Has a videogame ever driven you to act violently towards inanimate objects? - CHAT WITH THE STAFF!
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Can so relate to this! As a preteen and teen I mastered the art of throwing my NES controller at the power switch in disgust ( often at Zelda 2).tendo82 said:
In college over xmas break my roommate and I were snowed in (neither of us went home for the holidays) so we broke out the old school sega NHL 96. We would get so into it and pissed off when the other guy used "Cheap" scoring tactics that we could actually punch each other.
I dont throw my 360 controller... it would more than likely break something more valuable, never mind the fact that they are not too cheap to replace.
The last "violent" reaction from a videogame I remember having was playing Turbine's Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach (DDO) and I got pissed off at a failed full guild raid and I took my headset of and kinda slammed it on the desk breaking it...but it was unintentional and my headset was already a broken POS held together by tape
Not so much anymore now that I'm an adult, but when i was a kid playing the N64 there were games (cant remember titles that well) that caused me to smash controllers and my little brother.
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Oh NO!!!! LOZ: Ocarina of Time and StarFox 64 caused me to perform some GTA/Manhunt style violence on my little brother. I jacked his big wheel while he was on it, rolled him into the street, and blasted that fool with my twin super soakers, only after sneaking up, waiting for the crosshair to go red and wrapping a sandwich baggy around his teddy bear's head. (insert maniacal laughter, then sadness)I need help... JAck Thompson save me!!!
*[off topic] Sarcasm*
Oh NO!!!! LOZ: Ocarina of Time and StarFox 64 caused me to perform some GTA/Manhunt style violence on my little brother. I jacked his big wheel while he was on it, rolled him into the street, and blasted that fool with my twin super soakers, only after sneaking up, waiting for the crosshair to go red and wrapping a sandwich baggy around his teddy bear's head. (insert maniacal laughter, then sadness)I need help... JAck Thompson save me!!!
Super Pitfall for the NES.
This is the one and only game I ever actually smashed with a hammer. I also wrote a very long letter (for an 11 year old at the time) to Activision about how much it sucked.
That game was impossible. I recently tried to play it on Nesticle and I STILL couldn't beat it. It's evil. It must be stopped.
If I had more time and money, I just might start a quest to smash every last copy in existence.
This is the one and only game I ever actually smashed with a hammer. I also wrote a very long letter (for an 11 year old at the time) to Activision about how much it sucked.
That game was impossible. I recently tried to play it on Nesticle and I STILL couldn't beat it. It's evil. It must be stopped.
If I had more time and money, I just might start a quest to smash every last copy in existence.
Silver Surfer on the NES caused me to punch many a pillow. I say with all honesty that I feel that game is harder than Contra. I generally try not to break things if I can help it, hence the pillow punching. However, those NES controllers were built REALLY strong cause I often tried to break it in half playing that game but it never did.
Css surf maps get really irritating when you can't do them, or when theres a bug on the surf and you fall off.
Many a night at 2 in the morning I can be heard shouting at my monitor
Nearly got an electric shock from biting the controller lead doing challenges for Unreal Championship 2, they're just too hard but i really wanted Raiden
EDIT: Oh yeah and the last boss on Otogi 2 pissed me off
Many a night at 2 in the morning I can be heard shouting at my monitor
Nearly got an electric shock from biting the controller lead doing challenges for Unreal Championship 2, they're just too hard but i really wanted Raiden
EDIT: Oh yeah and the last boss on Otogi 2 pissed me off
Normally I'm pretty even tempered; but one time, when I was younger, Mortal Kombat 3 led to gratuitous violence laid upon my alarm clock.
See, normally I could just fly through a tier, beat the boss...and go on to something else. Except that particular day I was getting beat repeatedly within the middle of the tier. Each attempt proceeded to make me more frustrated; but yet I was still determined more than ever to beat it. At least, that was the goal until my alarm clock went off for some inexplicable reason and that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Earlier that day I was out in the back yard shooting cans and plastic soldiers with a C02 powered flat-head pellet pistol. When I came back in, I set it on the kitchen table, as it was on my way to the computer that was set up in the living room. Well, as you probably could guess, after the alarm clock went off, I got up, grabbed the pistol, and proceeded to unload the clip of all 13 pellets into that alarm clock.
Unfortunately, this just made me even more frustrated, as the flat-head pellets managed to just bounce off the flexible plastic face of the clock, with the alarm still going off as if it were mocking me. Finally I just ripped the clock out of the wall,threw it in my closet, and went back to playing (and beating) the game.
See, normally I could just fly through a tier, beat the boss...and go on to something else. Except that particular day I was getting beat repeatedly within the middle of the tier. Each attempt proceeded to make me more frustrated; but yet I was still determined more than ever to beat it. At least, that was the goal until my alarm clock went off for some inexplicable reason and that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Earlier that day I was out in the back yard shooting cans and plastic soldiers with a C02 powered flat-head pellet pistol. When I came back in, I set it on the kitchen table, as it was on my way to the computer that was set up in the living room. Well, as you probably could guess, after the alarm clock went off, I got up, grabbed the pistol, and proceeded to unload the clip of all 13 pellets into that alarm clock.
Unfortunately, this just made me even more frustrated, as the flat-head pellets managed to just bounce off the flexible plastic face of the clock, with the alarm still going off as if it were mocking me. Finally I just ripped the clock out of the wall,threw it in my closet, and went back to playing (and beating) the game.
playing dead rising, when you have to kill the convicts in the jeep. i had attempted it several times, but becasue the aiming system is shit it wasnt working out very well. by the sixth failure i lost the plot slightly and punched my wardrobe so hard that it broke the wood
No I think I was in a garden.addiction21 said:
Another time was over the weekend playing Age of Empires 3, and my boyfriend decided to attack me from one side and his best friend from the other before I managed to get my troops together properly, I had to have the laptop I was using taken away before I smashed the keyboard.
Saints Row 2's driving control are so horribly bad that I almost snapped my controller in half.
See, the two sticks obviously control different things when driving. Left stick steers, right stick on the camera. In order to let you look (and shoot) at things which way the camera points doesn't change what direction you're driving.
Problem: the camera doesn't turn with the car. So for example, I'm riding shotgun with Johnny Gat and have to shoot at guys behind the car. I'm pointing straight back and shooting at someone following. The car takes a left turn and instead of me still pointing behind the car I'm still pointing South, so I'm looking out the side window now.
After failing a mission a few times because the game couldn't understand that I'D LIKE TO LOOK BEHIND THE CAR PLEASE, I almost lost my shit.
See, the two sticks obviously control different things when driving. Left stick steers, right stick on the camera. In order to let you look (and shoot) at things which way the camera points doesn't change what direction you're driving.
Problem: the camera doesn't turn with the car. So for example, I'm riding shotgun with Johnny Gat and have to shoot at guys behind the car. I'm pointing straight back and shooting at someone following. The car takes a left turn and instead of me still pointing behind the car I'm still pointing South, so I'm looking out the side window now.
After failing a mission a few times because the game couldn't understand that I'D LIKE TO LOOK BEHIND THE CAR PLEASE, I almost lost my shit.
I've done this multiple times. Most of this anger gets taken out on the controller or the game itself. Usually what I'll do is hit the eject button grap the disc and chuck it. This will be triggered by dying multiple times on a platform segment or being stuck on a terrible puzzle were the solution is so indirect so nonsensical that defeats the purpose of me gathering most of the components of the puzzle in the first place. JRPG's are notorious for making bad puzzles. Also I really hate getting detected in a stealth third person action game like say Metal Gear.