when a developer puts a lot of effort into making multiplayer seem great and then not bother with giving us SADS

Gotta say CoD4, dont hate me for it but who hasnt yelled out "F--Kin' HELLICOPTER" while playing the game in veteran
and if not that i would have to say Just about every horror and Railshooter ever and the worst of em all Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles

*Centering myself before the rage starts*

Tomb Raider Anniversary: the centaurs. Okay, so I'm supposed to shoot one until they charge what I like to call "the Medusa ray", stop looking at them or duck to avoid said ray, shoot the same one to enrage it again, use a specific maneuver to avoid being charged at, which in turn gives me just enough time to shoot it again, this time stunning it momentarily, allowing me again just enough time to whip out my magnetic grappling hook, latch onto the centaur's shield, at which point I enrage the centaur yet again and use my new shield to reflect back the Medusa ray, thereby buying my a few seconds during which I can manage to injure said centaur, all while avoiding being attacked by the second centaur running around, and I'm supposed to figure this out on my own? Bullshit! I realize that is one hell of a run-on sentence, but either I missed the "explain the entire plot of this scene" button in the menus, or Eidos is giving me far more credit to figure these things out than I deserve. Assuming for the moment I am indeed, to coin a phrase, pants-on-head retarded, and I did miss the "this is what we want you to do now. Have fun with that!" option, that is still some myriad of events to be pulled off in such a short time. Never mind the video explanation of this level which I have running in the background where somebody, even with pauses for further explanation so that people like myself can follow along, manages to blow away both centaurs in just over two minutes, I still call shenanigans on it.

*Focus, focus, keep the rage under control...*

This I hesitate to bring up, but I must, at least for the good of the crazy conspiracy theory I plan to pop in before I end this. Need for Speed: Most Wanted. My only foray into that series, due to the generous and forgetful nature of a friend who bought two copies (it happens), and figured a car game is right up my alley, so a free copy for me. Because I came close to 100% completion through nothing more than simply playing the game through (95% that way, I believe), I figured I might as well work that extra bit for the non-existent glory that would come from 100%. Since all I have left is on my "rap sheet", I pull out my first car, my trust Cobalt SS, the car I earned the vast majority of my bounty on (18 of the 19 million they want me for is on it, the rest that damned BMW you start with), and hit the streets. In top realistically-impossible tune, I hit the streets, and everything else in my path, and the police still take 10 minutes to find me *rage building*. There's two ways these usually end, both of which I call bullshit. The first is where I am physically incapable of getting away, and I'm not talking "I hit the spike strip; I'm not getting away." No, I talk of the Corvette clusterfuck lifting my wheels off the ground so I can't get away even though I easily could were I on the ground. While I'm sure the officers would say "Hey, it stopped you, didn't it?" I feel if there wasn't the remotest chance of my escape, I have been cheated. Along those same lines is when they knock my car sideways, but not enough to respawn, or, I do respawn, but my "busted meter", which does not reset when I do, fills before I regain the ability to control my vehicle. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!

The second way (roughly fifth now, but not the point), the one I hesitate to mention, is when I successfully evade, and the fucking game crashes *raaage...*. Cooldown fills, and suddenly I'm staring my desktop. I don't even get the courteous Microsoft "do you wish to report this problem" message. What the fuck is that all about? Why do I hesitate to mention this? Simple. Need for Speed is EA, and I'd rather not be responsible for turning this into another EA hatefest, but I may need to here, because yet another EA game I have, and returned to only last night, Sim City 4, has the exact same crash symptoms whenever something game-state-changing happens, such as opening a menu. Two entirely different games, connected only by the company that makes them, have randomized crash codes built in which Windows accepts as mere quitting [and that completes the conspiracy theory]? What the fuck, EA? It isn't bad enough you've shown no innovation in any way in over a decade, but you're intentionally preventing people from completing them so as to prevent discovery of said lack of innovation? No, I refuse to stand for that. RAAAAAAAAAGE!!!

*iamnotincompliance reaches for his ever-handy Glocks and sets off for EA headquarters in search of answers. His last reported location was just outside St. Louis, where he was heard muttering about how the majority of the residents in SimTower move out every quarter (all of eight days) no matter how brilliantly designed the tower is. Witnesses mentioned to him that SimTower came out long before EA's acquisition of Maxis, so EA could not be at fault there. It is not known if this made any impact on his resolve. Police continue to pursue the raving lunatic, looking for some way to get his wheels of the ground, or possibly make him crash before making any further progress*

Saphatorael:

Denerynn:
Playing Guild Wars can bring on its own frustration. Forming groups with random players to do certain missions or quests isn't recommended, because none of them seem to know how to play the game properly, and can't seem to understand that I've done most of the stuff countless times before, and that I can guide them through the easy, safe way. They choose to ignore me and do things the hard way (because they don't know what they're doing), getting us killed/failing our objective.

I'd rather just play with computer-controlled players, because at least they follow me closely, I have decent control over them, and they do things right (most of the time).

PUGs are just terrible nowadays, if you can find them at all.
Hero/Hench is basically the only real practical way you can do PvE, or you'd have to be in a pretty damn good guild.

As for PvP... ever done Heroes' Ascent? You waste over 2 hours trying to get a full party that can run a cookie cutter build, 6 out of the 8 people in your team have no clue on how to play their build properly, thus making you lose in the preliminary or first round... upon which at least 2 people quickly leave the group, after shouting that oh so typical 'NOOBZ'.

