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This week's question is: Has a videogame ever driven you to inflict physical damage on your controller or surrounding environment? If so, which game?

Soul Calbur 3's Chronicles of the Sword mode, it made me crack my controller in two, and destroy a couple of mannequins. (I was working at a tux shop at the time, and was able to play since there were never any customers.)
Needless to say, I got stuck on the last level, and never finished it.

No, more like quell instead of drive. It's anger and frustration that caused those holes in my walls >_> - I can't really think of which games have made me angry though, because I am pretty patient and even games like "I wanna be the guy" didn't make me throw my laptop out the window.

Did you pre-order GTA: Chinatown Wars from some store that gave you the best weapons and a zillion dollars when the game starts?

Once controllers started getting heavy I lost my desire to break and throw them. I equate heavy electronics with expense so something deep inside me won't let me toss something as heavy as an Xbox 360 controller.

Also, once they lost their cords I realized the possibility for damage was multiplied exponentially. At least with a cord the things were tethered.

All this is to say that the last time I really hucked a controller was when I owned an SNES. I think the game was Bram Stoker's Dracula. Thankfully, because of the cord, I narrowly missed scraping the dry wall.

I'm usually very level-headed when it comes to gaming. When I lose, even cheaply, I tend to grit my teeth and try harder next time. Controllers don't get thrown when the underlying game is decent.

Where I get violent is when I buy games that are unconscionably awful. Games like Airport Tycoon or Stronghold 2 or Empire Earth 3. Those games usually lead to me playing "fun with angle grinders, belt sanders, hacksaws, and/or microwave ovens" with the disc.

Any games where I was playing in a competitive settings ( Tourneys/Ladder-play: Not to be confused with playing in a public server ), be it a strategy game like WC3/DoW2 where a wrong decision led to the annihilation of an expensive squad or Team Based FPS games like counter-strike where I wasn't fast enough on the draw or where wrong decisions lead to loosing a key round.

There is a large piece missing from my desk due to server discons on cod4.

Lag upsets me.

Once when I was wee (i think i was like 13?) my older brother got really mad at Mario Kart on the SNES he picked up the game slammed it against the wall and then threw it out of the window... of our 4th floor condo. Hey man, 150cc was HARD back in the day. The casing of the cartridge survived; the game was killed though when put into the system only blackness and silence appeared on the TV. I was pretty honked off even if it was his game.

Me myself? Not really. Although when playing with friends and we fuck up or they turn into a team-killing fucktard I might hit THEM with something nearby... once I brained my friend with a oboe case for killing us in the original halo.

i started playing COD:WaW on vetren and the constant getting blown up by grenades drove me crazy, so i finally had enough i was only meant to chuck my controller on the floor in anger and instead the whole thing came apart.....oops

In my teenage years, I'd smack the Playstation controller on the arm of my chair in frustration.

I'd like to say I'm more grown up now, but only a couple of days ago I smacked my Rock Band mic on the desk in frustration at some song I couldn't 5*, resulting in the wire mesh thing popping out and cutting my hand in the process of putting it back together. Won't be doing that again any time soon.

I've never permanently killed a controller through video game related anger, so I guess that's a good thing.

A few of my cheap ($15) mice are broken during the unbelievably intense online battles in World in Conflict. I get super focused, one wrong action from my team mates or a powerful counterattack and I snap.

Yeah...WoW.
Made me put a hole in the wall.
Well, a combination of that and getting yelled at.

Also, I broke the little things that tilt my keyboard up.
I'm still sad about that. I hate hurting objects.
People? Not so much. But things...

I broke my headset after a game froze when I was saving.

Good thing it was only $10.

well I hurt my freind once while playing something on a ps3.....but that could be because he punched me in the face I hope I never see him again because I through his ps3 at him and it landed on his broken ankle but earlier I saw him kissing my girlfreind the baustarud!

I've had an airborne wii remote. Although it was more aimed at the floor. Remotes are expensive in Australia...

Anyways, this was due to gradually stumbling through Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and the game's total lack of instructions. I'd have to die about five times before I realise exactly what I'm meant to be doing. The only time the game DOES tell you what to do is when it flashes up quicktime events that you have .4 of a second to respond to.

I only broke my mouse few times.

Oooh, wait, it's because of a game? No, no. It's just that the cable got stuck between my PC and my drawer.

