What games have made you physically angry playing them.

[Arcade Hero X]

I writing this after playing a bit of Blops 2 online and realised that playing it online reveals a sort of Jeyckl and Hyde in me. I mean I have never gotten so angry at a anything in my life, It gets to the point that I'm roaring the house down even tho I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I don't know whether its the cheap deaths by shotguns or the campers all the other cheap tricks or even when you got killed knowing that you should have made that kill shot and messed it up.

What I'm asking is there any game that you can think of that invokes a sort of pent up rage that explodes when you play the game I'm talking any game not just COD online tho.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I wanted to punch my TV when

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Lily shot Carly. She was my second favorite character. I paced around my room growling obscenities for a good 10 minutes.

 

[Able Seacat]

I'm not sure if anger is the right word but there was much frustration when I was little from playing Crash Bandicoot where I just got stuck at some section or other.

 

[fornever1]

Farcry 3 when a certain someone died and was replaced by something crappy.

when dishonored didnt give me my clean hands award when i earned it.

any game which freezes after prolonged playing without saving.

really hard to beat bosses who beat you after 30 mins of fighting.

conndemmed/slender after a scare.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

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I mostly play MW2/MW3, but yeah, also Call of Duty for me. Different reason, though. I'm the guy that gets constantly accused of hacking in games, and it pisses me right the hell off. I'm pretty decent at those games because I play a fuckton of them, and I've been playing that sort of shooter (competitive/online/"tactical") since the original Counter-Strike was released back when I was in high school. I've logged over 700 hours into MW2 split between both the X-Box 360 and PC versions, and I've logged almost 500 hours into MW3 on PC. I don't even know how many hours I put into the original Modern Warfare, since I mostly played it on my college roommate's X-Box 360, but it was definitely a significant amount. The point I'm trying to make is that I've got a decent K ratio because I got a sickening amount of practice and don't make a habit of repeatedly running into the sights of the same camper over and over and over again like some people.

Just because I have my sights up already when I turn a corner doesn't mean I'm walling, it means I have no idea what's around the corner and want to be ready for the possibility of an enemy, and the Stalker perk rocks. Just because I turned around and killed you when you were trying to sneak up on me doesn't mean I was hacking, it means I was listening for footsteps with my absurdly expensive headphones or I saw you pop up on the radar or my Heartbeat Sensor beeped or maybe it's just freaking coincidence that I turned around (I had one guy accuse me of hacking because I turned around and killed him after he'd fired three unsupressed shots from a Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle at me at close range, missing all three times). If I see one of those big skull icons pop up indicating a teammate just died it means there's likely an enemy in that area, so yes, I'm going to do whatever I can to prepare myself for that enemy.

Idiots in these games seem to have mistaken good situational awareness for hacking, and given how much hackers irritate me, it pisses me off to be accused of being one of them.

It happens with such frequency that I stopped bothering to reply to them. They have no interest in my side, because in their mind the fact that I killed them means I'm cheating. Never mind that they might actually learn how to play the game better if they listen to me. So yeah... at this point I mostly just stay silent. If they want to report me, fine, whatever. I've got nothing to hide.

 

[The_Scrivener]

Nights: Into Dreams.

Beautiful game. A lot of fun.

BUT WHY IN THE CRAP HELL GARBAGE PISS DO I HAVE TO REPLAY ALL 4 EASY LEVELS EVERY TIME THE BOSS KILLS ME?!??!?! A rank, A rank, A rank, A rank, die to the boss, start over.

So uncool.

 

[MarsProbe]

Any game where I find myself "losing" due to the fault of dodgy AI (read: most games where you have an AI companion).

Example 1: in Resident Evil 5, where you are fighting Wesker amongst the ruins. I was going for the "Bad Blood" achievement and I had a perfect system worked out (thanks to a z-shaped corridor) for inflicting heavy damage on him without him having a chance to counter. Sadly, Sheva's AI wasn't good enough to just stay the hell away from Jill and she kept on getting incapacitated. Cue endless fails due to her constant dying. One time I could really have done with a decent human player alongside me there.

Example 2: Gear of War 2 - one of the stages in the hollow, and Dom was constantly crying out for a revive due to his inability to get out of the way of the mortar strikes. Of course, playing on the highest difficulty sticking my head out of cover was just asking for it. I think I actually ended up launching my controller across the room at that point. It doesn't work anymore.

