Every so often there will be a good game, but some play mechanic or poor debugging makes the game frustrating and makes you want to fling your joypad at the wall. So which games have made you want to do that? Scribblenauts on the Nintendo DS is a fantastic game with a fantastic concept except it also features the most broken gameplay mechanics you're every likely to have seen it a game. This isn't a review, so use google if you need one. However having the control method being screen based so that you move your character by pointing to where you want them to go as well as picking up and interacting with objects with the same methoid is always going to lead to swearing, especially if you have made lots of objects only for your character to move somewhere else and die... Dropping objects is also a challenge as the falling object (and they do pop out and drop) might sqaush and kill another object or person you need so again more swearing... Trying to complete levels is also a pain in the later stages as some of the logical answers just don't work. A stage where you have to get a baby to the king and queen can be annoying, get a pram, nope can't put the baby in said pram; make another baby and give that to them, nope they ignore it; ah there is a stalk, it's asleep, wake it up and try and give it a blanket, nope that doesn't work... argh!!!! I solved the puzzle by using a steam roller to push the baby... and also by using a chain and dragging the baby behind me... Some of the levels are also too piss easy that you feel like you are back in nursery school, Hint : Play ball, hmm I am on a mound and there is a baseball player in front of me.. hmmm what do i do... If I had paid money for the game I would have been suing Warner Brothers for mental stress... :banghead:
hahaha, a steam roller?? I don't get mad at games very often. Really the only one that would regularly upset me is Halo 3 multiplayer. Just all the random little gameplay quirks that bug the crap out of me but Bungie won't fix because their games are perfect.
Cheesy AI in vs fighting games makes for good bite marks in joypads and dents on the wall when tired of bitting the pad
Not really bad programming as such just bleeding difficult!! I think I smashed some pads playing mega man back in the days, contra too.. I also remember a bug in one of the double dragon games that frustrated the shit out of me!! too long ago for details but I remember the anger like yesterday! In the heat of a PES battle with friends I also tend to smash pads when loosing, but I am just a bad looser when it comes down to it... so I just stopped playing games that I sucked at
I've broken my fair share of controllers in my younger days but age has thankfully calmed me down. The last few final bosses from the Tekken series though have brought me back to the edge. They are so incredibly cheap and they force you to be cheap in order to beat them.
I broke an original PlayStation controller back in the day being frustrated with an unfair miss, then an unfair hit favouring the computer in Final Fantasy Tactics. I swore to the whole extent of Mexican Spanish, which is a very dirty language. God, that game was awesome. I recall throwing controllers or almost throwing controllers while playing Worms, Einhander, R-Type Delta, R-Type Final and Gradius III. I can also attest to the controller-throwingly white-hot hatred of Seth in Street Fighter IV.
Good example! when in the heat of a battle you stupidly jump to your death or something similar.. damn the frustrations!! :evil:
i never broke a controller smashed a keyboard to pieces at school,some guy hacked me on runescape and i said he wasnt allowed to show my account so he tried to do i punched him and smashedd the keyboard to pieces it was raining keys....
Capcom said a month and half ago that they're working on it (they're making Seth even more annoying on Super Street Fighter IV) :thumbsup:
Never broken a controller myself, I just give up on a game before I destroy something. Trauma Center for the DS, never did finish it as some of the later cases are a huge pain in the ass.
I'm a very hot-blooded mind when it comes to Arcade games. Or at least came. Until a couple of years back I used to smash controllers, yeah. >_< But I was cured by myself. Couldn't play neither Saturn nor PS2 for months because there were no controllers left for both (it was just one for each though) LOL What games can get a peaceful man that far??? - dodonpachi Daioujou scoreplay - dodonpachi scoreplay - Battle Garegga scoreplay - Ninja Gaiden Xbox - ESPgaluda Arrange Mode - Batsugun special ver. scoreplay - Ikaruga scoreplay NEVER try to play those games on score if you like your gamepads!
Demons Soul - 5-2 Anyone thats played it just shuddered a bit just at the mention of this stage. Wandering around lost in a pitch black swamp, no map to consult. The swamp causes poison every few seconds, so you either try using poison resistant gear, which only delay the inevitable for a few seconds. You either bring a ton on cure poison/health herbs, or use health regen gear to stay alive. Rolling renderes you imobile for a few seconds, so fighting while in a swamp is practically suicide. Those giant goblins that can kill in 1-2 hits. Fighting MULTIPLE giant goblins. And of course its Demons Soul, so dying means restarting from the start, with your money gone and enemies respawned. Funny thing is once you know where to go, you can get past the level without fighting anyone.
I haven't even got that far on Demon's Souls and I already am well pissed off with it lol. It's not so much the fact that it's difficult, it's the fact that the game is a dickhead for not telling you things. For example, the bosses souls you get. The game doesn't tell you that you can redeem them for some nifty magic spells until way later on in the game and by that point you've used them up. The there's the whole world tendency/character tendency shit I have no clue about....urgh. Don't know if I ever want to put the disc in my PS3 again.
Never broke a controller, however in my Counter-Strike days I would slam my hand into my keyboard. Also...would do it when the internet was slow.
While the game does keep you in the dark, it most certainly does tell you that you can redeem the demon's souls for new spells or special weapon upgrades. Press square on the item for a description. But yeah, I did the same thing on my first character. I also killed Patches the Hyena because he pissed me off, only to find out later that he sells the best arrows you can buy.
Also, I used to break Dreamcast controllers all the time playing against my ex-roommate in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Sentinel and Iceman make me insane.
Never broke a pad, don't even tend to throw them in anger, though it has happened. If a game fucks me off to that extent I tend to rage-quit instead. I'm sure that's the less manly of the two, but I just don't enjoy getting angry. The one time I can think of where I smashed a peripheral was right at the end of my Masters, the final morning having been up all night finishing it. I got so fucked off with something not working that I slammed the mouse over and over until the dome broke in. I then realised I didn't actually have a spare, so had to finish off the corrections with a ragged-sharp plastic mess. Somehow it still worked ok, though the scroll wheel was beyond repair. To be fair I was cracking up at that point... word of advice to students, don't try writing 25k words in a month, you'll lose the plot by the end of it.
Seriously though,I've beat Contra 4 on the DS on Normal difficulty with every challenge beat as well.It was hell.It must be really funny watching someone scream and swear to a pair of 3" screens. Also,every Castlevania game with the classic formula.Especially Dracula in Dracula X for the SNES and Rondo of Blood on PC Engine and PSP(much later).He was fucking impossible on the SNES.I mean look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ZfPdRNdGE&feature=related Jeez.... On the PC Engine it was a bit better but still frustrating as hell. Lastly,I've never smashed a controller.I think I've only once hit a keyboard so hard that some keys came out flying,and that was all because of Fifa 2002.
