Game rage!

zegh8578

zegh8578

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Just finished watching a compilation of gamers raging (funnily, a big bulk of them were Swedish), and then I thought to myself that hey, I'm a pretty calm computer gamer, but I've had my moments - not full out explosive rage (Except once, I'll get to that), but definitely moments of loud "argh!"-ing to myself and stuff. Now, with some self-awareness I've cut that out, cus... that's something a human can learn, to control one's behavior. It's often mistaken for "supression", but you don't supress anger - you teach yourself to react in a calmer way, it's often that simple. When I royally fuck up now, at worst, I will simply rage quit, that is, turn the game right off without saving, and do something else.

My worst personal moment was aided by a dying mouse. It was a terrible combination actually: A slow, unresponsive mouse + Rockstar Games (Bully, to be specific)

This could only go one way - I ended up yanking the mouse right off its wire, and then - filled with adrenaline, I held it high up above my head, and ka-slammed it right into the floor, virtually disintegrating it into a million pieces. My hand actually bled afterwards, from several cuts, that I can only imagine must have been from shrapnel o_o

It was a good oportunity to buy a new mouse. That is the only significant moment of game-rage for me though, as I am typically a calm guy.

The best one I've experienced myself though, came from the combination of: Rockstar Games (GTA Vice City) + me : )
It was at a "campus"-like setup for a small animation- and film school, where I went for a year just to fill my life with something (Scandinavian folkehøgskole), either way, me and a friend went to hang out at a bud's dorm room, while he was playing GTA Vice City.
We remember this, don't we - the ultra-precision demanded from any Rockstar game, he was trying to complete some race - and he couldn't - and he couldn't - and he couldn't, and all it took to fail, was the most minimal imperfection, the most minimal skid on the road, anything that hinted at -not perfect- would obviously fail the race, in good GTA spirit.
Each time he failed I laaaaaaauuuuughed it out, and mockingly cheered him on, with demonic insincere support "Try again, buddy, we believe in you! ='''D"
He hated us, he hated me, he hated GTA, he hated everything, his head was red, especially so, because he had a shaved head, he was just fuming!
Then, at some or other number of attempts, he just hit the breaking point
"MISSION FAILED!" and he let out this guttural scream, and both his fists just turned into speed-blurs, he shattered both his coffee cup and his keyboard, the latter split in half, and coffeecup shards, coffee and loose keys rained down over us

Next few moments he sat there, catching his breath, and surveying the destruction around him, while I laaaughed and laaaaaaaughed and laaaa-aaa-aaaaaaughed

(Oh and that rage-compilation had that angry lil German kid also, I had forgotten about that one, what does he rage so hard about? I don't understand German, but I'm getting the impression he is waiting for something to load? Maybe I'm just getting tricked by the germanicness of it, being Norwegian I might be hearing things that aren't there, or something)
 
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“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”


– Yoda

It's like he predicted Bethesda and the plight of the Fallout fans.

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I don't recall ever having game rage, but I had the same (though less explosive) experience with a mouse while ~playing at Blender; and had to go find another mouse.

If I had to guess, the closest I've come to game rage was playing Cobra Command. It's a helicopter game where you have to make quick direction changes, and the co-pilot is a deliberate idiot that shouts "Left!", "Right!", "UP!!", "Dive!", at times when doing so will cause a crash.


*Wicked game though:
 
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(That actually does look like a cool game, very innovative how it looks like an action anime series, it looks very authentic)

Rage (or the opposite, calmness) is conditioned, and it is sometimes scary to see how little control people got over it. My rambunctious brother will instantly feed right off his rage, and just go ahead and explode, any time, any where, to any extent, and I've tried to explain this to him - conditioning, try to train and reward that brain like it's a dog, and he stares at me like I'm a cat that suddenly learned to talk Greek. It is frustrating for me, because to me the mechanics of it seem very simple, but he simply does not see *emotion* as something... separate. It's like trying to explain litterature to someone who has never heard of alphabets or stories or even words...

