Has Blizzard ever made a popular game that wasnt notorious for being Toxic AF? Heroes of the storm was actually decent till they once again bent the knee to the toxic tryhards.
@@Jackthetrashcanman Yes, Morbius DS is a true masterpeice, single handedly resurrecting a dead console, and having photorealistic graphics on it no less. It has sold 3 Morbillion copies, and has a 404 out of 100 on Metacritic, beating the previous highest rated game by hundreds of points. But why am i even explaining this, everyone and their dead grandma, and even the Moon Men have bought it 69 times over. I am sure Saber will do a 42 hour long video on it, he is one of the last people to have not done so after all.
Usually for me, Gamer rage had to be controlled all the time. My family was really strict on budgets and saving money, so I could never afford to rage and break anything lol.
Fixed budget kept me from destruction in the past. I've had a few rage moments and knew if broke something, I most likely wasn't replacing it any time soon.
My biggest moment, I was like 7 and struggling against one of the higher bosses of Digimon Rumble Arena. Screaming at the TV early in the morning on a Saturday. Got yelled at by mother for waking dad up. Probably a good thing he didn't come and scream back at me but I've been very conscious of gamer rage since. I only get nearly that bad when my computer lags to like 2 frames an hour. Which is weekly. Through multiples computers. Must be MacAffee. Never hurt a machine, they always just died after years naturally, you know how modern electronics are. It's been over 20 years and I still haven't beaten that boss.
@@ariesforce1988 It was actually the skeleton dude but oh boy. I'm not at knowledgeable with Digimon as I am with Pokemon, do Digis have weaknesses like Pokemon do? Is Renamon a bad matchup?
Same here except if I do FPS games that are also competitive... best you can get out of me is crying or a bang on my desk... but hey. Better than breaking tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment!
Admitting this kind of stuff is as hard as admitting to having fallen prey to a scheme of predatory practices. Thank you Saber. I feel if more stories like this would come out it would make people reflect more and actual change could occur.
I never broke anything with gamer rage, but it got to the point where moba games were stressing me out so much, that it hurt when I hate because I clenched my jaw from hypertension. Also I said a lot of really low bar toxic shit which I'm not proud of. I don't play moba games anymore.
I'm glad you're feeling more at peace. I've sworn off fps games for that exact reason. My older brother used to get so heated playing poker online. Recall him taking one monitor and charging the other one after losing a few grand on a hand. Was out of control.
I wish others would realize the damage anger does to those around them like you did. You're stronger than most to actively work on it and acknowledge it. Thank you for that.
I find most of the rage and toxicity comes from PVP games. Why I never touched them in my life. I get frustrated the miniscule amount of times I tried any PVP games. So I stick to SP or COOP games only.
I think i broke a lot of other player equipment here. I been traping people in Rust into well designed traps and i heared stuff being hit over a mic a lot of times :D
I agree. PVP games seem to be where all the rage and toxicity is at. While I never broke anything from the rage I felt I've had unpleasant memories from those sorts of games and game modes. It also doesn't help that I hate losing a lot. So, I tend to avoid those.
Back then I used to take Smash Bros and ranked Splatoon very seriously until I realized it got to an unhealthy point with these rage issues and I straight up dropped online games. To this day almost everything I play is single player, whenever I screw up I have no one to blame but myself.
Its very weird to hear these kind of situations and feel so disconnected from them. I loved gaming way too much to even imagine damaging the equipment. If I ever got angry enough to be rough with the items, it was because it wasn't working to begin with (ex: Scrubbing a disc harder to clean it, smacking an erroring console, blowing into a cartridge, etc). Still like any issue, its different for some people, and perhaps the anger was so intense that the flying thought to destroy was saying "Maybe its better if I don't have this game around to play". Still, maybe that foundation factor of 'sharing' the games helped to contribute. When I was growing up, I was the only one in my family seriously loving games, and my issue was being told I could only play on the weekends. So those weekends were gaming binges, but I never had a rivalry or sense of anger to compete with it, and I can easily see the anger in having your gaming time 'burrowed' or stolen from you, and that sense of defensive tension when you do get to actually play.
Hearing you be vulnerable about this kinda stuff and your WoW addiction really is endearing. Like I can’t relate directly but I can take your embarrassment and shame you share and apply it to other moments in my life and hearing you laugh it off/look at it rationally from a distance helps me deal with my embarrassment and shame in my life a little bit. Like, you aren’t made only out of your shortcomings and these videos you’ve made are a positive reminder of that sentiment. Good to see both your channels thriving, man.
I never could damage something I owned, I always personified objects as needing respect / having a life and experiences to give lol so to damage something that otherwise works normally would make me feel like shit. That said the angriest I ever got while playing games was (as a kid) trying to 100% Bomberman 64 and when I couldnt do some of the more tricky maneuvers to get the gold cards, I'd punch my leg lol. More recently I got PISSED at the latest Competitive Deathmatch on Overwatch. Total trash game mode because Hog was the only meta. If there was even one hog in a match, I'd have to play Reaper or lose. Ugh. I only banged my desk a few times in frustration but nothing to cause damage though. But I get the feeling -- I hated the game mode, thought it was the worst, but I would keep playing it from this strange sense of self-loathing that I never have otherwise. So weird how you can be drawn in by toxic failure. "APPARENTLY I SUCK. TIME TO SEE HOW BAD IT CAN GET" If you start doing better, you don't feel redeemed, just "yeah, ok, yeah, yeah" and keep playing. But if you keep losing, you feel even more justified in your anger in a toxic feedback loop AND KEEP PLAYING STILL.
I feel like PvP stuff in general can be moe infuriating than playing a game solo. In the latter, it's you against the game, so you have the chance of learning it and outsmarting it to come out on top. When going against other people, there's always a chance that you may (constantly) go up against someone more skilled or experience than you are and that's what will get you.
I'm so neurotic about keeping my consoles in super good condition so I can't imagine breaking a controller in anger- though I did think about chucking my phone through the window after a particularly rough Gaelic lesson in Duolingo, lol. I notice that when I start to struggle and get frustrated in games, I start to get a headache and become a bit motion sick. Usually that's only a problem for me in first-person games (I prepare for playing DOOM the way one might prepare for combating seasickness while deep-sea fishing) but when stress and fatigue come into play that's when I get woozy. At that point I always stop playing for the day. I don't want to hork all over my Switch.
I can't say this has ever been something I can relate to. Even when at my most frustrated over something stupid in a game the worst I've ever done is sigh heavily and put my head in my hands or something. Good thing too because there's no way I'd be able to afford the luxury of breaking expensive electronics all the time.
the poetic description of swinging your monitor like a mace like the witch king from lord of the rings had me in fits. genuinely not laughing at your expense, but i remember as a send off to the afterlife for busted controllers and mice (the electronic kind!) was crushing them between 2 cinderblocks. i rationalized it that these were inanimate objects, when really that wasn't acceptable regardless. accepting the fact you have anger and taking steps to address it is a pretty commendable act. coming from a similar upbringing, these types of parents were themselves raised in households where feelings aren't taught to be dealt with and in turn is impressed upon the next generation. learning to deal with anger in a constructive and healthy manner of deescalation is an all to important lesson that can passed up. good on you saberspark. i love your channel.
It's funny: I absolutely had (have) similar rage issues; I broke a dish and a window in highschool--but games weren't much of a trigger for me. For me it's got something to do with feeling trapped by bureaucracy I don't understand, but feel like I should understand, so I suck but also society sucks for making me do this.... In college I tried to subliminate the need for violence with self harm, since I thought it would be less visible --until I got caught and that was awful. Now I have a huge monologue of violent brutal ranting I try not to say out loud, but.... I feel like part of the problem is not having a good outlet?
Saber, thank you very much for sharing your gaming rage experiences. I've been fortunate in that my own gaming rage hasn't gone as far as breaking stuff, but I can still relate to the yelling and the overall feelings of rage. I was experiencing that with PvZ2 years ago, and thus I stopped playing. After all, we play games to have fun and relax, not to get enraged.
I was a very angry kid and I think it might have been from major hormone imbalance issues. I threw my phone a lot (back when you could throw it and it would survive without any doubt), broke a LOT of barbies, broke a laptop screen, and broke a motherboard on a different laptop. At that point, I was tired of being angry so I got some help. Now, I try to be a lot more relaxed about that stuff and just avoid toxic games all together. I only play Among Us with friends, I refuse to touch LoL, and MMORPGs have too much time sinks for me to get interested in them.
dude, and I thought I was bad when I bit my DS. Granted, as a middle schooler with adhd, I didn't know that opening and closing my DS repeatedly would break my hinges, which is what caused me to literally, bite the top screen of my DS, and crack the screen with my canine. Oh boy... that was embarrassing.
Dude, I can relate to this. I always raged with games, still kind of do. I think part of it is because I take it personally, I was always "the gamer" in my group and would beat my friends at split screen. Then I started getting into online games, and I found out I was a big fish in a small pond... I wasn't nearly as good as I thought I was, and I would get pissed when I feel like I got steamrolled by my opponent. And like you said, it doesn't help when people make it personal. It still is kind of an issue to this day. I feel myself getting mad when I play games with my wife and friends, we go on a losing streak and I have to excuse myself because I know I'm not going to be fun to paly with if I just keep raging. I keep trying to do better though. It helps to do some metacognition, realize that the dopamine rush should come with enjoying something with friends and not from seeing a blue screen instead of a red one.
