Tell Us Dammit

13 years ago

May 12, 2011 at 11:00 am

Dammit, we want you to tell us stuff – what is the angriest a game has ever made you? What game was it? And why did it piss you off so much?

This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know enough about us – more than you even want to, we’re sure. But, hey, we’d like to know about you, too.

Game rage is fairly common. My brother used to headbutt the N64 controller. Headbutt it. I’m pretty sure I’ve had a few tantrums in my time, the most recent being in Trials HD and Super Meat Boy.

But what about you guys? Ever done anything completely stupid as a result of game rage? And what the game that sent you into a frenzy?

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Sughly

May 12, 2011 at 11:03 am

Haha, I see. Most definately Trials HD. Nothing has made me angrier. Ever. Not even IRL.

Why is this man riding his motorbike in such dangerous places? Why does he want to ride it up ramps with boxes on them that are close to impossible to get the f$%@ over?! And why am I so compelled to keep making him try, over… and over… and over…

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Paul Taylor

May 12, 2011 at 11:05 am

Oh god. Ridge Racer Revolution on PSone.

I hated the shitty, broken drift mechanic. I hated the digital controls that meant as soon as I kissed a wall I’d lose all speed. I hated how it cheated in the final races against the Devil and Angel cars. I nearly twisted a controller out of existence playing it, but it was all I had for a month or so and I wasn’t going to let it beat me.

Fuck you, RRR. If you were a person I’d slap you with an open hand and then my backhand and yet you’d still keep smiling.

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:09 am
  
  Sup Paul old bean? I should have know you’d come in here! You’re the last angry man!
  
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Paul Taylor

May 12, 2011 at 11:07 am

Plus, is that man in the picture about to spit on his PSP? Maybe he’s playing Monster Hunter…

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:09 am
  
  Best story of all time.
  
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HindenLagen the Damned

May 12, 2011 at 11:08 am

I had an unfortunate nerd rage incident while playing reach online last year.

Something tipped me over the edge and I punched the steel frame of my couch about 4-5 times. After match making, when the adrenaline wore off, I could barely move my hand

The GP determined that I had what he called “Boxer’s Break”, where a bone in my hand absorbed to much shock impact. I had to explain that, no I did not punch a person, I merely nerd raged. Needless to say my GP thinks I’m an idiot (rightly so IMO).

Very embarassing.

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1. HindenLagen the Damned
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:09 am
  
  Edit: *too* much shock impact
  
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2. The Cracks
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:22 am
  
  True story. Freaking scary.
  
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f4cti0n

May 12, 2011 at 11:08 am

My old housemate used to break a 360 controller almost every week playing FIFA. I had to hide mine.

I can’t remember exactly which games made me flip out but there have been a couple… I usually just swear then turn the game off and return it/loan it out (who wants to play games that make you mad?!).

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1. Blaghman
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:34 am
  
  I’m kind of like that, but it’s more, “Swear, calmly turn off the xbox, go to turn on my computer, get bored during the boot-up time, and go back to whatever game I was playing…
  
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  1. Blaghman
    
    May 12, 2011 at 11:35 am
    
    ” Whooo, forgot to conclude my quote, awkward.
    
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Trjn

May 12, 2011 at 11:09 am

I hurt my wrist hitting a wall for some reason after playing Baldur’s Gate 2. I think I may have screwed up a very intricate little plan and had my whole party wiped by a boss. That was back in high school.

There aren’t that many other examples that come to mind. Although playing through some buggier games like Afro Samurai and The Force Unleashed definitely managed to make me rage a little, until I reached the point where I cracked and it became funny how bad they were.

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1. Trjn
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:12 am
  
  I completely forgot one of the most obvious examples.
  
  Trauma Center: Under the Knife.
  
  It may be one of my favourite games, but some of the later missions were so goddamned difficult that I threw my styli across the room. Both of them. With great force. I also invented several new swear words that day, although in hindsight it may have just been the incoherent ravings of a madman.
  
  Once I worked out what I was doing, the rage subsided and that’s when I actually started to really enjoy the game, when I had the satisfaction of knowing that I had concurred this beast.
  