But I digress - Game-rage stories, I welcome them, because they make me giggle! Go ahead people, don't be shy!
 
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zegh8578 said:
(That actually does look like a cool game, very innovative how it looks like an action anime series, it looks very authentic)
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It does because it is. That game is hand drawn. :wink:

I have an odd 3rd hand rage story... because I remember an arcade clerk telling me about how they would introduce a game, and once they had several regular players, they'd flip the DIP switch settings, and ramp up the difficulty... And so all the players who had gotten good at it, would suddenly be getting their ears pinned back as the game mopped the floor with them... and they sunk more money into it.

*And I remember playing a game with a hundred levels ~on one quarter; then not long after, not being able to make it a third of the way without needing more coins.
 
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I rage pretty often, to me it's just part of playing, mostly because I tend to play difficult games.

They Bleed Pixels makes my apartment sound like a madhouse.
 
Remember this?



I snapped the disc in half and had to go downstairs for an hour. I was young. I had anger problems.
 
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Mega Man, any 8-bit one with a level with the disappearing blocks segment in it.
oh Also lvl 19 of Prince of Persia (SNES version). Figuring out the right way through the level was a lot of trial an error for me until I got the patterns of switches and doors and made it through without time running out oh yeah and fight through several bosses
 
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Moosick said:
Remember this?



I snapped the disc in half and had to go downstairs for an hour. I was young. I had anger problems.
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I like this kind of rage, because it's like dabbling with the finality of rage-enduced destruction, at a young age. Although not raging much with games, I remember once as a kid something enfuriated me, I suddenly snapped my favorite ruler in two (those rulers that have 3 sides instead of two, and a total of 6 measuring units to go by, I loved it), it took me only moments to realize what a ridiculous thing I had done, and I felt terrible for my ruler :I
 
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I actually don't rage at all thanks to video games, so it's endlessly curious when people look at my comments (in games) and say that I'm raging. I can get heated, I can get upset, I can get hot, but never rage. I've never ONCE damaged a computer (or console) peripheral out of anger, nor felt the need to. The closest I've come was probably from playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma PURELY for a high score run, which requires INCREDIBLE precision on the part of the player, as well as INCREDIBLE patience... For a game you will end with a time of about 5 hours, you will spend a month MINIMUM in actual time playing it (if you want a decent score), between loading screens and the THOUSANDS of retries. The VAST majority of that time spent is in silent anguish, quietly but firmly gripping the controller in your hands, threatening to break it and go to the store to buy a new one. But I've never crossed that boundary. I sometimes shout "BULLSHIT!" at the screen, or other similar sentiments, but outside of a quick shout, my anger from gaming goes no further.

No... people being people is where my primary source of rage originates. Most of the time I just walk it off, but SOMETIMES that's not an option. Sometimes they get in my face, and I can't avoid them. Sometimes they start shouting the most inane and stupid bullshit directly at me, and there's only so much nonsense I can stomach before I finally snap.

Am I loud? Oh hell yes. Am I aggressive? Definitely! But that's just my attitude, always. I was almost expelled from high school because my volume level scared this dainty, liberal pussy of a teacher who was used to people speaking in muted whispers, so my "very European" upbringing was alien to her. Which got me in trouble. Anyway, point being... I once punched a "hole" in a wall, but it was dry wall (very fragile), and the situation had NOTHING to do with gaming. It was yet another "people are pissing me off" moment. Other than that, I have never damaged anything out of anger.

BUT... I HAVE "destroyed" several controllers by pushing them to their limits. Like I said about Ninja Gaiden Sigma, that game requires both precision and patience on top of TONS of replaying, and repetitious over and over and over repeats again and again, cyclically, repeatedly. Did I mention you repeat the same thing multiple times? So, OVER TIME, several of my controllers have become "useless" to me, not cause I ever threw them at a TV, or wall, or floor, but because the analog stick got 360 spun so many times that it lost all sensitivity, so it's time to get a new one!
 