Also, what RedEyesBlackGamer said about The Walking Dead - I was furious when that happened.

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Lily totally deserved to be abandoned at the side of the road after that.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I have a temper when it comes to games. It's gotten better as I've gotten older, but I still end up getting upset whenever I get stuck at a hard part in a game for too long. "Cheating game!" and whatnot. However, there are two points where I remember being so utterly upset that I needed to stop playing.

Street Fighter 4. I suck at fighting games. No way around it. Suck. Suck. Suck. However, I still like playing them for the storymodes sometimes. Dead or Alive and whatnot. So, when SF4 came out, I picked it up. And when I got to Seth, the rage. The sheer rage. I threw my controller. I stomped on my floor. It go so bad that I pulled the game out, shoved it back in its case, and tossed it under my dresser where it would be too much effort to reach whenever the little voice starting saying, "Come on, one more try. You'll get him." I traded the game in after two weeks of owning it. I talked to my friends about it later, both who managed to get 100% on it, and they said that Seth was pretty cheap, so I felt slightly less bad.

The other time was playing that PlayStation Store exclusive game where the world has been overrun by a giant dust storm. From Dust or something like that? I can't remember what it was called, but you're a survivor trying to make his way back to his family. I was having fun with it, climbing all over the place, using survival skills, being smart with enemy encounters. And then I got to the part where you had to fight three people at once. You have one bullet. The game tells you, "Sometimes, if you kill the strongest enemy in the group, the others will surrender without a fight." So, I shot the leader--or at least who I thought the leader was. He went down, the other two rushed me, and I died. Okay. Replayed that part, shot another guy. Same thing. Reload a third time. Shot the third guy. Same. Damn. THING! I replayed that part seven times, each time shooting a different one of the guys, and I kept dying. I tried to look it up, watch a video, anything. Everyone just said "Shoot the leader." I was mighty pissed, so I ended up uninstalling the game and swearing to never touch it again.

EDIT: Oh yeah. I never EVER want to replay the opening level in Dead Space 3. After playing Hardcore mode on that game and dying one or two levels in and then having to sit through the damn cutscene and do the whole tutorial over and over again, I started to get pretty angry.

 

[LAGG]

Counter-Strike of course, because... TEAMMATES. Oh them teammates... ><
But that was before, now I have more patience and just play my game.

 

[Maxtro]

So many cheap deaths in Dark Souls.

After throwing and breaking a controller, I decided I had enough and uninstalled the game and deleted all my saves.

 

[Arcade Hero X]

Oh i just remembered Call of duty 3 on vertern was possibly the most frustrating experience of my life!!! I mean for some reason the AI in that game could shoot through walls and such without even seeing you if at the time I wasnt an achievement whore i would have thrown the game away in disgust!!.

@Tuesday Night Fever ,I get that also I mean i have been playing COD and it's ilk for years now since medal of honor AA so i know what im doing in an online shooter. But nothing is worse then trying to get the high killstreak and then getting killed by a noob with a shotgun or a waster who plays the game sitting in corners all i can say is i wish i could afford to smash my television or controller over it haha!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Deaths in Team Fortress 2 are worse than most other games I ever play, because half of the time they were based on luck.

Your enemy shoots a gun at you. It hits you in the foot. You shoot back and pwn faec

However, the game developers don't like the regular being shot in the foot. They are disgusted that the default settings of their servers encourages skill and tactics. They fucking hate you using tactics to own face

New scenario, says the game developers!

Your enemy shoots a gun at you. It hits you in the foot. The hand of God comes down and decides that the footshot MUST do triple damage than any other shot because fuck you.

"But that's how the game works!" cries the person who got his effortless one-shot-KO. "If you don't like it, go to a different server with it disabled!"

But I have a problem with that. I have a problem where the original metagame of TF2 is so screwy and based on luck that there are special places to repair the game's shortcomings. Why can't Valve just throw out the randomness of critical hits and damage spread, and make special place to restore the game's well-hated and inferior core mechanics?

Because fuck you, user. Shotguns with crits do more damage than a Sniper rifle at far range, pistol crits can outshoot a minigun, and a bat can do more damage than a sword slash because I fucking said so. Now die from a Soldier crocket that wasn't even directed at you because the range of splash damage varies from "unscathed" to "brutally killed".

