Has a videogame ever driven you to act violently towards inanimate objects? - CHAT WITH THE STAFF!

[Daye.04]

Yeah. I once hit my pal when he didn't remind me of saving on Donkey Kong:Country when we were playing together. Oh, inanimate? Uhm. Yeah, as you can probably guess, I'm even more violent to unliving objects, rather than living human beings. I think I've only been that mean to another person while playing video games about two or three times.

But allright. The fun thing is my anger went milder as the ages went. Back in the days when I used the SNES and Commodore, I was pretty much allways yelling and hitting the controller everywhere. I have no count of how many times I've smashed the SNES controller in the floor (We sat on the floor in front of the television. It's amazing that I don't have any permanent neck-damage, considering how much time I spent in front of the telly). I only remember the games that angered me the most. It's Clay Fighter. Whenever I was trying to kick my friends ass as the grren blob and the snowman, but were instead owned. I allways smashed the controller in the floor. Also that Mario game. 8? I don't remember .. Perhaps yoshi island or something. And Demolition Man. That was an incredibly hard game! I think I might have done it once with the game "time". But I was usually too lost to accomplish anything in that game. Even less screw up. That's about what I remember from the SNES. I gotta hand it to them, though. Those controllers were made for controller-bashers.

There was a couple of times with The Nintendo 64. With James Bond:Goldeneye and Mario Kart. But I soon realised those controllers were too bristle to smash. Then the hitting chairs and other stuff were born.

The PSOne? Oh, I went through tons of controllers with that one. I was not a very safe kids. But to keep a long story short. I used to allways smash stuff. Until I one day realised that I had to pull myself together, and stop this stupideness (I was about .. 16, I guess). And now I'm barely getting worked up over loosing anything. Although there are some occations where I furiously have to wave my arms in front of myself to release tha anger. And I mean really wave. And hit anything that is not a real object.

 

[Hexadecimal16]

I don't really break controllers or anything when I play games, simply because I'd be pissed at myself for it and I try not to break expensive objects. I just grit my teeth and let loose streams of profanity instead.

 

[lordzouk]

i remember when i played tekken 3 on the playstation, when i was like about 6 years old, i was about to cry when i could't beat my friends in it XD.
but now i just try to count to 10 or if that doesnt work, its my mouse who are the target, or a pillow i just scream in =D.
So the choices are many

 

[Jumplion]

Metal Gear Online infuriated me at times when I could never kill anyone. Headshots are the norm in that game as bullets seem glued in the center of your reticle. Needless to say, I ended up in muffled yelling (my dad would think I'm crazy) and various throwings of Dualshock controlers across my room.

 

[sms_117b]

Not on it's own, playing Smackdown! Here comes the pain, had a bit of a loosing streak against my cousin, he kept saying I was getting bothered and don't worry about losing it's only a game, damn that was annoying, I threw the controller, didn't break it but I threw it.

If A game starts to wind me up I tend to stop playing it, can't afford to get angry and break something!

 

[stormcaller]

*having just lost to Seth 10 times over* No....*building collapses*

Well I usually cause more damage to myself but I have caused some dents in the table due to raid wipes yes.

 

[WittyName]

i started playing COD:WaW on vetren and the constant getting blown up by grenades drove me crazy, so i finally had enough i was only meant to chuck my controller on the floor in anger and instead the whole thing came apart.....oops

I found it frustrating as well, it drove me to the point where.... well I didn't really USE my dvd player that much anyway.....

 

[johnman]

Hammering the desk so hard it lent forward on its rails while playing World at Wars multiplayer. My game went along the line of "Sniper, tank, sniper, sniper, tank, mine, sniper, grenade, tank, sniper and ran over by tank while on last stand."
In the space of 2 minutes.

 

[the protaginist]

My friend has a dent in his wall becuase while playing Saints Row, I was driving through The Row in my new Bulldog after beating the final Los Carnales mission, when the game freezes before i could save. Anyone who's not feeling sorry for me never played the mission.

 

[XJ-0461]

I haven't broke anything...but after failing at the same level of a game after more than five tries I do get very vocal and controllers fly.

 

[reyttm4]

WoW, I never broke anything but I sure gave my wall what for!

 

[Andalusa]

Well, my wardrobe door has a hole in it.
I forget what game I was playing but my desk is right next to my wardrobe, (it's built in not free standing) and I got mad and I kicked the door. I broke the door, and a toe.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

This is rather shameful, but I have broken controllers TWICE...