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  1. Mark Serrels
    
    May 12, 2011 at 11:15 am
    
    I’ve been there man. I know we’ve talked about it before – but golf ham that game was rock.
    
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    1. Trjn
      
      May 12, 2011 at 11:16 am
      
      “golf ham that game was rock”
      
      Golf ham would be a minced oath for goddamn, but “that game was rock” baffles me. Clearly I’m getting old and am no longer hip with the lingo.
      
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      1. Mark Serrels
        
        May 12, 2011 at 11:17 am
        
        I meant it was difficult.
        
        Like a shortened version of ‘rock hard’.
      2. Trjn
        
        May 12, 2011 at 11:23 am
        
        No, that makes far too much sense. It’ll never catch on :p
  2. HindenLagen the Damned
    
    May 12, 2011 at 11:19 am
    
    I also concur with this beast! 😛
    
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    1. Trjn
      
      May 12, 2011 at 11:25 am
      
      Muscle memory is a weird thing. I meant to type “conquered” but after typing “con” my finger hit the c key and the rest just followed.
      
      That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
      
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2. Mr Waffle
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:48 am
  
  I remember raging at The Force Unleashed because of how cheap the Rancors were. If you got hit by their ground smash attack you got knocked off your feet. Once you stand back up… you’re just in time to be knocked off your feet again by the next attack. I sat there looking at the screen completely dumbfounded as I was knocked down over and over for about half a minute, with my health bar being slowly chipped away at until I died, completely powerless to avoid it.
  
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  1. Trjn
    
    May 12, 2011 at 12:34 pm
    
    I had a similar problem with the boss in the Junk Temple early on. Instead of being knocked down as soon as I got up, the bastard would stun lock me, drain my force meter and then my health just by spamming one attack.
    
    If you blocked, you either died or got very lucky that he decided to give up.
    
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Peter Richards

May 12, 2011 at 11:11 am

The ‘ending’ of Halo2, it was 2am and I was gearing up for the big fire-fiight and… end credits?!?! I actually threw the controller at the screen.

Luckily I was playing on a projector.

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:14 am
  
  Hahahaha!
  
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AnonymousPessimist

May 12, 2011 at 11:12 am

Recently? Shift Unleashed 2. Completely unplayable with a controller. You nudge the joystick and the steering wheel goes full lock.

This, combined with the crappy sequel to Dragon Age kicked off my boycott of EA games.

The last real irritation came from the nonsensical WoW quests that really didn’t explain what to do. If there was no wowhead I would have definitely uninstalled at some point on my way to 85 in a grand display of nerd rage.

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1. Paul Taylor
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:22 am
  
  I hear you on Shift 2. Loved the first, but this just makes me a bit sad.
  
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Jamie What?

May 12, 2011 at 11:14 am

I get angry at games quite a bit. Bayonetta was probably th eangiest I’d gotten in a while. Angriest? Driver on the PS1. Got so frustrated I threw my controller at the wall and it smashed like a thing that smashed. I then felt awful because I couldn’t play any more PlayStation.

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1. FatShady
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:22 am
  
  Driver was the one with impossible and brutal time challanges huh? I remember that if you took the slightest detour or even used your breaks you’d fail!!! Yep thats on the list.
  
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FatShady

May 12, 2011 at 11:16 am

I can’t remember what game it was now but I broke a PS2 controller.. I was sitting on the floor in front of the TV playing, raged out like crazy (thankfully home alone) and with the controller in one hand, hit the other end on the floor. This didn’t do too much damage, but broke thr housing of one of the screws which meant the case would now open slightly. This actually made me rage even more and this time I didnt stop hitting the end of the controller until it literally broke in half.

I had to go around the lounge room pucking uo little x o and square and triangle buttone, I even had to look under the couch for the thumbstick and one of the rumble motor things.

After this, I stood up, and carefully placed the entire collection in the rubbish bin. Now here is the best part.

I went back to the cupboard under the TV, got out another controller, plugged it in and went straight back to exactly the same thing!

Rage quits are for wimps! True story. It sucked also because it was my fav controller. An official blue transparent one!