This brings back memories of my childhood, which was a very long time ago. My brother and I both got started with video games in the 1970s. I have never had gamer rage issues, but he used to get frustrated when a game wasn't going well. He would bang the joystick on the table or on the computer. Somehow, he managed to destroy an Atari 400. Those things are built like tanks and are almost impossible to destroy, so this was an impressive feat. After I got an Atari 800 (which was rather expensive at the time), I had to keep an eye on him to make sure he didn't destroy it. Fortunately, he calmed down as he got older, and nowadays, he is no more likely to get angry and destroy something than I am.
I find that I don't rage with games to such an extreme, but I DO find myself ensnared in them as an addiction. Then I brief moments of clarity where I realize: wait. what am I doing, I'm not having fun. I'm just going through this pattern and grind because it's familiar and I drop the game, sometimes to be returned to later, I'm looking at you Runescape. The same thing happened for League of Legends and Hearthstone. Now a days, it's hard for me to pick up a competitive multiplayer game. I much prefer "local co-op" style games that just pit my friends together or against each other. I'm glad you were able to break the vicious cycle Saberspark!
I've had gamer rage since I was a kid too. Earliest I can remember was playing Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES. I can safely say, without a shred of doubt, that no game has ever enraged me more than Overwatch. I've broken 2 keyboards and mouse. After a 15 game loss streak, the sheer frustration and hatred I feel towards the game and myself is just indescribable. However, I later win that one single game, and it's the greatest feeling of relief and satisfaction, which is what keeps me reinstalling the game every few months.
Thank you for being so vulnerable with this kind of content. I feel like a lot of people can relate to you and how you reacted in anger (myself included), but it's seen as "cringe". No one wants to admit they've thrown a controller or punched a wall, but a lot of us have done it.
I never really suffered from Gamer Rage specifically, but I did have rage issues in general that often came out when arguing with walnuts on twitter or something like that so... I feel you. :( I was lucky to have a good therapist who helped me work through it, so I no longer get those huge rage spikes nearly as often and can ease myself down when I *do* start spiking, but it's important to share these stories so people know that they're not alone and also that they don't have to live like that. Because it is not a pleasant way to exist. Beyond the monetary damages, it just doesn't feel good. It's exhausting!
I used to be a real hothead in my youth, and can attest to the sibling "arguments" full well. I broke quite a few things, such as walls. controllers, and a few other insignificant things, but the real wake-up call for me was when I smashed my GameCube. No joke, my fist came down so hard on that the disc lid just cracked in half and popped off. nowadays, I really only get that angry when I'm in a losing streak in Splatoon.
I have a short temper and had terrible control over my obsessions as a kid and I have actually hurt people when I was young but I don't think I've ever broken anything I cared about in my fits of rage. I mostly just kicked the wall next to my bed (only with my shoes because I am weak AF). Actually managed to get a hole over the years too. I think it was around that point I actually stopped doing that but by then puberty had finished setting in and I had less hormone issues to deal with. It may have been the meds I was on that I stopped taking around the time, the fact I went gluten free around that time (I have autism and my mom thinks it helps but I ultimately went gluten-lite because I had a hard time completely eliminating it from my diet) or any combination of the three.
For me, my experience with gamer rage was with Naruto and Pokémon. 😄😄 I know, might not be much compared to these fps, mmpo games, but it was mostly due to taunting messages, spammed, and perhaps due to lack of skill, and confidence. I tend not to let that stuff get to me these days. Closest I came to "breaking" something was a light "punch" on my monitor. Still in one piece by the by.
I'm the type of person who holds a lot of things in, I don't- seriously don't- get outwardly mad at anything in my everyday life. For this reason, Games almost become like a venting mechanism at times. It's the only medium I'll shout out loud when I'm pissed and feel okay afterward. I've never been physical in my outbursts though, I'm very protective of my stuff. I've never punched, hit, or thrown anything I've had XD
It takes bravery to admit stuff like this. I'm glad you got better, that's an expensive and stressful habit to have. Happy Lamby helped be that turning point for you in life. Rest his humble little soul. 🙏
I feel ya man. When I play online games I find myself becoming an ahole all too often. After a few bad matches I'm not having fun and neither are the people I play with. Thankfully I don't break things, probably because I know I dont want to replace expensive stuff.
I grew up as that kind of rage susceptible kid. Thankfully I stopped playing video games (step parents didn't game like my bio-dad). I game nowadays, but I'm so glad I waited until I was mature enough to do so.
Man, it's always great to hear stories of people overcoming some of there bad qualities and becoming better. As for me I never really had gamer rage growing up since me and my brothers would end up playing co-op games or VS games like Wii Sports, Lego Batman 2, Star Wars Battlefront, stuff like that where we either played on the same team or had some healthy competition (I can still hear "We've captured a command post, we've lost a command post ringing in my ears to this day). It was mostly me and my younger brother though who played together most of the time but because me and him shared a room for most of our childhood and would play together most of the time we really bonded a lot and he's still my best friend and best co-op partner to this day.
As someone who spends most of his freetime playing games and has played games since he was 3; (I turned 30 in April for a reference) raging has been a thing that still will periodically happen. I remember replaying LoZ Twilight princess and never being able to remember where that last stupid poe spirit was and getting so upset that I deleted my save; and the next time I played it it happened again. I've played many different games across many different genres and consoles (my condolences to anyone building their first gaming pc.) You learn to be aware of what triggers you, and when you should take a break even if you decide not to. Anger, like every other emotion, is human. It's okay to rage, just be ready to be culpable for that rage. The real question is how when I am calm as still water I still manage to utter destroy my PS4 controllers when I got them a month ago.
I appreciate you admitting to this, even admitting that it was something you did as an adult & not just a teen, because it’s hard to own up to. I think anyone who’s play video games has had those moments of pure rage, you just can’t help it. Only thing I’d have liked to see would have been maybe a little info at the end of how you’ve managed to keep it in check going forward? I like that you said it hasn’t just magically gone away completely, because that’s unrealistic, but some advice for others out there who struggle with it & want to get better would have been nice too, I think.
I'm not physically violent towards people, it takes a lot to get me so mad I want to break something. I treat my electronics like I do people nowadays, but I've put fist imprints in a door a few times. I get loud a lot, I talk angrily sometimes... it makes my little dog shake too... I feel more like a monster in those moments than anything else. it really makes me re-evaluate what I'm mad about and how I got to that point.
As a League player, I feel this personally, but thankfully, I've sworn to myself that I'm only playing this with good friends that I was close and comfy with, that brought me to this game in the first time. So we just acted as each other's "safety nets" when the games get too tilting for us, standing up for each other if another player harasses anyone of us, and if the day turned really sour, we just go and play something else to recover. I'm so grateful because I had them, they made the game fun despite all the Ls we took. Playing solo I feel like you don't have that kind of "safety net", and I know that it's really easy to succumb to gamer rage, so I really respect Saber actually manning up and admitting this side to him, it's hard to do. Glad to know you're doing better!
3:42 I had an aversion to playing PvP in games for a long time. I'm only just okay at games but sometimes I actually do surprisingly good in online PvP because of people even worse than I am. I just tried out Fall Guys last week and got a silver medal on the race game the second time by pacing myself (I only qualified the first time because I went too fast), beating even people with more cosmetics than I had. I lost both second rounds though.
The worst my gamer rage get is yelling (at myself or the game, not to actual voice chat teammates) or just rash decisions in-game where I might do more aggressive pushes against the opponent which sometimes is beneficial, but sometimes not lol. I haven't really been angry lately. I do have a stress ball, which I've used rarely. It kinda helps.
I can relate to some of this. I do rage and even now after 27 years of gaming, but it’s much more controlled recently. Ya before as a kid I would scream, get mad, toss my controller, and even cry lol. Then as a teen I still did all of that except cry. Then as young adult I would be more calm, but would rage here and there. Probably the worst things I’ve done was break my controllers and actually hit myself but not like full force to where I’m leaving marks. Now that was very uncalled for and something I needed to fix right away. I don’t do that anymore, but I won’t lie and say I don’t get upset and mad. But it only happens when I’m playing a game I know I’m good at and I get unlucky or stupid things happen. Especially fighting games lol. We just need to control ourselves and maybe take more breaks or even put down the game.
I also often have moments where I feel the need to vent my anger tho I don't destroy stuff (that matters, I've crushed a lit of empty soda cans through the years). I do sometimes yell or slam my desk, not hard enough to damage but just to hit something. If I don't I hit my head. I have autism so what else do I come up with. Its been a while since I did it cuz I can mostly manage my anger but when I do, how hard I hit depends on how I feel. Not saying I crack my own skull or something, I stop before I get a headache (I also have migraine so a headache is the last I want cuz if I can't get manage it I'll vomit) or give myself a concussion (never happened before, most that'd happen is I get a bit dizzy for a few seconds).
not really gamer rage but I was playing a game called rhythm heaven for the ds and it uses flicks and the touch screen for the entire game, and I didn’t have a stylus, so I usually just used a pencil from my art supplies box. But this time, I accidentally picked a *craft knife*instead of a pencil (it was dark so I didn’t notice) so as soon as I start playing Dj school, i took the line “scratch-o” literally. Made a huge scratch on my 3ds and it is still here to this day (3ds still works somehow)
I don't rage often and I even avoid competitive games or even the ones that might be too challenging, but sometimes the challenge gets me by surprise in a game where I don't expect and all hell breaks loose. I don't break stuff but I slap myself and say the worst things ever. After I'm done with it I feel horrible and feel the need to pray for forgiveness lmao
I've had small moments myself. I'm usually a very collected person, but we all know that let's loose from time to time (Hearthstone and League were the worst). I've broken both arm rests on a chair with those said games and made a dent in my coffee table I have now from a fighting game. The feeling of wanting to be a good player getting shattered for a moment by someone better in that moment is a strong one sometimes.