 

[Thoughtful_Salt]

Monaco:What's Yours Is Mine is one of the cheapest games i've recently played. There are certain levels that are unplayable as a single player, and it was frustrating to run into those brick walls.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Some of the more bizzare games of LoL have made me seriously angry. The one game where me and Kaosu "call me Jake" Hamoni were duoing awhile ago comes to mind. He was feeding so hard as Nidalee top (completely out of character, really off game for some reason) and even though we managed to go beyond that our Zyra decided that because he lost lane he didn't deserve to win so she sat in base spamming spells for a good 20 minutes. While flaming allchat of course. AFK properly if you want but christ...

I just wanted out of that game entirely after a while. Probably the worst atmosphere i've seen in a game so far.

Also there was this one Graves who was literally demanding overwhelming praise and admiration for no reason. Actually sitting in base until someone told him how swag he is... Multiple times. Then he tried to get us to apologise when he called him out on his dickery by AFKing again.

"Lol you can't win without me, lol I am so the best"

You're the AD CARRY. Heaven forbid you pick what is probably the most important role in the game.

We won but damn it was an uphill climb.

I wish people would take up "ADBULGIG" properly to stop this ego boosting shit...

In related news, Talon mid is hilarious. Finally, a Champion I can lock against an AP Yi and feel safe about curbstomping him into the ground.

Invisibility should be illegal.

"Is he running away from the gank or is he simply waiting for cooldowns to kill us both?"

Depends on how brave I feel really.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

Some of the bosses in Dark Souls. Not to the point of actually throwing my controller at the wall (that would be stupid), but some of them have very cheap attacks. Especially the Bed of Chaos, with its attacks that instantly sweep you into a bottomless pit.

All of the Demon Ruins bosses were particularly frustrating for me - Ceaseless Discharge refused to die from the cheaty method and just stood back spamming his unblockable fire attack for massive damage. Demon Firesage wasn't so bad after I got some practice from the Stray Demon. Centipede Demon's arena being full of lava is just silly.

 

[NoMercy Rider]

The most rage inducing game I can recall is Stuntman for the PS2. The game had such an awesome premise, you are a stunt driver doing crazy things for Hollywood themes. Each "mission" was themed around various genres of action movies, like Indiana Jones, Bond, etc. However, the execution was just terrible. Your runs had to be absolutely perfect to pass the mission. Not to mention the physics were inconsistent and could easily ruin your perfect run. It would take hours upon hours to get the timing nailed down to a science. I managed to contain my rage until the very last mission, but the mission was so freaking damned difficult I gave up in a rage. One of the few times I broke a controller in a fit of rage.

I loved the idea so much and hope someone revisits the idea, just with a bit more forgiving gameplay.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Tekken 3 on the PS. Heihachi Mishima was the penultimate boss and he always fucked up my perfect run. I hated the guy with a passion. I'm pretty sure if I've thrown a controller in my life, it's because of him.

 

[sanquin]

CS 1.6 back in the days. Enemy players just managing to own me every time no matter what I try, like they just KNOW where I am at all times + team mates being as incompetent as bots set to 'medium' difficulty...yea.

These days...uh...trying hardcore mode in Minecraft and it always being the creepers that manage to kill me when I least expect it. And always when I've just about gotten myself a decent house and some decent equipment.

Same with trying a Mass Effect trilogy play through on the hardest difficulty. In some levels the difficulty is just ridiculous compared to the levels before or after it. And getting killed over and over by that one last enemy or by accidentally getting flanked by two enemies really gets to me at those times.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Super Meat Boy.

I have played a ton of games that are notorious for leading people down the path of frustration such as Call of Duty and Dark Souls, but I've managed those relatively well.

Super MeatBoy is the game that made me destroy a controller though. I start out a little slow, die a few times because I'm still getting into it. Then I reach the runners' high after a good few levels. Everything goes smoothly, and whenever I swiftly reach the end of a relatively hard one it makes me feel all the more awesome.

And then I'm starting to lose my touch. I make dumb mistakes, keep dying at that one single little jump because I don't want to wait for the enemy to completely pass by becasue it moves at a snails pace. I finally get past it and die again, and am once again stuck on the same spot. I'm getting frustrated and start clenching my controller harder.

And then after the eleventy billionth death I snapped, roared and threw the poor controller with all my might towards the unsuspecting wall at my left side.

'twas a sad day that day.