Games of Rage

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  • Deleted user 2 May 2020 09:19:27
    Inspired by the blood pressure rising posts of our resident rager. Just wondered what games get you raging. Past or present?

    Could it be a gun toting enemy? An unsurmountable boss? An unrealistic requirement for an achievement?

    Do tell.
  • JamboWayOh 2 May 2020 09:22:36 25,236 posts
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    Ikaruga. Always Ikaruga.
  • Mola_Ram 2 May 2020 09:33:45 26,187 posts
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    Open-world games with maps filled to the brim with dozens and dozens of icons, most of them "challenges" that have no purpose aside from adding padding onto games that are already far too bloated. I know that I don't have to do them, but the OCD commands me, and eventually I just burn out altogether.

    It's not really a rage though, more of a simmering anger culminating in disappointment.
  • JamboWayOh 2 May 2020 09:35:00 25,236 posts
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    Streets of Simmering Anger
  • challenge_hanukkah 2 May 2020 09:35:33 14,394 posts
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    Not so much the game in its entirety, as it's generally well balanced, but fucking Gill from Street Fighter 3.

    I'm not one for getting all shouty or throwing controllers about, but I had to leave the house for a bit to calm down after losing to the cunt for the 1000th time.
  • Deleted user 2 May 2020 09:40:23
    I remember back in day getting really fucked off with trying to beat M.Bison with Zangief on snes SFII. I was shit with the big guy, so getting fucking spammed with that double kick and slide used to really make me pad bite.
  • Deleted user 2 May 2020 09:40:58
    I used to rage about games where I hit a brick wall and couldn't proceed, fighting games like Tekken really brought out the worst in me so I stopped buying them.

    More modern examples would be MPFPSs like Battlefield where I repeatedly get owned by another player, or just lack of my own skills. Not into them anymore.

    Now, if a game annoys me I just sigh and play something else. Oh and I also play much fewer games that are (twitch) skill based or with a linear progression path - open ended sims can't really piss you off as you're not chasing high scores or try to beat a end level boss.

    Edited by KnuttinAtoll at 09:42:58 02-05-2020
  • TechnoHippy 2 May 2020 09:42:02 19,245 posts
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    Generally boss battles that have you jumping through hoops to cause the tiniest amount of damage.

    And platforming where you need pixel perfect timing.
  • Malek86 2 May 2020 09:43:59 12,331 posts
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    Unskippable cutscenes.
  • challenge_hanukkah 2 May 2020 09:45:39 14,394 posts
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    Malek86 wrote:
    Unskippable cutscenes.
    Oh very much this.
  • Deleted user 2 May 2020 09:46:08
    I think the games that are more rage inducing for me are those where you don't really enjoy the gameplay of the moment but want to see what's next.

    I go through my retro collection now and then, and in many of those I can't even get past the first level now.

    That would've set me off before alright, plus back then I didn't have a lot of alternatives so would've had to stick with them until completion (or destruction).

    What can still really make me angry (relatively speaking) are technical issues - CTD without saving substantial progress, or performance issues that are seemingly random and distract from the game - unfortunately Resident Evil 2 Remake suffers from the latter (random freezes which put me off a second playthrough now).

    Edited by KnuttinAtoll at 09:48:31 02-05-2020

    Edited by KnuttinAtoll at 09:49:47 02-05-2020
  • JamboWayOh 2 May 2020 09:48:35 25,236 posts
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    Yeah, Dog Faced Adventures really set me off back in the day.
  • Rum_Monkey 2 May 2020 09:48:52 3,488 posts
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    Fifa online, I've stopped bothering with it I was getting so fucked off if I played it.

    The swap to pes has been much less stressful.
  • challenge_hanukkah 2 May 2020 09:50:11 14,394 posts
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    Remember that guy posted briefly who raged at every game he was shit at was broken on a fundamental level? He made Fuzzy seem cool, calm and collected.

    Him getting awfully defensive and abusive at people trying to give him tips in the Dark Souls thread leading to a ban. I think he even threw some shade Quaddy or Ror's way.

    Fallout 4 on normal was too difficult for him. I'm no gaming God, but fucking hell.
  • Deleted user 2 May 2020 09:51:25
    Rum_Monkey wrote:
    Fifa online, I've stopped bothering with it I was getting so fucked off if I played it.

    The swap to pes has been much less stressful.
    I cant play either online anymore. Guess its more my lack of skill but getting either twatted 7-0 or losing to an injury time wonder goal would fucking give me heart murmurs.
  • Rum_Monkey 2 May 2020 09:52:05 3,488 posts
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    The best was the guy who said Half-life 2 was broken and had to use God mode to get across the acid river.

    Then someone asked if he'd seen the boat.

    Then he quit.
  • challenge_hanukkah 2 May 2020 09:53:53 14,394 posts
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    That was quality.
  • JamboWayOh 2 May 2020 10:05:46 25,236 posts
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    For real?!
  • Mola_Ram 2 May 2020 10:20:12 26,187 posts
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    Oh yes, the Mystery of the Half Life 2 Poisoned Water is steeped in forum lore.
  • challenge_hanukkah 2 May 2020 10:20:43 14,394 posts
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    I might have been lying earlier.

    I'm pretty sure I did throw a controller on the Zero missions in San Andreas.
  • challenge_hanukkah 2 May 2020 10:26:25 14,394 posts
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    JamboWayOh wrote:
    For real?!
    https://community.eurogamer.net/thread/71050?start=180
  • Deleted user 2 May 2020 10:33:23
    Final bosses in old school SNK fighting games. They are usually massively over-powered and combo you to death in seconds.
  • Jono62 2 May 2020 10:56:11 27,356 posts
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    Seth in Street Fighter was a cunt.
  • Darth_Flibble 2 May 2020 11:15:24 5,592 posts
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    shao khan in MK9 in story mode, pure cunt
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