Maybe I have video game anger problems when it comes to certain games, but, I want to know if any others share my frustration.

The story: So, I bought somemore xbox 360 points to catch up on some old arcade classics.. TMNT the arcade game, Rush n' attack, Double Dragon, AND Street fighter 2 HD being the most recent. I loved Turtles. Rush n' attack was big graphic improvement from the regular NES port.. and Double Dragon was fun. All of which provided a nice nostalgic experience. That is... until I played Street Fighter. What can I say about this game, other than I should have known how I used to react to this game. I start the game as RYU at 12 am, after a few beers, and I will not stop til I beat the game. (Same with the other arcade games) MY God!! I make it to Blanca, and get cheaped to death 7 times in a F'in row! Im livid! Finally get passed Blanca, and 5 minutes of flipping off the tv, I press on... I work my way past the rest of the competition, balrog, Vega, and Sagat after using 3 continues, and THEN... BISON!! Now, in the old days I would have turned the game off before Bison, because I knew the amount of frustration to go through to get a victory was sometimes... uh.. just not worth it. Lets just say my controller hit the wall at least 5 times.. (Yes.. the 360 controllers are pretty durable).. Stayed up for the next 45 minutes in pure anger. I can't remember a recent time in my life where I was so PISSED!..Well.. i finally beat Bison, after about 20 or so continues, frustrated, and ready to email microsoft an email telling them NEVER to put such a horrible experience of a game out again. I HATE SF2.

Just thought I'd see if anyone else can relate!

I share your pain friend. There are certain games I just can't play, fighting games being one of them, unless I'm actually playing against one of my friends. I almost destroyed my Gamecube playing Soul Calibur. Despite that, I then bought Def Jam Fight For NY for my Xbox, and quickly had to give the game to a mate before I jumped through a window, or set fire to my house in anger. (ok, I probably wouldn't have, but I was very, very angry)

The absolute king of anger inducement, however, is Pro Evolution Soccer 6. That game cheats (it does, it does) like no other. I could be Brazil, playing against Togo, and somehow the Togoese become imbued with superhuman abilities and take the piss out of Ronaldinho and Ronaldo for 90 minutes, scoring 3 overhead kicks in the process, while my (computer controlled) goalkeeper coincidentally becomes incapable of catching a cold, often knocking the ball into his own net. I'm getting angry just thinking about it.

I love football though, so I keep playing it! Ah well. I'm completely laid back at work and socially though, so perhaps it helps having an outlet for my rage. I only wish controllers weren't so expensive...

Recently, Ninja Gaiden Black.

It's just that the save points are sooo far away...

I can get pretty frustrated playing Guitar Hero, actually. It's unbelievably annoying when you get 93% through a song only to fail.

My problem is that I will not just give up. If I start something in a game, I pretty much won't shut it off until it's done. In fact, I'm pretty much that way with everything. Sometimes it would be better just to let it go, but I just can't.

KillZone: Liberation made me want to destroy my PSP. Great game, but so freakin' frustrating.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma, IT'S SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!

Last weekend, my friend and I experienced a new level of anger toward a game when we crawled sluggishly throught the Expert campaign of Medal of Honour: Airbourne. 4am, groggy, and mildly-intoxicated is no way to face off against the entire Axis of Evil.

Also, NPCs getting one-hit-kill headshots with a KAR98 from across the map? That should never happen in a videogame, ever ever ever.

A few months ago, it was Resistance: Fall of Man. That friggin' Cathedral stage!!!!!!! Now? Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the stage where ya gotta bring down a flippin' Star Destroyer! WHAT THE CRAP DO I GOTTA TAKE DOWN A STAR DESTROYER FOR? AND WITHOUT A SHIP OF MY OWN?! WHEN HAS THIS OCCURED ANYWHERE IN THE SAGA?! THIS IS COMPLETE BULLPLOP! I mean, the point of the stage was to destroy the factory that was makin' 'em. Now that I have, I've gotta make this gigantic p.o.s. ship crash while taking out multiple Tie Fighters. The stupidest thing about this stage is its repetitiveness. You take out several Tie Fighters with Force Lightning or floating engines. Then you gotta grab the Star Destroyer with The Force. After roughly 3 seconds, MORE Tie Fighters show up and you have to let go of the ship to deal with them. Then repeat. Over and over again! I've been stuck in this stupid stage for OVER AN HOUR! It isn't even challenging! I haven't even died! I'm actually at the point where I'm kinda just staring blankly at the screen and pressing the X button and then the triangle button until General Kota says "Take that ship down!". After that, I attempt to take down the ship and I see the little dots that are soon to be tie fighters trying to fly down my friggin' throat and I just wanna take my controller and break it in half! I'd love to know what the idiot who thought up this stage was thinking! I'd like to smack the ever living crap outta him/her! This stage is so friggin' stupid and pointless! AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY BEAT THAT STUPID, FRIGGIN', P.O.S. LEVEL! For anyone else who might be having trouble: The "secret" is to ignore the Tie Fighters up until your energy bar becomes red. Then stop taking down the Star Destroyer and deal with 'em. Quickly. Otherwise, you're just gonna be going through the same stupid cycle over and over again with no change in where the ship is! After discovering this, it only took a matter of a few minutes (if that) and the cinematic began of the ship crashing. I still hate that stage, though!

