Your biggest rage quit?

[Fox12]

So, I was farming souls in Dark Souls, and after about two hours I had about two hundred thousand souls. As I was walking back to camp, my bag of souls jingling merrily in my pocket, a low level thief ran up and insta-killed me with a back stab. On my way back I got stuck and was pummeled to death by some mooks. Needless to say, I was livid. I said fuck it, and went to bed.

But Dark Souls wasn't done fucking with me yet. When I went to load my file the next day, I was informed that my file was corrupted and I had lost over fifty hours of gameplay. Truly, when my friends told me that Dark Souls was about the futility of life, they were not kidding. I promptly said fuck you Dark Souls, and went outside for the first time in two days. Maybe I'll pick it up again in a year or two.

What were your biggest rage quit moments?

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I am currently rage quitting:

Ragnarok Odyssey ACE - I have consistently failed, several times, quests that I never fail. To make matters worse, my nearly indestructible Cleric has been killed several times by enemies that have never been able to kill him.

Final Fantasy X HD - Seymour Flux.

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Training Hall. I have been killed 8 times in a row, after having successfully traversed the Training Hall at least 15 times.

Today is just not my day. I couldn't play a game to save my life right now.

 

[duwenbasden]

"I need you to take care of my Berry Field!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
The Home button solves most things. Yes, I rather lose progress than be whipped into farming.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Mine would be Street Fighter IV. Could not beat Seth no matter what I did, even on easy. And of course, that was the rare occasion when I could reach him. Usually, I couldn't get past the 'rival' character right before him. I started screaming at the TV so much that I pulled the disk out, threw it across the room (didn't break), shoved it back in its case, and threw the case under my chest of drawers so that, if I did get the, "Okay, I'll try it again," feeling, it would be too hard to reach and I wouldn't have to suffer from it anymore.

I sold it about two weeks later, never beating Seth.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Back when I was still giving FFXIII a chance, I remember getting stuck on 2 bosses. There was the BS boss at the end of...I think chapter 7. I was at a point where I was able to fight a few things so as to attempt level grinding but even when I was at my level cap I would get my clock thoroughly cleaned by the boss...then luck happened and I eventually made it to chapter 11. The Chapter 11 bosses gave me the same issue and I have never played FFXIII ever again.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Mine are kind of boring, but I have a third party one.

Years ago, my friend Dan and I set up a little NHL hockey league on his Nintendo with the two of us and his brother, Paul, who was something like 10-11 at the time. We all drafted teams and played round robin against one another. To make it more interesting, after each get-together I'd write up a sports paper with articles on all the teams as though I were a reporter writing on the actual league. Paul loved it. He was SUPER invested.

Anyway, as it happened, Paul didn't take losing very well. The more involved he got in the league, the bigger the blow ups after losses. It was getting pretty bad, and Dan and I were getting concerned about carrying on with the league, but we still had the playoffs to do. The next game up was me against Paul, so I told Dan I was going to throw it.

Well, I tried, but nothing was going right for Paul. My goaltender was playing out of his mind, and the soft perimeter shots I was taking kept going in. The game ended up tied going into overtime, and Paul was positively frothing. At about the mid way point of OT, I gathered up a loose puck and iced it.

It slid very, very slowly down the ice, approached his goaltender, and slid gently between his legs into the net.

Naturally, Paul exploded like a Chinese firecracker. He was screaming and crying, hitting both of us, flipping over furniture and kicking the Nintendo. Needless to say, it was the last we ever played of our NHL hockey league.

 

[MeTalHeD]

Mine are kind of boring, but I have a third party one.

Years ago, my friend Dan and I set up a little NHL hockey league on his Nintendo with the two of us and his brother, Paul, who was something like 10-11 at the time. We all drafted teams and played round robin against one another. To make it more interesting, after each get-together I'd write up a sports paper with articles on all the teams as though I were a reporter writing on the actual league. Paul loved it. He was SUPER invested.

Anyway, as it happened, Paul didn't take losing very well. The more involved he got in the league, the bigger the blow ups after losses. It was getting pretty bad, and Dan and I were getting concerned about carrying on with the league, but we still had the playoffs to do. The next game up was me against Paul, so I told Dan I was going to throw it.

Well, I tried, but nothing was going right for Paul. My goaltender was playing out of his mind, and the soft perimeter shots I was taking kept going in. The game ended up tied going into overtime, and Paul was positively frothing. At about the mid way point of OT, I gathered up a loose puck and iced it.

It slid very, very slowly down the ice, approached his goaltender, and slid gently between his legs into the net.

Naturally, Paul exploded like a Chinese firecracker. He was screaming and crying, hitting both of us, flipping over furniture and kicking the Nintendo. Needless to say, it was the last we ever played of our NHL hockey league.

