The act of uncontrollable rage over losing in a video game is a fairly common scene in the video game community. There are countless videos on youtube of people “rage-quitting” and there are gamers out there who play online for the sole purpose of hearing the horrific squeals of F-Bombs get dropped over a mic. We call these people trolls. Now, if somebody rages because they were provoked or insulted, their actions are unnecessary and unproductive, but somewhat understandable at the same time. The purpose of this blog is for me to share my experiences and thoughts with those who rage simply because they lost, and for no other reason.
Right now I’m a junior in college, and sometimes the best way to deal with stress is to get some buddies together and waste an hour or two playing Super Smash Brother Melee. On one such occasion, rather recently in fact, all seemed to be going smoothly. I was dominating as usual, my roommate was coming in second pretty consistently, and my other two friends who are a bit inexperienced were fighting it out for third. Everything seemed to be going well, jokes were made and fun was had…among three of us. After the end of one game, all of a sudden, a frightening sound broke all conversation. “&@%@ THIS GAME!!!” I looked over to see my roommate throw my hard earned controller across the room, and then stand up to deliver a straight punch to the stone wall in our room. Upon seeing my beautiful Wavebird wireless gamecube controller go bouncing across the room, my shock turned to anger. Every accessory, game, or system I own was purchased with my money, money that I worked for, and I didn’t take very kindly to having my possessions smacked around just because someone can’t control their temper. I managed to keep an even tone as I told him that if he breaks something I own I will make him pay for it. The game night was cut short and we all went back to doing different things, all feeling a bit awkward.
The sad thing is, this isn’t the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last. Whether it’s been smash bros, Playstation All Stars, or even any single player game with moderate difficulty, they all have the potential to start a rage fest for this guy. This seems absolutely incomprehensible to me, I’m generally a pretty laid back person, and I can’t remember a single point in my life where I have ever raged at a video game. I’ve definitely gotten frustrated before, but even while playing games as a child I never got to the point to where my emotions really surfaced. See, I can understand getting angry at a video game. But what I can’t understand is getting so angry that you are unable to contain yourself that you just can’t stop yourself from breaking other people’s property and making yourself seem like a fool. I’ve witnessed this sort of thing among a lot of people, although my roommate seems more consistent with his rage than most (probably just because of the amount of time I spend with him). And don’t misunderstand; he’s normally a great guy…until he starts losing. Then all hell breaks loose. And I’ve been wondering… is there anything I can do to deal with my roommate? Once he rages he usually feels bad about it for a while, so I would estimate he won’t rage for at least another 3-4 weeks. But how do I deal with something like that? I’ve actually let him win on purpose a few times when it seemed like he was about to explode…which seems sort of pathetic in retrospect.
But I digress. What are your opinions? Am I overreacting? Do any of you consider yourselves to be ragers? If so, feel free to give some insight into the whole process of raging
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VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.
God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
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Well, there are a lot of ways to take it, but you don't give enough information to give an accurate opinion. Perhaps talk to this person to see if there is a game they might enjoy playing a little bit more. I know it really sucks when you're playing a game you don't get and everything feels awkward / weird to you (like when I got roped into playing a bunch of PC games at a game convention. Having never once played with a keyboard, I was ultimately at a severe disadvantage and completely lost as to what I need to do). Another thing is that fighting games can lead to anger pretty quickly, even those like Super Smash Bros. I think we've all had those times when several of your defeats are stolen or simply have a lot of bad luck.
Though like I said, giving a situation and a vague idea of what happens isn't really a lot to go off of. Not to mention, this isn't probably the best place to ask such a question.
not everyone is a zen master, but i think people should strive for it. Competition is part of concentration and without focus you wont do well. when you dont do well you can rage. the way you rage is very imprtant. do you curse at the other players during the whole match? do you break stuff around you? do you break your controller on your head?(ive lived in a gamer house and have seen this fist hand).
its about maturity.
I have broken about 4 Dualshock 3's this gen because of COD. (not proud)
then one day I was like "why am I breaking my expensive things?" "why is a game making me so mad?"
and I stopped getting mad and just played. MW2 was the last game I "raged" to.
it takes time. humans are strange lol
If you aren't getting raged at some point, then you probably aren't being competitive during gameplay. Sports players get raged in a similar manner.
Also, anger can be constructive.
I got my Zen down pretty good, but I still get raged sometimes. Usually it's not from video games though.
When I get raged I usually pick up the guitar. Digging into the strings a little harder works wonders.
When I get angry at a game I start fooling around in-game. I recall one cod4 match where I just started running straight at the other team while spinning around like a human twister (sensitivity 10 :) . But I rarely get angry...