Yeah, among many things, too many instances of shooting someone in the back, putting an entire magazine into them, to have them turn around and one shot you. Enraging.
I agree. But in the same vein, the more you play those games, the more tricks and little things you learn. Corners. Sight lines. Accuracy always gets better. The new Cold War has a sick coop warzone-sequel multiplayer zombies mode now. Super fun and you don’t face others only work with!
I played CS 1.6 for about 5 years back from 15-20 years old (2002-2007). During that time period I had a lot of anger issues. I would break keyboards in half, throw mice across the room, and snap headsets over my head. I was extremely competitive. What even caused me to stop playing CS was my relationship with my mom. During the 5 years I played, I ruined our interactions. I would yell at her every time she came into my room since she was interrupting my gaming. I won’t play online games anymore, every time I do the anger starts to come up.
I can just see Robman in full Kratos cosplay as he curses the gods. It’s funny to imagine Jonny losing his mind with every game he plays contrasted against his totally positive review style. I wonder if there’s an outtake real. (smashes controller into a thousand pieces) “Anyways guys, until next time!”
Actually Jonny used to do outtake reels waaaaaaaaaay back in the early days of his channel. There was one outtake where he was trying to film this last little part of the review and he was standing next to one of his plants while he was trying to say the line and the plant just barely kept touching him as he was moving back and forth ever so slightly and he just goes off and loses it! LMAO
There is no rage like 1990s "I've played until the last level and lost all my lives at the same cheap area". But there are now fewer sweeter victories.
Yes cause these days you can allways find the solution to your problem or the part you're stuck at on line..back before the internet days, if you got stuck you were stuck until you "got good".
I remember my brother finishing star fox 64 for the first time, and he laid back and put the controller in his lap. Keep in mind this was the first time we had a rumble pack in the house. He buzzed his nuts and freaked out hahahaha.
When I finally beat Trial of the Sword in BOTW with a sever drift I felt like retiring from video games. Hardest thing I've ever done in games due to the crazy drift, but felt AMAZING. I was too poor at the time to get new joy cons.
Sekiro took me to the brink of insanity. The last boss made me question whether a videogame was worth sacrificing my health for. I beat it after about a hundred attempts and had the biggest victory high ever.
Man, that's so relatable! But my punisher was Bloodborne: plus, there's no pause button!! I'm a dad with a full time job and limited free time to play...so I can't see myself going back to From Soft games again!
Yup I beat sekiro. Did the last few bosses (demon of hatred, owl father, Isshin the sword saint) with the demon bell on (the one that makes the game harder), to see if I could do it. And I did do it. That said- it's one of those games where it was so hard that beating it once felt like enough. As good of a game that it is, I don't know if I will ever go back to it tbh.
@@Steve_UK77 This. I got past the giant snake and stopped. I just lost interest because I felt like I was studying a videogame more than enjoying the journey.
I went into Sekiro with a mindset of beating it regardless of how long it'd take. Surprisingly never raged once, even though Owl took me four hours to beat. Awesome game.
You guys are hilarious. Never broke a controller myself, I just take frequent breaks. And these days I am just really selective about only playing games with balanced difficulty. Love these Johnny and Rob videos.
I only did the "throw the controller" thing with one game. Modern Warfare. For what, you ask? Cheaters. And I didn't just throw it at the wall. I threw the controller at my old [sub-HD] TV, and you could literally see the plastic glass CRACK. The 2nd most angry I ever did was Ninja Gaiden NES. I never got past the first part of the final boss of Ninja Gaiden NES. Ninja Gaiden II was a lil easier, except the final boss. If you lose to the final boss in those days, you go all the way to the start of the level/stage. Annoying. However, I also got mad at Mortal Kombat and Samurai Shodown for Genesis playing against my mom. I got mad at how my mom kicked my behind sometimes. Eh. But Modern Warfare is anger inducing. Cheaters, man.
I remember being a kid and was at the store and my mom was going to get me mortal kombat for genisis. The guy at the counter kept trying to talk me into getting a different fighting game because of shao kahn was so tough. I stayed up all night playing until I beat him. The next time I went to the store that guy was in the game section and I went up to brag that I had beat that game. Felt so satisfying proving that guy wrong but I spent hours just battling him over and over again.
The final bosses in a lot of fighting games I'll hold my hands up I never beat any mk game or even killer instinct because I could never beat the final bosses
Battletoads. GameBoy. That fucker resulted in my 12-year-old self head-butting my GameBoy and cracking the screen. Never got past level 5. Ninja Gaiden 2 on 360. The final boss resulted in me twisting my white 360 controller into a warped mess; resulting in the force feedback motor hitting the inside of the chassis when it triggered.
