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[HAL-x9000]

Everything in the Souls game is a walk in the park compared to this.

Also, MOBAs

Came here for this. Made it finally to the last encounter where the door opens and everything is going slowmo... shot the hostage... did that twice.... I enraged! But third time I did it, I could hear my heart beat through my headphones.

 

[TakeItSlowDude]

Mile high club on veteran on 360. Took a couple of hours just to get to the hostage part. First time at the hostage part I hit the hostage and fail. Another couple of hours latter I get to the same spot and fail by not shooting in time. Finally got it the third time.

 

[Rnr1224]

Quite surprisingly, facing this guy.

So much rage as a kid facing off against him. Funnily enough, I replayed KHII earlier last year and actually beat him on my first try.

 

[Klocker]

Stupidly got angry not being able to beat a Forza rival after many many close calls so I threw the tv remote at the floor which bounced up and destroyed my plasma screen

 

[Daft Bird]

Call of Duty Black Ops, I never swore so much for so long. I had fun doing it but I got so angry at my deaths that I would start to get physically angry. I broke several chairs by hitting them and throwing them.

 

[Zolbrod]

Ripped the head off a teddy bear (don't worry, it was my own. I never lose so much control that I destroy other people's stuff ) when playing Super Street Fighter II on SNES.
Pretty sure it was against DeeJay, fuck that guy.

Snapped my disc of Megaman Legends 2 in lots of pieces because of some really fucking annoying boss fight. Never regretted it. Overrated POS game. (It helps that I only paid 250 yen for it).

Threw my PSP in rage at the sofa while playing Dissidia, only it bounced off, fell to the floor and the disc tray broke

Thrown my controller lots of times (although it's more like "casting aside", I never use much force) during fighting games and some FPS games. Killzone Shadow Fall most recently, because FUCK the final chapters in that game.

 

[Feel_The_Pain]

Halo 1 and 2 legendary solo (getting to 3 soon)

Still, it's very satisfying when you pass hard bits.

Edit.
Some parts are pure luck I reckon.

 

[Gustaf-4]

God of war collection: some stupid time based puzzle, first game to get me to throw my ds3

Pokemon Colosseum: I was trying to get Ho-oh (only way to get it legit in 3rd gen) You need to finish the game, then capture every shadow pokemon and purify them and go into a 100 trainer battle thing with the games toughest trainers that sometimes use cheaptactics to win (protect and explode). The battles take a good while to load and automatically saves the game after EVERY single battle, and if you lose, or accidently leave or turn off the game it clears all your progress and forces you to start from the very beginning. I had beaten trainer 99, and on my way to the final battle, I accidently pressed the reset button on my GC.......…

I started all over from trainer 1 and got that motherfucker Ho-Oh, I was to proud of myself because I was the only kid that had him from my friends and cousins hahaha

 

[Zany]

When I was 11 I thought my Nintendo 64 was broken so I punched a hole in my bedroom wall. Turns out the composite cables weren't plugged in...

 

[Dalek]

Call of Duty Black Ops, I never swore so much for so long. I had fun doing it but I got so angry at my deaths that I would start to get physically angry. I broke several chairs by hitting them and throwing them.

My answer too. That game probably took 10 years off my life with the blood pressure that ensued.

 

[Dagobert Duck]

SSX Tricky for the PS2...

There was this Garibaldi-track on showoff were I was overly good at (in my mind) Kept besting my highscore (got around 1.7 mio which I thought was high) My younger brother walks in and says "hey lets take turns" so he gets the controller and pulls of 1.9 mio points first try...I felt rage begin to rise in me. We played some more later and when i was alone again I tried to best him again and after some hours i actually got more points them him...call him to the room to show him, and he says its his try now and get 2.2 mio after his third try or something. He saved the score and I just sat there with the most rage ever and he gives me the controller and I just throw it against a wall (nothing broke) up to this day I was close to beat that score but never achieved it...My brother still got the memory card...it still feels like I wasted so many hours of my life just trying to best him...

 

[zer0das]

I broke my Warcraft 3 disc after I losing a bunch of games to really bs blademaster crits. I think the last game I lost 3 heros in like 5 hits. They eventually let you download it from the Blizzard store if you had the original key, so no big loss.

 

[Anth0ny]

Trying to beat Donkey Kong (arcade) to get the Nintendo coin in Donkey Kong 64.

For some reason I found that incredibly difficult. I was like 8 at the time. I threw my controller in frustration. Multiple times. My mom yelled at me.

I haven't really raged hard at a game since.

 

[Fezan]

Dota 2 with some idiot team mates . My friend calls me hulk when i am playing dota

 

[dr labson]

Dead Rising and it's dumb survivors.
Good thing Dead Rising 2 improved the AI.

 

[jrush64]

I probably have lots of examples. But the one I remember is playing Tales of Xillia on Unknown difficulty.

Fighting the last boss. Those bastards just kept healing each other everytime I took their life down. I tried to steal with Leia but it never worked.

I just the game off and haven't bothered since then.

