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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: oldgamerz on January 13, 2018, 10:24:04 pm
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How do you handle rage or anger quits? Have you ever broken a controller or a console? for me
When generally a video game goes too fast or too complex or, it makes me fatigue. I get angry and turn off the game console. I have broken a few controller a long time ago. I'm a loser when it comes to games, I usually get lost or don't know what to do in which is why I turn off so many games not even bothering to get off the first level
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I've never broken a controller, especially nowadays with how pricey they are, but I've gotten pissed at games and it's usually just me turning the game off and going to do something else, usually finding something more chill or just different to watch. It's never worth it to get that angry about something that you throw a controller lol
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It doesn't really count as a rage quit. But there was one occasion back in the day, I was really upset after getting into a fight with my brother... and I decided to take it out on one of my PC games. I threw the game disc down the hall, it hit a wall and cracked. I liked that game too, poor Ultimate Ride... It didn't deserve that. Of course, no one ever forgot the one time I broke my game.
It's funny how you can work so hard to always keep yourself in line, but no one ever forgets the mistakes you made, no matter how small.
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broke 2 xbox 360 controllers and two ps2 controllers =(
now i just keep the broken controller next to me so i can throw it instead of the not broken one lol
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I typically just get very vocal and eventually just quit before i break something. x)
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Just quit playing. If playing a game leads that kind of temper tantrum you really shouldn't be playing.
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I have never broken any hardware due to rage. I have definitely had moments of anger while gaming, but never had that impulse to destroy my stuff.
I did have a friend in college that was amazingly good at games. To this day he is the best player I have ever encountered in person. He would break controllers all the time. So maybe the rage could be proportionate to level of skill. More likely it just has to do with how well you deal with frustration as an individual.
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I just quit playing and come back to it later. Never broken anything, and don't understand the throwing controllers thing. It's just a waste, heat of the moment or not.
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I've slammed my mouse on the desk a few times, but I've never broken anything. I tend to take my anger out on VoIP.
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I haven't raged about a game since I was like, 10 years old. Adults having temper tantrums about video games is totally inexcusable and childish - don't like it, don't play it, and if you really can't control your anger, get professional help.
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Never raged and broken anything video game related out of anger, not as a child or otherwise.
That giant gray brick I put cartridges into and let suck up all those expensive double A batteries? Yeah, all that stuff cost money and if I lost or broke it, I wasn't getting another one. Not unless I felt like working for it.
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I have rage quit and controller raged a lot in my life, but funny enough I've only destroyed one controller out of the hundreds of times I tossed one at the TV or at the floor in front of me. Back during the heyday of the Dreamcast I rented Marvel vs. Capcom and could not for the life of me bet the final boss in Arcade Mode. I remember getting super close and he destroyed me in a series of cheap attacked. I was so pissed I chucked the poor Dreamcast controller at the floor that somehow the PCB inside physically broke whole the outer shell remained in tact. I am honestly surprised that is the only controller i've ever busted...I get pretty angry when I play video games sometimes lol
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I haven't raged about a game since I was like, 10 years old. Adults having temper tantrums about video games is totally inexcusable and childish - don't like it, don't play it, and if you really can't control your anger, get professional help.
There's a difference between being frustrated and a temper tantrum, I'm pretty sure anyone who has broken a controller didn't mean to but just did it on moment.
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Can't say I've ever really raged at a game. Frustrated, yes, but never really raged.
I have, however, flipped off my TV in jubilation upon overcoming something incredibly aggravating, like some of those bastard Shine Sprites or fighting game bosses.
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me too i will growl like a idiot and flip my tv off when no one's looking and mumble under my breath I know I
look like a asshole but it's makes me feel better.
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I haven't raged about a game since I was like, 10 years old. Adults having temper tantrums about video games is totally inexcusable and childish - don't like it, don't play it, and if you really can't control your anger, get professional help.
There's a difference between being frustrated and a temper tantrum, I'm pretty sure anyone who has broken a controller didn't mean to but just did it on moment.
In my personal life I am not an angry or aggressive person, but I guess because I am so passionate about video games, that passion seems to manifest itself as anger when a game is really kicking my ass, especially if it's because of some broken mechanic on a game or because of cheap game design. To be fair I don't get angry at every game I play, maybe 1/4 games I play really push my buttons, but in terms of getting ultra pissed, it's probably 1/20 games. I definitely don't need professional help, not does my anger at games translate into me trying to run people off the road, beating my spouse, or getting into fist fights with strangers.