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1. FatShady
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:21 am
  
  And I obviously could not finish here without a mention to Trials HD. This game is like continually dropping the soap in a prison shower, but somehow you continue to WANT to drop the soap!
  
  I hope that metaphor worked or this is just EEEWWW.
  
  This is the link I was thinking about that anyone who has the slightest interest in the game or has played it needs to check out:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTmV0qyz-0
  
  And lastly I need to give a shout out to Spongebob’s boat o cross. I have made it to level 4 and I doubt anyone can do any better. Not that I am that great, but to do this without breaking something is not easy!
  
  http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/games/spongebob-boat-o-cross-game
  
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Aidan

May 12, 2011 at 11:18 am

The electric shock puzzle in yesterday’s ‘I’ LunchTime Waster made me rage a little.

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MrTaco

May 12, 2011 at 11:18 am

Mairo Kart Wii.

Four players (plus CPU).

32 race grand prix.

I think it took us an hour and a half, or three. Can’t quite remember now. But it was the worst thing I have ever done or taken part in. And never again will I do it.

So many near-victories that were stolen by a last minute red or blue shell just before the line, which were especially angering when they came from one of the other guys just as I was about to beat the guy that was beating us all. Also I recall having a particular vendetta against Rosalina. Actually now that I think about it, that’s who he was using. Many profanities were exclaimed, including one particular spiel that may or may not have involved sodomy. Not proud of that 😛

There may have been some floor punching too at one point. Thankfully not quite bad enough to give myself Boxer’s Break though.

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1. HindenLagen the Damned
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:29 am
  
  Wow everything you just said is my favourite thing to do! EBERY DAY.
  
  Seriously me and a few mates always have our “epic battle”. 32 race GP 150cc computers on hard, frantic weapon set. So much carnage. You would think after 32 races the overall scores would be wildly different. Nope. We are always within a few points on the last race, it’s intense all the way.
  
  It’s funny that you mention boxer’s break though, as an embarrassing story happened to me. Actually I posted it earl – HEY WAIT A MINUTE! ARE YOU TAKING THE PISS?! 😛
  
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  1. The Cracks
    
    May 12, 2011 at 11:37 am
    
    Why do you make me do those races?!? I’m surprised I don’t rage at coming dead last all the time…
    
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  2. MrTaco
    
    May 12, 2011 at 11:43 am
    
    IT’S MINE NOW, YOU CAN’T HAVE IT!
    
    But yeah, I really intensely dislike MKWii. Would much rather play any other entry instead, even MK64 which I’m not too fond of nowadays either (controls don’t feel right after getting massively into the 2D ones for a while).
    
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2. PrettyTones
  
  May 12, 2011 at 1:31 pm
  
  Definitely Mario Kart Wii for me as well, I’ve given up trying to unlock all the characters in fear of chucking my controller towards the tv.
  
  While on racing games, Burnout 3 also made me pretty angry. The last Grand Prix is impossible for me, as were the majority of those Preview Laps. F*** them!!
  
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ShiggyNinty

May 12, 2011 at 11:22 am

Super Meat Boy is pretty rage worthy, especially trying to beat The Kid’s stages made me want to punch a small dog. Apart from that, Reach does it to me when I can’t even get a kill in.

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1. The Cracks
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:40 am
  
  Could you believe that I spent over four straight hours doing the Kid levels starting at ~11pm and still didn’t beat the second one, without rageing? The next day I beat the whole lot in half an hour…
  
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  1. ShiggyNinty
    
    May 12, 2011 at 12:31 pm
    
    I can believe that…because it took me five hours and same as you, next day beat it in half an hour.
    
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Jo

May 12, 2011 at 11:24 am

I once stabbed a coffee table repeatedly and with great violence. During a Halo 3 match I believe.
Nevermind why there was a large knife within grabbing distance.

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1. Jo
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:31 am
  
  Oh that’s right; probably during another H3 match I punched my other coffee table hard enough to break the top off, then threw the offending bit of wood at the wall.
  
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Chris

May 12, 2011 at 11:24 am

Castlevania… So much potential yet so damn frustrating… What a let down.

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Splinton

May 12, 2011 at 11:25 am

Rakion.

It’s one of those free to play online korean games. You play as warriors, mages, archers etc and level up by fighting other peoples characters in deathmatches.

