What games have made you physically angry playing them.

[Toxic Sniper]

Demon's Souls. Valley of Defilement part 2. The constant poison damage, the knee-deep muck that prevents you from rolling, the giant depraved ones that could break my guard and kill me in three hits, the unending hordes of giant slugs, the boss that kills you quickly if you don't figure out its gimmick, the meat cleaver-wielding black phantom that doesn't have her movement impeded by the swamp at all... And then I had to go and replay the level on pure black world tendency to farm faintstone for my Blessed Mace. Black phantom giant depraved ones are the second worst hell ever inflicted on players of a From Software game, the first being black phantom chained prisoners.

By the time I finally had enough faintstone shards, I was snapping at people when I wasn't playing the game just because I was so drained. People who complain about the beginning of Demon's Souls being hard? You have no freaking idea.

 

[jodko]

metal dear rising vr missions are kinda frustrating especially the latter ones, what makes them a pain is that the vr missions are time trials where the enemies don?t have set patterns making getting a good time very luck dependent.

 

[The Lugz]

honestly, I get irrationally angry at a lot of stupid game mechanics, it's hard to pick a good one..

but basically any game where there is no clear objective, i have to figure out what i expected of me and i get BS deaths for not already knowing the game, it's mechanics and how to play it

quite a wide swath of games fit in that category, especially lately.

I see it as lazy development to make a player learn every pixel in a game to succeed at it, it's simple to build a level and make the player figure it out, it's difficult to make a level that unfolds naturally and lets the player explore for themselves and come up with a plan for themselves which is more rewarding

 

[gphjr14]

Most recent memory Metal Gear Rising because of its shitty controls, which are bearable until you fight this one boss that can disconnect his limbs and simultaneously attack you.

Also Battlefield 2 because I encountered a rare glitch in the last stages of the game that causes you to be instantly killed by a helicopter during a rail shooting sequence. Apparently the only way to get around it is to restart the entire game from the beginning...yeah, no thanks. Haven't played a Battlefield game since.

 

[rob_simple]

Recently Lego Batman 2. I decided to get 100% since otherwise the game is only about three hours long and, even for a game that is arguably targeted at kids, there is no excuse for delivering a sandbox experience that is so broken. I don't know that I've ever played a game with perfect flying controls, but I haven't played one with controls this bad since the flying missions in GTA: San Andreas.

More more recently, Assassin's Creed III. I'm considering just giving up on the game about two hours in because it's so tediously dull. If I didn't feel compelled to go for the often retarded full sync goals there would be literally nothing to do in this game: just walk towards your target, watch a cutscene, end of mission; lather rinse and repeat until end of game.

The actual anger stems from the aforementioned optional objectives though, i.e. the only part of the game that is even remotely challenging. I understand how goals like 'don't kill anyone' or 'remain undetected' would make sense when you're aiming for historical accuracy, but 'don't get wet'? 'Don't nudge any civilians'? Who the fuck noted that one down in a history book.

Even when the goals make sense, though, achieving them is a chore because the controls are fucking awful and the stealth is perplexingly bad for a company that also released Far Cry 3 and Splinter Cell: Conviction which I had no problem with. I recently completed what I believe to be a somewhat notorious horseback mission where your extra goal is to shoot three powder kegs when they are highlighted and I had to reload five or six times because, despite furiously mashing the button when prompted, my dickhead character wouldn't shoot the barrels until he was right next to them and could blow himself to pieces in the process.

And someone please explain to me how crouching in a bush makes me instantly invisible to enemies but if I stand behind a gigantic tree every enemy on the map instantly sees me and hounds me to the ends of the Earth.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

Bubble Bobble. Dear god. . . Talking about anger management. However, those old school people who played Gyromite on Nintendo, The first time you will look at your friend with "murder in your eyes".

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Mostly in fighting games, I love getting all the arcade endings, therefore I'm forced to play as characters I'm not good at.
But I don't get angry very often, I just stop playing.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Red Ninja: End of Honor.

My rage at playing that game could have formed a bridge of hate so potent that it reached through time and space and caused someone to spontaneously combust.

If so, my bad.

 

[kklawm]

Is there a delete button? I posted something and then I didn't want to post it anymore.

 

[camerinian]

God of War. Hades. Blade Pillars. Trying to climb those mother-fuckers was damn near impossible due to the fucking atrocious hit-boxes on the blades themselves and how agonizingly slow Kratos climbed the pillars. I ended up getting so pissed off at the game I split my bin in half.

Oh and god forbid you actually did that on the original PS2 version, because you got jack shit for doing it and the game just carried on as normal. At least the PS3 version gave you a nice, shiny Gold Trophy for the effort. But even that was misleading, since it gave you the trophy after only the first one, lulling you into a false sense of security before it chucks an even fucking taller one at you.

In terms of my experiences, I Wanna Be The Guy. Never has the first 2 fucking screens of a game made me rage more. The game is just filled to the brim with cheap bullshit that, even when the game is being a funny homage to retro gaming, it was not worth the amount of mashing I had to do on my "R" key every few fucking seconds.