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Also "don't like it don't play it" is a pretty stupid thing to say considering some of my favorite games make me rage the most
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me too i will growl like a idiot and flip my tv off when no one's looking and mumble under my breath I know I
look like a asshole but it's makes me feel better.
Yep...I grumble like hell to myself and hope nobody hears!
I try and avoid frustrating games these days...I have limited time to play, so I like to maximize the happiness. I am strangely drawn to Cuphead though :o
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How do you handle rage or anger quits? Have you ever broken a controller or a console? for me
When generally a video game goes too fast or too complex or, it makes me fatigue. I get angry and turn off the game console. I have broken a few controller a long time ago. I'm a loser when it comes to games, I usually get lost or don't know what to do in which is why I turn off so many games not even bothering to get off the first level
At first I usually cuss the game out or just have the basic frustration we all experience :). 9 times out of 10 a game won't push me beyond that. I usually just shut the game off. But some games are really captivating with their evil. Like Ninja Gaiden or Cuphead. But as the game's irradiating pain lingers through my veins as it's RNG spends hours ripping me off and violating me emotionally like some sick captor I develop this sense of stockholm syndrome. I try to pass the frustration and anger off with 3rd person comedy routines and I laugh at the game as if it's a joke or as if it's meant to be a joke but once it sets in that i'm imprisoned and the thing I so very hate has become my very vice I become afraid that I will never find a way to beat it or that it's just toying with me. I scream to the TV to fix the problems and I question life itself. I swear, I grunt angrily and I eventually cry which makes me madder and than I typically go off the handle with tears rolling down my cheeks, distain in my heart. I stand up to my captor (the game) and call it some obscene words that should not be repeated. I spit villainy at my TV screen and typically end up punching a pillow or DVD case until I become breathless and hurt my knuckles and I can no longer throw a punch which is when I collapse into the cushions and finish my cry.
Rarely games get me to that level. It's certainly not a common occurance. But maybe 3 times in my life have come a game that essentially game raped me. Being just truly abused by a sick game dev until you forget who you truly are or what world you are in. And when you end up beating the game you feel this sense of sadness that combines with your valor. You beat your captor but It's like the walls melting in your prison cell. You extinguished a living hell around you but the hell became you so a piece of you dies in the process. You mind became institutionalized and you just want nothing more for the pain to come back. It's the feeling of being sick and twisted and the whole time you can't understand why but you love the game regardless of what it put your through. You question weather you beat the game or did the game beat you. And it's at this moment you find your true identity and purpose in life. You long to be hurt again. The scars have become your soul. Sat, head in your palms. Rain pouring down your hair. Soaked shirt. Rain drops or tears on your cheeks? Only you know the truth. And THOSE games are the games that keep us up at night. Like an ex lover that called you fat and tried coaxing you into self harming but you miss them because they were the only friend you had. You have grown but that piece of you still exists and always will.
Than have come games that I just sold out of rage lol. Last year I posted NBA 2k18 on ebay for 40 dollars (55 at the time) and sold it within 1 hour to some UNlucky fellow. It's rare a game pushes me to sell it but if it does it's typically a broken, micro trans riddled piece of trash like 2k18 :).
Lately when A game gets me mad I just take it out of the console and call it a day though. I get mad but typically a game either isn't good enough for me to troop it out and get mad enough or it's just a light amount of anger that I can ignore with some youtube. :D.
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I live by this. I've had to say it to my son several times.
"Games are supposed to be fun. If you're mad, you're not having fun. If you're not having fun, go do something else."
It's ok to get frustrated with a hard game. It makes overcoming the challenge that much sweeter. It's just not ok to get full on mad.
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For me most fast pace reflex games are not fun. I play mostly sports games and first person shooters. I usally get mad if I can't make out whats on screen and the cpu takes advantage of bad screen angles. I have vary poor eyesight and often can't see well in shiny night lights like in need for speed underground" and also in some first person shooters when a bunch of guys is hiding far away and killing me in the process.