I was starting out, trying to learn the moves, but in every match I’d get ganged to death by 2 or 3 warriors much higher level than me.

That feeling of being able to do absolutely nothing made me throw off my headphones and start roaring at the monitor, almost frothing at the mouth.

Not a pleasant memory.

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1. The Cracks
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:42 am
  
  I remember Rakion! Rather steep entry curve if you didn’t have other people actively assisting you.
  
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Batguy

May 12, 2011 at 11:29 am

LAN Quake III without a doubt. I try to avoid all competitive multiplayer games now that I know just how angry I get.

Single player games, though, hmm… Goldeneye on N64 was total bullshit at times on 00 Agent difficulty. Trials HD had me lingering on the edge of rage at times, but I found that a Zen-like detachment avoided that and made it easier to post good scores.

In fact, this is what I try to do when faced with any single player gaming challenge nowadays – stay cool and just keep trying a tricky part till I beat it. If it’s something like crap controls that’s causing me problems, then I’ll simply stop playing it and move on before I get mad.

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The Cracks

May 12, 2011 at 11:29 am

I don’t usually get angry at video games. I do, however, get somewhat vocal and argumentative when severe lag strikes in FPS games. Or when half of the team bails when we start losing. Or when other players cheat/glitch.

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caffeinatedawdle

May 12, 2011 at 11:31 am

One of the courtesans side-missions in AC Brotherhood was going more than 200 paces away to steal medicine from a doctor and going back to give the medicine to a poisoned courtesan, IN 2.5 MINUTES. It was not exactly a straight path either. After throwing the 360 controller about 20 times on the couch and making ‘gahhhh’ noises at the screen, I gave up.

My game rage is written in my facial expressions more than physical or verbal rage.

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cad

May 12, 2011 at 11:33 am

R-Type….lotsa years ago , but still get angry thinking about it ! Still to find a game as hard .

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1. Effluvium Boy
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:19 pm
  
  R-Type! Fantastic game, but could definitely get the rage pumping.
  
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lamboman007

May 12, 2011 at 11:38 am

Need For Speed Most Wanted. I just could not get enough bounty to race the last guy, I kept getting caught whenever I had gotten a heap of bounty in a pursuit…last year I decided to try it again, and I got all the bounty and milestones I needed in one pursuit…

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Xegek

May 12, 2011 at 11:39 am

One of the more recent games for me would be Blazblue. Especially Continuum Shift. The dang final rounds in arcade and the later rounds in score attack mode… rage. Also some of the challenges feel like BS.

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1. Effluvium Boy
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:21 pm
  
  I’ve yelled many an expletive at Nu.
  
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Mr Waffle

May 12, 2011 at 11:43 am

I’m a pretty calm and cool guy 99.9% of the time. But when I get angry… you know about it. So I’ve pretty much given up game genres that make me that way (eg platformers- f*** you, Mario Sunshine retro levels. F*** you.).

The two most recent games to make me rage super hard were Red Faction: Guerilla and Prototype, both their boss battles.

RF had an awful 20 minute long drive up a mountainside in a tank, then on foot through a firefight, then a boss battle on foot vs a tank… WITH NO CHECKPOINTS INBETWEEN. So even after you mastered the tank bit, you then had to master the on foot bit, and THEN had to master the boss battle.

SO MUCH RAGE. SO MUCH RAGE. I refuse to buy another RF game ever again because of this. Ever.

Prototype’s boss bottle is vs a supermonster dude that you have to beat in 10 minutes. He has a MASSIVE health bar that, when you hit him, barely even registers a hit. So you have to hit him over, and over, and over, AND OVER. FOR 10 MINUTES. And if he hits you, it’s like, 1/3 of your health gone. FFFFFFF. I think I ended up managing to beat him with about 20 seconds left after watching youtube after youtube of the battle to find every situation to exploit in the battle.

SO MUCH RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

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1. Mr Waffle
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:45 am
  
  Also I made the mistake of trying Super Meat Boy during the potato sack thing on Steam. I calmly decided to not continue playing a handful of levels in.
  
