Controller Breaking Moments

[Russia208]

Do you ever have those moments where you are about to break your controller because of something of stupid that happened? I had one just recently when i was playing ninja gaiden sigma, i play for like 2 hours strait and i was to caught up in battle to remember to save but then i died! and i started way back at the beginning! i strait up chucked my controller at my floor, hopefully it still works... . Also when I'm about to snipe someone online and a lag spike hits...thats the worst.

 

[ObadiahBlack]

Tony Hawk's Underground (the first and IMO only real good Underground, to hell with all that Wasteland, Underground 2, etc. nonsense). In the Hawaii level, I had to do some aerial trick in a half-pipe, revert on the landing to keep the combo, then do it again two more times. Simple, right?
NO!
While I had perfect understanding of the manuver, the game took over thirty attempts (I counted) to register the stunt as accomplished successfully. I know it was the game, or at least that particular disc 'cuz it was rented, because I had to do it for my brother again at a later date and did it in one move.

Anyway, it pissed me off so bad I broke an arm off the Gamecube controller (a miniature version, haha I have smaller hands). Funnily enough, it still functioned. Go figure.

 

[Graustein]

When I was younger I chucked my gameboy across the room out of rage at a Smurfs game.

My brother would frequently become frustrated at me when playing Smash Bros., and on more than one occasion has broken a controller by throwing it at me. IT HURTS.

My sister has now taken to playing games, becoming frustrated and throwing the controller on the ground in rage. Since all the controllers are mine, she is doing this less and less having since felt my wrath upon finding my favourite controller RATTLING.

 

[War Monkey]

I had a moment like that playing through halo 2. I was going along, you know really starting to get into it, really starting to like where the story was going. then the most aggravating thing happened, and this may have happened to a few of you out there but it does this really annoying thing where a cut scene pops up and then master chief says "finishing this fight" and then the game ends. yeah, I almost broke my controller when that happened.

...I felt so unfulfilled

 

[minoes]

The hover bike level from Battletoads.

 

[flatearth]

Zack and Wiki's song parts. I actually snapped my Wiimote's wrist band playing that (wiimote survived because I flinged it to my couch with the strap still on my wrist. The part should be an easy rhytmic swinging part, easy, no problem, or so it seems. The controller suddenly becomes very unresponsive. It registers maybe 3 swings out of 5, and occasionally registers one swing as it would be three.

 

[Dictaternutz]

Fighting The Apprentice in SCIV, I had pretty much breezed through the Arcade mode up to him, than I spend the next 30mins trying to figure out how the hell he pulls off those 40 hit combos....or rings me out when hes across the stage.

 

[Novajam]

Tony Hawk's Underground (the first and IMO only real good Underground, to hell with all that Wasteland, Underground 2, etc. nonsense). In the Hawaii level, I had to do some aerial trick in a half-pipe, revert on the landing to keep the combo, then do it again two more times. Simple, right?
NO!
While I had perfect understanding of the manuver, the game took over thirty attempts (I counted) to register the stunt as accomplished successfully. I know it was the game, or at least that particular disc 'cuz it was rented, because I had to do it for my brother again at a later date and did it in one move.

Someone else played THUG! I thought I was the only one. I must have spent $200 bucks renting that game over and over.

A lot of the Tony Hawk game's kicked my ass time and time again. Like the mission where you had to hit the guy going up the ladder with water balloons in THAW, or the Manual across the train cars in THPS4 (the shipyard level).

Speaking of skating games, some of the challenges in EA's skate were near impossible. I remember spending half an hour trying to get a trick to a)work and b)register, getting steadily pissed off as I went, before finally jumping up and down, screaming a sound that can only be described as A banshee getting it's nads ripped off.

 

[Johnny Ringo]

A few. There was this mission on Red Alert 2 where you had to defend a battle lab for thirty minutes against waves of enemies. I got down to 34 seconds before a prism tank leveled it from outside of my base while I was distracted towards the top.