I never beat Medal Of Honor: Front lines. due to bad guys shooting me off screen in an area on a hill far beyond what the graphics display and at night too. It's the level where you start on a hill and the bad guys shoot rockets far beyond the visual distance of the game. everything is in fog and you can't see the other side of the field when the men are shooting you as an example.
turns out they are on a distant hill and harrass you and use the view distance of the game itself to hide and kill you
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Ive raged. I remember one time I was playing MK PS3 online. Was kicking the shit out of this person and all the sudden they caught me in some cheap ass combo and beat me. I was like wtf and tossed my controller. Ill be damned if it didnt hit the wall and shatter. Had to go buy another one the next day. Never did it again though.
Ive lost my marbles once during Everquest. Our loot was handled by a raid council who determined who got what. I had been after a certain item for months. The thing finally drops and it honestly should have been mine. But one of the raid leader's buddy decided he wanted it too and it was awarded to him. I got pissed and punched the wall. My hand hurt for a few days. Funny thing is now I cant remember what the item was or if I ever even got it later on.
Another time was another MMO, Dungeons and Dragons online. The weird thing about that game is you are not set in stone on your class (this has to do with the whole story). I played a bard and I repeatedly organized groups to get my bard's epic weapon. It was like an hour long quest with a 12 hour lockout. The main piece only dropped in this one quest. After doing this thing literally every day for about 2-3 weeks, the item finally drops. I was the only bard so naturally I figured I would get it but another guy in the group said he was going to class swap to a bard later and wanted to roll against me. Sure enough, he fucking won. I was angry as fuck and just turned the fucking computer straight off. Cooled down the next day and it dropped again, lol. This time I went with a guild group so they all knew I wanted it and let me have it.
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I've had my fair share of pissed off gaming moments but the only time I remember strait up raging was in Gran Turismo 3 trying to get the damn licenses.... I gripped this PS2 controller and twisted as hard as i could till it broke.
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I've had my fair share of pissed off gaming moments but the only time I remember strait up raging was in Gran Turismo 3 trying to get the damn licenses.... I gripped this PS2 controller and twisted as hard as i could till it broke.
Gran Turismo 4 I know is hard, I never played 3 as much. due to the lack of cars in that game. Overall I find Gran Turismo 3 A spec the worst gran Turismo I ever played. try gran turismo 2 for PS1 that game has TON's of cars and is easier but Gran Turismo 4 has more tracks and cars though ::)
Their is also harsh language spoken by myself when I fail in the license by a few milliseconds I don't ever aim for all gold I am happy with silver & bronze, when comes :) but for all gold you can unlock a hidden car in some Gran Turismo games
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Ive raged. I remember one time I was playing MK PS3 online. Was kicking the shit out of this person and all the sudden they caught me in some cheap ass combo and beat me. I was like wtf and tossed my controller. Ill be damned if it didnt hit the wall and shatter. Had to go buy another one the next day. Never did it again though.
Online games against people can sometime be a bitch Mortal Kombat can be especially frustrating even against the CPU because that game rewards the person with the best reflexes and combos, it can be majorly unfair and unbalanced at times
As for RPGs sounds like you got trolled @soera or maybe just highly unlucky at that moment
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I've never rage quit per-say, but I have gotten frustrated at certain games like the souls series. I would just take a deep breath and try again later, works every time, especially with Nioh on those DLC bosses.
I use to play a lot of Street Fighter IV and V online, never rage quit there either, just treat it as a learning process when I get beat to get better.
But then again, takes quite a bit for me to get really angry in general. So never broke a controller in my time of gaming.
However, I have gotten some nasty messages from people on Xbox Live and PSN while playing Street Fighter. To the point where I can feel their anger through my screen. Not my fault I beat them and bumped their rank lower, heh.
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I try to quit playing games before I get to the point of anger.
I've been playing Furi lately, so I've been playing one life at a time. If I die, I stop playing for a while so I don't get flustered and stuff. I find the game is much easier as just a pick up and play... not that I get angry when I die in this game... but I bet I would if I wasn't taking constant breaks.
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When I was a kid used to leave the room with the TV and the Console on just to go outside and play with my friends, hours later when I came back I continue with the game with a different attitude and of course more relaxed, most of the times this worked like a charm now as an old man when I don't have time to play I just turn the fucking console and the tv off, don't like to throw my controllers cause these are so freaking expensive :o