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2. FatShady
  
  May 12, 2011 at 11:50 am
  
  Yep i resorted to youtube for the prototype battle. I didnt think it could be done! I did it also, but i do remember that one!
  
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dzc12

May 12, 2011 at 11:44 am

I yelled at the screen while playing the Ultimate Electro level in Spider-man Shattered Dimensions last night.

Annoying electricity puns from Spidey + Annoying electricity puns from Biff Tannen + Terrible lag when I needed to zipline out of the rising electric water = One Angry Dan…

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Jeremy

May 12, 2011 at 11:47 am

Playing Blood Bowl on the PSP, I became so infuriated with it that I ended up biting the handheld so that to this day, there is a tooth mark on the screen.

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cardcom

May 12, 2011 at 11:48 am

Alan Wake – The glimmer of so many good ideas ruined by the horrid mess of so many awful ideas, I can’t think of another game that made so many bad words come out of my mouth whilst playing it.

That and the final mission of Driver 1. “Where we goin’ son?”

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1. Sughly
  
  May 12, 2011 at 9:06 pm
  
  Haha, I agree. Alan Wake was crap. Nuff said.
  
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ndroste

May 12, 2011 at 11:53 am

High level Oblivion when even the scummiest npc’s have glass armour and daedric swords, kicking your ass.

I don’t really physically rage, but I was shouting and inventing swear words for those bastards. Mostly they were just amalgamations of existing words.

“Slunt” was my favourite.

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1. AnonymousPessimist
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:53 pm
  
  Best. Ever.
  
  I hereby declare Slunt a new expletive. It even sounds dirty!
  
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Licketty Split

May 12, 2011 at 11:54 am

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. In Particular the part where you need to align the massive spaceship with the analog sticks. The third time it bugged out and I got the ship aligned where it said but it wouldn’t work. Did that like 50 times before I rage quit. Smashed my controller to pieces and nearly put my hand through the screen. And they’re worried that GTA makes kids violent.

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1. NegativeZero
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:36 pm
  
  It’s amazing how they managed to make an event as cool as *dragging a Star Destroyer out of orbit* play so terrible, isn’t it?
  
  They wanted an absolutely perfect alignment, but kept throwing TIE Fighters at you that you had to get rid of, meanwhile the Star Destroyer would turn away and you’d have to start pulling it back, only for more fighters to arrive etc.
  
  And the stupid things were insanely difficult to actually hit. It took me a couple of goes to realise it was more efficient to try and hit them with lightning, but even that was pretty hit and miss.
  
  Really though, that summed up the whole game. Awesome premise with incredible moments, dragged down into mediocrity by bad gameplay and poor design decisions. 🙁
  
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2. Trjn
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:44 pm
  
  Just as fun was trying to make use of the lacklustre targeting system to take down the Tie Fighters so that you could bring down the Star Destroyer.
  
  Also of note, a study was done comparing violent video games with frustrating video games and measuring the aggression of the people afterwards.
  
  From memory, short term aggression rose the most after playing a frustrating, non-violent game (something cranked up to a high difficulty that was cheap as hell).
  
  Another reason why I think the objection to violent video games is a load of bollocks.
  
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3. Mr Waffle
  
  May 12, 2011 at 3:59 pm
  
  Fortunately I’d read about the rage around the star destroyer bit before I started playing it. I believe the first time I read it was on kotaku, one of the writers who had been enjoying the game with his son, and his son gave up in tears because of that bit and it broke the writer’s heart.
  
  By the time I got to the bit I’d read a lot of advice on how to do it and it only took me a million goes instead of the ten million most people go through.
  
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SOX

May 12, 2011 at 11:57 am

The most recent rage quit I remember was at the end of an hour long game of League of Legends. Our Warwick had spent the entire game jungling (read: not contributing) and we had got to the stage where were literally smacking the other team’s nexus when our Amumu decided to sell ALL of his items and buy 5 tiamats… The other team spawned, 4 of us wiped (Warwick wasn’t contributing remember) and we couldn’t recover despite having 3 rax.. After about 10-15 minutes I was staring at the lose screen swearing to never play LoL again. Which I didn’t.. for about a week.