I remember when I first started playing Final Fantasy XI back in 2004, I would do some PvP events known as "Ballista" and other players ganked me so hard that I threw my keyboard on the floor and jumped up and down on top of it until it broke, and swore never to play again. 18 years later and I'm still playing, btw, but I never do PvP anymore. Not that there's many players left to even do it with. There were other times even before that on console when I'd get so angry at losing or failing a mission in something that I'd actually BITE my controller. I still have teeth marks in the hand grip of one of my PS3 controllers because I actually deformed the plastic.
I once felt so angry while playing with my nintendo DS I stabbed the screen with the stylus... it was a good thing that I had wimpy arms and hands so nothing broke, otherwise it would have cost me... (and by that I mean my brother would have ended me...)
Im going through the same thing. I cant play Destiny PvP or Battlefield anymore because im scared. Ive broken countless controllers, 2 keyboards and 3 mice. 3 headsets. I even broke my limited edition Cyberpunk Johnny Silverhand headset and controller. Luckily my mother was able to replace them for my birthday. I was in shock! And now those are in their boxs on my shelf lol Ive tried to mitigate it but its hard. And my job in the army isnt helping and its bleeding out if just video games and I have spurts of anger and outbursts once and a while. I tried seeing someone for it but its fell through 3 times already and ive given that up. Now, Im just trying to take it one day at a time
I had a gamer breakdown where I actually cried. I get mad but usually I cry because it makes me feel like a failure and I'm not 'a real gamer' when others can win just fine
I used to be quite angry, especially got frustrated with games, the worst was oddly Mario Brothers which is when I got so upset i headbutted my gameboy advanced so hard the screen broke, and it wasn't the first time I had been this upset and done this but one day the gameboy finally gave out. Lot of that angers gone now, replaced with depression though i've had other outbursts that were often as a result of stewing in the especially negative nights and either someone or myself triggering the right part of my ape brain to push it over the level and i kick a wall or throw something and scream. Looking back i did a lot of violent things but mostly to myself or my "stuff" when i was upset, and not just frustrating game upset but bad mood swings and depression that i didn't even know what to call it, just kind of hated life, but more vehemently than today where I'm just apathetic.
Yeah, I feel you man, another horrible source of rage it's the lag, oh god, the pure anger I felt for lag, also the fact that I was playing LoL didn't help much, but now, as Saber said, I learn to know when the time to get away from the game comes, and to be better. Remember, if someone like the old Tyler1 could change, we all can.
My then-8 yr old cousin had gamer rage and destroyed my ps2 cuz they couldn’t figure out how to play DDRMAX with the dance pad. I came home from my friend’s house and found my ps2 ripped from the dresser and broken open on the floor from them stomping on it. My mother and my aunt made our grandmother replace it because she was supposed to be watching cousin and was told they weren’t allowed upstairs/in my bedroom at all. Worst part is grandmother tried to convince us that it was my cat’s fault…
I am glad this subject was brought up. I feel like a lot of the time, there just isn't anyone to talk about it with who's never experienced it. They just say "just don't do it, it's that simple." But then they're afraid of house spiders or thunder or something else that's easy to rationalize away, but say "that's different." Only in the sense that it's a different emotion that is irrationally strong. Otherwise, it's very difficult to simply ignore. It might even require therapy.
I think...I once twisted something in half over a game when I was younger. I do recall throwing my GameBoy Color so hard that it bounced off my floor and shattered an electric outlet cover once.
Watching stupid rage videos on youtube at a young age made me think about how wasteful and unnecessary it is pretty early on in my life, so whenever I got angry and fussy (which was very rare as a kid but is happening somewhat more often nowadays) I would usually take it out on myself or a pillow
It's something that can happen to anyone. I also suffered of anger issues before regarding in games but the only thing that I broke as far I remember was just a TV remote control and that's it but yeah still it wasn't something good to say... But luckily someone told me a good tip for avoid the anger very easily and funnily enough it worked even to this days still works for me and is: Just tell dumb jokes that makes you laugh and that's it, I mean if one game or an online match it's pissing you off, just tell any dumb joke based on anything that you see, in an example makes a fun off of the name of the username that you lost it or mock the developers or think in any random thing regarding the game, etc...
My rage was always the Power Screech when I was home alone, no matter the time. Just a good ol "RAAAAAAAAAAAUUUGGGHHH!" Online or solo, didn't matter. I have never deliberately broken any device though. My worst "throw" would be whipping off my headset onto my bed after muting so I could calm the screech lol Much better now though.. ^_^
I'm a retro video game collector and I have NEVER had an instance of gamer rage in the 31 years I have played games. My Husband has instances of gamer rage, but he is a PC gamer and has at worst dented a 1950s metal desk, destroyed a wooden desk, and punched a hole through the wall next to the computer screen. I never understood gamer rage where you break the controller, TV, etc; and I've played more than 8000 hours worth of MMOs with PvP. I could understand rage quitting, but destruction of materials seems too weird for me.
Yeah...this is one of the biggest reasons why I stopped playing pvp games. I haven't broken anything while pvping, but instead I began to realize how disgustingly competitive I was becoming. Initially pvp was just fun. I was one of the best in those oldschool pvp games like Gunz: The Duel for instance. My name in fact held just a tiny bit of clout in certain circles there too. But the more I felt I was getting better at whatever game I was playing, the more I began to feel like I SHOULD be better than everyone else. And when I came across someone who could stand toe to toe with me, I didn't have that cool-headed competitor's spirit like I used to. Instead of the respect I once gave to my opponent, it became disrespect. I wanted to not just win, but *CONQUER* my opponent. Even caught myself almost teabagging/emote-gloating a few times - something I never normally did. One time I found myself yelling at a good friend for "targeting me" in TF2. She was playing as a sniper if I remember correctly, and I was on the opposing team. I got heated for no reason, and when she abruptly left the game, I realized how much of a piece of crap I was being and apologized. But the damage was done - she was very, very reluctant to play pvp games with me again after that. Time healed the wound, but we only then just played pvp games on the same team - never against each other. And that was my fault. The final straw though was when I was playing Overwatch alone without any friends. This was my first mistake. When I play pvp games with friends, their presence helps keep me calm and collected, because we're all having fun/struggling together. But this was with a pub. I didn't know these people, so I didn't care as much about them. Anyways - it was a tough match, and I was getting angrier and angrier. I was so...so angry, that even after my team won, I was still fuming. I gloated as well, yelled at my own team (thankfully not over the mic or in chat. I was just yelling in real life so at least I didn't harrass anyone other than myself) and then once the match ended, I quit Overwatch and sat stewing in my own rage. Then it turned inward. I got depressed and ashamed. I felt like the absolute most terrible person in existence. I freakin' won and yet I was still exploding. From then on, I stopped playing pvp games. If there's a pvp function in a game I'm playing, I abstain from it as much as possible - which includes Dark Souls/Elden Ring, and so on. I'm too competitive, and I hate what competition transforms me into. And ever since me giving up pvp, I've become a far less angry gamer.
I remember being little and losing my collective sh*t when I'd lose to the Beetle in DK64 that would challenge you to a race. To add insult to injury, he'd laugh with such a piercing sound when you'd lose and the dialogue would rub it in your face.
If it's any consolation, I've snapped a DS in half because I was mad at a generic pool game's computer being too difficult than its level. Thankfully this was when I was a kid and didn't quite grasp enough of my emotions, but I was so embarrassed by that, and thankfully haven't destroyed anything in a fit of rage since (only other thing I rememeber destroying on purpose since was a broken third party Gamecube controller).
team based games are the only ones that get me angry, but never on that level of anger altrough i can get very angry because of IRL stuff, but i never end up breaking anything
The only game that could rage me was Hearthstone. I remember trying to kill the Lich King with everyclass but as a mage i just couldnt i tried for hours upon hours endlessly i was playing on my phone, but the ai always had the good cards or draw the goods cards and killed my creature right before i could kill him with 1 ot 2 hits. I fucking toss my phone on the floor and broke my phone completly, i was emberrased to tell my mum the truth i told her that it slipped through my hands and fell off.
I was similar in middle school while playing call of duty. I would get pissed when I die and throw my controller on my bed. I always made sure to throw it at something soft because I knew if I broke it I wouldn’t be getting another one. And I never really screamed. I’d do those silent screams where I’d scream with my mouth closed. Anyway, I grew out of that early in high school and never raged at a game again. I’d get pissed and upset if some bulls hit happens, but I’d never rage and I’d get over it pretty quick.
My rage in quiet. It builds up like water in a vary large pot when your too short to see the top. It starts with a glare and tightening controller. Then grunts and growling into muttering. Then talking to the game getting a little louder and that's about when someone might hear and wonder what's going on. That's about when I start trying to calm down and take a break, but if I don't, then I'll say what's making me angry and just angerly growl more. Normally that's when I can hear the controller creaking more and just stop. Because i rather my wallet is broke not my controllers and then both broke.
In his COD years, my brother was very violent against us, punching me whenever I was using the Wi-Fi at the same time he was online. Fortunately, he got better.
The only thing I have ever broke by rage was a cup which I threw at a wall, I was playing Mario 3D Land and it was at the "star world" I guess it was called (when you basically 100% the main game) and I wasn't mad at the game but mostly at me because skill issue. I don't rage as much I used to years ago even against playing people, if I lose is because I mess up or I got outplayed and that's about it.