 

[Círdan Telrúnya]

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

In Tekken 5 I hated fighting Jinpachi Mishima. He was just a cheap ass final boss in arcade mode that would beat me so much and all I wanted to do was unlock the ending. I got so angry fighting him I kicked my bi fold closet door so hard it broke the spring wheel on top so now my closet doesn't fold whenever I open it and is loose.

 

[Militaratus]

Recently:
Blast Factor later levels in all 3 modes. My rage summed up in 1 picture...

All Time:
I don't know, my rage would probably been so bad that I blacked out. It probably was Modern Warfare and it's ridiculous last level with too little time and making no sense what so ever, which causes me to go into a massive rant every time I think about it.

 

[Garrus Vakarian]

The Assassins Creed games make me rage harder than anything, but I still love them.

Apart from that, getting stuck in a box/the floor for the fifth time whilst fighting Benezia in Mass Effect 1 was probably one of the worst moments.

Then there is the mission in Mass Effect 2 where you need to close the doors to shut out enemies whilst rescuing Archangel

Spoiler

(Garrus)

. If there is anyone out there who has finished that on insane my hat goes off to you.

 

[TEH-CJ]

Kicked my lounge in half playing dark souls 2.

 

[Garrus Vakarian]

Halo 1 and 2 legendary solo (getting to 3 soon)

Still, it's very satisfying when you pass hard bits.

Edit.
Some parts are pure luck I reckon.

To this day I haven't completed halo 2 legendary. I am not worthy lol

 

[Spenny]

It was 2002 and I was 14. I was playing World Series baseball 2K2 on the Dreamcast, and the way I would play was by seeing how many homeruns in a row I could rack up. I broke my previous record of the mid 60s and was well into the high 80s when my game decided to freeze. I stood up, screamed at the television, and spiked my controller. Turns out that I spiked it right into the top of my Dreamcast. It broke the top lid and the little plastic thing that holds and spins the disk. My system was fucked. Then I bought a gamecube and never looked back.

 

[Xeteh]

God of War 2 having to escort the NPC so I could bash his head against some pillar on the hardest difficulty. Enemies would flock to it and kill it immediately, it wouldn't stay behind me and get itself killed. Took me so many tries to finish that bit and I managed to make a PS2 controller explode. It is the only time I broke a controller playing games. It wasn't a proud moment.

 

[Kain]

Broke some cheap headphones I had once when losing a fight in SFIV ranked.

It s my fault for playing Vega and his stupid match ups. The other guy was a Chun, so yeah, I was screwed.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

I got really frustrated once while trying to play MAG on PS3, and I ended up throwing my controller across the room which broke. I unscrewed the controller and re-adjusted a couple of the busted parts inside, but the R2 button never worked properly after that. It was at that point I decided I ought to retire from playing online multiplayer.

 

[jotun?]

Assassin's Creed multiplayer

The streaks of situational bad luck that could happen in those games were just maddening.

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

Probably WoW after the guild jumped to a PVP server. It was fun when you were grouped, but hell when trying to solo. So many times i'd find myself getting ganked and corpse camped by someone. Made a lot of progress impossible.

Once flying mounts were added, and you started seeing them show up in force, I quit. When I finally resubbed, I paid for a PVE server transfer and honestly, that made the game fun again.

Ever since, i've avoided any game with mandatory open world PVP. It's a playground for sociopaths otherwise.

 

[Garibaldi]

I turned God of War off once on the climb the rotating blades bit. I may have even cursed once. Came back after some food and did it first time.

It's pointless getting angry, you just play worse. Just step back, take a break and come back to it.

 

[SoldierIce64]

Spoiler

The Trial of Archimedes

in God of War: Ascension. That was the first time I threw a controller in frustration since F-Zero GX's story mode on very hard mode. I believe they eventually patched that part of the game to be a lot more bearable but man that was a frustrating experience, probably the reason why the game is one of my least favorite in the series.

 

[The_Poet]

Dota 2

 

[boybrushdRED]

I was playing a Power Rangers the movie on the OG gameboy, and I could not beat one of the bosses. I got so frustrated I slammed the gameboy against my forehead. My head was fine but the gameboy's screen turned black. I was 10 back then.

Another one when I was playing Ufc 2009. I was blaming the game for unresponsive controls then I threw my ds3 controller against the wall and it broke into pieces.

Most recent was in 2012 playing Psychonauts for the first time. The meat circus level was frustratingly hard, I threw my x360 controller to the ground. Not hard enough to shatter but the left analog stick became unresponsive.

 

[adin75]

I broke my Astros during a rough night on the Battlefield, a little glue and some tape are keeping them together now.

So stupid.

 

[A Serious Man]

Soul Calibur 2 or Halo 3 multiplayer. Things were broken. Neighbors were alarmed.

Mile high club on veteran on 360. Took a couple of hours just to get to the hostage part. First time at the hostage part I hit the hostage and fail. Another couple of hours latter I get to the same spot and fail by not shooting in time. Finally got it the third time.

I watched my roommate attempt this for three hours without success. He left for work and I completed it in 15 minutes. I called him as soon as it happened and he already knew why I was calling. He said "Fuck you" and hung up.

 

[sobaka770]

Went postal after ME3 ending. No actual violence, but I was a mess for days, wrote my own fanfic ending and still can't forgive Bioware for that turd.

