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Has a videogame's difficulty ever made you cry?

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LOL! I remember my brother crying when he couldn't find his way out of a dungeon in Phantasy Star. I walked by the room one night and heard some faint sobbing. I walked into the dark room and saw tears streaming down his chubby face :lol

I'm like "are you seriously crying over a fucking game?", then walk out.....

I've also made my ex-girlfriend's brother cry during our Madden/2K games....
 
Aw, you're a mean brother. :(

And no, I typically don't get mad at games, let alone cry. Ridge Racer 6 has been pissing me off like few other games in recent memory, though.
 
um ...no?

I don't get mad at things such as games in fact it takes A LOT to get me mad.

My brother howevre whenever he loses at Smackdown games he gets so enraged so I'd often when he loses smack him in the head and run inside he often crys from how mad he gets ahhh 11 year olds
 
Most sports games in general make me extremely angry.

It annoys me that (in particular, hockey games) my goalie will be outstanding for the entire duration of the game until I score a goal that puts my team ahead. No less than 20 seconds later, the other team will score on a ridiculously easy attempt.

I'm looking at you NHL 06 and 2K6.
 
Fucking Nocturne when I got all comfortable before the difficulty spike.

Mars Matrix (whoa)

Guitar Hero on expert Bark @ the Moon for fucking fucks sakes.

Gitaroo Man on the expert mode whatever its called
 
Cold-Steel said:
Most sports games in general make me extremely angry.

It annoys me that (in particular, hockey games) my goalie will be outstanding for the entire duration of the game until I score a goal that puts my team ahead. No less than 20 seconds later, the other team will score on a ridiculously easy attempt.

I'm looking at you NHL 06 and 2K6.
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Did you put fresh troops out onto the ice? :P Seriously thought it's just like in real life you gotta buckle down right after scoring a goal. I've seen it too many times when I've played hockey, and on TV. I think it's a realistic thing to have a game in my opinion. I'd agree if it's a weak shot that gets you, that's bad. But if they start putting on good pressure, that's realistic. I found that this was the case in 2K6 on the 360 as I played International with my friends (all of us on Team Canada). We got eliminated in the semi-finals on sim setting on All Star. I gotta tell Kush to update the Intl rosters too...

LOL! I remember my brother crying when he couldn't find his way out of a dungeon in Phantasy Star. I walked by the room one night and heard some faint sobbing. I walked into the dark room and saw tears streaming down his chubby face
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*LOL*
 
Well. The underwater tunnel in Ecco the Dolphin for DC where there is a very strong current against you and other fucking dolphins throw rocks at you. I didn't cry, but I was about to BREAK!
 
can't say that a game has ever made me cry, except maybe Daytona

DAYTOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

when I was on a cruise ship and my room was directly under the arcade so all fucking night every night

DAYTOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
Actually, I'm going to change my mind.

Nothing in the history of videogames has frustrated and angered me more than seeing and hearing this:

"GAME OVER! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
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It frustrated me because it seems that the videogame is celebrating your failure.

Twice, I nearly threw my Dreamcast out the window.

Twice.
 
I wept with joy when I completed the expert and master levels of monkey ball 1. I also teared up a little bit when I beat expert 7 the first time.
 
My brother had an epileptic crisis because i keep beating him at Street Fighter 2. Scared the fuck out of me, his stomach was as hard as a rock.
 
When I was 8 I broke a controller on the TV because Bird schooled Dr.J..
 
Blackace said:
When I was 8 I broke a controller on the TV because Bird schooled Dr.J..
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Fucking loved that game. Smashable backboards. A game well ahead of its time.

Oldschool EA.
 
Some stupid and really frustrating mission against a guy named "Kurt" (I think?) in NFS:U almost made me go on a rampage. I played it so many times, and ALWAYS - I mean ALWAYS - some stupid thing like a car or such fucking crashed into me on the very last lap, not too far away from goal. I dunno how many times I tried that mission. I always stood there, eyes poppin' out and screaming silently, using all the powers in my body to refrain from detroying my television and videogames.
 
Ultima Online. :( A game where you actually was afraid to die, and the moment you see the red name of some notorious PK.. that's fear.
 
Actually cry like with tears and shit?

Nah. I've been frustrated and shit, but never to the point of tears. Once or twice to the point of throwing my controller in frustration, but never to really breaking it.
 
El_Victor said:
Ultima Online. :( A game where you actually was afraid to die, and the moment you see the red name of some notorious PK.. that's fear.
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Oh yeah, didnt even think about MMOs.

Getting PK'd just before getting that awesome bit of loot you've been working for hours/days to get.
 
Megaman 1.

IceMan's stage. Stupid floating platforms that shoot at you.

...and this is a week ago, yes--20 yr. olds can cry over 15 yr. old video games.
 
The only time I actually broke something over a game was after about 3 hours of trying to beat a duel event in Burnout 3. The friggin' rubber band AI and the impossibility at some point to see the on-going traffic drove me completely crazy.
My wall still has the marks where the S Controller gently exploded. I'm not too proud of this :/
Never cried over a game though.
 
Goddamn NES Ninja Turtles.

Stupid water levels and their stupid timebombs and stupid eletric seaweed thingamabobbers.

Controller am cry :'(
 
Ash Housewares said:
can't say that a game has ever made me cry, except maybe Daytona

DAYTOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

when I was on a cruise ship and my room was directly under the arcade so all fucking night every night

DAYTOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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:lol You should've complained or got your money back or something.
 
