Some platformers really piss me off, where you need to time certain jumps perfectly in order to be able to proceed. I remember one game in particular, I think it was called.... oh whatever. It was a gamecube game about a boy turned into a lizard because his neighbor is in fact part of a plot by these giant lizards from another dimmension to take over our world or something. Basically it's a platformer where you can fight enemies with a *few* special moves, and where you can grind around on rails (much like in Sonic). For one thing, I had to use cheats to because to get unlimited Static Bombs (or something like that) in order to defeat anything, and near the end even that wasn't enough. Also, you had no lives, so it's a trial and error game and often you'd find yourself memorizing parts of a level (after several tries) simply to get past it.

I remember playing the first Harry Potter game on PC (of which I'd gotten two copies at Christmas one year), and after a lot of annoyances with one of those hide-under-the-invisibility-cloak-and-try-not-to-make-noise-to-get-through-the-impossibly-huge-library type of levels, I finally made it to the end of the game, where you need to face Voldemort... I never could figure out how to beat him, only that it involved using a spell on the mirror, it would rotate, and then....

Of course there are those moments in Guild Wars (yes, I play that) where I find myself getting into random groups (also called PuG's, Pick Up Group) and ending up wanting to kill someone (not just in-game) because they are too stupid to understand that you've already done the mission, that you know exactly what needs to be done in order for things to go smoothly. Naturally they'll go around thinking they know everything, when in fact everything they do jeopardizes the group....

Alright, time to calm down...

Aside from those moments, I usually just get frustrated, get the feeling I want to kill someone, then it all goes away, because I have amazing self-control.

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Trying to get those gold medals was so bloody difficult!

Where to start...

- GGaHT on Expert on Rock Band. My Fender now has an interesting rattling sound because of that song, not to mention the fact that it now kinda deploys star power whenever it deems it appropriate.
- The mission from Goldeneye on N64 where you have to protect Natalya while she's doing her AGONIZINGLY SLOOOOWWWWW hacker bit. My poor, poor controller.
- I know it has been mentioned, but seriously, the RC plane on San Andreas was freaking stupid.
- The time my NES nuked my save file on FF1 where I had grinded (ground?) to the point where everyone was level 99 (I think) and I was ready to tackle the last dungeon. I introduced that cartridge to my 5-iron.
- Escort missions.
- Sagat from SF2 used to literally make me cry with anger. If I ever hear "Tiger Uppercut!" again, I may kill someone. Also, I have a strange aversion to America's Funniest Home Videos.

However, I love video games...

it was a long time ago, i was playing the hercules game for the ps one, i got to the last level when it froze and i forgot the codes (you cant save) i got so mad i snapped the controller in half,

oh and i was playing the ninja warrior game on g4tv.com, i couldnt get past the damn rolling log so i deemed it appropiate to slam my fist on the desk, fortunately a spoon broke my fall, it then catapulted into my eye.

Fighting Rugal from King of Fighters. ANY of them are frustrating enough to want to put your foot through the Television.

StrangeButNoStranger:
Fighting Rugal from King of Fighters. ANY of them are frustrating enough to want to put your foot through the Television.

Yeah. Rugal, Goenitz, Kryzalid, Orochi, take your pick. They are all the definition of "super cheap"

my friend convinced me to get tony hawks proving grounds for the wii. lets just say the timing in this game as far as reactions is a tad off and its extremely difficult and my gamer muscles were not happy, i couldnt get past the 3rd stage because of my arms hurting so much that i actually cried in frustration and chucked the game out the window. its not a very good game. if i was looking for a skating game with difficult controls i would have gotten skate. i've always loved the easy controls in TH games and now they're gone.

SirCannonFodder:
I used to get controller-slamming mad with numerous games (particularly Mortal-Fucking-Kombat Trilogy. Damn you Shao-Kahn! Damn you!), but that all stopped once I played F-Zero GX. If I didn't exercise a lot of self-restraint, I would've had to replace the controller, something as a 14 year old I did not have the money to do (heck, the only reason I was able to get a GC was because they were selling it for $50 AU. This was in 2003, mind you). Since then, whenever I start getting frustrated with a game, I just stop playing it for a while and come back to it later.

My christ! i cannot do some of the story missions on F-Zero GX, no matter how hard i try!
and i've never unlocked diamond cup because the 'easier' ones on hard are nigh-on impossible

The original GTA's. It may be because I wasn't a pc gamer at the time, but I find it so difficult to get anything done. I can only find pistols and the police have a magic melee that immediately gets you busted.