I say Goddammit or Fuck really loud. I don't break my shit. No game is that serious.
 
I don't get angry when I play video games.

Except for Dark Souls, because that's the point apparently.
 
I have never been fully angry at a game, so thankfully I haven't damaged anything. I get pissed off, but not to the point of all-out rage. I have a very small amount of games, well it's big but limited to RPGs and strategy games.
 
The Dopamine Cleric said:
I don't get angry when I play video games.

Except for Dark Souls, because that's the point apparently.
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Well, DS may be confused for something similar to a rage game, but the thing is progressing through the run the player learns to handle the challenge to the point of near-perfection, PVE-wise at least. In general each playthrough has its turning point, once you reach it the overall difficulty will start to decrease more and more. Not saying it becomes an easy game, but undoubtedly possible to handle with not so much care.
It is an hard game, but one of the "right" kind.
 
I find games like DS harder to rage at because the difficulty of the gameplay is more relevant to the world and the story. It's when the difficulty makes no sense, is the result of poor controls etc that I get frustrated
 
Moosick said:
I find games like DS harder to rage at because the difficulty of the gameplay is more relevant to the world and the story. It's when the difficulty makes no sense, is the result of poor controls etc that I get frustrated
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That was my trigger, Rockstar has a habit of being a bit of a bastard when it comes to completion criteria - but I can live with it! I really can...
Untill I try the same missions with a shabby mouse... :D

The frustration comes from a sense of nonsensicalness - you click up - but up doesn't happen. You accelerate, but acceleration doesn't happen. When you encounter this kind of inconcistency, wether it's real, all in your head, or due to poor controllers or broken hardware, that is usually what gets to you
 
I rarely raged at video games due to their difficulty or poor balancing - simply because I don't play games all that much these days. I do tend to shout and curse a lot, though, but nothing extraordinary. I did break stuff in the past though, when I was younger. One keyboard, couple of mouses - Mother Deathclaw in Boneyard is responsible for one mouse.

However, I tend to rage often at my ISP - or at least I used to. There was a period when I was into multiplayer much, and it was at that exact time that my ISP decided to fuck me a lot. Back then, my parents were really worried - things were really spiraling out of control. I even got neighbor complaints. It was quite awkward, in retrospect.
 
Damage - a bunch of keyboards, mices and a dented pc box;
Most hate radiated at - Gothic 2;
Biggest erruption - don't remember, but probably the one with the dented box;

Most of my life i was hotheaded and stupid, so games that required insane feats of physical, or mental dexterity, coupled with a few bugs made steam come out of my ears. Since i started to learn programming, i have become much more calmer, because you soon find out that cursing at code is not all that useful.
 
I never really damaged anything when raging. I just curse and yell a lot, and when I get mad enough I start cursing in english. Normally I just curse in Spanish.
 
Never really got mad playing videogames since I grew up, I'm usually a rather calm kind of person and my sessions of gaming don't make exceptions. When I feel I'm starting to fill up my rage meter I simply shut the console/PC and go doing something else.
However, I must admit that in recent times Vanquish almost got the worse of me: I wanted really bad to complete its damn challenges and get that platinum trophy, so I keep trying and trying until I was on the brink of berserker-kind-of-rage. In the end I managed to win, but during that days my Ps3 had started to tremble in fear each time I approached.
 
The Dopamine Cleric said:
I don't get angry when I play video games.

Except for Dark Souls, because that's the point apparently.
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It's only the point for popular opinion morons who don't want to bother learning the basic rules of a game. I'd say The Impossible Game is MUCH more about pissing off the player... when in fact it's absolutely not. The name is a joke. The game is ACTUALLY about teaching precision and patience, and about enjoying really great music. Games that focus on deliberately pissing off their players are just bad games. These are good games.

Walpknut said:
I never really damaged anything when raging. I just curse and yell a lot, and when I get mad enough I start cursing in english. Normally I just curse in Spanish.
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Any favorites?
 
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