How dare they what with their bodies utilising twice the amount of resources to nurture your prospective offspring!

The cheek of it!

edit: safety wink, safety wink ; )

OH GOD

Last chapter of Resi 5 will soak up any goodwill I had left for that game.

Its all gone a bit sexy in here

I'm pretty relaxed playing most games. Online Forza has pissed me off when someone decides to join the game just to spoil it - driving the wrong way around the track, constantly shunting you off the road etc....

I did get very irritated with Ninja Gaiden 2 on 360 as I got stuck on the first boss (Genshin) and I just couldn't beat him. I traded the game and played it again a couple of years later and got past him on the second attempt. That's better! Then I met the second boss and I'm not sure that I even managed a hit before I died. Rather calmly, I just decided that I really didn't have the time and the game was traded again. Sigma 2 on PS3 is considerably easier as I have completed that.

It's mostly MP that flicks my scrotum, two things in particular, the actions of other players and lag/netcode.

MP shooters, BF and GRFS, objective based but dominated by players that just want to fuck about, playing only for kills, camping objectives. Conversely, these games are so reliant on their netcode, so it dismays me that these two titles have an appalling technological spine running through them. Employing any kind of skill or tactic goes out of the window when your flanking manoeuvre or objective intent is destroyed because Joe USA can soak up a full clip, spin on a dime and one shot you.

My ire has never resulted in broken hardware or disc abuse, it mostly manifests in a barked "bollocks" or somesuch profanity. Like others the missus will question why I'm playing game X if it's so frustrating, to which she always gets, "Do you know what love? I really don't know."

Paul the sparky wrote:

Gremill wrote:

If anything, these days I get the most aggravated my the moods of others.  Playing XBL games and having to listen to the constant moaning, rage and annoyance  of other players can go from comical to pathetic pretty quickly.

Sorry about that Grem, you too for yesterday Carbon.  @Tempy - So you first get angry at the game, then hit the zen/super focused/Neo at the end of The Matrix mode? Works the other way for me, once the anger levels rise I can hardly press the right button.  Have there been any studies into this? I'm thinking from the perspective of competitive sports too, with that Rooney goal where he was arguing with the ref three seconds before smashing a volley in from thirty yards. Some people must be better at channeling the anger and making use of it, others just get consumed by it. Re: Dark Souls, I didn't find Four Kings too hard, done them on my third attempt (possibly got lucky as I did with Capra). The last boss was a relentless bastard for me though, he doesn't even give you time to chug an estus between attacks, the cheap swine.

I like how everyone assumes it's BF3 that does it.  Well, yeah, I suppose it is - but you guys don't annoy me that much (ever)