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Title: What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: Gamebasher on December 22, 2007, 06:04:50 AM: I just thought I would ask you fine Nintendo-soldiers what the craziest thing you ever did was when being angry over a game?

Personally, I am hot-tempered when I cannot progress in a game, though only if I really try and try dozens of times without any succes, and where any walkthrough doesn´t make it better. I have been yelling, screaming, cursing, making strange faces overall displaying a completely distastefull behaviour because of games I began to hate while playing them.

But the craziest thing I ever did was to rip out the gaming disc from the console, curse it twice, and next sadistically breaking it so hard that I discovered bits and pieces of it lying under furnitures, and in corners of my apartment weeks later (Yeees! I GOT my revenge over the damn thing - muhahaha!). That was after trying to beat an impossible boss tens of times, and finally realizing the game had me totally cornered. I also once took a Nintendo 64 controller (while playing LoZ: Majoras Mask), and threw it up against the wall in utter frustration, several times, with nothing happening to it at all. It did break it eventually, but solid make as it was (Nintendo´s products are) it took a good while to my amazement.

Ah yes, the path to becoming an "educated gamer", as IGN once called it, is sometimes a long and hard one. Not all are as good at picking up games and completing them. But then again, games are also evolving all of the time. I for one, am glad that the new Metroid Prime 3 comes with a level select. They should include them in more games, so that non-hardcore gamers who aren´t super-sharp at playing demanding games stand a chance at actually seeing the end-credits these days. That way one can play the games on easy, and re-play them on hard, when feeling able to do so. In general, more consumer friendly that way I think.
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Post by: NWR_pap64 on December 22, 2007, 07:11:01 AM: As I kid I would get so angry and frustrated that I would bite and chew my controller until I damaged it. Years later, I would need braces :p .
Title: RE:What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: Crimm on December 22, 2007, 07:24:36 AM: Mostly yelling. Usually I only get really angry at games that are broken in some meaningful way (for example bad camera or poorly designed platforming).
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Post by: Smash_Brother on December 22, 2007, 08:08:03 AM: Punched a baby.
Title: RE:What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: Maverick on December 22, 2007, 08:51:37 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
Punched a baby.

Well at least you got it out of the way.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on December 22, 2007, 08:57:24 AM: Bought a PS3.

LOL, JOKE
Title: RE:What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: Gamebasher on December 22, 2007, 10:20:46 AM: Pap64 wrote: "As I kid I would get so angry and frustrated that I would bite and chew my controller until I damaged it. Years later, I would need braces :p ."

I know that one! I did try that, and made a hefty bitemark in my controller, but quickly decided to NEVER do THAT again. It´s somehow too hard on the teeth (!), and can wind up costing you an awefull lot of money over at the dentist. Anyways, I decided some time ago that the only good way to respond to a dumb game, that´s faulty somehow in the control or the camera (or just so damn hard in the AI and no level-select that it isn´t fun to play anylonger), is to:

1) quietly take it out of ones console, 2) Sneak over to ones walk-in closet and get shoes and a coat on, 3) walk down to the nearest GameStop or GAME and a]very quickly (before losing ones temper completely, and doing "something you will regret") exchange the game for another under the 10 day swop-guarantee or b]FLING it violently over a cliffside or slope while yelling "Go to THE GAP BETWEEN DIMENSIONS you horrible, annoying, idiotic THINNNNNG......I HATE you!!!!!!!!!!!! 4) Afterwards promising oneself to ALWAYS read an online REVIEW of any game you wants to buy from at least two different gaming websites BEFORE buying it !

That way (in my direct experience) there will be no unexpected problems with the game one plays. Because it is either too annoying to be surprised to a bad end by any game one holds good expectations towards. And too expensive to destroy, break, molest, hurt, smash, bite, kill games and controllers or entire consoles because of that kind of problem.