Gotta admit, I never really saw you as a breaking-in-anger kind of person, lol, anger issues in general, BUT I guess it kinda makes sense, lol. That's really amazing that you got better, though! But OOOOOF, I can't believe you broke all that awesome stuff through anger! YIKES! BUT at least you're better now! Haha! Good job!
I usually never broken anything at all when dealing with gamer rage, until the time that my anger issues peaked, even past the need for anger management therapy. The one time I broke something through gamer rage is the time that I was playing Chibi-Robo Zip lash on my 3DS. I was doing a skateboard level in one of the later areas of the game, and trying to aim for 100% for the game. The jumps I was trying to perform in that level were hard to do, and near-precise. I failed the level so many times, and got my anger to erupt to the point where I threw my 3DS on my mom’s bathroom floor (yes, I was playing the game in the bathroom, who doesn’t?), and the 3DS broke in half. The hinge is cracked, the metal ring is popped outside the hinge, I can’t snap the two halves back together, and I also left a dent on the floor too. Luckily after all that, my 3DS still functions like normal…that is until I did attempt to fix it one day, and snapped the ribbon wire by accident, and the top screen no longer displays anything. The speakers still works, and the bottom screen works just as normal, but the top screen’s display is what’s been f*cked over. From that point on, I never used my 3DS ever again since then…(and I still haven’t gotten my gold kart frame in Mario kart 7…r.i.p)
3:07 My brother did a lot too. My Megadrive controllers still rattle and the wall looked like the surface of the moon. I can't say that much about it... I did the same thing recently with my ps4 controller. Wall indentations and craters. Nothing broken yet, except a small tear in the carpet from a thrown chair. I can barely remember doing it. I ended up banning myself from playing first-person shooter games or intense action games when I realized I had a split personality that's triggered by anger, stress or anxiety that I only became aware of a few years ago. I think it's a family thing. My dad, my brother, and even one of my youngest Nephews has the same thing. I was even banned from playing one of my Switch games at work on lunch break, as I was frightening my other colleagues ^ ^; Happy to say, that listening to Video Game Music is my go to for suppressing my anger levels these days.
I "fought" with one of my sisters a lot when it came to games, but that was mostly just yelling over Mario Party, which even as kids we understood was just a result of how you're supposed to play the game. My youngest sibling, though, failed to understand that and would throw a screaming fit until both of us older kids lost the gamecube whenever picking up a controller and mashing random buttons didn't reward her with victory.
My sister and I fought a ton and had serious competition issues--so we just automatically had extremely strict house rules without even discussing it about always targeting the NPCs and sharing loot or whatever in multiplayer games, because we knew that we'd murder each other otherwise. It kind of blew me away the first time I watched other people play without all that careful cooperative fairness.
I feel like I might be in the minority when it came to playing games with my siblings. We took losing with stride, and played more multiplayer games than single player ones. And when it came to sharing a single player one, we had no issues taking turns. Hell, when we played Shadow of the Colossus, we had fun taking turns taking down a Colossi. Besides, we knew damn well that if a game or controller ever broke, it was us that had to buy a new one with our own money. And since we're all frugal, we made those things last :P.
I see it as this. If you're not enjoying a game. Put it down. A game is suppose to be relaxing and a outlet for relief or whatever positive emotion you wanna feel. You should also never play a game where you hated to play it or you don't enjoy it. Because what's the point in that if you're not having fun? Ya know?
My worse gamer rage moment was when I chucked my controller into the hallway because of crappy controls in a racing challenge in a game. I had a headset plugged in and utterly trashed it with the throw.
Dam, some games annoy me but I never let myself break anything. I stop before that point. Its mainly online games that annoy me that much but I don't bother playing them all that much lately
When I was like........... eight I kept losing at a level in Super Mario Galaxy 2. I was getting furious. Eventually I ejected the disc, marched outside in my pyjamas, and threw the disc onto the road to watch it get run over by a big-ass truck. I still feel bad for that. I've broken one or two actual devices to gamer rage but I like to think I have a _bit_ more of a handle on it nowadays. I still shout a lot...
I have never understood people who say, "if you have siblings, you understand that you have to fight your siblings." I mean, I have two older sisters and we've always gotten along great.
Sheesh... I am getting minor PTSD triggers from this... Holy crap. I am so happy you are self-aware enough to grow from it, and no one ever got hurt by your actions.
Concerning the par about pvp. I can only imagine fi you'd be one of those people I'd tell to calm down and that "the victory were the friends we made along the way" 😅
The closest I ever got to breaking a gaming device was my 3ds during the Sm4sh launch. I got so angry with online I almost threw it across the room but stopped my self and punched the couch. The only thing that I intentionally broke was around 2009 I was playing Tf2 late at night while drinking. It was these cheap dollar store earphones with a really short wire so I had to lead towards my pc. I got pissed and broke it and played without sound.
Questions like this prevents me from buying particularly fun/frustrating games. I see it in my mind and I nope it. The games I do have that are competitive on, Halo 360 console. I've began to completely accept everything but obviously when some weird bullsh!t trick happens, I just restart the entire missing or level as to not have that exist on my resume... I will restart anything from start to finish in a clean non-cheating fight.
it helps to not break things when you can accept that its ok to not always win or that its ok to fail at games you usually do good at. survival instinct makes people feel awful to lose. failing or succeeding when you get older carries more weight, and i think sometimes we forget as adults that we dont need to carry the weight of losing at a video game as we do at succeeding at life.
My gamer rage moments started when I was pretty young, my dad was a rageful gamer, he once broke a PS2 over his knee cuz a game pissed him off, so as you can tell, I was raised in an environment where that was normal. My worst moment I think was Super Smash Bros Brawl, I got to the point of unlocking Lucario. That fight made me throw my Wiimote from the top bunk into the door. Door got a dent in it from the impact, and the Wiimote doesn't work anymore. Asshole to admit that was back in 2017, so... Not too long ago. The most aggressive I have become at other players has to be Destiny. This was once eagain back in the same year, I was shouting so loud like an idiot at thes people who couldn't hear me. I can luckily say that I have never broken an expensive controller or system out of gamer rage, and recently, if a game makes me angry, I just close whatever I'm playing, and come back later. Despite what my brother likes to say, I don't break PS4 controllers out of anger, it's literally just out of use. I will use controllers to death. Which I'm sure could be fixed really fast, if I knew what I was doing.
FINALLY, I'M NOT ALONE. i mean i definitely haven't lost $3000 to my baby gamer rage yet, but i've had to set strict boundaries on what games i play because if i played them, shit will break, and my mental health with degrade. difficult games (dark souls & elden ring) and pvp games (with bots on easy-normal difficulty they're fine) are an absolute no-go for me. plus, i have a processing disorder that messes with the way i think while playing games. i just go unga-bunga on most of them. sucks that i have to miss out on such phenomenal experiences, but it's really for the better of my mental health. i was always more of a watcher than a player as a kid anyway. most expensive thing i broke was a $200 LED TV to losing a really, really close boss fight in octopath traveler (that game's difficulty RAMPS UP after a certain point. i probably just didn't grind enough or get good enough gear.) threw my 8bitdo controller at what had to been like 10 feet per second right at the TV and cracked it beyond repair. i've luckily never had rage bad enough to break hardware as expensive as a whole console or PC, but most casualties have definitely included controllers, at least one keyboard and mouse, and a few game discs even. i only just recently decided to start going to anger management classes about a month and a half ago, and i've learned a lot of lessons and values i should have as a teenager. it won't give me the courage to try to play difficult singleplayer or pvp games again, but it will help me in other parts of life. most important thing to realize is: it's just a game. so yeah, it was kinda surprising to see this video.
I totally used to break all my stuff(sometime i even bit them ngl) because of gaming rage lol now after a year of not playing any video games it totally narrows down my rage and frustration, nowadays if i'm mad i'll just scream
Never broken anything, but back in high school, dad could hear me playing Tekken 6 from like 2 floors underneath me. That game could make me so damn mad lol
Hey there! I was wondering if you'd make a "What the HELL" video on Spore (2008) please? It's one of my favorite games, and I'd really like to see you cover it. Thanks!
lol, had to laugh when you mentioned Halo 3. That game made me rage SO goddamn hard back in the day, like no other game. Nice video, though I dislike the fact that you call stuff like this "anger issues", these aren't any sort of "issues", it's just being angry and/or frustrated at something, that's perfectly normal.
Yaaa not my proudest moments -Saber
When are you going to cover the greatest game of all time? Morbius DS
Great vid, you should make a vid on NFT video games, XD
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Has Blizzard ever made a popular game that wasnt notorious for being Toxic AF? Heroes of the storm was actually decent till they once again bent the knee to the toxic tryhards.
@@Jackthetrashcanman Yes, Morbius DS is a true masterpeice, single handedly resurrecting a dead console, and having photorealistic graphics on it no less. It has sold 3 Morbillion copies, and has a 404 out of 100 on Metacritic, beating the previous highest rated game by hundreds of points. But why am i even explaining this, everyone and their dead grandma, and even the Moon Men have bought it 69 times over. I am sure Saber will do a 42 hour long video on it, he is one of the last people to have not done so after all.
Usually for me, Gamer rage had to be controlled all the time. My family was really strict on budgets and saving money, so I could never afford to rage and break anything lol.
Fixed budget kept me from destruction in the past. I've had a few rage moments and knew if broke something, I most likely wasn't replacing it any time soon.
@@WillTheUndeadSmore Same. I try to remind myself that no matter how angry I might get at a game, the products around might not be worth the rage.
Same.
I've thankfully never broke anything when playing games but I've broken stuff before while setting up
I was just gonna say I’ve never been rich enough to be allowed to do that 😅 I just wouldn’t get new stuff to break
Never broken anything with Gamer Rage, but the urge has been there. Been learning to avoid playing certain games when I'm already stressed.
