Poll: Have You Ever Raged Because of a Game?

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  • Poll: Have You Ever Raged Because of a Game?

    5
    Yes, I've raged. Full on broken controller & hole in wall levels of rage.
    20.00%
    1
    Yes, I've raged but without any sort of property damage.
    80.00%
    4
    No / can't remember. I'm as calm as a cucumber even when the odds are stacked against me.
    0%
    0

    The poll is expired.

    Broken controllers, holes in walls, excessive yelling and swearing.

    While I'm sure we would all like to consider ourselves here calm, cool, and collected that might not always hold true when playing a frustrating game. Maybe you're having a particularly frustrating day, and nothing is going your way. Maybe your teammates (and totally not you) are doing terrible and you're losing a multiplayer game because of it. Maybe you just died for the 50th time to a boss that did some unblockable and totally BS move.

    The question is: Have you ever raged when playing a game? You may not have thrown and broken a controller (they're expensive after all!), but maybe you yelled or screamed (to yourself or in voice). Maybe you swore a bunch. Or maybe you coped with it in some other unhealthy way.

    Even if you raged before, let's just hope you didn't cross the line into having a full blown "heated gaming moment." 😬

    Feel free to select the best fit choice and comment below what happened when you did, or did not, experience your own gamer rage.

    • Shawn Zipay
      #1
      Shawn Zipay commented
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      I'll go first:
      I selected Yes, I've raged but without any sort of property damage.

      I mean, there are plenty of times I've gotten pissed off when playing a game. I think the worst thing I've ever done though was yell out, throw my controller onto my pillow (intentionally aiming for it because paying to replace hardware sucks hard), and slam my fist on my mattress. It was many years ago and I just cannot remember what game caused that.

      More commonly I'll kind of yell or swear when playing games with friends. Nothing offensive. Nothing "excessive." If I get super frustrated these days, I go from yelling/complaining and actually just get really quiet and not say anything. I've also quit a couple of multiplayer games and left Discord voice completely here and there in the middle of a match when playing with friends because of how frustrated I was getting.

      As for single player games when I'm not in voice, I just swear or complain under my breath. Nothing loud because nobody is listening. I think the Malenia fight in Elden Ring was the latest super frustrating single player experience I had. That one move where she dives at you and just slashes rapidly was just... ugh. It was such a thrill once I finally beat her though.

    • cikame
      #2
      cikame commented
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      Competitive games mostly, i loved Modern Warfare 2019 but it felt like the matchmaking was hell bent on making sure you had a terrible time and the spawn system was ridiculous, i never felt like i was in any kind of control playing it and that made it really frustrating to the point where i was screaming out loud, but the most damage i've caused was from playing Tekken.

      I find playing against strangers online in fighting games to be extremely personal, my heart rate shoots through the roof and i start shaking, you put blood sweat and tears into learning the game then you lose to a button masher, or someone who is weirdly psychic, or just simply someone who is better than you and it's really demoralising, with Tekken 6 i broke an Xbox 360 headset and in the same session punched my leg in a way that bent my wrist and i couldn't use my hand properly for a week, Tag 2 was so amazing i generally had a great time but the rage came back with Tekken 7 and its much larger competitive scene, it pushed me harder and i had many instances where i boiled over, there's a large chip in my table from smashing a controller, in my biggest rage i sort of attacked the floor, rolling around screaming, elbowing, punching until i was very bruised, i felt worthless, and after raging i felt pathetic.

      It's all very embarassing to talk about, but i want to because i never want to be like that again, i got angry at COD Vanguard for similar reasons as MW but i wasn't taking it as seriously, it was more just rolling my eyes as hard as humanly possible when BS happened, and i haven't really played a competitive game since then so i've been fine for a while.
      I'm getting older, less capable, less patient, so i'm worried if i find another game to take seriously i'll be worse, or maybe i'll just give up faster but that won't feel good either, maybe i should just stay away from all competitive games :P.

    • azalea
      #3
      azalea commented
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      Yeah, my controller took a fair few slaps during the many weeks i was glued to Elden Ring, even after multiple playthroughs.

    • K-16
      #4
      K-16 commented
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      I'm still not sure how my house is still intact when attempting to unlock God Mode in GoldenEye 64, reach the second last checkpoint with enough time to actually trigger the checkpoint in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (not the remake), and... Survive any part of the bonus airplane level in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (again, not the remake).

      Or maybe I was angrier when playing Counter-Strike 1.5 and believing everybody cheats. I think I played more chess while dead than any Counter-Strike, back when Steam was disgustingly green (both figuratively and literally).

      ...I'm totally voting calm as a cucumber........ Right after I smash this desk.
      Last edited by K-16; 07-26-2022, 09:51 PM. Reason: Second edit, please don't flag me moderation system!
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