fine, if you earn them by doing a specific task. My favorite weapons, such as the Kritzreig, Sniper Rifle, Eyelander, Axetinguisher, and the Frontier Justice all are weapons that reward the player with playing well by giving you critical hits.

But random critical hits? There is literally NO other reason for them to exist BUT to screw some guy over who probably should not have died so fucking pathetically. It's the most chickenshit strategy for a newbie to get ahead over the advanced player, by sheer, bullshitted, 'of COURSE you got that' luck. You have better gear, skill, health, backup, and perception of the problem at hand, BUT YOU WILL FUCKING LOSE BECAUSE OF A 4% CHANCE THAT HAPPENS TO *YOU* AND ONLY *YOU*, AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY IN VANILLA SERVERS.

You have four heads on your Eyelander, you're running almost as fast as a Scout, you have more health than a Soldier, you have a shield granting damage resistance to the biggest hitters of damage, BUT THAT ONE SNIPER WILL HIT YOU *ONCE* WITH A CRITWACKA AND END IT

You fighting a Pyro and spamming flames? WHOOPS SON HIS FLAMETHROWER GOT A RANDOM CRIT FUCK YOU

You running around a corner from a Heavy? WELL HEY THERE, I'M JUST A CRIT BULLET THAT HE RANDOMLY GOT THAT IS GOING TO TRAVEL AROUND THE CORNER AND KILL YOU

Trying to melee that fucking Spy who OH HEY ONE CRIT BULLET THAT IS GOING TO SUCK DOWN AT THE MINIMUM HALF OF YOUR HEALTH

Fuck them. But the worst rage I've had is where I screamed myself hoarse (alone at home) and repeatedly bashed on my desk.

Everything mentioned above has made me think about playing a no random crit server, but I've never went through with it. By far the most common thing in your post I've experienced is sniper's critting with melee. Seriously, in the hundreds of hours I've put into the game I could probably count how many times I've been hit with a noncritical sniper melee on both hands. Every other time? Critical instadeath. Probably died more to critical heavy bullets going around corners, but that doesn't feel as bad as the sniper melee BS and it's kind of my fault for not playing on servers where I have low ping.