My biggest moment, I was like 7 and struggling against one of the higher bosses of Digimon Rumble Arena. Screaming at the TV early in the morning on a Saturday.
Got yelled at by mother for waking dad up. Probably a good thing he didn't come and scream back at me but I've been very conscious of gamer rage since.
I only get nearly that bad when my computer lags to like 2 frames an hour. Which is weekly. Through multiples computers. Must be MacAffee. Never hurt a machine, they always just died after years naturally, you know how modern electronics are.
It's been over 20 years and I still haven't beaten that boss.
@@Roadent1241 Reapermon: G R I M S L A S H E R ! ! !
Me: For the 50th time in a row! >:l
@@ariesforce1988 It was actually the skeleton dude but oh boy.
I'm not at knowledgeable with Digimon as I am with Pokemon, do Digis have weaknesses like Pokemon do? Is Renamon a bad matchup?
Same here except if I do FPS games that are also competitive... best you can get out of me is crying or a bang on my desk... but hey. Better than breaking tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment!
I've wanted to slam my PS4 controller over my knee a few times.
Admitting this kind of stuff is as hard as admitting to having fallen prey to a scheme of predatory practices. Thank you Saber.
I feel if more stories like this would come out it would make people reflect more and actual change could occur.
I never broke anything with gamer rage, but it got to the point where moba games were stressing me out so much, that it hurt when I hate because I clenched my jaw from hypertension. Also I said a lot of really low bar toxic shit which I'm not proud of. I don't play moba games anymore.
Being aware of the toxicity and working to become a better person is commandable
@@Revealingstorm. I mean yeah but holy shit I was a fucking twat in my teens
Yea I don't play MOBA games for the same reason.
I'm glad you're feeling more at peace.
I've sworn off fps games for that exact reason.
My older brother used to get so heated playing poker online. Recall him taking one monitor and charging the other one after losing a few grand on a hand. Was out of control.
I DO NOT play competitively for rage reasons lol
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
the honesty here is respectable and hilarious
I wish others would realize the damage anger does to those around them like you did.
You're stronger than most to actively work on it and acknowledge it. Thank you for that.
I find most of the rage and toxicity comes from PVP games. Why I never touched them in my life. I get frustrated the miniscule amount of times I tried any PVP games. So I stick to SP or COOP games only.
I think i broke a lot of other player equipment here. I been traping people in Rust into well designed traps and i heared stuff being hit over a mic a lot of times :D
I agree. PVP games seem to be where all the rage and toxicity is at. While I never broke anything from the rage I felt I've had unpleasant memories from those sorts of games and game modes. It also doesn't help that I hate losing a lot. So, I tend to avoid those.
SIngle-player is all I'll play. Any multiplayer element a game has means absolutely nothing to me and is never used.
In my case game rage only comes out in PvE games, I rage when the game is beating me, if another person is beating me Idc.
Back then I used to take Smash Bros and ranked Splatoon very seriously until I realized it got to an unhealthy point with these rage issues and I straight up dropped online games. To this day almost everything I play is single player, whenever I screw up I have no one to blame but myself.
Its very weird to hear these kind of situations and feel so disconnected from them. I loved gaming way too much to even imagine damaging the equipment. If I ever got angry enough to be rough with the items, it was because it wasn't working to begin with (ex: Scrubbing a disc harder to clean it, smacking an erroring console, blowing into a cartridge, etc). Still like any issue, its different for some people, and perhaps the anger was so intense that the flying thought to destroy was saying "Maybe its better if I don't have this game around to play". Still, maybe that foundation factor of 'sharing' the games helped to contribute. When I was growing up, I was the only one in my family seriously loving games, and my issue was being told I could only play on the weekends. So those weekends were gaming binges, but I never had a rivalry or sense of anger to compete with it, and I can easily see the anger in having your gaming time 'burrowed' or stolen from you, and that sense of defensive tension when you do get to actually play.
Hearing you be vulnerable about this kinda stuff and your WoW addiction really is endearing. Like I can’t relate directly but I can take your embarrassment and shame you share and apply it to other moments in my life and hearing you laugh it off/look at it rationally from a distance helps me deal with my embarrassment and shame in my life a little bit. Like, you aren’t made only out of your shortcomings and these videos you’ve made are a positive reminder of that sentiment. Good to see both your channels thriving, man.
I never could damage something I owned, I always personified objects as needing respect / having a life and experiences to give lol so to damage something that otherwise works normally would make me feel like shit. That said the angriest I ever got while playing games was (as a kid) trying to 100% Bomberman 64 and when I couldnt do some of the more tricky maneuvers to get the gold cards, I'd punch my leg lol. More recently I got PISSED at the latest Competitive Deathmatch on Overwatch. Total trash game mode because Hog was the only meta. If there was even one hog in a match, I'd have to play Reaper or lose. Ugh. I only banged my desk a few times in frustration but nothing to cause damage though. But I get the feeling -- I hated the game mode, thought it was the worst, but I would keep playing it from this strange sense of self-loathing that I never have otherwise. So weird how you can be drawn in by toxic failure. "APPARENTLY I SUCK. TIME TO SEE HOW BAD IT CAN GET" If you start doing better, you don't feel redeemed, just "yeah, ok, yeah, yeah" and keep playing. But if you keep losing, you feel even more justified in your anger in a toxic feedback loop AND KEEP PLAYING STILL.
I feel like PvP stuff in general can be moe infuriating than playing a game solo. In the latter, it's you against the game, so you have the chance of learning it and outsmarting it to come out on top. When going against other people, there's always a chance that you may (constantly) go up against someone more skilled or experience than you are and that's what will get you.
I'm so neurotic about keeping my consoles in super good condition so I can't imagine breaking a controller in anger- though I did think about chucking my phone through the window after a particularly rough Gaelic lesson in Duolingo, lol.
I notice that when I start to struggle and get frustrated in games, I start to get a headache and become a bit motion sick. Usually that's only a problem for me in first-person games (I prepare for playing DOOM the way one might prepare for combating seasickness while deep-sea fishing) but when stress and fatigue come into play that's when I get woozy. At that point I always stop playing for the day. I don't want to hork all over my Switch.
I can't say this has ever been something I can relate to. Even when at my most frustrated over something stupid in a game the worst I've ever done is sigh heavily and put my head in my hands or something.
Good thing too because there's no way I'd be able to afford the luxury of breaking expensive electronics all the time.
the poetic description of swinging your monitor like a mace like the witch king from lord of the rings had me in fits. genuinely not laughing at your expense, but i remember as a send off to the afterlife for busted controllers and mice (the electronic kind!) was crushing them between 2 cinderblocks. i rationalized it that these were inanimate objects, when really that wasn't acceptable regardless.
accepting the fact you have anger and taking steps to address it is a pretty commendable act. coming from a similar upbringing, these types of parents were themselves raised in households where feelings aren't taught to be dealt with and in turn is impressed upon the next generation. learning to deal with anger in a constructive and healthy manner of deescalation is an all to important lesson that can passed up. good on you saberspark. i love your channel.
It's funny: I absolutely had (have) similar rage issues; I broke a dish and a window in highschool--but games weren't much of a trigger for me. For me it's got something to do with feeling trapped by bureaucracy I don't understand, but feel like I should understand, so I suck but also society sucks for making me do this.... In college I tried to subliminate the need for violence with self harm, since I thought it would be less visible --until I got caught and that was awful. Now I have a huge monologue of violent brutal ranting I try not to say out loud, but.... I feel like part of the problem is not having a good outlet?
Have you tried art? It’s a very good outlet for a lot of people. Also, talking to a friend helps
All in all, I'm glad none of those incidents were Mario Party. That would have been nuclear levels of wrath.
Saber, thank you very much for sharing your gaming rage experiences. I've been fortunate in that my own gaming rage hasn't gone as far as breaking stuff, but I can still relate to the yelling and the overall feelings of rage. I was experiencing that with PvZ2 years ago, and thus I stopped playing. After all, we play games to have fun and relax, not to get enraged.
I was a very angry kid and I think it might have been from major hormone imbalance issues. I threw my phone a lot (back when you could throw it and it would survive without any doubt), broke a LOT of barbies, broke a laptop screen, and broke a motherboard on a different laptop. At that point, I was tired of being angry so I got some help. Now, I try to be a lot more relaxed about that stuff and just avoid toxic games all together. I only play Among Us with friends, I refuse to touch LoL, and MMORPGs have too much time sinks for me to get interested in them.
the way siblings physically fighting each other as kids and then somehow looking back at it with almost nostalgic lense is so funny to me
dude, and I thought I was bad when I bit my DS. Granted, as a middle schooler with adhd, I didn't know that opening and closing my DS repeatedly would break my hinges, which is what caused me to literally, bite the top screen of my DS, and crack the screen with my canine. Oh boy... that was embarrassing.
Dude, I can relate to this.
I always raged with games, still kind of do. I think part of it is because I take it personally, I was always "the gamer" in my group and would beat my friends at split screen. Then I started getting into online games, and I found out I was a big fish in a small pond... I wasn't nearly as good as I thought I was, and I would get pissed when I feel like I got steamrolled by my opponent. And like you said, it doesn't help when people make it personal. It still is kind of an issue to this day. I feel myself getting mad when I play games with my wife and friends, we go on a losing streak and I have to excuse myself because I know I'm not going to be fun to paly with if I just keep raging.
I keep trying to do better though. It helps to do some metacognition, realize that the dopamine rush should come with enjoying something with friends and not from seeing a blue screen instead of a red one.