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James Mac

May 12, 2011 at 11:57 am

Assassins Creed 2.
There’s a mission in Venice where you have to complete a timetrial… I still haven’t been back.
Actualy, I think I’ve spent more time rageing in that game than playing it. The tombs, the trials… it just vexes me in general.

Trying for the Mile High achievement in Modern Warfare…
A few times in Super Meat Boy and once or twice during escort missions in MechWarrior 2.

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1. ndroste
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:07 pm
  
  Hey I forgot about the mile high chievo, I was racing with a housemate to get this it took sooooo long…weeks of attempts. To date probably my proudest chievo.
  
  Lots of rage there for sure.
  
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  1. Cody
    
    May 12, 2011 at 12:12 pm
    
    I just read my post and you reminded me of that.
    It took me about 3-4 hours straight of restarting that level, but I got it. I think I experienced the full range of human emotion like never before in that period. Rage, despair, euphoria, disappointment….. it’s my most prized cheev on Xbox to date as well.
    
    I’ve since spoken to a couple of people who told me they got it easy, in like 30 mins or less. I figure they’re full of crap or so lucky it’s not even worth lamenting.
    
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    1. 706
      
      May 12, 2011 at 12:17 pm
      
      This should be another Tell Us Dammit, your proudest achievement.
      
      Mine is the Hexic HD one for getting a flower of black pearls. It’s such a simple game, and free on the xbox but that achievement is so hard. Very happy when I finally did it.
      
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    2. ndroste
      
      May 12, 2011 at 12:21 pm
      
      Yeah I tune-out to anyone who says it was easy for them.
      
      That stage was a combination of lucky timing/enemy placement and all of the skill you get from finishing the game on veteran. Anyone who got it without a fight was extremely lucky I think.
      
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    3. James Mac
      
      May 12, 2011 at 12:24 pm
      
      Haven’t done it yet… every few months I pull it back out and try again.
      The museum in Modern Warfare 2 is much easier.
      
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Cody

May 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm

I’ve raged at a few games over the years, thankfully as I’ve gotten older I’m better able to recognise impending rage. I usually just put the controller down and walk away, or at the worst just drop it and storm off.

I think the worst one was Final Fantasy 8 on PSX back in high school – I think it was on Ultima Weapon? In that ocean base out in the middle of nowhere. In a fit of rage, I bit my PS2 controller so hard it had a perfect indentation of my top row of teeth right in the middle.

Made for a good conversation starter with people who hadn’t used my controller before.

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:12 pm
  
  I was playing SF2 Turbo with my friend in Scotland. I smashed him. In frustration he started biting my controller. REALLY BITING it. He left a set of bite marks on my SNES pad. I have no idea how he did it. I couldn’t replicate it. I’ve no idea how he managed to manifest the jaw power to pull it off.
  
  Incredible.
  
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  1. Cody
    
    May 12, 2011 at 12:14 pm
    
    I think, like a life saving burst of adrenaline, it can only be performed under certain circumstances. Extreme game rage is the perfect scenario.
    
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706

May 12, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Dead or Alive 4. Being terrible at fighting games they annoy me in general but this was a launch title for my brand new 360 so I didn’t have much else to play. The later stages and eventually the boss could be ridiculously cheap, knocking off a third of your health with each attack. I swore a lot.

However I’m pretty reserved and don’t rage much. I do have one mate who is quite into competitive games so loves all the online multiplayer stuff. After one rage enducing moment he stood up, walked to the machine, ejected the disc and proceeded to snap it into as many pieces he could just repeating ‘never again, never again.’

Of course he still got the next title in the COD franchise, this one causing him to pick up his PS3 and kick it across the room leaving a massive dent in the top of it.

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1. NegativeZero
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:31 pm
  
  I am convinced that the AI in DOA4 cheats. I think they implemented some kind of thing where it remembers the moves you’ve been doing, so theoretically if you’re not varying your attacks, the probability of being countered goes up. The issue is that some characters don’t actually have a lot of variation available, and it felt like even when you failed and chose to continue, it never flushed that memory, so the more you struggled, the better the AI got. At least, that’s how it felt to me when I was playing it.
  