On rock band i was getting so pissed off i couldn't do "Won't get fooled again" by The Who on expert. I stamped so hard on the pedal it snapped in half, no more drumming for me!

I've tossed countless controllers to the ground, but I don't think I've ever broken one.
My arms are clearly never as angry as I am.

A game has, however, caused my brother and I to have at each other with sticks.

Yes, but I've never broken anything. I've thrown my mouse across the room when either game game crashed or I got busted in NFS: Most Wanted and I had 200,000+ bounty I was set to score. I used to throw things at my monitor when I still had a CRT. Mostly now when I get pissed I yell a lot, quit and go do something else.

Never the equipment, because I know the value of said controllers and I think I'd have to kick myself if I snapped a controller in half or something.

So...things that I have done when a game thoroughly pisses me off.

Now, this doesn't have to be, say, a game that pisses my off. I can safely say that I enjoy most of the content of most of my games (and I'm talking all iterations of Playstation, computer, and just about everything I use emulators on). However, there are some things that give me so much anger that Satan himself would dive screaming for the nearest corner to hide in.

If I think back hard enough, I'm sure I can think of alot of qualifying areas, but let's go for recent events. Namely, two specific instances in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

If you know the game well enough, great. If not, look it up and we'll be on the same page. So first...I'm at the game's Labyrinth of Amala at the Third Kalpa and - if you game buffs recall right - this game features Dante from Devil May Cry. I don't mind the cameo, but why do we have a couple of puzzle areas dedicated to him in a screwed-up game of tag, in which that you have to fight him at the end of that? The Labyrinth has, by the by, no save point except at the WAY beginning, so you're risking some serious life and limb the farther down you go, even with the shortcuts. Still, I beat Dante, 'cause I'm Level-81 and I have some tough allies. (Using The Harlot on a guy who uses mostly physical attacks and has lightning? Good call.) Okay, so beat Dante, furthered the plot, and started heading back. On my way back, I got blind-sided by a group of REGULAR demons who got in a lucky hit, killed me, and made me start all over.

Words cannot describe my anger for a cheap shot. I wasn't ill-prepared or anything, nor lacking in power. My crew is strong enough to beat the crowd down with mere physical pummeling. Still, this happens and it drives me nuts sometimes. Ah, but that is NOT the end of it. For while that one made me mad enough to pound in a wall, I have an even BETTER one, my current problem...

Players of this game may recall the appearance of Fiends, those skull-headed guys who are special random bosses bearing items necessary for the Labyrinth. After a long succession of first losing to and then beating these guys, I have come up against an opponent whose existence I will call a major buzz-kill. The last of the Fiends, the Trumpeter. He sits directly in the way of furthering the plot in an area where you will find no save point nearby, so every time you want to go after him, it is a LOOONG trek. Trumpeter is the cheapest of all enemies that I have encountered thus far. Think about it. An attack that will automatically kill an opponent without fail...and another ability that will fully heal and replenish magic. Now then, these two abilities have a pattern AND they are suppose to only hit the target with the lowest HP (unless all your guys are at full, in which case it's random), but coordinating this shit is NOT FUN. IT IS WORK. Did I pop in this game to do a chore? No! This guy doesn't even have real power! He has these special moves because of 'his god'. So, in other words, he gets to through around measures of omnipotence whenever he likes and if I make the tiniest mistake in dealing with him, it's over. Explain to me why this is a good idea! Because it looks like I face either fighting him literally FOREVER or being auto-killed in a way that roleplay with people would be called cheating. It's a cheap move, completely unforgiveable. And that just puts me in the mood to destroy things.

So, for those of you in game developer land, this is your chance to get it right. You can make games fun, challenging, even ridiculously hard, but the MOMENT you add in a creature or an instance in a game that seems designed specifically to dick around with the player and make him jump through hoops, you have made the WRONG move. (Getting back to the Labyrinth, for instance. Did you know the SAME monsters attacked me in the SAME hallway in about the SAME spot and tried to get me AGAIN when I wen't back there again? I'm serious!)

I've nearly busted my controller on three separate occasions:
1) PS2 Controller - Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, after getting a beat down from the first Dante fight for the 7th time.
2) Xbox 360 Controller - Mass Effect, trying to fight the evil Ansari lady during the first playthrough (before I figured how to upgrade my stats correctly)
3) PS3 Controller - Killzone 2, that got-dang ATAC

Yes, once. Three Leaf Clover on GTA 4 sent my 360 Controller on a little aerial adventure. It wasn't hard enough to break it or anything, but it certainly was a frustrating mission my first time through.