The final boss of Onimusha 2... I'd used nearly all my herbs on a fight just before thinking it didn't matter because I was near the end. The fight has 3 stages and there's no save in between and I had like 1 medicine and a few herbs (not to mention the difficulty added by tank controls). It must have taken me over 20 tries
I don't know if you will ever see this but i wanted to say the way you talk about videk games in your videos and with your friends i can literally feel your passion and how dedicated to you are to games. It shows how its a part of your identity and a part of your soul. You arent holding back or afraid to show this art and this true passion of yours with the world. I truly enjoy your videos because of this. The reason i say all this as well is because this reminds me how i used to be when i was younger, i used to gush over my favorite games with such passion and could talk about them for hours even days. Im not saying im not a gamer anymore im just saying its super hard to find gamers like that anymore. Gamers that truly live and breathe a game and dont take as "just another game". Thx for reminding me how passionate one is and can be about games. Because without games idk where id be today as a person. You're the best Johnny and keep being you man! And u dont need me to tell u GAME ON!
This isn't about my own gamer rage, but it is a time when I caused someone else to rage out. I was about 10 years old when the original Legend of Zelda came out for the NES. I didn't own the game myself but my friends dad and next door neighbor did. Well he had been trying to get past the final dungeon (Level 9) for months with no success. Him and his family went on a trip one weekend and lent me the game. Over the course of the weekend I beat it and when he got back and found that I had finished it he got so mad that he threw it in the trash can.
So, I have a funny story about my gamer rage game. When I was 15 I watched a lot of AVGN and the one video I constantly remember watching was the Ninja Gaiden episode. Well after saving all my money I went and bought the game and played through it for a week and eventually after hours and hours of trying my darndest I got to the final boss. Beat the first form and kept dying on the second form that eventually I gave up in a fit of rage. Five years later I ended up replaying the game and beat it within the same time frame with my thumbs going numb because I wanted to beat the game so badly. I did end up playing through the other two games and won through all three on the NES.
Playing Arcade games was more than a rage than playing home Console games just because if you loose you had the other person in back of you wanting to play next.
I knew the most quiet and friendly guy from work and he would just laugh and joke about how many controllers he breaks during gaming sessions I never knew how bad he was til i witnessed it. Holy shit dude you need an exorcist
knew a kid who had to have drywall patched in his basement pretty regularly because he'd lose at tecmo bowl or goldeneye or nba jam and freak the fuck out now he's in jail
@@GbrJose Drywall Abuse. Its punishable by death, but the sentence usually gets reduced to a hefty fine and a weekend of mud and spackle work. Death is preferable.
@@capcomfan82 back in the day when I had all the time in the world I had the patience to finish the race perfectly. A year or so ago I was trying it again on the switch and had been going for two hours or so. I finally had a perfect run and at the end of the race my car ran in and ruined my rhythm. I gave up after that.
So many memories. Love your stories gents. Let's see my.. Uh frustrations Mega Man: falling, plus spikes, one hit instant death Castlevania: also lots of falling, medusa heads Metroid: getting lost, but eventually finding the right way Crash Bandicoot: the bridge levels, also perfectly timed jumps that will test every fiber of your being Tomb Raider: yup lots of.. and glitches with reboot. Lost data. And um I was done Also lots of falling. Oh hey Crash 4: oh god Rob, I am with you on DOA, I feel that. Ninja Gaiden:.. So uh yeah Lots of ways to obtain a game over. One hit death, jumps that have to be precise, health bar that can literally be destroyed, fish, unseeable enemies, bosses that are a nightmare
I've had a lot of gamer rage. I can't play online games because of it. Also, my patience for games has thinned out so much as time has gone on because of my lack of time as an adult, so I always just find myself playing easy, relaxing stuff. I find myself getting really frustrated when I die over and over and have to play through the same part of a game multiple times.
When i was a kid i threw my NES controller all around the room many times for many different reasons. Once i got so angry that i kicked my clothing cabinet door so hard it dropped off and broke the plate that was under it. I heard the steps of my father coming to my room after that and god damn i was afraid what he is going to do. Well he took my megadrive from me for about a week, but it was a big thing for me then. Now when im older i do get frustrated with games still fairly quick if im stuck for a while, but i´ve got rid offf smacking my controllers and stuff. I do swear a heck lot though. If im streaming and my friends are watching they occasionally tell me to stop playing when im angry, but i usually don´t because even though im frustrated and angry to the game i still like it a lot. I cant change who i am. It would be nice to have better nerves but what can i do. Nice to know this side of you two guys as well. Keep up the good work. Love the channel.
