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"What do hard games do to you?"

If I find a particularly hard game, say Metal Gear Solid (it is hard for me) I will get really annoyed when I can't get past some bit. I find it so annoying sometimes. I lobbed my wwf No Mercy across the room once. It almost fell apart. The only way it stays alive is if it is stuck in my N64 machine which holds it together. And I don't even feel that i am an angry person much.

I am not prone to throwing Playstation games across the room in the case of it snapping as that is what happened to my friend. (He is grumpy) But when I do find something that doesn't work well for me in a game I sometimes bang the controller off the ground or turn off without saving and losing previous data which I had not saved and that makes me even more annoyed. It is a tough life playing challenging games.

My GBA recieves the worst punishment even if it is my newest games system. When I come inches away from winning in Mario Kart or in F-Zero I will hit the screen which probably hurts my hand more but it does make the screen rather vunrable and feel as if it is going to fall off.

My PC (the worst for doing stuff I don't want it to) is all right. I don't mind when it fails to load up a screen or something like that. (well not much anyway) On my PC games not much goes wrong as none of them are really challenging enough for me. Take the Sims, in which even if something goes wrong, it can still be quite funny. Age of Empire is fine. it is kind of hard but when it goes wrong I have my cheats ready to make it all easy again.

Some of you may think that all of this is a bit mad but i will say that lots of people will be just as bad (or worse) than me. Don't think I am a looney though.

Thanks 4 reading, Afro.

I'm not immune to frustration but I think by my very nature I can take it a bit more mentally than other people. I kind of feed off the pressure; either accepting what I percieve as a challenge or getting more and more determined to win the damn thing.

And if anyone doubts me, I got the top score on Diamond Sands in Blast Corps. Indeed, there were only 12 plantinum medals left for me to get before I got sucked into something else instead. I always swore I'd go back and get them, but, alas, I fear I have lost my touch.

No game can be to hard.I'm always looking for a new challenge and never ever get angry when I lose,I just try again.

You know him then?!?

AfroJoe wrote:
> I don't usually get angry around friends because I am easily the best out of us
> and I always win. Oh yeah, and we play easy games.

Me and my mates (Shocktrooper will back me up on this one), but we try and play challenging games most of the time. We rarely play easy games because there we don't have as much fun playing something so easy.

With us, it depends on what game we play to see who comes out on top. Normally Shocktrooper will come out on top, but there are other games where Shocktrooper is lacking in, notably Final Fantasy ones!

I sometimes get a little frustrated by games but after a break or continual playing, it doesn't seem so much of a problem.

I am not a sore loser, or a person with a bad temper, but I do get annoyed sometimes. Me and my mate love a few rounds of Tekken 3, and to be honest it is a fair fight with most characters. When he loses, he takes the verbal abuse I give him. However when I lose, I have a tendancy to curl my right hand into a fist, and slam it into my thigh. And it bloody hurts, I'll tell ya!
I started doing this after playing Driver 2, when I fall short of completing a mission by inches or seconds. Man I get annoyed. The mission in that which I hated the most was the one with the lorry throwing bombs out the back. I must have tried that hundreds of times! After about an hour of trying the mission, I literally couldn't stand up, and hobbled about for the rest of the weekend. Now that's divotion!

I don't usually get angry around friends because I am easily the best out of us and I always win. Oh yeah, and we play easy games.

If I get angry, all I do is find my brother and beat him up. Nah, what I normally do is try to use it to my advantage, keep the anger all bottled up and try to get the adrenaline flowning. You can't really be beaten if you want to beat your opponent. Yet I find that trying to hard will also result in failure, and with me getting really annoyed.

The worst punishment that anything has had is probably one of the Playstation controllers. Good for slamming on the floor or on your bed, and they still work just as well even after you throw them at the floor!

Wildlight wrote:

It's quite annoying when someone is a bad looser and goes
> mad when loosing a game especially when your playing against each other, you
> almost feel bad for winning!

True...(bud style...)

I can tell you that im not a very violent person but, as you say when things get a bit tough, something has to have punishment and normally its my floor. When I got stuck on Resident Evil, my hand hit the floor so hard I broke 2 fingers in my right hand and couldn't play on the game for 3 months, which gave me time to read and do some research.

But I can tell you that noone is worse than my brother, he's 20 years old (im 16) and when he loses on Fifa or gets stuck on a game (this was on the PS1, he's not allowed to use the PS2 after what he has done), he throws the control pad at the TV or even worse at the console; he broke two controllers and nearly killed the computer.

Since that episode he hasn't be able to use my PS1 and hasn't even been able to touch my PS2, not even look at it the wrong way.

Damn those angry kids.

He's repaid for the damage though, he bought me two new controllers and many games.
Hahahahahah, the guilt trip hahahahahaha

Temper temper now gamers.