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Rage - Do you get it?
Hello!
Everyone in there lifetime must get a bit of rage playing an console game or some board game! We've all been there. Coming so close to finally completing some segment of a game after having retried countless times over and over, only to make some small mistake and be forced to start the process all over again. Everyone who has been playing games since at least the 8-bit era has reached their breaking point at some point and completely lost their temper. Oftentimes, something expensive gets broken in the wake of their unbridled fury.

Now, I personally don't have too many stories to tell (I'm pretty even-tempered), but I always love hearing gamer freakout stories. We've all seen videos of kids going absolutely apecrap over a game, but let's just stick to personal stories in this thread.

Since I have to provide my own example to start us off, here's the worst one I can think of:

1) Something really annoying happens.
2) Raise fist/controller.
3) Turn towards something hard (closet/wall/etc.)
4) Re-think the situation and go back to playing calmly.
5) Rage Qutting in around 100th of a second
6) Turning off the Xbox
7) Screaming


Whats your story

I've had that playing MMOs, especially the ones that are more unforgiving of death (like Everquest, back in the day)

Nothing would get me worse than grinding for hours to get a bubble of experience and then losing 2 bubbles in a senseless death.

There were times I literally smashed my hands against my desk and insta-quit when that would happen. Fortunately, games these days are more forgiving. Not sure I could avoid having a stroke if something like that happened today

I nearly broke my 360 controller pressing the big X button down too hard, waiting for it to turn off! (not to mention the words that were coming out of my mouth were very rude towards the other team, and often my team too.)

When I was little, I used to go through SNES controllers every other month. Stupid Final Fight.

I once bashed my fists on the table from the warhammer quest boardgame, of all things. There's like these random encounters between dungeons that you can do nothing to avoid, it's completely random - one is a campfire that gets out of control and melts half your gold (gold being the way you level up). At low levels this is just a 'dang nabbit!' moment. But at high levels - I had spent several sessions just trying to get enough gold to level. I was keenly hoping for and looking forward to the next level...and...poof, it's all gone. Not from a dungeon, where either A: I could do something about it or B: Maybe atleast it was an epic loss from a cool monster. Just a stupid campfire. I'm not sure they playtested that campfire. Aught to be half your gold or 100/200 gold, whichever is lower.

Maybe I am just weird, but I have never broken any gaming stuff out of rage lol. About the closest I ever came was when I was a kid I just about threw my NES controller against a wall playing Mega Man 3, but then thought better of it

I shot my Colleco vision with a 16 gauge. All I am saying.

hallsofvallhalla wrote:I shot my Colleco vision with a 16 gauge. All I am saying.

LOL!!

Not gaming related... but rage related:

When I was in college (yes they had colleges back then), I had to take French as one of my core courses. The course was taught by a Romanian teacher who barely spoke English, so I didn't learn anything at all, but everyone in the class got an A just for showing up every day, so it was all good. However, the textbook was close to $40 (which was a lot back then). At the end of the term, the bookstore wouldn't buy it back because they had switched to a newer edition for the next semester and since I had no use for a French textbook, especially since I couldn't speak French, my friends and I played "kick the textbook" across the quad on the way to the dining hall that night

It was a well-bound book... but it still only lasted about half the trip