Has Rob played Blaster Master ZERO for the Switch yet? Metroid Prime - Omega Pirate - Mom kicked me outa the house for an hour and threatened to wreck my GC! Another Rage point is ppl who say - "Calm down, it's only a game..."
Great video guys! Thanks for the birthday present!! I remember getting really into call of duty leaderboards back in 2010. I had broken into the top 1000 and began to lose back to back games on a streak. Eventually the RAGE took over. I lost a controller that day, but never since.
Only had gamer rage in online team-based games where my teammates do litteraly nothing or when a fighting game gets lag spikes multiple times per match. Don't rage in the teamchat though, just to myself. Love hard single player games so even if I die 20 times to a boss I'm enjoying myself learning the patterns. And I like getting stuck and having to find out how to get further.
I'll never look at a bowl of fruit again without laughing. Its great to see both of you together again. Oh, and chasing that bloody train in San Andreas was a ball ache
Last boss of Sekiro. Took me DAYS to beat! But the euphoria after finally doing it felt incredible....except then I said I would never play the game again afterwards 😆
My first gamer rage was pac-man world 2 on playstation 2. I was playing it and I got so angry trying to get through a certain level that I was biting my left controller stick after all that frustration I managed to beat it in the end it was not easy. Any kids game that's this hard should not be for kids I can tell you that.
I know this is late but was the level you’re talking about Blade Mountain? The one where you ice skate down the mountain. If it is I don’t blame you. To this day I never got 100% on that level.
No matter how many times I play through dark souls, demons souls, bloodborne, I always get pissed. But there is no terror like that of the obstacle course on double dare for NES. Absolutely impossible.
MGS 1 got me bad, with the codec frequency on the back of the CD case. I ran around that damn game for days looking for a CD case. Then a friend found it in the screen shot just looking at the game case for no reason. I was so pissed about that I refused to play it for a while after. Psycho Mantis pissed me off shortly after lol
I remember playing the star road levels in super Mario world at my buddy’s house back when it first came out and after many failed attempts my friend ripped out the controller chucked it out of the window it landed in the road and a delivery truck run it over and it smashed into a million pieces oops
Man, I stopped counting the amount of controllers that fell victim of my wrath over the years... It got even worse since I became a fan of Souls type games! lol
Some games that gave me rage: - Double Dragon 1 NES final boss (he’s frickin cheap!) - Double Dragon 2 NES final stage where you jumping on the missing platforms with all those spike below like holy s*! - Contra: Shattered Soldier final final boss the Triumvirate - Sekiro optional boss Demon of Hatred - Furi final boss The Star (those bullet hell & lasers) - The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Sega Genesis). The whole game was crazy hard 😭
I watched a friends kick and scream on the couch from a losing streak at COD. After this display, it was followed by him throwing his ps3 controller at a block wall (it literally disintegrated), he then ran to the TV screen and spat all over the screen. I barely knew the fellow at the time as i just moved in with him, but to this day I love bringing up that story in-front of him.
Rage: The thing caused by fighting King of Fighters bosses on high difficulty; moreso, doing it without using assists offered at the Continue screen. ...But somehow the games are still very enjoyable.
I remember Blaster Master on NES. The level 5 boss was definitely a skill check that separates the casuals from the hard core. Probably one of the hardest games from my NES days.
The nameless king in Dark Souls 3 made me lose my mind, took about 40 attempts to beat him, the worst thing about souls games is it doesn’t let you instantly retry the boss, you have to make your way all the back to him to die again in 4 seconds
I think the worst thing about the Souls games is that it has bosses that take 40 attempts in general... that's not on you, that's on the game for being poorly designed and cheap. I feel like the Souls games have made people in recent years start to celebrate bad game design rather than condemning it.
@@Jordan3DS Just because a game is hard, it doesn't necessarily have bad game design. Each of the Souls games aren't that difficult compared to titles from the 8-bit era. If anything, they are quite fair. You get punished for getting hit, and you get rewarded for dodging. Also, you are given access to 10 or more healing items. Imagine an NES game like that? You can also grind if you are really struggling with the game.
@@user-yi5mt2df5q exactly. The souls games are difficult, yes, but everything the bosses do is telegraphed and can be avoided. You just have to learn the telegraphs and whether to run, or whether to dodge and in what direction. Also have to learn when it's smart to heal.