This brings back memories of my childhood, which was a very long time ago. My brother and I both got started with video games in the 1970s. I have never had gamer rage issues, but he used to get frustrated when a game wasn't going well. He would bang the joystick on the table or on the computer. Somehow, he managed to destroy an Atari 400. Those things are built like tanks and are almost impossible to destroy, so this was an impressive feat. After I got an Atari 800 (which was rather expensive at the time), I had to keep an eye on him to make sure he didn't destroy it. Fortunately, he calmed down as he got older, and nowadays, he is no more likely to get angry and destroy something than I am.
I find that I don't rage with games to such an extreme, but I DO find myself ensnared in them as an addiction. Then I brief moments of clarity where I realize: wait. what am I doing, I'm not having fun. I'm just going through this pattern and grind because it's familiar and I drop the game, sometimes to be returned to later, I'm looking at you Runescape. The same thing happened for League of Legends and Hearthstone. Now a days, it's hard for me to pick up a competitive multiplayer game. I much prefer "local co-op" style games that just pit my friends together or against each other.
I'm glad you were able to break the vicious cycle Saberspark!
I've had gamer rage since I was a kid too. Earliest I can remember was playing Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES. I can safely say, without a shred of doubt, that no game has ever enraged me more than Overwatch. I've broken 2 keyboards and mouse. After a 15 game loss streak, the sheer frustration and hatred I feel towards the game and myself is just indescribable. However, I later win that one single game, and it's the greatest feeling of relief and satisfaction, which is what keeps me reinstalling the game every few months.
Thank you for being so vulnerable with this kind of content. I feel like a lot of people can relate to you and how you reacted in anger (myself included), but it's seen as "cringe". No one wants to admit they've thrown a controller or punched a wall, but a lot of us have done it.
I never really suffered from Gamer Rage specifically, but I did have rage issues in general that often came out when arguing with walnuts on twitter or something like that so... I feel you. :( I was lucky to have a good therapist who helped me work through it, so I no longer get those huge rage spikes nearly as often and can ease myself down when I *do* start spiking, but it's important to share these stories so people know that they're not alone and also that they don't have to live like that. Because it is not a pleasant way to exist. Beyond the monetary damages, it just doesn't feel good. It's exhausting!
I used to be a real hothead in my youth, and can attest to the sibling "arguments" full well. I broke quite a few things, such as walls. controllers, and a few other insignificant things, but the real wake-up call for me was when I smashed my GameCube. No joke, my fist came down so hard on that the disc lid just cracked in half and popped off.
nowadays, I really only get that angry when I'm in a losing streak in Splatoon.
I have a short temper and had terrible control over my obsessions as a kid and I have actually hurt people when I was young but I don't think I've ever broken anything I cared about in my fits of rage. I mostly just kicked the wall next to my bed (only with my shoes because I am weak AF). Actually managed to get a hole over the years too. I think it was around that point I actually stopped doing that but by then puberty had finished setting in and I had less hormone issues to deal with. It may have been the meds I was on that I stopped taking around the time, the fact I went gluten free around that time (I have autism and my mom thinks it helps but I ultimately went gluten-lite because I had a hard time completely eliminating it from my diet) or any combination of the three.
For me, my experience with gamer rage was with Naruto and Pokémon. 😄😄 I know, might not be much compared to these fps, mmpo games, but it was mostly due to taunting messages, spammed, and perhaps due to lack of skill, and confidence. I tend not to let that stuff get to me these days. Closest I came to "breaking" something was a light "punch" on my monitor. Still in one piece by the by.
I'm the type of person who holds a lot of things in, I don't- seriously don't- get outwardly mad at anything in my everyday life. For this reason, Games almost become like a venting mechanism at times. It's the only medium I'll shout out loud when I'm pissed and feel okay afterward. I've never been physical in my outbursts though, I'm very protective of my stuff. I've never punched, hit, or thrown anything I've had XD
Exactly! The worst I've done was smash my Hand on my desk and stomp my feet on the ground. Afterwards I'd cry and cry
It takes bravery to admit stuff like this. I'm glad you got better, that's an expensive and stressful habit to have. Happy Lamby helped be that turning point for you in life. Rest his humble little soul. 🙏
I feel ya man. When I play online games I find myself becoming an ahole all too often. After a few bad matches I'm not having fun and neither are the people I play with.
Thankfully I don't break things, probably because I know I dont want to replace expensive stuff.
I grew up as that kind of rage susceptible kid. Thankfully I stopped playing video games (step parents didn't game like my bio-dad).
I game nowadays, but I'm so glad I waited until I was mature enough to do so.
Man, it's always great to hear stories of people overcoming some of there bad qualities and becoming better. As for me I never really had gamer rage growing up since me and my brothers would end up playing co-op games or VS games like Wii Sports, Lego Batman 2, Star Wars Battlefront, stuff like that where we either played on the same team or had some healthy competition (I can still hear "We've captured a command post, we've lost a command post ringing in my ears to this day). It was mostly me and my younger brother though who played together most of the time but because me and him shared a room for most of our childhood and would play together most of the time we really bonded a lot and he's still my best friend and best co-op partner to this day.
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As someone who spends most of his freetime playing games and has played games since he was 3; (I turned 30 in April for a reference) raging has been a thing that still will periodically happen. I remember replaying LoZ Twilight princess and never being able to remember where that last stupid poe spirit was and getting so upset that I deleted my save; and the next time I played it it happened again. I've played many different games across many different genres and consoles (my condolences to anyone building their first gaming pc.) You learn to be aware of what triggers you, and when you should take a break even if you decide not to.
Anger, like every other emotion, is human. It's okay to rage, just be ready to be culpable for that rage.
The real question is how when I am calm as still water I still manage to utter destroy my PS4 controllers when I got them a month ago.
I appreciate you admitting to this, even admitting that it was something you did as an adult & not just a teen, because it’s hard to own up to. I think anyone who’s play video games has had those moments of pure rage, you just can’t help it. Only thing I’d have liked to see would have been maybe a little info at the end of how you’ve managed to keep it in check going forward? I like that you said it hasn’t just magically gone away completely, because that’s unrealistic, but some advice for others out there who struggle with it & want to get better would have been nice too, I think.
I'm not physically violent towards people, it takes a lot to get me so mad I want to break something.
I treat my electronics like I do people nowadays, but I've put fist imprints in a door a few times.
I get loud a lot, I talk angrily sometimes... it makes my little dog shake too... I feel more like a monster in those moments than anything else.
it really makes me re-evaluate what I'm mad about and how I got to that point.
As a League player, I feel this personally, but thankfully, I've sworn to myself that I'm only playing this with good friends that I was close and comfy with, that brought me to this game in the first time. So we just acted as each other's "safety nets" when the games get too tilting for us, standing up for each other if another player harasses anyone of us, and if the day turned really sour, we just go and play something else to recover. I'm so grateful because I had them, they made the game fun despite all the Ls we took. Playing solo I feel like you don't have that kind of "safety net", and I know that it's really easy to succumb to gamer rage, so I really respect Saber actually manning up and admitting this side to him, it's hard to do. Glad to know you're doing better!
3:42 I had an aversion to playing PvP in games for a long time. I'm only just okay at games but sometimes I actually do surprisingly good in online PvP because of people even worse than I am. I just tried out Fall Guys last week and got a silver medal on the race game the second time by pacing myself (I only qualified the first time because I went too fast), beating even people with more cosmetics than I had. I lost both second rounds though.
The worst my gamer rage get is yelling (at myself or the game, not to actual voice chat teammates) or just rash decisions in-game where I might do more aggressive pushes against the opponent which sometimes is beneficial, but sometimes not lol. I haven't really been angry lately. I do have a stress ball, which I've used rarely. It kinda helps.
I can relate to some of this. I do rage and even now after 27 years of gaming, but it’s much more controlled recently. Ya before as a kid I would scream, get mad, toss my controller, and even cry lol. Then as a teen I still did all of that except cry. Then as young adult I would be more calm, but would rage here and there.
Probably the worst things I’ve done was break my controllers and actually hit myself but not like full force to where I’m leaving marks. Now that was very uncalled for and something I needed to fix right away. I don’t do that anymore, but I won’t lie and say I don’t get upset and mad. But it only happens when I’m playing a game I know I’m good at and I get unlucky or stupid things happen. Especially fighting games lol. We just need to control ourselves and maybe take more breaks or even put down the game.
I also often have moments where I feel the need to vent my anger tho I don't destroy stuff (that matters, I've crushed a lit of empty soda cans through the years). I do sometimes yell or slam my desk, not hard enough to damage but just to hit something. If I don't I hit my head. I have autism so what else do I come up with. Its been a while since I did it cuz I can mostly manage my anger but when I do, how hard I hit depends on how I feel. Not saying I crack my own skull or something, I stop before I get a headache (I also have migraine so a headache is the last I want cuz if I can't get manage it I'll vomit) or give myself a concussion (never happened before, most that'd happen is I get a bit dizzy for a few seconds).
This sounds like normal behavior, especially as a child. Thankfully it didn't turn towards people.
not really gamer rage but I was playing a game called rhythm heaven for the ds and it uses flicks and the touch screen for the entire game, and I didn’t have a stylus, so I usually just used a pencil from my art supplies box. But this time, I accidentally picked a *craft knife*instead of a pencil (it was dark so I didn’t notice) so as soon as I start playing Dj school, i took the line “scratch-o” literally. Made a huge scratch on my 3ds and it is still here to this day (3ds still works somehow)
I don't rage often and I even avoid competitive games or even the ones that might be too challenging, but sometimes the challenge gets me by surprise in a game where I don't expect and all hell breaks loose.