Sigh! I will love the day where videogamemakers invite gamers of different ages, and types, to playtest a new game before it is released (yes I know they got playtesters already. But they are - apparently - mostly used to find bugs in the games, not poor design). That way they can make the needed changes to the gamedesign so it is living up to the directions given by any such test-group of gamers. That way there wont be the current ubiquitous low scores of most games ever reviewed in the review sections of gaming websites!

Said I, the basher of all bad games!
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 22, 2007, 10:35:39 AM: Nothing extreme. Just through my controller accross the room or started yelling at the game (which never seemed to help). I had a friend who threw the controller AT PEOPLE.
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Post by: stevey on December 22, 2007, 10:58:06 AM: chuck the (giant) x-box controller at the system and broke the disk instantly while in the drive.....

oh and I once griped/squeezed a ps2 controller so hard it broke
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on December 22, 2007, 12:14:03 PM: I never lose. lol!
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Post by: Crimm on December 22, 2007, 02:48:24 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: S-U-P-E-R
I never lose. lol!

Losing right now.
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Post by: Caliban on December 22, 2007, 03:14:19 PM: I'm not into the crazy stuff.
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Post by: oohhboy on December 22, 2007, 07:41:57 PM: I go do a Rocky training montage, complete with homo-erotic imagery and come back victorious with a knock out on the 12th round.

Da. Da da dan. Daaa da.
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Post by: Kairon on December 22, 2007, 08:05:16 PM: A couple rounds of Double Dungeon should be enough to calm me down.
Title: RE:What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: ShyGuy on December 22, 2007, 10:10:05 PM: I broke my friend's keyboard while playing Hitman: Blood Money. I later bought him another one.
Title: RE: What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: Nick DiMola on December 23, 2007, 02:19:49 AM: When I was a little kid I used to punch the TV, and then would subsequently punch my own leg. Nowadays I just shut the game off because it's not worth getting that pissed over a video game.
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Post by: nitsu niflheim on December 23, 2007, 01:15:42 PM: I cuss loud enough that everybody in the house can hear me and make them wonder what the hell is going on with me, then promptly forget about it all after I turn the game off, either after getting past the part that frustrated me, or not.
Title: RE:What´s the craziest thing you ever did when frustrated over a game?
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 24, 2007, 11:42:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: nitsu niflheim
I cuss loud enough that everybody in the house can hear me and make them wonder what the hell is going on with me, then promptly forget about it all after I turn the game off, either after getting past the part that frustrated me, or not.

I always like that when you get frustrated with a certain part of game if you shut it off and leave it for awhile, then you end up passing it on your first or second try! Yoda was right, fear and anger do lead to the dark side and cloud your gaming abilities!
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Post by: Smash_Brother on December 24, 2007, 01:56:48 PM: I actually don't get frustrated with games anymore, but when I used to, between punching infants, I'd just put it down for a bit and come back to it later.
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Post by: matt oz on December 24, 2007, 05:46:29 PM: It depends on the game. A recent one that comes to mind is Twilight Princess. I wasn't frustrated with the difficulty or anything, but I had a major problem with the gameplay at one point where I just could not play past a certain part without getting mad. I stopped playing for about 3 weeks, then beat the game in maybe 2 days.

As for difficulty, I've thrown a controller, but that's about it. I only yell when I do something stupid, and it's not a real yell, just like an "Oh no!" kind of yell.

And then there are the games where I just leave them and never come back, like Metroid Prime, Dark Cloud, and Grandia 2, to name a few.
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Post by: Gamebasher on December 25, 2007, 05:58:54 AM: I dropped Metroid Prime 2, and now Metroid Prime 3, for the sheer amount of difficulty in them. I found it better to get rid of them entirely, before getting so frustrated I would have done something I would regret later. Still, I find it a mystery that Retro made the 2. and 3. games in the series so much more difficult than the 1. game. THe first game was just manageable in terms of difficulty, I think. I believe that many more gamers than admit so had to stop playing it for the reason of it being so difficult that it was nolonger fun to play. I have seen enough games in my life to know when a difficulty-level in any one game is such that it is nolonger a question of skill, but whether you actually want to play along on those terms. I didn´t. It´s a personal thing, really.