@@user-yi5mt2df5q There's a massive difference between hard but fair and cheap, though. When a game has a boss kill you in 2 or 3 hits, then that's not providing a fair challenge, that's demanding perfection and punishing the player for not mastering the game (which no game should ever do unless you're on some super insanely hard difficulty or something like that). Something like God Hand is a good example of a fair game, where you have to take a lot of hits to die and have to be good at the game to succeed, but you don't need to keep fighting the same boss 15 times to memorize its pattern in order to continue the game. Dark Souls is the equivalency of having a 20 x 100 grid where you start at the bottom and have to find the right path to the top. Sure, you'll get a little farther each time you attempt it, but you can't really say that it's exactly well designed in terms of difficulty or fairness, it's all just mindless repetition until you memorize the pattern.
Even though this video was about GAMER RAGE, it seems like Rob is in good spirits. It may not be immediately apparent to you John, but having a friend as amazing as you has probably helped Rob a lot during his tough times. Life is tough and it really helps if you have someone to help you through it.
Rob in thumbail makes me laugh hard, cause he look like devil especially with flame effects and rage red skin color and with the thunderbolt and his angry face fits so well, while Johnny actually tries to look mad at his best! Oh man, i love these thumbnails! 🤣
Blaster Master used to piss me off where I would make it to the Final boss without continuing but then I died, But eventually i got good and actually finished it without continuing
Adventure island on the nes was one of the few games that got me angry when I was little. That game was sooo hard for me. I don't really lose it anymore when I play.
This video is hilarious, I used to punch holes into my bedroom door, the cheating computer opponent in street fighter 2 used to make me rage hard, I bought a 6 button controller and it lasted for 2 days, also Virtua racing trying to get the perfect lap and crashing into a stray Computer controlled car on the last corner of the last lap
I remember this. Life Force or Batman on the NES were my rage games. Somehow, I dunno how, I've trained myself not to rage. I stop once I get that feeling and move on to something else. And for some reason it's transmogrified into only playing games 10 minutes at a time and then I lose interest. I don't know what that is. I still want to play games, but it's like a switch turns off in me and I'm like, "Okay, time to stop." So, the era of playing a game hours on end is gone for me. It's kind of sad.
@rockman fan The one that comes to me mainly is Paper Mario: The Origami King doing the shy guys finish last minigames perfectly is nearly impossible without cheating by recording it. I did need to do it for 100% though and yes I did cheat, no regrets.
My first case of gamer rage ended with me slamming my fist down through the top of my NES, leaving a huge hole in it! All because of Athena. I still hate that game to this day. P.S. Thank you for making feel normal.❤️
I remember breaking my Wii U Gamepad while playing Mario Kart 8. I don't know why that game made me rage so hard but it did. The Megaman X games are also not my proudest moments as a human being.
That, Chrono Trigger, Resident Evil 2 (original), Metal Gear Solid, Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, Chrono Cross, and Xenogears are my favorite game soundtracks.
Hey, calm down Johnny, it's only a game! Man, I remember some serious rage. Just before we got the internet me and my buddy played Command and Conquer networked over a phone line, It was amazing but he wound me up so much, I remember getting so angry as he decimated my forces. We've all been there but this seemed more intense as we were playing online for the first time!
Well I got few moments of gamer rage but most of it was years ago back when I was very young. But the most recent was playing shin megami tensei strange journey, I think it was 2019 or something. There's a boss next to the end of the game that was insanely hard. Smt games usually are hard but heiwbduejrueisnkee that was ridiculously insane. I think I spent an entire day just to beat that boss. That game is broken. Oh I just remembered also Devil survivor the boss that is immortal, literally, I forgot it's name. Lmao it's ridiculous. Just by thinking of it I start to laugh because I was so mad.
I remember raging at Nocturne recently. I was completely under-leveled whilst fighting the third fiend (the first rider). I just kept dying and dying. I hate how he is right outside a terminal. I also love how I would lose 30 minutes of progress because one attack would insta-kill the MC.
Demon souls, Dark souls, Dark souls 2, Dark souls 3 is all I will say. It´s a damn wonder my Controller is not broken. But man some games on PC made me rage allot and I always hit my hand on the desk screaming rely bad words. My dad one time had to check in on me asking are you beating some one up becuse it sure sounds like it.
Whenever I get too angry it’s best to quit and try again later. The more tense I am the worse I play. As annoying as it is to give up, a good nights sleep usually does more for me than endlessly trying the same battle over and over.