I don't break stuff but I slap myself and say the worst things ever. After I'm done with it I feel horrible and feel the need to pray for forgiveness lmao
I've had small moments myself. I'm usually a very collected person, but we all know that let's loose from time to time (Hearthstone and League were the worst). I've broken both arm rests on a chair with those said games and made a dent in my coffee table I have now from a fighting game. The feeling of wanting to be a good player getting shattered for a moment by someone better in that moment is a strong one sometimes.
The only time I’ve “thrown” controllers on the floor is by accident from being too sweaty playing just dance and not using the wrist straps properly 😂
I remember when I first started playing Final Fantasy XI back in 2004, I would do some PvP events known as "Ballista" and other players ganked me so hard that I threw my keyboard on the floor and jumped up and down on top of it until it broke, and swore never to play again. 18 years later and I'm still playing, btw, but I never do PvP anymore. Not that there's many players left to even do it with.
There were other times even before that on console when I'd get so angry at losing or failing a mission in something that I'd actually BITE my controller. I still have teeth marks in the hand grip of one of my PS3 controllers because I actually deformed the plastic.
I once felt so angry while playing with my nintendo DS I stabbed the screen with the stylus... it was a good thing that I had wimpy arms and hands so nothing broke, otherwise it would have cost me... (and by that I mean my brother would have ended me...)
Im going through the same thing. I cant play Destiny PvP or Battlefield anymore because im scared. Ive broken countless controllers, 2 keyboards and 3 mice. 3 headsets. I even broke my limited edition Cyberpunk Johnny Silverhand headset and controller. Luckily my mother was able to replace them for my birthday. I was in shock! And now those are in their boxs on my shelf lol Ive tried to mitigate it but its hard. And my job in the army isnt helping and its bleeding out if just video games and I have spurts of anger and outbursts once and a while. I tried seeing someone for it but its fell through 3 times already and ive given that up. Now, Im just trying to take it one day at a time
I had a gamer breakdown where I actually cried. I get mad but usually I cry because it makes me feel like a failure and I'm not 'a real gamer' when others can win just fine
I used to be quite angry, especially got frustrated with games, the worst was oddly Mario Brothers which is when I got so upset i headbutted my gameboy advanced so hard the screen broke, and it wasn't the first time I had been this upset and done this but one day the gameboy finally gave out.
Lot of that angers gone now, replaced with depression though i've had other outbursts that were often as a result of stewing in the especially negative nights and either someone or myself triggering the right part of my ape brain to push it over the level and i kick a wall or throw something and scream. Looking back i did a lot of violent things but mostly to myself or my "stuff" when i was upset, and not just frustrating game upset but bad mood swings and depression that i didn't even know what to call it, just kind of hated life, but more vehemently than today where I'm just apathetic.
Yeah, I feel you man, another horrible source of rage it's the lag, oh god, the pure anger I felt for lag, also the fact that I was playing LoL didn't help much, but now, as Saber said, I learn to know when the time to get away from the game comes, and to be better. Remember, if someone like the old Tyler1 could change, we all can.
My then-8 yr old cousin had gamer rage and destroyed my ps2 cuz they couldn’t figure out how to play DDRMAX with the dance pad. I came home from my friend’s house and found my ps2 ripped from the dresser and broken open on the floor from them stomping on it.
My mother and my aunt made our grandmother replace it because she was supposed to be watching cousin and was told they weren’t allowed upstairs/in my bedroom at all. Worst part is grandmother tried to convince us that it was my cat’s fault…
I am glad this subject was brought up. I feel like a lot of the time, there just isn't anyone to talk about it with who's never experienced it. They just say "just don't do it, it's that simple." But then they're afraid of house spiders or thunder or something else that's easy to rationalize away, but say "that's different." Only in the sense that it's a different emotion that is irrationally strong. Otherwise, it's very difficult to simply ignore. It might even require therapy.
I think...I once twisted something in half over a game when I was younger. I do recall throwing my GameBoy Color so hard that it bounced off my floor and shattered an electric outlet cover once.
Watching stupid rage videos on youtube at a young age made me think about how wasteful and unnecessary it is pretty early on in my life, so whenever I got angry and fussy (which was very rare as a kid but is happening somewhat more often nowadays) I would usually take it out on myself or a pillow
It's something that can happen to anyone.
I also suffered of anger issues before regarding in games but the only thing that I broke as far I remember was just a TV remote control and that's it but yeah still it wasn't something good to say...
But luckily someone told me a good tip for avoid the anger very easily and funnily enough it worked even to this days still works for me and is:
Just tell dumb jokes that makes you laugh and that's it, I mean if one game or an online match it's pissing you off, just tell any dumb joke based on anything that you see, in an example makes a fun off of the name of the username that you lost it or mock the developers or think in any random thing regarding the game, etc...
My rage was always the Power Screech when I was home alone, no matter the time. Just a good ol "RAAAAAAAAAAAUUUGGGHHH!" Online or solo, didn't matter. I have never deliberately broken any device though. My worst "throw" would be whipping off my headset onto my bed after muting so I could calm the screech lol Much better now though.. ^_^
I'm a retro video game collector and I have NEVER had an instance of gamer rage in the 31 years I have played games. My Husband has instances of gamer rage, but he is a PC gamer and has at worst dented a 1950s metal desk, destroyed a wooden desk, and punched a hole through the wall next to the computer screen. I never understood gamer rage where you break the controller, TV, etc; and I've played more than 8000 hours worth of MMOs with PvP. I could understand rage quitting, but destruction of materials seems too weird for me.
I really appreciate you sharing this. More people need to hear stuff like this.
Thank god I never had this problem.
But you'll definitely hear me screaming "OH COME ON!!!" every once in a while.
Yeah...this is one of the biggest reasons why I stopped playing pvp games. I haven't broken anything while pvping, but instead I began to realize how disgustingly competitive I was becoming. Initially pvp was just fun. I was one of the best in those oldschool pvp games like Gunz: The Duel for instance. My name in fact held just a tiny bit of clout in certain circles there too. But the more I felt I was getting better at whatever game I was playing, the more I began to feel like I SHOULD be better than everyone else. And when I came across someone who could stand toe to toe with me, I didn't have that cool-headed competitor's spirit like I used to. Instead of the respect I once gave to my opponent, it became disrespect. I wanted to not just win, but *CONQUER* my opponent. Even caught myself almost teabagging/emote-gloating a few times - something I never normally did.
One time I found myself yelling at a good friend for "targeting me" in TF2. She was playing as a sniper if I remember correctly, and I was on the opposing team. I got heated for no reason, and when she abruptly left the game, I realized how much of a piece of crap I was being and apologized. But the damage was done - she was very, very reluctant to play pvp games with me again after that. Time healed the wound, but we only then just played pvp games on the same team - never against each other. And that was my fault.
The final straw though was when I was playing Overwatch alone without any friends. This was my first mistake. When I play pvp games with friends, their presence helps keep me calm and collected, because we're all having fun/struggling together. But this was with a pub. I didn't know these people, so I didn't care as much about them. Anyways - it was a tough match, and I was getting angrier and angrier. I was so...so angry, that even after my team won, I was still fuming. I gloated as well, yelled at my own team (thankfully not over the mic or in chat. I was just yelling in real life so at least I didn't harrass anyone other than myself) and then once the match ended, I quit Overwatch and sat stewing in my own rage. Then it turned inward. I got depressed and ashamed. I felt like the absolute most terrible person in existence. I freakin' won and yet I was still exploding.
From then on, I stopped playing pvp games. If there's a pvp function in a game I'm playing, I abstain from it as much as possible - which includes Dark Souls/Elden Ring, and so on. I'm too competitive, and I hate what competition transforms me into. And ever since me giving up pvp, I've become a far less angry gamer.
The most rage for me as a kid was trying to do a hard thing in Smash Bros Melee, when I lost I'd stamp on the floor and be frustrated.
I remember being little and losing my collective sh*t when I'd lose to the Beetle in DK64 that would challenge you to a race. To add insult to injury, he'd laugh with such a piercing sound when you'd lose and the dialogue would rub it in your face.
If it's any consolation, I've snapped a DS in half because I was mad at a generic pool game's computer being too difficult than its level. Thankfully this was when I was a kid and didn't quite grasp enough of my emotions, but I was so embarrassed by that, and thankfully haven't destroyed anything in a fit of rage since (only other thing I rememeber destroying on purpose since was a broken third party Gamecube controller).
team based games are the only ones that get me angry, but never on that level of anger
altrough i can get very angry because of IRL stuff, but i never end up breaking anything
The only game that could rage me was Hearthstone. I remember trying to kill the Lich King with everyclass but as a mage i just couldnt i tried for hours upon hours endlessly i was playing on my phone, but the ai always had the good cards or draw the goods cards and killed my creature right before i could kill him with 1 ot 2 hits. I fucking toss my phone on the floor and broke my phone completly, i was emberrased to tell my mum the truth i told her that it slipped through my hands and fell off.
I was similar in middle school while playing call of duty.
I would get pissed when I die and throw my controller on my bed. I always made sure to throw it at something soft because I knew if I broke it I wouldn’t be getting another one. And I never really screamed. I’d do those silent screams where I’d scream with my mouth closed.
Anyway, I grew out of that early in high school and never raged at a game again. I’d get pissed and upset if some bulls hit happens, but I’d never rage and I’d get over it pretty quick.