whoa know the feeling ay.
gota get something done an theres gruntbots gettin up ur
but anyway im crankin the saintsrow that came with my 360 right, an i gota drive these couple of fullaz to grab this gay fashion designer to extort some information right, sounds like fun.
until the way their tryin to extort the info kicks in.
next thing i know hes hangin out the window by his ankles an i gota drive fast enough for long enough to get his 'fear' meter maxed whilst keepig him alive. oh but wait the funs just getting started!
10 seconds into this wee escapade an numerous cops(showing surprising ai) are not only showing off their skills in the pit manouvour but using upcoming obstacles such as bolders, trees, lamp posts and other vehicles as objects to accelerate my vehicle into not to mention the joys of squeezing between a swat wagon an a traffic light at top speed whilst fending off the demolition derby.
an after finaly droppin the euro-trash off at 120mph (most satisfying i assure you) an heading off on merry way my wheels start smokin under the hood, so its a frenzied dash to destination with cops still entow.
then there was fire.
then there was "mission failed. you needed the truck to complete mission. restart mission? y/n?"
OH YOU FILTHY MOTHER385934!!! HOLY SON OF A well you get the idea...
add the legnthy commute to get to this fashion designer, times by five an you got the beginings of a brain anuerysm.
intense sh*t i tell ya
especially the one where i actually made it to my destianation only to have my mission essential buddies engaging the police at truck instead of following me to complete next objectives.
KABOOOOM!!!
"restart mission y/n?"

Hidden & Dangerous. The only weapon worth using was the sniper rifle, because otherwise you couldn't see any enemies... although you couldn't see them through the scope either because of the mysterious fog that always seemed to hide all the Germans. And then, using their spider sense, they shot you in the head. Repeat until you get the chance to shoot first.
I actually played through the bloody thing. I don't even know why. But when I finished, I was sure the game's title referred to the Germans.

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for the SNES

B in’B starts off awesome (the first 2 levels are loads of fun and suck you right in), it’s just that the third level “Speeder Bikes” is an absolute, flaming PRICK!!!

This was back during the days when game saving wasn’t as common as it is now. You couldn’t just reload the level at your whim. Oh no… If you ran out of lives, you had to go back, restart the game, and finish the first 2 levels again!

I managed to pass the third level once, but it cost me all my lives and continues to pull it off, and I perished early in the next level, so I’ve never seen far beyond that.

I swear… The amount of times that I threw my controller in a rage. I’d get so angry that I’d start trying to reason with the powers that be, even resorted to begging them “PLEASE! I’m going to pass this eventually, just let me do it now! Just let me pass this one stupid level.” ARRRRGGGGGGHH!!!

You can check it out here. It’s funny watching how ridiculous it is.

La Mulana makes me want to destroy my controller, and then my entire PC. I'm trying to learn to sit the controller down and take a few deep breaths.

But it's hard. Lord, it's hard.

There's anothe thread here somewhere on this very topic. Here's my tale -

SNES

Donkey Kong Country

Some level later on...not very far into the game, where you gotta make it through where these wheels are moving around.

I must have tried a hundred times or more to get past this area, until I finally took the game cart and ripped it out of the SNES while it was on and promptly threw it as hard as I could into the wall.

Amazingly enough, the cart still worked - it had to be taped back together though. I never played it again.

Medal of Honor Heroes 2 on the PSP was rough, at the end. I did not think it was possible to even finish the game. Then after about 2 months of trying - I made it. Moving onto the next dificulty, vet, I fear I will never complete it. So yes, that means I was hung up on the EASY playthrough. Which I often will play games with difficulty option through on every setting starting with easy.

Another game that drove me to all kinds of rage was Diddy Kong Racing on the N64. For the most part, the game was reasonably difficult, until you have to race that giant pig boss which was #$%&#*@ impossible! I tried to beat him so many times, but I could never even get close, so I eventually just gave up.

I have to say Resistance 2's campaign. never before have i been so frustrated at the difficulty and the frailty of my character, and the same D*$$ death-tone over and over.

In fact, I don't like destroying consoles...

But if it's feel like it, sort of.

That game was Mario Strikers Charged Football for Wii.

The missions are extremely impossible to defeat. I tried the Yoshi level and I tried 20 over times and I still can't defeat it.

Next, the Bowser level. I ALMOST WON UNTIL PEACH RUINED ME BIG TIME AT THE FINAL TEN SECONDS!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, that's a bit overreacting.

Just wanted to add that I made the mistake of playing Ninja Gaiden 2 on hard...since I loved the first one and didn't want to puss out and play the easier of two difficulties.

Anyway, there were a couple points where I got so pissed off that I would spike the **** out of my xbox 360 controller. Like it would bounce off the ground and go flying. And now one of my xbox 360 controllers is broken. It works fine, but the two peices of plastic are coming apart on the one handle, and its really uncomfortable to use.

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Originally posted by LaikaLost:
Last weekend, my friend and I experienced a new level of anger toward a game when we crawled sluggishly throught the Expert campaign of Medal of Honour: Airbourne. 4am, groggy, and mildly-intoxicated is no way to face off against the entire Axis of Evil.

Also, NPCs getting one-hit-kill headshots with a KAR98 from across the map? That should never happen in a videogame, ever ever ever.

oooh ouch that game got very aggravating at the last level. do you remember? the only thing they made more *difficult* about it being the last level was that if you died you would spawn at the halfway checkpoint of the level. omg at least 20 times that happened to me.

Oh man... Metroid Prime 2: Echoes... it's so fun, but SO HARD!!!! It's one of the only, if not THE only, games I've played in the past five years, that I never beat. Got to the last boss, but that's it.