  And also, the final boss is just unfair. Too strong, too accurate with counters etc. At least it wasn’t saddled with the ridiculous over-the-shoulder camera of the DoA3 boss though.
  
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sarujin

May 12, 2011 at 12:17 pm

According to my missus. Every game is the game I get too angry at.

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Cephalxn

May 12, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Counter Strike when I used to go to LAN comps and play competetively online. I reckon I broke around 6 headsets, and actually kicked my computer tower through the wall once, I think I may have been a little TOO into it..

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NegativeZero

May 12, 2011 at 12:26 pm

I tend to be a fairly vocal player, to the point that my family members get annoyed at me yelling at the games I’m playing all the time. “Why don’t you stop playing if it’s making you angry?” They don’t understand that I’m doing it because I’m immersed and involved in it, and I’m getting loud because I’m enjoying it.

Which isn’t to say I don’t nerdrage sometimes though. The last thing I remember getting incredibly annoyed at was Ace Combat 5 on PS2. The penultimate mission has you fly into an area with an annoyingly long intro bit, blow some targets up, then fight an ace. That takes about 15 minutes. Then you’re expected to fly through an elaborate tunnel system for what seems like an age. You have to go at crazy speeds because there’s a guy chasing you. There’s a target you have to shoot down in the middle and you have only a tiny window of opportunity to target it and shoot it. The tunnels are very narrow, they twist and wind, and there’s no way to accurately tell which way is up. If you screw up, you’ll crash and die. The game has no checkpoints, so a tiny mistake would reset the whole level, forcing you to play it for 20 minutes.

I raged so hard that day. I barely managed to hold myself back from snapping the disc in half after the tenth failure – I literally had it in my hands ready to do it.

I’ve never finished AC5, incidentally. 😛

Probably my most destructive rage incident though was when I was a few years old. I was playing a game on my Dad’s incredibly expensive Mac and he’d set up a screensaver that popped up when the mouse entered a specific corner of the screen. And it required a password to get back out of it. I managed to trip it off in the middle of a game and suddenly, flying toasters. Rage. Smacked the machine on the side. Crashed the hard drive. And this was 1986, when a 20mb external hard drive for a Mac SE was on the order of a thousand dollars or more (and those were 1986 dollars too). My Dad wasn’t very happy with me.

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James Mac

May 12, 2011 at 12:36 pm

I played a round of golf with a guy once… he spent the first 12 holes telling me about this new putter he’d bought. How’d he’d had the shaft shipped from Melbourne (we were playing at the Humpty Doo course outside Darwin). How it had cost a fortune, etc.

13th hole, he got so fed up with missing putts that he wrapped it round a tree.

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  May 12, 2011 at 12:52 pm
  
  I love and hate golf in equal measure.
  
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  1. James Mac
    
    May 12, 2011 at 1:24 pm
    
    I enjoy it when I’m playing…
    I love the sound a club makes when it strikes the ball just right. I appreciate that specific ache in your back after a solid 18 holes.
    
    But when I’m not playing, I can’t stand anything to do with it.
    
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Tigerion

May 12, 2011 at 12:47 pm

In online FPS land it had to be insurgency. Played for about 10 minutes, died about every 1 minute and didn’t see an enemy the entire time.

And to back up SOX league of legends can bring out the worst in me. Cheap combos and players who worry about the KDR more than the victory. Still get my nerd rage on when somebody pushes when all 5 are mia, gets in trouble (OMG what a shock) and then if I’m tanking I’ll jump in and try to save them and die. They then complain that no-body is helping them.
Yep I have to say LOL brings out my nerd rage the most

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Spandex Armstrong

May 12, 2011 at 12:49 pm

Super Mario Galaxy, trying to get all 120 stars. The profanity thar came outta my mouth was just scary! I amazed myself lol And my window was right next to the street, which was open most of the time!
Mind you at that point i’d just broken up with my girlfriend of 3 years so I was a bit of a mess anyway.
Easily the best & worst summer of my life…..yet!
Mario Galaxy helped keep my mind off things so it’ll always have a special place with me:)

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AnonymousPessimist

May 12, 2011 at 12:56 pm

Oh boy, we need a ‘nerd rage’ column.