Broke a ps2 controller during the flying missions in San Andreas (with nice preparatory damage caused by the cross country races)

I broke a 360 controller playing the new Prince of Persia because of the horrible fucking boring combat, it takes SO long to finish each fight and it's awkward, sticky and clumsy and I just wanted so bad to get back to running on cliffs..

so, while fighting the motherfucking concubine AGAIN for the fifth time at one point I had enough and flung the controller against the wall and switched off the 360, only to come back and realise that the thing was fucked.

I was mainly angry I wasted my money on that stupid game...

 

[entwinex]

Quake Live beta just few minutes ago, god I hate that game with a passion. I do the stupid skill test which tells me I'm awesome and then wait patiently for the buggy updates to load, only to end up owned 20 to 1 in the real game. Retarted piece of shit game where everything moves at light speed and takes a nuke to kill someone. Only real casualty was an empty beer can tho which got crushed and shredded.

PES has also made me bunch and kick furniture few times when the opponent makes a goal on overtime.

 

[MarsProbe]

There have been a few:

I was playing some game on the PC (have forgotten which, though it must have been something annoying) and I was so infuriated I picked up the first thing I could find and hurled it at the door to the room. The first thing I could find happened to be a shoe, which created quite a substantial dent in the door.

Back when I had a Sega Saturn, during a particularly bad day on Daytona USA (either that or the game music had finally got to me) I proceeded to fling the controller repeatedly against the floor. I was still living with the folks at the time, so the sound of a game controller being hit of the floor obviously warranted investigation. I was of course given a severe talking to by my dad after he found I'd being trashing the analogue controller (the one that came with NiGHTS) that they had bought, after all.

Then, most recently, the fist sized dent in my coffee table remains as a testament to the wondrous gaming experience that is Spore (the space stage specifically).

 

[hotacidbath]

I had never thrown a controller until I got to the meat circus level in Psychonauts. The amount of cussing and flailing that occurs whenever I fall off a raw steak and back to the floor is truly something to behold. It doesn't help that you have to listen to the annoying, high-pitch, whine of a child saying "ow, my face" every five seconds. I'm getting angry just thinking about it.

 

[Metalchair]

um, lets see, Ninja Gaiden 2 has driven me to take my katana and repeatedly slice at my walls before throwing it through my door

 

[KamachoMcSagget]

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne is the most notable one. I had to go on gamefaqs to solve 20 puzzle mazes, and just reading all that text in that ugly font took me 3 hours, (while solving them myself would have taken an eternaty). So I went back to the save terminal, and there was a chance that I would have run into TWO nearly unbeatable boss battles right before I got a chance to save (what a slap in the face), so naturally it turned out that I did, and since it returns me to the title screen, I had to do that ALL OVER AGAIN, and my Friday was wasted, and my controller was thrown on the other side of the room and I started crying to myself. (I still like the other parts of the game, though)

Other games include:
A mission in Tony Hawk's Project 8, where one of the lengthy pro challenges caused the frame rate to go down so it was nearly impossible do, as it's a hard enough game all ready (I kicked my 360 on that one, though I am usually way more careful with valubals).
A time where I was checkpointed over a gap in Halo 3, making me restart the mission (I slapped the controler with my palm repeditly).
Fighting the same 100000000000000000000 (rough estamate) enemy battles over and over, loosing them when so many are defeated, gaining a power-up that drains health, and just aknoledging the fact that I wasted money on Onechanbara: Bikini Sammurai Squad (For that I also vigorusly palmed the controler)
Any game where I have a reoccuring "what am I supposed to do now?" feeling that causes me to head-but the controler. (The most notable games for this are The Darkness and the Blue Creek Appartment level of Silent Hill 2)
Really hard, headache inducing platforming segments of the first Max Payne, most notably when you go into his "dream". That also causes controler head-banging.
Really hard stages in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link caused me to hurl my controler out of my Gamecube and against the wall when I was younger.

I usually dont get this frustrated, but all of those were so blood boiling that I vividly remember them all.

 

[Skizle]

i broke my L and R triggers on my 360 controller after me and my brother were playing Gears of War 2. we were at the second to last boss. i was down my brother made the killing blow and tried to pick me up...as he was doing this his body exploded. we got to the cinematic saying that we killed then it went to the menu saying "Game Over". Our jaws dropped, profanity ensued, and i threw my controller at the ground.

 

[stinkypitz]

The mission in GTA IV where Roman is kidnapped, I had saved 3 missions prior and autosave was off, and I could not go back to my apartment because i got the phone call and the mission had started. So I did the whole thing and it took a good half hour, then when me and Roman were driving away, I accidently ran over a propane tank... and the car instantly went up in a ball of flames. I was equally mad that I needed to pay another damn 50 dollars for a new controller.

Also, Lou on expert. Damn you to the deepest pits of hell activision.