Topic: Do you ever get angry when playing video games?

Yelling, screaming, and roaring disgusting profanities.

Do you ever find yourself chucking a mental when playing video games when you lose?

I do and have all my life. Interested to know how many others do the same thing!

@Tendo64 ALL THE TIME MATE! AND FROM WHAT OTHER FANS HAVE TOLD ME I BET I WILL BE RAGING ON SUNSHINE DON'T SPOIL THE GAME FOR ME! ya I even rage in this comment.

@Tendo64 I have, but it's been some time. Now I usually cut my losses by saying "eff this" and turning it off. Coincidentally my last gamer rage moment was A Hat in Time's Snatcher challenges. I got pretty upset on some, but quit before I flipped a table.

@Losermagnet Dude that is also the last game I raged at my god so funny snatchers challenges are soooooo annoying.

On occasion. But its more like a low mumbling with vague swearing type of anger.

Though that's when you know I'm angry because a game is difficult but good. If I'm silent, that's when I'm actively angry at the game's existence because it sucks (at least to some degree).

Not really. If I ever get to that point, then it obviously means that I am no longer enjoying myself and that I ought to pursue another hobby.

Pokémon Shuffle used to make me curse my head off until I finally managed to give it up. That stupid game was consuming my life at the time. I was utterly pathetic. The Badge Arcade app on 3DS also aroused similar feelings of motherloving rage, but I was quick to give up on that too.

I vowed never to indulge such predatory F2P games again.

If a game becomes unreasonably difficult, however, I tend to give up.

Now, I tend to rage when DLC is announced for a game I really like as I abhor the practice.

No. I don't get angry in general so the same goes for video games.

Smashed a fair few controllers in my time and put a few holes in the wall. My Super Nintendo controller which still works has a seven year-old's teeth marks in it slightly (mine) from when I once got pissed off back in the day and bit the controller in rage.

My neighbour across the road when I was a kid used to swear on the Nintendo and his mum would come tearing down the hallway with the belt, and take to him. All while I was sitting there. Awkward.

I don’t usually to play games that frustrate me.

@Northwind
its dangerous to go alone!
take this.

@Northwind
yer damn right. that was hilarious

Not really. I never smashed controllers and don't remember particularly swearing (I swear often but that is different lol).

I mostly can become frustrated and give up on playing for a while

Sometimes games can frustrate me if they have some unfair difficulty issues.

But the things that get me angry are more connected to the consoles themselves like being noisy, having technical issues or unresponsive controls. Something like the idiotic drift of the joycons.

Two words, PK Fire

I learned throwing a pro controller at the pillow on the bed can still harm a analog stick. 🤪

Broke a controller or two back in the day. I can still get angry with a bit of yelling, but I have enough control these days to stop short of throwing controllers.

If I feel I must hit something to vent, I'll hit the arm of the couch/chair, or even my own leg at times.

I used to get angry and throw controllers and screaming into pillows and stuff. Now I just cuss profusely until I feel better.

Some swearing when I'm playing a game, depending on the genre, is normal. I do get worked up sometimes admittedly. Typically the warning sign of when I should put down what I'm playing for awhile is when I actively start sweating, shaking, and becoming rather loud. I do have neighbors and do reign in the yelling a bit, though I doubt they hear me unless I'm stupid enough to yell with my windows open or hit dog whistle octaves. I've been trying to reign in my foul language in general, but that's way easier said than done. XD

I've never actually thrown a handheld system or controller as I knew and have known the implications of such an action even when I was a kid; those devices weren't easily replaced and cost money. I have thrown off the calibration of a Wii Remote+ a time or two when playing Skyward Sword though. Apparently, thumping the sensor end into an armchair can mess with it a bit.

i was playing street fighter 2 on genesis back when it came out. i got super pissed and grabbed the 6 button controller by the wire and beat it against the ground. buttons flew everywhere. i lied to my mom about how it happened i think and got a new controller. so i was back to 2 controllers.
sometimes lying pays off.

Hahahahaha.

The only reason I haven't smashed a controller in a long time is because I'm the one that has to replace/pay for it. When I wasn't, I couldn't have cared less. Ha