Times you wanted to throw the controller/keyboard through the screen.

I remember playing Monday Night Combat, and entering Crossfire to find a party of 6 pubstomping.

Then I quit that game and joined what turned out to be the same game again.

So I quit again and found another game this time... Full of a different party of pubstompers.

Every second of I Wanna Be The Guy.

Never.

The only time I get agitated while using a computer is when debating online against people who refuse to see sense. When that happens, I stand up and jump up and down, instead of throwing anything anywhere.

I tend to bite the controller instead - causes only superficial damage. Though I haven't actually done that in years.

I do remember actually unstrapping my Wiimote and hurling it across the room in response to something in Metroid: Other M. I forget what... probably one of the more annoying bosses.

Playing some later levels of the Jumper Series by Matt. After a while, I got really good at platformers but figured out I enjoyed the easier variety and so gave up hardcore platformers.

I once ate a toothpick and noticed it only after I got through that part of the level.

When I was trying to S rank things in Megaman Zero 2.

The spike gauntlet in IWBTG. The moving spike wall too. Most of the game really, but those two things in particular. Then there's Mother Brain.

Playing Order of Ecclessia with broken shoulder buttons.

I can't throw my keyboard, I use a laptop.

Semantics aside, every second of playing Portal, basically. I'm godawful at puzzle games. I've never actually beaten it because I'm just so awful at it. (I have seen my husband play the whole thing, though. I liked the ending, but getting to it myself... Not gonna happen.)

I'm an excruciatingly patient person in general, so it happens very rarely but even then it's nothing to write home about.

But I Wanna Be The Guy got to me so much, I cried myself to sleep. I couldn't even get past the first 3 screens without shaking thoroughly and threatening to strangle myself.

Final mission of Red Faction Guerrilla. I mean, how fucking much of shooty crap can they throw at you while all you got is a shitty missile tank?!

Killzone 3 online really pisses me off a lot. Proximity Mines everywhere, getting shot from behind and then turning around only to get shot from behind AGAIN, magical 1-hit kill enemy assault rifles, and enemies who don't die even when I hit them 20 times in the throat with a submachine gun.

That said, it's my favorite console shooter yet. But it's frustrating as all hell.

Fucking Abes Oddysee. I downloaded it off the PSN yesterday and I may uninstall it very soon, or I may just put my foot through the TV. I have no idea how something this difficult is considered fun beyond the 'just one more go' feeling you get after dying for the billionth time.

Oh yeah, and there was this one time on Summoner 2, the arena level. I got swarmed with enemies who stunlocked me so I literally couldnt fight them off, and I paused the game and beat the shit out of the wall behind me with a stick. If I hadn't done that, I think I would have put a fist through the screen.

And when playing Need For Speed Underground, on one of the later races, having tried for an hour to win, and with the computer spawning traffic directly in front of my car giving me no chance to avoid it, I pounded the top of my PS 2 with both fists. Scratched the disc to fuck and I had to get a new one.

edited 27th Mar '11 1:51:59 PM by OmegaKross

Happens whenever I fail the ailen invasion from Majora's mask.

Vamp battle in MGS 2. I don't remember much but I must have been stuck there for a day or two.

You have trouble with the alien invasion? First make sure you have time slowed down. It takes longer, but the ghosts move MUCH slower. Next ditch that fucking horse. You don't need her for a damn thing in this game other than the race with the Ingo brothers which this is most certainly not. Then you just camp yourself near the barn and run around it making sure nothing gets close.

It's very hard to lose then. Very hard. Just gotta make sure you circle the barn and shoot everything that gets anywhere near it.

On needing Epona for fences. Bomb jumping glitch.

First time fighting Uroboros Wesker in Resident Evil 5. I blew most of my ammunition killing the twin Gatling Gun Majini earlier in the level and most of my herbs in the first half of the Wesker fight. After trying and failing to pull off the stab-happy method of defeat a few dozen times, I just said "screw it" and warped back to 3-1 to pick up a rocket launcher.

Also, fighting Elizabeth Greene on Hard. I had her body down to literally its last hit, two neck segments dead, and the last one at low health. Then a tank shoots me from across Times Square, stunning me long enough for the hunters to gank me. Laptop throwing nearly occurred.

Losing 5 matches of Super Street Fighter 4 in a row, ending with a Ken spammer called "Uzumaki_Otaku".

Did he throw lots of Hadou-Kens? -is shot-

Whenever the AI either acts stupid or The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard is in effect. Such as in Total War or some other RTS when you tell your soldiers to do something and they just stand there. Or when I've been doing a part of a game over and over again and keep failing.

edited 27th Mar '11 7:27:29 PM by theLibrarian

I've only ever thrown a controller once: doing the Hades section of the first Godof War.

Seriously, first the rolling logs with spikes and enemies that attack you, all over one huge bottomless pit, but hey at least you can rush that section with some degree of success, right?

Then come the meat grinders that you have to climb.

Fuck. That. Noise.

I died once because when I inevitably got hit, the spinning tower of death literally juggled me between spikes, so I was stuck in midair, taking assloads of damage.

Whoever designed that level should be shot.

Trying to get all A Ranks in Sonic Adventure 2 and trying to complete all the challenges for Spider-Man 2.

Also, the last level of Condemned: Crimminal Origins and trying to figure out where to go in the bowling alley level of Condemned 2: Bloodshot.

Crash-To-Desktop events can do it.

Internet debates, when everyone else in being an idiot.

So, internet debates.

2010 - Chaos Rising crashes just after I beat the final boss, forcing me to slug through the long, tedious battle again.

2011 - Retribution crashes in the middle of the final boss battle, forcing me to slug through the long, tedious final level again. (In this case, tedious because I'm rolling over everything like the swarm of horrible space monsters I am.)

It's like a tradition.

I had that yesterday in Dissidia 012. I played Tifa's chapter and every Level 2 Mook had a summon, that raised their bravery automatically over time. It gets into the thousands very fast.

Cheapest. Summon. Ever.

Result is, that I avoided these fights, if possible, and now Tifa's level is rather low compared to the other characters. Thanks god for the experience spill in the Epilogue chapter...