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Community Poll #16
Published on July 23, 2013 5:03 PM
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Have you ever been so mad at a game that you've thrown a controller?

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Posted on July 23, 2013 5:07 PM

Plenty of times but the worse of it was because of the final boss on Heavenly Sword

Posted on July 23, 2013 5:07 PM

*worst

Posted on August 11, 2013 9:38 PM

Definetely now what you mean! So tough, felt like I beat him out of pure luck.

Posted on July 23, 2013 5:10 PM

Yes.

1.) Milon's Secret Castle

2.) Ninja Gaiden 2

3.) Slingshot AI in any simulation racing game

4.) Every bonus stage in any Spyro game ever.

5.) Castlevania's jump arcs + enemy placement (early on at least)

6.) Mike Tyson in Punch Out!!

7.) Ghosts'n'Goblins

8.) Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Yep, twice)

9.) GTA 3, the coffee stands across all 3 islands. Timed.

10.) Ocarina of Time - The Water Temple, you spoony MOTHERFUCKING bard. Use a key in the wrong place? GG.

Posted on August 11, 2013 9:44 PM

'spoony MOTHERFUCKING bard' ...omg, love you. x)

I've been so mad I've thrown a controller, but this was when my Mad Catz push button for my nice metal DDR mat was refusing to stop cycling "select". ~.~

Posted on July 23, 2013 5:11 PM

Probably while playing Battletoads back in the day. I don't get that mad anymore at games though. I played Ninja Gaiden on NES recently and was so close to finishing it.. before giving up. If I get that stressed out I just stop playing. 

Posted on July 23, 2013 5:33 PM

Jak II.  I was so frustrated I not only threw the controller.  I smashed it to bits on the ground.

Posted on July 23, 2013 5:42 PM

Who hasn't?

Posted on July 23, 2013 7:06 PM

I never was much of a thrower, but if I did it would have been the NES days.

Posted on July 23, 2013 7:23 PM

I threw one back in the Sega Gensis day, however after that I havent thrown one. Waiting for dad to buy a new one taught me a lesson,lol!

Posted on July 23, 2013 7:30 PM

I totally used to smash my NES controller on the TV when I was a kid. Mega Man 3 was almost always to blame. Thank god they were big thick CRTs back then, because nowadays that would be a high price to pay for rage. I don't get that worked up about games any more, so I haven't thrown a controller since then.

Posted on July 23, 2013 7:40 PM

No.  I never purposely throw a controller, but I did swing my arm in rage and the controller slipped from my hand. Cool

Posted on July 23, 2013 8:45 PM

I don't remember.  But my nephews were throwing my controllers when they visited me and it pissed me off!  Yell

Posted on July 23, 2013 8:56 PM

More like PSP screen biter. I remember doing that with Resistance: Retribution and the harder enemies in Dissidia: Final Fantasy. That's all I got for now.

Posted on July 24, 2013 6:11 AM

That, my friend, is awesome. I never thought to bite my PSP screen out of frustration. Now I will.

Posted on July 23, 2013 9:05 PM

I don't remember exactly which Genesis game it was, but it was definitely a Genesis game.

Posted on July 23, 2013 10:11 PM

I like to play difficult games but I never throw controllers. I can't remember ever throwing a controller, the only damage the happens to mine have always been accidents by stepping on the cords and making them fall from an entertainment center or dropping them in my hands onto the floor.

As a kid I never threw controllers either, I always knew that the controllers were a product that I had to take care of and without it I wouldn't be able to play my games, and they are expensive so I never wanted to waste them by tossing them around. Some of it is just patience and never getting too upset at video games, but some of it was always just respecting my property and not wanting to ruin stuff.

I did kick a computer and screw it up a bit once, I hate all the computers I grew up with, we never had anything up to date and they were all mildly functional and I never got used to it like everybody else did. They would overheat and shut down all the time, get viruses, HDs would crash, speeds would be super slow, normal computer stuff. I tried to kick one of them to death one time and broke up some of the shell and maybe messed up some of the multimedia drives I think.

Posted on July 24, 2013 6:13 AM

Yea! Kick those darn towers. They're on the floor. That's what they are there for. Kick away!

Posted on July 23, 2013 10:22 PM

thrown hell. how about snapped.

Posted on July 23, 2013 10:59 PM

No, I always knew that if I broke a controller, I wouldn't be able to get another, or I'd be paying for that instead of a game. I've yelled at the tv plenty of times though.

Posted on July 24, 2013 12:06 AM

I don't throw controllers, too expensive. I just yell and swear at the TV like a mad man.

Posted on July 24, 2013 1:48 AM

The final boss battles in FFVII all made me want to throw it. Then kick in the TV for mocking me! How dare you,sir!

Posted on July 24, 2013 1:50 AM

Yeah... fucking Skate 2 was the first game to get me there and that was because the physics kept fucking my shit up. Most other games I acknowledge it was my fault and persevere, but the fucking death races in Skate 2, I swear to god!

Posted on July 24, 2013 2:04 AM

Plenty of fighting games to that to me, sad to say. Ranked matches+ seriosus lag= unhappy Corey. I remeber the first Wizpig battle in Diddy Kong Racing was so bad when I was a kid I threw the controller and chipped it. I got in trouble for that too.

Posted on July 24, 2013 3:57 AM

That's a yes! When things have gotten particularly hairy, I also may have bitten a controlller or 2 in my youth!

Posted on July 24, 2013 6:26 AM

Man, we need a biters support group on Pixlbit. But mainly because I want to hear more stories of people biting controllers and systems. Yeah!

Posted on July 24, 2013 6:21 AM

I remember throwing my SNES controller to the floor many times, or just dropping it, mostly because of the Ice levels of Donkey Kong Country. It was on carpet, so no harm done. Those SNES controllers were pretty hard to break and I never worried too much about them. Today, I just make a mock gesture of throwing the controller at the TV screen. It's really unthinkable now with those things costing $60 to replace. Plus today's controllers are high tech gadgets themselves, not just a piece of plastic housing a tiny board with buttons on it.

Posted on July 24, 2013 9:27 AM

No, I actually would shake the controller up and down violently on rare occassions, but never threw anything.

Posted on July 24, 2013 7:12 PM

Yeah. These days I just quit if I get frustrated. Shoot, when I was younger I was biting them. lol

Posted on July 26, 2013 1:03 AM

Nope. I'm kinda zen when it comes to games like that. When I sense myself getting mad at a game (for any reason) I get up and shut down the game. That's when I know it's time to take a break for awhile.

What? stop looking at me like that! Not everyone gets mad that quickly!

Posted on July 26, 2013 10:46 PM

I'm thinking marvel vs capcom 2... Lmao the AI can be so CHEAP

Posted on July 27, 2013 3:01 AM

I almost threw the controller once. The culprit? Super Monkey Ball on the GameCube.