Now playing Mario Galaxy, which is the most manageable game I have played since Super Mario 64 and LoZ: OoT. Thanks Nintendo! I just wish that there was more games that would have this level of ease, allowing the gamer to see the whole of the gameworld with no annoying levels of difficulty to hinder it.
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Post by: ReverendNoahWhateley on December 28, 2007, 08:44:37 PM: When I get mad at a game, I usually threaten to beat it through cheating. "I tried to play you fair and square, but NO! You had to be a hard case. I know how to use the internet, fool!" Oddly enough, my threats rarely work, even after I follow through with them.
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Post by: MorningStar on January 02, 2008, 09:08:36 PM: When I used to play Call of Duty 1 multiplayer and die after the ridiculously crappy mods came out towards the end of the game's life, I would get angry and slam the mouse multiple times. Eventually the mouse wheel broke off
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Post by: Ian Sane on January 03, 2008, 04:45:51 AM: I've never thrown a controller or anything because, hey, they cost money and as a kid I knew if I broke one my parents would never buy me another. Hell they never even bought the SNES in the first place, my brothers and I saved up to get it. The fact that we even had a videogame console in the house seemed like a huge priviledge.

I have of course occasionally yelled at someone for "distracting" me and causing me to f*ck up a difficult part of a game. Usually they didn't really do anything. One time when I was first playing Ocarina of Time I died the first time I ever encounter Stalfos. I think it was in the forest temple and the fight was significantly harder than any part in the game had been thus far. Upon losing I shouted "OH F*CK THIS GAME TO HELL!" which everyone in the house heard and everyone found very funny. That has since become a catchphrase with my brothers and I. If a game gets stupidly hard and we decide to stop playing we always say "f*ck this game to hell".
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Post by: Kairon on January 03, 2008, 06:55:24 AM: I hate it when people, especially my brother, get riled up at a game and shout or swear at it. I'm very sensitive to negative energy and that sorta stuff is the thing to put me out of whack for the ENTIRE day. I can't stand it.
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Post by: ShyGuy on January 03, 2008, 07:47:30 AM: Gamebasher, I found Prime 1 much harder than Prime 3.

Kairon you're sensitive to negative energy? Wait, what? Out of whack for the entire day? Seriously?
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Post by: Kairon on January 03, 2008, 07:57:34 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Kairon you're sensitive to negative energy? Wait, what? Out of whack for the entire day? Seriously?

Yeah. Why do you think I /cry so much?
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Post by: Adrock on January 03, 2008, 08:21:53 AM: I still yell at games as if it they can hear me yell at them and adjust their frustration level accordingly. It usually takes a while though.
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Post by: ShyGuy on January 03, 2008, 09:50:33 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon
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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Kairon you're sensitive to negative energy? Wait, what? Out of whack for the entire day? Seriously?

Yeah. Why do you think I /cry so much?

I hope that comment on NeoGAF about your review didn't upset you too much then.
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Post by: Kairon on January 03, 2008, 10:10:59 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: ShyGuy
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Originally posted by: Kairon
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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Kairon you're sensitive to negative energy? Wait, what? Out of whack for the entire day? Seriously?

Yeah. Why do you think I /cry so much?

I hope that comment on NeoGAF about your review didn't upset you too much then.

Oh no. That was awesome. I'm famous!
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Post by: Ian Sane on January 03, 2008, 10:11:38 AM: "I'm very sensitive to negative energy"

Make a note to never meet me on a workday. As a programmer I don't think a day goes by where the typical not-working-for-seemingly-no-reason BS of computers doesn't have me saying the f-word under my breath. Think the printer scene in Office Space. Anyone sensitive to negative energy would probably explode walking in the front door of our office.