My rage in quiet. It builds up like water in a vary large pot when your too short to see the top. It starts with a glare and tightening controller. Then grunts and growling into muttering. Then talking to the game getting a little louder and that's about when someone might hear and wonder what's going on. That's about when I start trying to calm down and take a break, but if I don't, then I'll say what's making me angry and just angerly growl more. Normally that's when I can hear the controller creaking more and just stop. Because i rather my wallet is broke not my controllers and then both broke.
In his COD years, my brother was very violent against us, punching me whenever I was using the Wi-Fi at the same time he was online. Fortunately, he got better.
The only thing I have ever broke by rage was a cup which I threw at a wall, I was playing Mario 3D Land and it was at the "star world" I guess it was called (when you basically 100% the main game) and I wasn't mad at the game but mostly at me because skill issue. I don't rage as much I used to years ago even against playing people, if I lose is because I mess up or I got outplayed and that's about it.
Gotta admit, I never really saw you as a breaking-in-anger kind of person, lol, anger issues in general, BUT I guess it kinda makes sense, lol. That's really amazing that you got better, though! But OOOOOF, I can't believe you broke all that awesome stuff through anger! YIKES! BUT at least you're better now! Haha! Good job!
I usually never broken anything at all when dealing with gamer rage, until the time that my anger issues peaked, even past the need for anger management therapy.
The one time I broke something through gamer rage is the time that I was playing Chibi-Robo Zip lash on my 3DS. I was doing a skateboard level in one of the later areas of the game, and trying to aim for 100% for the game. The jumps I was trying to perform in that level were hard to do, and near-precise. I failed the level so many times, and got my anger to erupt to the point where I threw my 3DS on my mom’s bathroom floor (yes, I was playing the game in the bathroom, who doesn’t?), and the 3DS broke in half. The hinge is cracked, the metal ring is popped outside the hinge, I can’t snap the two halves back together, and I also left a dent on the floor too. Luckily after all that, my 3DS still functions like normal…that is until I did attempt to fix it one day, and snapped the ribbon wire by accident, and the top screen no longer displays anything. The speakers still works, and the bottom screen works just as normal, but the top screen’s display is what’s been f*cked over.
From that point on, I never used my 3DS ever again since then…(and I still haven’t gotten my gold kart frame in Mario kart 7…r.i.p)
3:07 My brother did a lot too. My Megadrive controllers still rattle and the wall looked like the surface of the moon. I can't say that much about it... I did the same thing recently with my ps4 controller. Wall indentations and craters. Nothing broken yet, except a small tear in the carpet from a thrown chair. I can barely remember doing it. I ended up banning myself from playing first-person shooter games or intense action games when I realized I had a split personality that's triggered by anger, stress or anxiety that I only became aware of a few years ago. I think it's a family thing. My dad, my brother, and even one of my youngest Nephews has the same thing. I was even banned from playing one of my Switch games at work on lunch break, as I was frightening my other colleagues ^ ^;
Happy to say, that listening to Video Game Music is my go to for suppressing my anger levels these days.
I "fought" with one of my sisters a lot when it came to games, but that was mostly just yelling over Mario Party, which even as kids we understood was just a result of how you're supposed to play the game. My youngest sibling, though, failed to understand that and would throw a screaming fit until both of us older kids lost the gamecube whenever picking up a controller and mashing random buttons didn't reward her with victory.
My sister and I fought a ton and had serious competition issues--so we just automatically had extremely strict house rules without even discussing it about always targeting the NPCs and sharing loot or whatever in multiplayer games, because we knew that we'd murder each other otherwise. It kind of blew me away the first time I watched other people play without all that careful cooperative fairness.
I feel like Mario Party should come with a black box warning.
I feel like I might be in the minority when it came to playing games with my siblings. We took losing with stride, and played more multiplayer games than single player ones. And when it came to sharing a single player one, we had no issues taking turns. Hell, when we played Shadow of the Colossus, we had fun taking turns taking down a Colossi.
Besides, we knew damn well that if a game or controller ever broke, it was us that had to buy a new one with our own money. And since we're all frugal, we made those things last :P.
So glad to see Saberspark do a collab with Saberspark 64. Always good to see my favorite youtubers coming together.
I see it as this. If you're not enjoying a game. Put it down. A game is suppose to be relaxing and a outlet for relief or whatever positive emotion you wanna feel. You should also never play a game where you hated to play it or you don't enjoy it. Because what's the point in that if you're not having fun? Ya know?
My worse gamer rage moment was when I chucked my controller into the hallway because of crappy controls in a racing challenge in a game. I had a headset plugged in and utterly trashed it with the throw.
Dam, some games annoy me but I never let myself break anything. I stop before that point. Its mainly online games that annoy me that much but I don't bother playing them all that much lately
When I was like........... eight I kept losing at a level in Super Mario Galaxy 2. I was getting furious. Eventually I ejected the disc, marched outside in my pyjamas, and threw the disc onto the road to watch it get run over by a big-ass truck.
I still feel bad for that.
I've broken one or two actual devices to gamer rage but I like to think I have a _bit_ more of a handle on it nowadays. I still shout a lot...
I have never understood people who say, "if you have siblings, you understand that you have to fight your siblings." I mean, I have two older sisters and we've always gotten along great.
It's always depends on sibling personality
Sheesh... I am getting minor PTSD triggers from this... Holy crap. I am so happy you are self-aware enough to grow from it, and no one ever got hurt by your actions.
Concerning the par about pvp. I can only imagine fi you'd be one of those people I'd tell to calm down and that "the victory were the friends we made along the way" 😅
The closest I ever got to breaking a gaming device was my 3ds during the Sm4sh launch. I got so angry with online I almost threw it across the room but stopped my self and punched the couch. The only thing that I intentionally broke was around 2009 I was playing Tf2 late at night while drinking. It was these cheap dollar store earphones with a really short wire so I had to lead towards my pc. I got pissed and broke it and played without sound.
@@danjoredd I played scout the rest of that night.
Questions like this prevents me from buying particularly fun/frustrating games. I see it in my mind and I nope it. The games I do have that are competitive on, Halo 360 console. I've began to completely accept everything but obviously when some weird bullsh!t trick happens, I just restart the entire missing or level as to not have that exist on my resume... I will restart anything from start to finish in a clean non-cheating fight.
it helps to not break things when you can accept that its ok to not always win or that its ok to fail at games you usually do good at. survival instinct makes people feel awful to lose. failing or succeeding when you get older carries more weight, and i think sometimes we forget as adults that we dont need to carry the weight of losing at a video game as we do at succeeding at life.
My gamer rage moments started when I was pretty young, my dad was a rageful gamer, he once broke a PS2 over his knee cuz a game pissed him off, so as you can tell, I was raised in an environment where that was normal. My worst moment I think was Super Smash Bros Brawl, I got to the point of unlocking Lucario. That fight made me throw my Wiimote from the top bunk into the door. Door got a dent in it from the impact, and the Wiimote doesn't work anymore. Asshole to admit that was back in 2017, so... Not too long ago. The most aggressive I have become at other players has to be Destiny. This was once eagain back in the same year, I was shouting so loud like an idiot at thes people who couldn't hear me. I can luckily say that I have never broken an expensive controller or system out of gamer rage, and recently, if a game makes me angry, I just close whatever I'm playing, and come back later. Despite what my brother likes to say, I don't break PS4 controllers out of anger, it's literally just out of use. I will use controllers to death. Which I'm sure could be fixed really fast, if I knew what I was doing.
Yeah, we all have our moments of gamer rage, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
It took me nearly giving myself a concussion before I learned learned stop taking my anger out on either my stuff or myself.
I'm glad you were able to get it under control. acknowledging it is half the battle.
FINALLY, I'M NOT ALONE.
i mean i definitely haven't lost $3000 to my baby gamer rage yet, but i've had to set strict boundaries on what games i play because if i played them, shit will break, and my mental health with degrade. difficult games (dark souls & elden ring) and pvp games (with bots on easy-normal difficulty they're fine) are an absolute no-go for me. plus, i have a processing disorder that messes with the way i think while playing games. i just go unga-bunga on most of them. sucks that i have to miss out on such phenomenal experiences, but it's really for the better of my mental health. i was always more of a watcher than a player as a kid anyway.
most expensive thing i broke was a $200 LED TV to losing a really, really close boss fight in octopath traveler (that game's difficulty RAMPS UP after a certain point. i probably just didn't grind enough or get good enough gear.) threw my 8bitdo controller at what had to been like 10 feet per second right at the TV and cracked it beyond repair. i've luckily never had rage bad enough to break hardware as expensive as a whole console or PC, but most casualties have definitely included controllers, at least one keyboard and mouse, and a few game discs even.
i only just recently decided to start going to anger management classes about a month and a half ago, and i've learned a lot of lessons and values i should have as a teenager. it won't give me the courage to try to play difficult singleplayer or pvp games again, but it will help me in other parts of life. most important thing to realize is: it's just a game.
so yeah, it was kinda surprising to see this video.
I totally used to break all my stuff(sometime i even bit them ngl) because of gaming rage lol now after a year of not playing any video games it totally narrows down my rage and frustration, nowadays if i'm mad i'll just scream
0:06 you’re speaking to the choir my friend
Never broken anything, but back in high school, dad could hear me playing Tekken 6 from like 2 floors underneath me. That game could make me so damn mad lol
Hey there! I was wondering if you'd make a "What the HELL" video on Spore (2008) please? It's one of my favorite games, and I'd really like to see you cover it. Thanks!
lol, had to laugh when you mentioned Halo 3. That game made me rage SO goddamn hard back in the day, like no other game. Nice video, though I dislike the fact that you call stuff like this "anger issues", these aren't any sort of "issues", it's just being angry and/or frustrated at something, that's perfectly normal.