The main controller crunchers for me are the Quicktime events. The whole "Press B or die" routine list it's charm after the first sixty times. Making your way up to some huge boss fight just to die because you didn't mash Y enough can cause any sane individual to start looking for something sharp to lick.

 

[ace_of_something]

Many many moments where I wanted to launch the controller into the TV.

I seem to recall many a moment in old super nintendo racing games where I completely lost my shit. I still suck at racing games though... I'm just more level headed then when I was 10.

 

[Liam Wolfy]

Getting to QuickMan on one of the MegaMan games... JESUS chriiist all crapping mighty it was ridiculously hard!

 

[L4Y Duke]

Stuntman, the original. 3 words:

Hit. The. Microlite.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

Mercinaries 2. In the mission where you have to drive the Cacharro Del Muerto through a mine. i must have had to do that about twenty times because of missed jumps, enemies blowing up my car or hitting a rather petulant rock that said 'no, not today, you're going to flip over now'
maybe i just suck but it seriously raised my blood pressure.

 

[Tattaglia]

San Andreas, when the game wouldn't tell me how to turn left or right while flying. Well, not so much breaking, as smashing.

Somehow your hatred of the flying missions in San Andreas makes me really want to play it again. Funny how that works.

On topic, Rome: Total War. I had been playing for five hours straight, crushed all other factions, taken every required province except for Rome which I was saving for last. I had one massive legion circling my target as the Senate helplessly looked on from within the city walls. I besieged the city with my army, and in the next turn attacked them. Of course, my computer crapped out on me with its inability to show 2,000 soldiers or more at a time. While this was bad, what was worse was I hadn't saved since I started... five hours ago.

I slammed the keyboard with my fist and promptly lost the Y and U keys. Didn't touch the game for another week. Then I figured out the game had an autosave of my game. Damn.

 

[varulfic]

Stuntman, the original. 3 words:

Hit. The. Microlite.

God, that game sucked ass. Pretty much every level of Stuntman was worthy of controller chucking. I've never seen such horrible trial and error gameplay before, and going through the same level over and over and over again just because you did one mistake is just a nightmare. I only got to the second movie, then I couldn't take it anymore.

 

[astaldodhol]

I've personally never broken a controller, but since my brothers got their xbox (In 2003) They've destroyed 8 controllers.
They tend to have a temper and throw the controllers on the ground in a fit of rage.
Also, I know someone who threw their xbox through a wall in a fit of frustration.
Usually when I get pissed at a game, I throw the nearest thing that has nothing to do with the game console in question.

 

[Firefly22]

I have two. Number one was when I was playing dead rising and a stupid npc that I was trying to save got themselves cuaght in a wall. so as I went to get them, a zombie lunged at me and killed me.

Number two is when I was playing lost odyssey and you have to fight those two big freakin worm things. I threw the controller at the couch so I wouldnt break it, only to have it bounce off and smack into the floor,leaving a large crack on the battery pack.

 

[videot76]

Stuntman, the original. 3 words:

Hit. The. Microlite.

God, that game sucked ass. Pretty much every level of Stuntman was worthy of controller chucking. I've never seen such horrible trial and error gameplay before, and going through the same level over and over and over again just because you did one mistake is just a nightmare. I only got to the second movie, then I couldn't take it anymore.

Stuntman was pretty fun when it first came out - and somehow I got to the last movie while playing at a friends house. When Stuntman Ignition came out I picked up the original exceedingly cheap, and was reminded just how exceedingly cheap it is. I got to the final movie once more, could NOT complete more than one stage of it, and came away feeling vaguely abused and violated. My controller only survived by my imagining strangling the designers and programmers with the cord. The Tuktuk levels alone has earned them a place in the gaming hall of shame forever, but those last levels has earned them my eternal hatred.
Strangely, Ignition was actually pretty good.

As for actually breaking a controller, that hasn't happened since my C64 days. Remember the TAC-2 joysticks? Have gone through quite a few in my time, but I think I only broke one in a fit of rage (don't remember when, COULD be getting to the final opponent of Yie-Ar Kung Fu and losing). The rest just snapped on their own. (I'm looking at YOU, Combat School!)