I’ve destroyed a lot of things but not a lot of it is related to games (funnily enough).

I think my hardware is scared of me.

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RaygunBrown

May 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm

When I was young chap, Streetfighter II was released and was supremely popular in my local arcade. Kids at school would talk about it non-stop and naturally, spew forth about how they ruled at it. Pretty much every one I knew only mained Ken or Guile for some reason. Probably inherent racism. There was a lot of that in the town I grew up in.

Anyway, by lucky chance I somehow managed to hire a SF2 machine for the weekend via the Yellow Pages. I had the thing downstairs in my house for 48 hours and the whole time, I must have been the most popular kid in the universe. As a result, ‘friends of friends’ flooded into my house to play the hell out of the machine. I was toying around with Guile and if memory serves, managed to have his Sonic Boom down pretty well.

Seemingly out of nowhere, this bastard kid I didn’t know jumped on the second player stick and proceeded to destroy everyone he touched. Nobody who played him could get near him and it was because of Blanka’s Lightning. He just spammed that move and despite every kid there yelling at him and calling him a prick, he just kept winning. As a result, other kids started to see the benefit of choosing Blanka and spamming his Lightning. By the end of the weekend, fun matches and the whole OH MY GOD I’VE GOT A SF MACHINE IN MY HOUSE vibe had denigrated into frustration and madness. Kids lost any sort of sense of playing different characters and just wanted to win and then laugh in another kid’s face for not being able to get past Blanka’s Lightning. What I remember most was a bunch of kids either being smug pricks or being supremely pissed off. This sheep mentality took over the machine and it was maddening. I was glad to see the back of that machine and since then, have superficially and unfairly hated Blanka for years.

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Ryan Keable

May 12, 2011 at 1:03 pm

3 minute mages in TBC World of Warcraft Arenas and Battlegrounds use to drive me up the wall with bullshit

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Ben Small

May 12, 2011 at 1:15 pm

Probably Call of Duty 2. The amount of rage that has occured in that game for me is immense. I took a large break and went back to it about 6 months ago. All the extremely good players still play it and I end up getting beaten so easily. I snapped my Logitech G15 over my Knee, and punched a hole in my Dell Monitor, and threw my Razer DeathAdder at a wall. Woo!

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Peter Richards

May 12, 2011 at 1:41 pm

I’m making an attempt at the Defender world record next week, may be some serious rage quitting during that…

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Dave Milner

May 12, 2011 at 1:45 pm

This is more about anti-rage…

But Fifa 11 online.

I can’t finish a game without rage-quitters ruining it for me. I once went 0-0 over 90 mins. Then 2-2 in extra time. Then 19-20 in penalties, and the guy rage quit before I got the win. Half an hour that epic match took, and my opponent didn’t give it the respect it deserved. As a result, I now hate that game.

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1. RaygunBrown
  
  May 12, 2011 at 2:16 pm
  
  That is both hilarious and awful. It’s hilawful!
  
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Marathon

May 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Actually a demo of Vampire Rain. So angry I couldn’t believe how crap it was. Then I was happy as I saved myself $100.

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N0NEoftheAB0VE

May 12, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Street Fighter IV and one particular character named Seth.

After that experience I traded the damn game, it was not for me.

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agentsmithbob

May 12, 2011 at 3:59 pm

Playing online shooters like Bad Company 2 where they have one foot in realism and the other foot in arcade. More than a few expletives have ensued when, after sustained hip fire from my m60 at a range of approx 1 meter, the enemy has pulled a pistol and used iron sights to kill me in a few shots. After their status comes up and shows they sustained no damage at all, I just about want to cry. Granted using sights should make you more accurate at distance, but at point blank range whether you’re using sights or not, if you point in their direction something should hit!

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Grandmaster B-Funk

May 12, 2011 at 5:42 pm

when my brother beat me in fifa 09 once i threw my controller down and kick the wall, leading to one semi-broken controller and a scuff mark on the wall thats still there

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Matt

May 13, 2011 at 12:23 am

I fractured my hand on a lightly padded stool after losing to my boss in that stupid airhockey game at timezone.

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rascal

August 9, 2011 at 2:23 am

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