This was worth the read and gave me quite a giggle - definitely not boring at all! My cousin once smacked me in the face after playing NBA Live 97 on my PS1. He was winning until about half time when I decided to step it up a notch and kept racking up points until the end of the game. When it was over, all I felt was a backhand coming from my left to my jaw. He apologised but I knew deep down it annoyed the hell out of him.

OT: There were a few Borderlands 2 Rage Quits that I remember - ridiculous bosses (Madam Bartleby) and your shield turning to cardboard when loaders are around.

However, the worst was during a versus game of Left 4 Dead 2. I usually don't play competitively, but every now and then the desire to charge someone off a bridge gets to me. What makes it nicer is when my team mates are supportive and not ego driven or overly competitive, so if we lose it's not so bad.

One time I joined a game where we decided to random the teams. Murphy's law I was on the one with all the newbies. No sweat, I thought, I could help teach them a thing or two and maybe with some coordination and luck we'd get somewhere. Nope, the opposition wiped the floor with us. It wasn't until I was dangling, slowly being constricted by a smoker's tongue while shouting into my mic "smack me free! smack me free!" that I realised the SOBs on the other team were delighting in our misery and we'd probably get nowhere like this.

They were also purposefully targeting me as the most experienced player. Imagine, if you will, being pinned by a hunter followed by spitter acid. Your health disappears way too quickly for your team mates to stop the carnage. A quick and experienced team mate could at least get the hunter off you before you sustained too much damage. Imagine then after your recovery being grabbed by a charger or smoker and pulled back and away from your team mates. Now imagine everytime this happened, your team mates took excruciatingly long to free you or kill the special infected sapping your health points.

However, when we were like 1 000 points behind, the opposition were cruising and my team failed yet again to free me from the smoker, spitter, boomer combo the opposition of semi-pro players had repeatedly concocted...I couldn't take it anymore.

It wasn't til later that I found out that one of the opposition's team members actually requested they balance the teams out so the experience and skill would be even, but the others refused to...apparently there are people online who delight in beating you to a pulp, steamrolling said pulp until it becomes a nice soft, smooth paper-like substance before wiping their superior behinds with it - especially when you offer them practically no challenge

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

Since I've been playing Battlefield 3 a lot lately, most of my gaming stories are from that game and this is no exception.

Anyone who's played BF3 or even Bad Company 2 (the games I've played in the series. It might even go beyond that) will know how prone it is to spawn camping. COD is fairly bad with it as well but it's arcade style with random spawn points in a small space, so spawn kills usually happen entirely by accident.

In BFBC2 and BF3, there are two set spawn areas per map (one per team) unless you're playing conquest (which is even worse if one team gets all the objectives because there's nothing to do but spawn camp the enemy team or just camp the objectives).

Anyways, this game of Rush was on Grand Bazaar and I was the attacker on the first pair of objectives. On that map, it's fairly easy to spawn camp because the attackers only have two options out of spawn, one of which is a narrow hallway. Just after that that are three options; two of which are narrow hallways and one open street in the centre. All of this is in full view of the defending team. The spawning area itself is an open area behind a building that can still be seen from the centre street and the other hallway.

Here's the map. Defenders start at the bottom and attackers at the top.

Long story short, we were massacred before we could even do anything. The defenders dug in difficult to see spaces with rocket launchers, machine guns and snipers. On several occasions, I died just as I spawned before the screen came on (the screen goes black for a few seconds when you spawn). Just to top it all off, they used mortars on us just to be sure that we had absolutely no chance whatsoever. Not surprisingly, the entire team rage quit. I was the last one to do so.

This happened today and I'm too angry to even look at the disc.

 

[DirgeNovak]

That would have to be when I got royally pissed at a boss in Onimusha Warlords and just ejected the disc from the PS2 and promptly snapped it in two.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

I actually rage-quitted a couple of days ago in Dark Souls 2 because I died for the third time to the Smelter Demon due to that god-forsaken wall glitch. Dying from my own incompetence I can accept, but not to a fucking bug. Bleh!

 

[Zen Bard]

Mine would be Street Fighter IV. Could not beat Seth no matter what I did...I sold it about two weeks later, never beating Seth.

Yes! This right here. I spent many days screaming at the TV. Until one day, with an enormous amount of luck, I WAS able to beat Seth on easy.

I sold the game the next day and vowed NEVER to play "Street Fighter" again.

For me, the day Seth graced my console was the most important day of my life. But for him, it was Tuesday...

 

[Liquidprid3]

Even though I played a lot of Dark souls today, that's not what made me rage quit. It's just how bad I am at TF2. I have about 15 or so hours, and I've gotten about 1 decent drop. The rest were all those god damn crates. Even then, I'm still horrible. I go with teammates, a soldier blows us all up with a rocket. I go solo, and a Heavy with a Medic mows me down. I just can't win at that game. I'm even decent at CSS (by that I mean I'm awesome with the Deagle, but I suck with everything else), but I just blow at TF2. I actually got lost in Dark Souls for a bit, which made me lose my anger. And forget to do homework.