BudokaiMR2 said:
Goddamn NES Ninja Turtles.

Stupid water levels and their stupid timebombs and stupid eletric seaweed thingamabobbers.

Controller am cry :'(
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indeed. I remember that game well. no one I knew at the time could get past the second level. They got to the boss in the room with the crates and then every turtle would die. ugh.
 
Cold-Steel said:
It frustrated me because it seems that the videogame is celebrating your failure.

Twice, I nearly threw my Dreamcast out the window.

Twice.
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:lol WTF game is that?

Stopsign said:
Wow since it hasn't been said. F Zero GX. I didn't make me cry, but it did make me want to do something crazy.
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I got that game on christmas and at first i thought it was cool then i tried story mode had like 12 attempts to beat the first bit barely beat the second, day after boxing day i got my money back.

BudokaiMR2 said:
Goddamn NES Ninja Turtles.

Stupid water levels and their stupid timebombs and stupid eletric seaweed thingamabobbers.

Controller am cry :'(
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:lol That game is probably the closest i have ever got to crying in a computer game only because i was an immature child but i am made of sterner stuff than cry over something that isn't real if it gets so bad i just stop playing.
 
Grug said:
Oh yeah, didnt even think about MMOs.

Getting PK'd just before getting that awesome bit of loot you've been working for hours/days to get.
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Wrong, getting PK'd AFTER you got the loot.

That was so hard in UO that a you could loot EVERYTHING from other player's backpacks. The bank account had a completly different importance compared to the MMORPGs we have today.
 
I'm sure I have but it would have to have been when I was a wee tot and I can't remember any specific instances.

I'm betting a lot of NES games have bathed in my tears.
 
Shinobi on the Master System. The stacked statues boss stage.

I want to emulate that bitch just to see if it's hard as I remember. I was in Martha's Vineyard that summer and remember having to go outside and ride my skateboard to calm down.
 
I don't remember ever crying, but I've broken several controllers and a TV because I was so frustrated. The last game that made me break a controller was Ninja Gaiden.
 
My sister smashed me over the head with a SNES controller because I schooled her at SFII.

I cried.

So I guess the difficulty of the game for her resulting in me crying.
 
Didn't cry but was quite pissed at Trojan, Pro Wrestling and Gunsmoke, all on nes. Those games were hard.
 
Battletoads and the last boss in Shinobi for PS2. I beat his ass but man was it hard as heck before I pulled it off. Anger would swell to wear I wanted to break that controller.

Maximo games on PS2 were no picnic either.
 
The first, and only, controller I ever broke was the DS2 while fighting The Boss in MGS3.

Fuck CQC

Fuck the 10 min time limit
 
When my little brother was like 8 or 9 (he just turned 11) he thought his shit didn't stink because he could beat up on everyone at the house at every game he owned. Then his big brother (me)would come over for dinner at dad's on Sunday nights and whoop the ever-living shit out of him to the point that he was often on the verge of tears. Calm down, dude.
 
Oh, just recalled how I made quita a dent in my wall while playing FFVII. One random encounter too many in a short time made me a sad and angry boy. My heel flew out and I could hear the wall crack under my foot :(

And a friend of mine cracked a knuckle when he got upset playing Tekken 2 against a friend. He got so pissed he punched the floor. That was fairly stupid, to say the least. I didn't see it, but I bet his eyes teared up just a tad, anyways.
 
Yea the Shinobi last boss seariously took me a week of hardcore playing to beat.

Oh I also put a dent in a wall when my 3rd party memory card erased my FFVII data. I was exactly halfway through the game too, climbing that one mountain, Gaia cliffs or something.

Never bought a 3rd party device after that and never will again.
 
Radiant Silvergun on hardest difficulty was also a bitch but fun. Especially if you had all the weapons fully powered up.
 
when I finished the origianl Phantasy Star over winter break 1989-1990, I fucking cried like a baby. it even freaked out my dog.
 
I have never cried over a video game, but I have hulked-up in rage and laid waste to many a controller. Last time I committed Controlicide was on an Xbox Duke. I swung that thing into the floor like William Wallace swung the mace into that guy's head in Braveheart. I don't even remember what game caused that little episode, but I felt like a supreme jackass after I did it, so I haven't done anything like it since - although I have thrown a controller into the couch cushions a bunch, the last time being DOA4 just a couple of days ago.
 
There was one time when I was a little kid. I was out shopping with my mom and there was a Pole Position there, so I asked her for some quarters so I could play. It wasn't my first time playing the game, but for some reason that day I was just fucking awful and kept crashing and burning right off the bat. Each game lasted me barely a minute and just like that my quarters were gone. I was mad and frustrated and determined to do better, so I went and found my mom and asked her for some more, feeling humiliated that I needed to get more money so soon. I stormed back to the machine and once again, sucked so damn badly that my quarters just evaporated. I returned to my mom, but this time I didn't ask her for more quarters, because I was too humiliated and ashamed at how fast I had manage to waste them all. Then she asked me if I had fun, since she could see I was agitated, and I cried a little bit in frustration.

That's the only time I ever actually cried over a game. There have been plenty of other times where games have made me frustrated and enraged, but that time was a unique combination of being very young, in the position of having to beg my mother for quarters, and then ending up wasting them switfly by playing really badly in a game where I knew I could do much better. Oh the SHAME!
 
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