We’ve all been there at some point. Either through bad game design or an idiotic story, we’ve all gotten so fed up with a game that we’ve either thrown a controller in a fit of rage, or exited out of a title out of disgust. In the new digital era, you can have the pleasure of uninstalling something that pissed you off, and then having to immediately redownload 50GB of data because you didn’t quite think that decision out.
That’s why the question we posed in this week’s Now Loading was “has a game ever made you so mad that you broke something?” We got some interesting stories as answers, as some PlayStation LifeStyle writers handle their temper better than others.
Check out the gallery below to find out what the staff answered:
Now that you’ve seen our answers, we’d love to see what made you angriest while playing a game. Feel free to chime in below with what your angriest gaming moment was, and if you’ve ever rage quit a game!
We’re always looking for suggestions for our next Now Loading. If you’ve got a good one then let us know via email (or leave a comment below), and we might feature it next week with a special thank you to the sender!
Now Loading is a weekly recurring feature where the PlayStation LifeStyle staff discusses anything video game-related ranging from hot topics to more whimsical subjects. Past editions can be found here.
Essential Reading:
Now Loading: How Mad Has a Game Made You?
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How Mad Has a Game Made You?
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Anthony Severino
The angriest a video game has ever made me... I have a short fuse, so I'm sure there are dozens of scenarios. I've bitten controllers, twisted them until they cracked, etc. But one time, while playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo for the SNES I had a perfect win-streak against the CPU ended by Sagat. Fast forward to about 25 losses in a row to his Tiger Uppercut, I got so angry I kicked the glass door of my entertainment center. It didn't shatter, but I kicked it right off the hinges to where the screws holding in the hinges came right out of the cheap-ass particle board.
I blamed my younger brother, who got punished. Yes, I am a jerk. I never did beat Sagat that day. -
Blake Grundman
I have a long history of controller brutality, dating all the way back to N64. Let’s just be honest: Those ugly-ass trident controllers had it coming. It doesn’t help matters much when you have a brother that is 6 years younger, with savant level Super Smash Brothers skills. A few months and countless rage-quits later, we had enough knockoff controllers to open a Funcoland.
My most recent occurrence of this was actually last week, while reviewing Mega Man Collection 2. After failing on the same infuriating platforming section for at least the 20th time (I'm looking at you, Mega Man 8!) I spiked my controller harmlessly into the couch in frustration. Except there was one small problem: I missed the couch. This sent the controller hurtling into a cement floor. Oops!!
Let's just say that it's a good thing that we had a player 2 controller laying around as backup. RIP Launch controller.
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Cameron Teague
The only game to ever make me cause physical harm to my gaming system would be Demon's Souls. I was tasked with the review for PlayStation LifeStyle and by the end of the review, I was on my second controller and got close to being on my third. -
Chandler Wood
I've channeled some sort of gaming zen in my recent years. I still get upset, but it's much more controlled than when I was a kid. I don't recall specifically ever breaking anything, but I've done the "leg puncher," where I will pound on my leg in frustration to avoid breaking stuff I own, forgetting that my leg is actually something I own. It's not for lack of trying to break things though. I'm sure that under the right circumstances, some of my childhood gaming rages could have easily broken things, I must have just gotten lucky-- or my memory is terrible. I've tried to suppress that side though. At the end of the day, with the help of my wife who hates when I gamer rage, I'm realizing it's just a game. Unless it's something getting in the way of my Platinum, then so Help Me GODDAMN MOTHERF-- -
Keri Honea
I've never broken a controller, but I have tossed one on the floor in anger. I do rage-quit more than I should, but in this particular instance, it was because the game's story infuriated me. The game was Final Fantasy XIII-2, and after watching how the ending of the game had no real resolution, followed by a fade-to-black and "TO BE CONTINUED...", I yelled an obscenity and flung my DualShock 3 into the floor.
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Michael Briers
Call of Duty: World at War. Somehow managed to trudge through the campaign on veteran to nab the Platinum trophy after one too many rage quits. -
Paulmichael Contreras
I can't recall the game, but one apparently made me mad enough to throw my DualShock 3 up into the air. I did manage to catch it, but at some point the LEDs that indicate player number went out, indicating I was thrashing the controller a bit too harshly. I have since calmed down, and don't lash out at all these days because I, too, have come to the conclusion that it's just a game. Plus, these controllers aren't cheap!
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Tyler Treese
I'm usually pretty even tempered nowadays (unless someone disses pizza, which is the only good thing about life), but I was more hot under the collar as a kid. The angriest I probably got was while playing the story mode of Mario Party 7. Yes, I played the single-player of Mario Party games. I was a weird, very lonely kid, okay? Anyhow, it all builds up to this boss fight against bowser, and I must've failed this mini-game 30-times. It was a very long test of avoiding obstacles, and I kept getting hit after a few minutes of play. I didn't actually break my GameCube controller (they are quite sturdy!), but I did throw it around quite a bit. I don't think I ever beat that mini-game. I think I gave up and decided to play something less awful than the solo mode of a party game.