The maddest I've ever been is hard to pinpoint, though I know the maddest my grandfather has ever been.

My late grandfather got me into gaming, and would explain my half obsession with the Zelda franchise. We played the games together, exchanged pointers, discussed the puzzles. Granted I was only seven when we started doing this right up till the end (I was fourteen when he passed away), I was still hooked, and my favorite genre are still platformers, particularly story rich, puzzle solving ones.

But I digress. When I was ten, my grandfather picked up a little game called Mischief Makers for his N64 whose main character, Ultra-Intergalactic-Cybot G Marina Liteyears (Why I remember that is both beyond me and rather sad I'm sure) is tasked in finding her beloved creator, Professor Theo who has been kidnapped by the Empire for lord only knows why, and rescuing the absent minded old man.

The game, rather weird to say the least offered some very significantly hard challenges, one in particular required Marina to jump over a tall wall whilst holding a pot. The wall was too high for a normal jump, and the pot hindered her movements considerably. With ten years of video game puzzle solving under his belt, my grandfather couldn't for the life of him get Marina over the wall. He even went to that new fangled internet to look for answers, going as far as to post on a forum asking for help only getting snide replies like "Just jump stupid." Anyway, fed up he waited for a visit from my family to ask me to help him out. He explained the situation, and I listened eager to help him out, and he handed me the controller.

Seconds later Marina was on the other side of the wall, holding the pot and I was looking to my grandfather inquisitively wondering what the fuss was all about while he stared at the screen wide eyed before he stormed out of the room cursing. My mother had explained to me how long he had been trying and that he even went on the internet to look for help. Only being ten I didn't quite catch the subtlety of the situation until a few years later when I filed it away as one of my more fonder memories of him.

On an ironic note though, on subsequent visits to the aforementioned wall I have just as much trouble as he had getting over it with that bloody pot as he seemed to.

I hate any system that gives rewards to people who have more experience at the game. Call of Duty 4 is the worst (recently). There's nothing quite like the feeling of getting killed multiple times with Matyrdom(sp) when you can't do anything about it and don't know how to avoid it. I finally get it and now my deaths are productive, great, are we even now? Lord no! Next I try sniping, I do fine until they counter-snipe, with more experience they kill me, oh and also they have the 50-cal sniper rifle of doom. Ok I switch to Close combat, shotguns? Nope they use SMGs, SMG? They pull out the FAMAS, I go for assault rifles, they have the same rifle (or better) with perks and with a huge scope, and I die once more.

Other games have this system, but it isn't as bad, for example, Rainbow Six has unlockable weapons, but some of the best assault rifles are starting weapons. The only really good guns you get later on (for me) are the Desert Eagle and the 2 shotguns.

miller483:

I broke my original Playstation playing Crash Bandicoot 2.

Never got mad at 2 because it was always so funny to see little Crash get his ass handed to him.

Crash Bandicoot 1 on the other hand, AAARGH!!

Getting the good ending meant getting all the gems, ALL the gems. Then jumping from gem to gem over a death pit to get to the end. What happens if you missed a gem?
There's a gap in the line that you can't jump over, so you have to jump backwards BLIND back the way you came.
Should you survive this, your reward? You have to fight Cortex, one of the hardest bosses ever, did I mention that one hit from anything kills you and tree are NO masks.

That made me throw a controller so hard the cable tore out of it.

I made this avatar just as i saw this post for one reason:
jumping jack flash .... (elite beat agents)
beat it tonight on chieftan after about 2 hours worth of attempts, was so happy.

Although ties/runner-ups would have to also to Alma (ninja gaiden), got to her with no healing items and 1/4 a life bar my first play through, wont mention how long that took.

And quite possibly getting invincibility on goldeneye, or even 100% that game if you will, beat every stage on every difficulty and unlocked every cheat the hard way, invin easily being the hardest.

Im not really too angry a person so i guess i cant say ive broken any controllers, systems, tvs, or keyboards, but phew my DS almost got it tonight.

I remember getting mad at castlevania 2. Hard to remember now but there was this one point i could never get past.

fix-the-spade:

miller483:

I broke my original Playstation playing Crash Bandicoot 2.

Never got mad at 2 because it was always so funny to see little Crash get his ass handed to him.

Crash Bandicoot 1 on the other hand, AAARGH!!

Getting the good ending meant getting all the gems, ALL the gems. Then jumping from gem to gem over a death pit to get to the end. What happens if you missed a gem?
There's a gap in the line that you can't jump over, so you have to jump backwards BLIND back the way you came.
Should you survive this, your reward? You have to fight Cortex, one of the hardest bosses ever, did I mention that one hit from anything kills you and tree are NO masks.