Pure rage though when I bang the controller against the walls(figuratively so far, those things are damn expensive) is when I play FIFA against AI. I just hate when the game blatantly cheats and AI-controlled minions have godlike dribbling, passing and ability to score the goal from shittiest positions.

On the other hand, I don't ragequit or get mad when I play online games so this is going for me...

 

[T-Rex.]

Me and my brother are fairly competitive when it comes to games so when FIFA's released we have a lot of competitions etc. FIFA 09 was released and as usual I started off as the better player and whooped his ass for the first few months. November begins, he goes on a winning streak which lasts right up to Christmas, I don't win a single game during that period. Christmas eve he picks Man Utd and I pick Liverpool. 1-0 to me. 2-0 to me. YASSSSS this is it. The streak is over! Only 2 minutes left. Hold on. Please hold on. I panic and botch a clearance. 2-1. The attack is now relentless and I can't clear the ball. 2-2. 2-3. 2-4. 4 goals in the 88th-93rd minute scored by Ronaldo thanks to some scripted bullshit. I threw the controller at the wall and didn't play again until a month later.

 

[Jinto]

Persona 3 FES. I spent like 3 hours leveling up in Tartarus, found 2 items I needed for Elizabeth's quests, and proceeded to bump into the Reaper. I was wiped out before I could run away. My fault for not saving earlier.

 

[warthog]

Long time ago, shattered my destruction derby cd against a wall.

 

[jeemer]

the zero remote control plane mission in gta... was it san andreas? that was frustrating. i tried it a number of times, then read online it was optional and skipped the shit out of it.

i'm not an angry person, but i think the most consistently angry i've ever gotten at a game would be vanilla sf4, ranked matches. i was playing a lot of ranked in it, and losses just feel so personal in fighting games.

i'm surprised to see so many people saying mirrors edge!

 

[pLow7]

FIFA 13.

I was so mad getting scored a goal against, that i threw a fuckin Mentos against my TV.

It broke, the fuckin TV broke as if i where Superman. Had to buy a new one. You can imagine how mad i were.

 

[Acorn]

Fifa online.

Only game that makes me rage.

 

[jimi_dini]

Matt Hazard: Eat Lead

Broken piece of shit game. Managed to get Platinum, but it was so awful especially on the "hardest" "difficulty".

Oh and GTA IV. The whole game is a mess. Getting to rank 10 was a nightmare.

 

[DryvBy]

The most I've ever wanted to throw a controller was in Dead or Alive 4. That cheating countering end-boss.

Most recent though was the gargoyle boss in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (was doing the never change your weapons trophy). Why would you make a camera that bad? Or make that game look as beautiful as it did without fixing the stupid camera problems?!

 

[buddha0991]

Super Meat Boy- The Guy Warp Zone Level 1

It as so satisfying once I finally beat it and level 2 and 3 (not as hard as 1)

 

[Xpliskin]

I read an article about someone stabbing someone else in the head over a counter-strike game

 

[Darth_Caedus]

To this day I haven't completed halo 2 legendary. I am not worthy lol

Same here. I have solo legendary all Halo games BUT Halo 2. I can't get passed the beginning segment when the covenant are entering from their hatches.

 

[Joey Ravn]

Recently, Joe Danger Vita. Fuck. That. Game. Extremely crappy framerate, unresponsive controls, cluttered screen that doesn't let you see jack shit, levels designed to trap you and make you retry from the start time and time again...

I Platinumed it, but fuck that game.

 

[Awntawn]

This angry.

Spoiler

I immediately bought another copy

 

[Arizato]

I have a.... History of breaking stuff when I get really mad at a game, mostly because I am obsessed with it and want to be good, but fail horribly. Luckily I am mostly not like that anymore:

1. Like 6-7 years ago I broke 3 computer keyboards in one night while playing Frets on Fire. Haven't played the game since.

2. Decided to get into Street Fighter IV when Arcade Edition came out. The fact that I lost like 35-40 online matches in a row put me in a state of rage and I smashed apart a 360 controller. When I finally realized what I done I felt really bad and I cursed myself for having to buy a new controller. I decided there and then that I would not smash any more controllers, which worked well until a few weeks ago.

3. Back in December I decided to complete Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories HD since I platinumed Kingdom Hearts 1. This made me start a game on Proud Mode in Chain of Memories. I raged on so many different bosses but made through them. So everything went fairly well until I arrived at the final boss. I HATE the card breaking mechanic in that game. I screamed into a pillow several times, swore worse than a pirate and finally smashed my PS3 controller along with ripping one of my curtains apart with my bare hands...

This experience seriously made me worry about myself and I have decided to not rage anything like that again, even though I may want to. I will not play KH:RCoM anymore and I won't do anything to destroy any more controllers.

The thing that baffles me the most about these stories is that I am a very calm person outside of gaming and it's very rare that I get upset or mad at stuff.

 

[Freshmaker]

Frustration doesn't seem like the same thing to me.

What legitimately make me mad in a game was Tactics Ogre. The main character's sister managed to make decisions that made me want to wring her neck.