But both of those did not even compare to the bullshit I experienced with Sonic Unleashed. Specifically, Eggmanland, the final proper level. I went in expecting a similar level to what I had been getting in Sonics daytime levels: Something fast, fluid with perhaps a couple of little annoying level design quirks that still wouldn't detract from it too much. NO. GOD FUCKING NO. The level has you change between Sonic and the Werehog constantly, and there are fucking tons of bottomless pits, camera fuck ups and constant punishments for wanting to go fast and Sonic the Dicking Hedgehog. Oh, and 1. I only had 5 lives, and 2. Before I got my game over, I HAD BEEN PLAYING FOR 45 FUCKING MINUTES. 45 MINUTES ON ONE SINGLE LEVEL WITH NO PROPER SAVE POINTS. ALL BECAUSE THE GAME DIDN'T REGISTER MY GRAB ON A SWINGING POLE AS THE WEREHOG. Nearly 2 weeks later, after I had calmed down enough, I finished the level (with a shit-ton more lives that I had farmed) and the level still took an hour to complete. And that's not because I suck at the game, most LPers and reviewers that I've found on YouTube have said that the level took them 45-75 minutes on their first go. This level was, without a shadow of a doubt, more infuriating to me than any single moment in Sonic '06 (although that game is still worse as a whole than Unleashed)

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

And then I had to go and replay the level on pure black world tendency to farm faintstone for my Blessed Mace. Black phantom giant depraved ones are the second worst hell ever inflicted on players of a From Software game, the first being black phantom chained prisoners.

I think you're forgetting that Steel Battalion Kinect is a thing : )

 

[HellbirdIV]

Playing Tomb Raider I died some 20-30 times on the same QTE chain because on the PC, it doesn't actually show you which key to press for half of the QTE prompts. You're just expected to guess?

Also playing SpecOps: The Line pissed me off because of some terrible, terrible level design and gameplay towards the end.

It's really that thing where a game stops being challenging and starts being boring because of fake-difficulty.

 

[DoctorObviously]

ANY game involving a checkpoint system is bound to piss me off and rage at least once.

 

[Gunner 51]

Most of the time, I will approach any game with a zen-like calm. Get killed a bucket-load of times, it doesn't matter for it's all a game. I can do a Veteran run on Call of Duty: World at War and I will laugh death off like an old chum come to visit.

But the one time where I'll get a bit too emotional is when I play CoD's multiplayer mode. There's just something about getting noob-tubed or tag-teamed by flag-waving French players that just turns my inner calm into a meer veneer of calm. Inside, my blood boils. "I've been killed by a Monsuer Campeur, eh?" I think, then I start take things personally and I then spend the rest of the match trying to make that French guy's life while trying to involve as many explosives and cheap kills as I can on him.

I don't know what it is about French players - maybe it's the jingoistic attitude of theirs or the smug tone of voice or their cheap kills. But they just bring out the very worst in me.

 

[Dimitriov]

Any game? I definitely have the capacity to become the mortal incarnation of RAGE.


Luckily I am able to let go of anger just as easily!

Sadly for those around me, not everyone is able to shake off that energy so quickly...

 

[Caiphus]

any game which freezes after prolonged playing without saving.

This is probably the most frequent reason for me. That, or games without an autosave, where I haven't learned to f5 like a ************. Losing upwards of two hours of gameplay for any reason, including my own stupidity, has made me quit games before.

 

[krazykidd]

Final fantasy X-2 . I hate that game so much , it makes me physically ill and angry . I'm not even joking . I finished it once when it came out , i'm not playing that game ever again .

Unless you mean online games , then UMVC3 . I noticed something. I went to a local tournament and came in 7th . When you play against real people ( that know what their doing ) they don't mash , i'll even say sometimes they are scared to press a button ( so many frame traps ) , but online holy shit do people mash . And i don't mean they mash special moves , i don't care about spammers , i mean , they ate just Mashing A to get a hit . People don't do that in real life .

 

[Headsprouter]

Minecraft..nothing has ever made me as angry as Minecraft. But it was only once. I was smart about it, though. I immediately turned AWAY from my computer monitor and decided maul a cardboard box conveniently residing in my room at the time. Then I took a break like a sensible human being, got back into the game and...if I remember correctly..found my stuff. HAPPY END

Oh, and Borderlands 1. Sometimes in 2, but mostly in 1. I was a perfect level for the job, and had my little brother with me, and somehow those damn skag riders and dynamite midgets were raping our buttholes. I didn't get physical, but it's one of my most intense rages, and it killed off my Borderlands brotherly bonding time.

 

[CleverCover]

I get really involved in the storyline of any game I'm playing, so if a character I like dies or my PC gets one-upped by the Dragon or the Big Bad, I start cursing and threatening the screen with dismemberment which seems weird to anyone else.

Gameplay-wise, recently I've been stuck on Catherine and Rayman Origins.
Catherine, it's fucking block puzzles and I refuse to succumb to a guide. I CAN DO IT! 'dies again and weeps in pain'
Rayman Origins is a test of reaction and timing. Sadly, I'm no longer 5 years old, so the harder race levels always end in a rage quit.

 

[Just Smokey]

Dota 2- I know the usually jazz "My team does something dumb and lose me the game herp derp" but what makes me really get mad at dota is when i screw up. Like I feed like a boss, make a bad call when i find myself the shot caller or complete screw up on my item build (i thought i could skip BKB this game); i can take the failure of others fine for the most part but I hate the games failure being my fault. But this is a core part of dota I have become better becasue of my failure its most likely the best kind of anger a game can give you.