I did while playing one of the arcade games in Bully. The PS2 controller shattered and that was inconvenient. I can sympathize with the frustration of the poster who got hacked off at the Matriarch Benezia fight in Mass Effect; I would have thrown my controller if I'd had one to replace it.

I have to say that I am a more of a calm person, never broken anything after playing a game.
Have had a friend that I played halo 2 with online, something about a lag that made him miss a headshot. (he gets very easily angry when losing)
He took the controller and threw through a window, landed in the mountain side 50 metres down from his house intact. (amazinginly, lots of rock there.)
But it didn't work.

It was the only controller he had.

To bad for him.

In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas every racing mission I would fail up to five times and those failed times I would throw my controllers at walls, punch my TV, and yell at my TV. Good Times.

DeathSnake:
i started playing COD:WaW on vetren and the constant getting blown up by grenades drove me crazy, so i finally had enough i was only meant to chuck my controller on the floor in anger and instead the whole thing came apart.....oops

Same cause, here, but the for me score is as follows:
Controller: 1.
Drywall: 0.

I guess I threw it so hard over my shoulder that it put a small hole in the wall and survived the impact without a scratch (just a little chalky powder on the handle). Or maybe I just need to invest in better drywall.

...stupid Japanese soldiers that know how to cook grenades. Is there really any way to defend against a grenade that goes off in one second and take two seconds to run from? Also, getting flanked by bayoneteers that don't even bother to activate the QTE and just instantly kill you. Rage.

Most recently, street fighter 4, this things match up system is terrible, I'm getting paired up with people leagues ahead of me in the game when it comes to skill level, it's frustrating, I already have to deal with the controls since I only have a normal controller, and I'm pretty sure half the people I'm p[laying are using those special arcade sticks.

It got so frustrating that I kicked over my computer in a fit of semi-rage, since I was sensible enough to kick over the computer that i don't use anymore.

Call Of Duty 5.

Firstly, I get to level 65. Yes, I'm proud. I laugh in my friends' faces, as they do to me.
Then, I log on next day. "Hmm, where'd my ranking go?"

THEY PUT ME BACK ON 0.

I threw my controller onto the floor >:O

I'm quite sick of that game now but I am level 62 on prestige.

My fits of rage towards inanimate objects are few and far between. However there has been a recent event that just ticked me off and I knew it would. Prinny: Can I really be the Hero? Probably one of the most frustraiting games next to IWBTG if you play on hell's finest difficulty. At first I was perfectly fine but as the levels progressed and got harder and since I could only take one hit. Prinny became an exercise in pain because each time I got past an obstacle I would then die and be brought back to the checkpoint to try again. At times I would just throw my psp onto my bed in frustraition.

Yes, many a controller has met a violent end in my hands as have some keyboards mostly while I was still playing WoW. Dualshock PS2 controllers have been the most durable in my experience, N64 and Gamecube controllers the weakest. For keyboards I recommend the ugly 90s ones that have the old style plugs. Those things are absolute tanks as keyboards go and practically free if you can actually find them.

I used to be horrible with frustration, but lately I've gotten a lot better. Most recent example was a few years ago with Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. I was playing as Trevor and got stuck on the first fight with the main villain (forget his name). After 45 tries (I counted) I decided I was done, and flung the disc into my closet. It only got one nasty scratch, but it was enough to make it unplayable.

Oh man, there was a game...but I believe I ended up smashing my head against my desk until I forgot about it, which apparently worked. All I know is that I broke about 3 controllers trying to play it.

Ultimate Saga too. Not only was the game bullshit, but it was just disappointing. Shame on Square for releasing bad games recently.

When I was a young teen if a game was getting really frustrating I'd beat on my desk. Nothing ever was broken but thinking back I am a little embarrassed I got so worked up over stupid things. It happened more with things like dling a huge file and near the end something would mess up and it wouldn't dl for whatever reason, leaving me going "ahhhhhhhhhh!"

I have gone through several computer mice. One was from clicking so furiously that I caused an internal disconnect. Another couple have had cords/USB attachments broken.

I also managed to drum so furiously trying to keep up on rock band that I broke the red drum pad off the drumset.

My 360 controller broke because of Resident Evil 5 on professional.

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