That made me throw a controller so hard the cable tore out of it.

Actually, if you got all the gems, you bypassed Cortex and got the good ending, if I recall correctly.

Besides, Crash 3 was the hardest of the 'good Crash' games. *shuns Twinsanity*

One particular level, in order to get the gem for getting 100% of the boxes, involved getting all the way to the end, hitting the green "!" to detonate all the nitro crates in the level, backtracking all the way to the death platform and completing the secret death stage.

The trick? Unless you died in the death stage, dying will cause the death platform to disappear. That means that you have to essentially do the level backwards and forwards without dying, then doing the even harder death stage, whilst getting every box in both the level and the death stage in order to get this gem.

Tough.

I remember being pretty angry at Kya: Dark Lineage. The details are a little fuzzy, since it's been a while, but I after about a zillion hours wandering through the first zone I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing, so gave up on the game forever... and that was that.

The rather Ghey ending to a rather ghey game
"halo 3"

nothing beats being 8 hours trying to do the beginning of through the fire and flames, get the hang of it, and lose right at the end of the intro.

Hero Battle Automated Tournament in Guild Wars. They have these tournaments that give you points to get into the monthly tournament, in which you could win computer parts. So I'm in the AT and i rape some kid until i Disconnect and load back in to see him win.

Of course, I'm not really an angry person, you know. All I really did was throw my barricuda ($160 razor headset) into my 21" acer monitor (id say like $200 ish), breaking both instantly. Imagine breaking a pencil, but a monitor instead. Yeah.

My friend broke his TV in the same way, lol I have a vent recording of that one.

The one that stands out for me was Need For Speed: ProStreet drifting. Don't for one second think that you can drift on this game if you could own drift on NFS:Carbon. They don't tell you at all how to drift, just a shitty little intro paragraph. Twice I completed everything except the final Noise Bomb race day, simply because I didn't know what I was doing wrong. It took a lot of self-restraint to not smash my controller on the desk. Eventually I sold my RX7 and got a 240SX and I owned their asses...stupid fucking game...they need a tutorial.

Most of the time I get utterly infuriated at a game when I lose/die because of something that's out of my control, can't do anything about or because of a glitch, or when a game is needlessly difficult.

Mario Kart Wii annoyed me as quite frequently it's a question of who gets the shells and luck. Sure there's some skill in hurling green shells or bananas, but most of the time, whoever gets red shells is the winner. Many times I've nearly broken the wheel in half when I get hit by a blue shell 5ft from the finish line.

Burnout Paradise was pointlessly difficult, especially some of the burning routes for the later cars. See Yahtzee's review for more info.

The boss battles on GH3. I hope to god that they're gone in GH4. They were just a question of who could get the best powerups first. The only way to beat Lou on Hard (I haven't even bothered on Expert) was to be lucky enough that he got a Whammy Bar powerup as his first (how unfair is that? The guy who can do it perfect gets the powerups first!!) one, so you can whammy it off in time to get your next one. Then it was a question of simply getting three powerups in at once, then hitting him with all three at the same time in a solo. At least it was eventually do-able, and the satisfaction for doing so quite made up for it. Shame Raining Blood is fucking impossible on Expert.

Finally beating the damed Bone Dragon from Ninja Gaiden, and then something happened I can't recall, but I had to do the fucking boss fight over again.

I snapped the 3rd disc of Final Fantasy VII after getting absolutely destroyed by the Emerald Weapon for about the 100th time. I played the game for something like 65 hours, and still hadn't reached the grind-tastic requirement to actually be able to stand a chance against the weapons. The only way I beat it was just to bypass them altogether, which just annoyed the hell out of me for the rest of the time and made me feel like I was cheating, hence the replay which caused the snappage.

In my defence, I never intended to snap the disc. I merely ripped it out of my PS1, threw it on the carpet and began punching it, and one of the punches lifted it up and it fell half onto a VHS tape....needless to say the next punch had more of an effect than the first few had.

Thankfully I don't get that angry anymore. But damn that disc took a beating for a while. Every time I consider buying it again and replaying it, I just remember all the time I wasted on it, and yet STILL hadn't spent enough time to reach a decent level. I like a good RPG, but that's ridiculous. I could never do WoW, or anything else with crazy grind.