Or, again, you might have the luck of being in a good guild and avoid all that crap.

I feel your pain, I've played Guild Wars for a long time and the number of times I've gotten good pug groups has been few and far between.
Annoys the crap out of me when someone who has just joined your group/party tries to get you to change your build when you've got a very effective build yet they are using something like frenzy >:(

sicDaniel:

dreamofobscurity:
Speaking of gamer rage........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA&feature=related

everyone should watch this, and be frightened.... maybe he was having a bad day?

Sorry if this is obvious, but that video is staged. The kid has several more videos on youtube. Anyway, the guy made it to national fame when some news show decided to show his video during a report on violent video games. Along with comparing gamers to crack addicts.

It's just what i thought of when i thought of Gamer Rage.

I didnt know it was staged though, someone showed it to me a while back.

Opponents putting sentry guns JUST outside you spawn in TF2. Like, putting them RIGHT outside the door so the spys can't even get a sapper on it.

In gmod, when you are quite happily building away with friends and someone joins the game and either spawns so much stuff it lags the game or just starts shooting everyone. GO BACK TO COUNTERSTRIKE, FUCKNUGGET!

Halo 3 checkpoint, triggered the checkpoint and died afterwards. Each time I respawned, instant death.

tekken 6. it is so fucking hard to make money and shit cost like 10 million dollars for fucking aura when on the last game it was like 45 thousand and the campaign mode is fucking impossible i die all the time cause my partner always dies.
nothing makes me shit huge fucking large bricks like tekken 6
yet i still play it

axle 19:
COD4

Getting spawn killed for the fiftieth time by grenades

Getting spawn killed in general, I hate appearing directly in front of someone.

Fucking Mario Kart. CHEATING BITCH COMPUTER WHORE! God it makes me so mad. When I'm finally kicking their ass on 150cc on the final map and i'm going to get first...NOPE COMPUTER CHEATS! They magically are right behind you and have amazing items that hit in perfect sequence to knock you back to last.

UFC 2009 when you accidentally enter the title fight with less than 50% stamina, and you're trying to get the no losses trophy.

Pretty difficult to win.

Also, same game, but playing online with lag.

My childhood and 2 broken N64 controller's would like me to add:

Ocarina Of Time....

Saevus:
My computer's current affliction of crashing 15 to 20 minutes into a game of TF2 for the last week has inspired endless rage.

It's little wonder that my mouse has been on the fritz as a result.

God, use to have the same thing for TF2, fucking thing sucked

Super Smash Bros Melee. Broke my controller over some cheap combos the CPU was using on me.

Tomb Raider and F-Zero GX.

both of them are games made either by village idiots, or American Nazi gangs.

either way, I'm glad to be rid of them.

CoD4.

Every time you chuck a grenade over a building into my spawn, I have to murder a puppy with a spork. I pray to Jesus they reduced the distance you can throw grenades for MW2.

Halo 3, mainly because of the 8 year olds who think there really awsome and that there the best player ever.

In Juiced (the first one) on PC when im trying to win a race (with a very big bet down) and the asshole AI drive me into a wall/spin me out/use "im faster on last lap" crap and cause me to loose. Also i get penalized respect points for them driving into me.

And when people play that are very obviously hacking and nobody gives a shit (especially if they on there team)

Superman 64 (or whatever the hell it is called). I pulled it out of the ol' game drawer when I saw a review on it. I said "It can't be that bad. Those people are just overreacting." Ten minutes later, I had said about twenty words that could pertain to intercourse with someone's mother, about thirty words that could pertain to feces, and roughly fifty words that could pertain to divine condemnation or the male offspring of a female dog.

In other words, it WAS that bad.

TheKbob:
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Just quoting you to tell you that your avatar is awesome.

OT: Most often games make me really angry when I start losing and don't know how to win. I'm perfectly okay with comprehending how to win but not being able to pull it off. It's making a game so agonisingly difficult to win that it seems impossible that really bugs me.

The only thing that's ever bothered me is when there's a time limit for something difficult. It's gotta be something really annoying though, like playing Mile High Club on Veteran difficulty. That pissed me off.

Overall though, even that, which is at my angriest, I've never broken anything, or smashed anything. I don't get that angry, just frustrated. Then I stop playing.

Lazy Lemon:
on gta4 online on free roam, when you're trying to do something funny or cool, and some douchefag keeps shooting you just to get kills, even though there's no score on free roam. gta4 should be strictly for the lulz. fuck off and play counter strike if you want to get competetive.

and yet, all the time we get lulz for doing that.

but i understand what your saying though, it sucks respawning and getting smashed by a bus.

Games that made me break a controller? I will go with Goldeneye for the 64, 00 Agent mode........fuck that game............

I am about to destroy my copy of resident evil 5 on veteran.

Warstomp.

The first thing that instictively comes to mind when I think of Gamer Rage is someone getting seriously way to PO'd in an online match. But nothing is truly as bad as a frustrating single-player experience.

Someone above said Mario Kart. I too have raged on that game harder than I have during any of my Halo matches. In fact the only time I do rage is in single-player games.

The AI cheats. They are the game. They'll cheat if they damn well please. And we hate them for it.

Those stupid boss fights where they don't even give you a hint as what you're meant to do or a checkpoint!

That's just cruel and unusual!