Captcha: Mother effin Time Warner Cable returns.

 

[Vault101]

whever things go pear shaped in XCOM due to a solder fucking up a shot, THAT WAS 80%!!??, YOU TELLING ME YOU CAN'T HIT 80% YOU USELESS MASS OF PIXELS!!??

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Mine would be Street Fighter IV. Could not beat Seth no matter what I did, even on easy. And of course, that was the rare occasion when I could reach him. Usually, I couldn't get past the 'rival' character right before him. I started screaming at the TV so much that I pulled the disk out, threw it across the room (didn't break), shoved it back in its case, and threw the case under my chest of drawers so that, if I did get the, "Okay, I'll try it again," feeling, it would be too hard to reach and I wouldn't have to suffer from it anymore.

I sold it about two weeks later, never beating Seth.

Focus Attacks. They fuck him up -almost- every time.

My biggest has to be EVE Online. I got robbed of multi-billions of ISK in blueprints because the courier in my alliance at the time decided to give me lip for reminding him of his overdue delivery (because apparently he had just returned from surgery or some such). That was the last time I was going to make such a colossal mistake in a game that actively punishes ignorance and stupidity, after 3 1/2 years of not getting anywhere.

 

[SmallHatLogan]

I don't know what my biggest one was but I had one recently (which is unusual because I'm not really a regey gamer). The fucking Frankenstein monster in the first Castlevania. I never owned a Nintendo so most of my NES experiences have been in my adult years. I've attempted Castlevania a few times and have actually beaten Frankenstein's monster before (It's usually Death and his Godforsaken corridor that make me give up), but for some reason this time I just couldn't do it. I got a few game overs and was getting sick of the entire level as well. Eventually I just threw in the towel.

Fuck that guy and fuck his stupid flea man.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Most fighting games. I'm terrible at them and usually quit after about 10 minutes

 

[Treeberry]

"I need you to take care of my Berry Field!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
"But you must!"
"No"
The Home button solves most things. Yes, I rather lose progress than be whipped into farming.

I know the feeling. The game seems to be intent on foisting stuff on you when it wants. I got so annoyed in that one town where you have go up a tower and be told all about Mega Evolutions just because the game dictated so. All I wanted to do was explore that little patch of long grass outside of town before going up that damn tower. Also, why is the game throwing free pokemon at me? Let me catch them or earn them somehow instead.

I had a rather silly rage-quit recently. I was playing Final Fantasy 12 for the first time but I was getting really sick of those silly forced tutorials and I was getting the sense that stuff was happening but I wasn't sure why. Also Vaan and Penelo totally look like poor oppressed orphans with their sunny complexion, well-fed bodies and better attire than half of Dalmasca.

I decided to give up on Harvest Moon: A New Beginning for a similar reason. Oh, I though, surely those tutorials people go on about won't that bad? URAGHARAGH. Let me do things for myself, game. Do not take away my agency! It felt like I was playing according to a checklist. And I really resent having to wait for so long to be able to mine and fish.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Final Fantasy X HD - Seymour Flux.

Ugh, that fight gave me PTSD. Do what I did and cheese the bastard. Make sure all your Aeons have their overdrives ready to go, and then just unload them on him. If possible, have some characters' overdrives charged as well, in case the Aeons' damage falls short. Also, haste Yuna; you'll need her to pump out the damage as quick as possible.

OT: I am a calm man; there's little that can phase me. Then my XCOM Assault Colonel misses a 99% hit chance. Twice in a row. Guess whose pay got docked indefinitely.

 

[FPLOON]

Lollipop Chainsaw... The No Fear Of Heights Trocheivement...

So far, that situation, alone, has been THE pinnacle of all my rage quits... The amount of luck you would need to obtain that particular trophy was so BS that it has been over a year since I have touched that particular game...

And I was having so much fun back then... and, at the time, I was one trophy away from platinuming it...

Almost a complete waste of time at this point...

 

[Astoria]

I've had a few good ones but my best was playing NFS Most Wanted (the first one). I'd been trying for ages to complete the rep quests so I could beat Razor and it had taken me a week of trying. Then after I kid you not an hour long police chase I finally was able to get enough points but by that point I had about 100 cops after me so it took another hour to get rid of them all. Of course the game decided to screw me over by glitching out and my car being stuck. No biggy I thought I'm off the road and the cops won't find me. With 2 seconds left of cool down time a cop saw me so I got busted. Needless to say things were thrown and it was a month before I went back to it and finished it.