(sry for posting twice, but i remembered)

Pokemon. You're playing, it's fine, wreckin' them pokemons like nobody's business. You get about 30 hours in, and you start to think, maybe I should save, well I'm almost to the boss; maybe in a few minutes. All at once, your world is devastated. The screen goes black and the little red light slowly fades away. There is nothing to be forsaken, all life has drifted to another plane, and yet left is you. One memory prevails, one word above all others. You chant it, you scream because you know that all of your work has been terminated. This was your life, and all you have to say for it is, "FUUUUUCK!!!!!!@!!11!!@1".

I was playing Jak X: Combat Racing and I kept getting cheated by the impossibly hard AI. Then my controller's batteries went out at the end of the race. I broke---

Jak X: Combat Racing Disc x1

Wireless Controller x1

Pencil x1

In Metal Gear Solid 3 when that idiot snake tells ocelot to get a revolver!! I mean come on! Helping to make your enemy even tougher than he already was?! What's that all about.

Plus I found it even more annoying when i played all three in chronological order and spent ages trying to beat Ocelot in 1 and 2, whilst knowing that exactly why the guy was so good, because snake tells him how to be better!

Grrr

I remember being so pissed at the San Andreas flying school that I was repeating f*** and c*** about 5 time per second and punching the wall.

L4Y Duke:

fix-the-spade:

Getting the good ending meant getting all the gems, ALL the gems. Then jumping from gem to gem over a death pit to get to the end. What happens if you missed a gem?
There's a gap in the line that you can't jump over, so you have to jump backwards BLIND back the way you came.
Should you survive this, your reward? You have to fight Cortex, one of the hardest bosses ever, did I mention that one hit from anything kills you and tree are NO masks.

Actually, if you got all the gems, you bypassed Cortex and got the good ending, if I recall correctly.

Sorry, bad wording. I meant if you missed a gem and did all the blind jumps back to where you started, your reward for all that was to fight Cortex.

I found Crash 3 to be pretty easy. Once you'd got all the power ups most of the early levels became too easy, the wumpa cannon was especially useful...

Years ago playing FFVII on the PSOne. Started up the first disk for my 2nd or 3rd play-through and alls I get is a black screen. After about 45 minutes of restarting the PS I cracked it. Being the brain I am I proceeded to throw the disk across the room, against the floor, at the roof and rub it against the carpet.

Put the disk in and low and behold it works but instead of the usual opening cinematic with Aeris I get some Shinra cinematic I had never seen before. Managed to play through the whole disk again without a single problem, doesn't work now though...weird.

Actually getting angry at a game however...Probably DMC3 on Dante Must Die. That shit was hard. A lot of yelling and swearing whenever I played that.

GothmogII:
The circus of meat level in Pyschonauts. Especially that damned trapeze section.

Agreed, I'm trying to do the darned thing today. Got incredibly mad when I discovered that saving, then loading didn't put you at the same spot but at the beginning of the level.

Ontopic, the worst I've done is send a few keys flying across the room (actually more than a few, gave me 10 mins to cool off while finding them and putting them back).

Worst I know of is when I was PvP-ing in WoW with my friend on teamspeak (he was 16 or 17 then) and he gets killed by a cow and I heard a loud "THESE F***ING SHAMANS HAVE TO BE NERFED" (remember those times, anyone?), and then TS went silent for 10 minutes, and he then came back and announced that his mother had yelled at him for 10 minutes and he was to take the night off from gaming xD I nearly peed my pants, I laughed so hard.

Xenogears random encounters piss me off. Really random encounters in any jRPG do. Grandia did it right.

I almost beat Res Evil 2 on my PS1 emu and my laptop hard drive crashed. My door didn't not survive the fallout.

Jak 2 or 3 because to me all the missions were too f***ing hard when I finally beat both of them I felt accomplished though. I remember my friend wanted me to try a new game and to save I had to create space on the memory card and he was like erase Jak 2 and 3. I then gave him the full story of how hard it was to beat both games he backed off.

Counter Strike Source for me. I'm normally a very laid back, relaxed kinda guy - but for some reason the second I load this game up, I become a nervous wreck of anger. The general, walking around a corner, shooting someone in the back of the head 50 times only for them to turn around and dick slap you to death seems to be a clincher for me to lose my temper.
That and people who randomly spin 180 degrees and headshot you through a wall, whilst being shot at from 15 people...whilst flashed, and getting raped from an elephant.
I haven't even mentioned team flashing, and team attacking either. All in all, if you want a heart attack, and you don't like smoking or drinking, play CSS. It'll get you there quicker too.

/End rage.

Check me out on Gears of War most nights. That game feels so broken.