I think most of my rage moments have been with Smash. I've had a bad habit in the past of both taking it too seriously with friends who weren't quite as into the game as I was and being a sore winner, but also being a sore loser when playing against people who were clearly better than me, been to tournaments often and such, and I shouldn't have ever felt bad about that at all.
I watched this episode and then encountered the smile puzzle in Medieval. XD lmao. On top of that I remembered after looking it up that I figured it out on my own back on PsOne.
when I was younger I was doing one of those time trials in Infamous 1, where you had to go from satellite dish to satellite dish. There was one in particular that I was stuck on for over half an hour, on my last attempt I was like one second off. so I flipped out, and punched this clip on the computer screen protector.. on the bright side, it did its job and protected my computer.
My shame was jumping up and down on my PS3 controller and my wife walking in and looking at me like a complete mental patient. We both agreed we would never talk about it again 😦
I'm like that with Rhythm games "WHY CAN'T I DO THIS SONG CHART ON HARD DIFFICLTY?!" But my god, the euphoria and joy you feel when you overcome a wall of difficulty is like nothing else and so satisfying
Not having the patience to play video games caused me to almost completely drop them during the PS3 era. I've played them much more during the PS4 era but I never did get back to being as interested as I was from the SNES - PS2 era. A lot of people find games to be something that allows them to wind down from the stress of their job but I found that my job devoured so much of my patience each day that I had nothing left for games anymore.
Rob’s story about the coffee table hit home. I put my fist through the living room table (don’t even remember what game I was playing 🤦🏻♂️) and switched it out with the basement coffee table before the mrs. got home. Told her I just wanted to “change things up”. Took her almost a month to notice the hole that I placed a candle over in the table. Boy was she pissed...
Thanks for sharing! Do you guys recall your first experience with gamer rage? Probably my first with it was playing Gopher on the 2600. That and River Raid made my 6-7 year old self rage and somewhat 'break' the 2600 joystick more than once (though you could easily pop the joystick back in). To this day, watching Gopher will bring up those feelings without even playing it!
Nioh made me want to break my ps4 in half when it first came out. That sea worm boss pissed me off beyond belief. Vacuous spider ROM- a boss that seemed so easy in the walk throughs took me way too long to beat.
Seriously...in Nioh the vampire lady was tough enough at first, but the sea worm boss was infuriating! That was the boss for me where I finally caved and started recruiting online players for help
This level of friendship is insane. When one gushes about something, the other just listens with excitement.
This is why I stopped playing online competitive multiplayer in anything.
Yeah, among many things, too many instances of shooting someone in the back, putting an entire magazine into them, to have them turn around and one shot you. Enraging.
I agree. But in the same vein, the more you play those games, the more tricks and little things you learn. Corners. Sight lines. Accuracy always gets better. The new Cold War has a sick coop warzone-sequel multiplayer zombies mode now. Super fun and you don’t face others only work with!
I played CS 1.6 for about 5 years back from 15-20 years old (2002-2007). During that time period I had a lot of anger issues. I would break keyboards in half, throw mice across the room, and snap headsets over my head. I was extremely competitive. What even caused me to stop playing CS was my relationship with my mom. During the 5 years I played, I ruined our interactions. I would yell at her every time she came into my room since she was interrupting my gaming. I won’t play online games anymore, every time I do the anger starts to come up.
Rocket League.....
Same. I hate the matchmakings.
I can just see Robman in full Kratos cosplay as he curses the gods.
It’s funny to imagine Jonny losing his mind with every game he plays contrasted against his totally positive review style. I wonder if there’s an outtake real.
(smashes controller into a thousand pieces)
“Anyways guys, until next time!”
Actually Jonny used to do outtake reels waaaaaaaaaay back in the early days of his channel. There was one outtake where he was trying to film this last little part of the review and he was standing next to one of his plants while he was trying to say the line and the plant just barely kept touching him as he was moving back and forth ever so slightly and he just goes off and loses it! LMAO
Ha ha. I remember that one.
@cartercus Absolutely!
It's so hard for me to see Johnny get mad at games. But people say the same about me too, but once I get online...oh man, my mouth.
There is no rage like 1990s "I've played until the last level and lost all my lives at the same cheap area". But there are now fewer sweeter victories.
The only pleasure and pain I get from games anymore is when I boot up the ps3 to get 5 stars in each of the bionic commando hologram challenges.
Yeah, sure, but how many of the pantheons in Hollow Knight have you beaten?
Yes cause these days you can allways find the solution to your problem or the part you're stuck at on line..back before the internet days, if you got stuck you were stuck until you "got good".
Johnny: "My girlfriend at the time."
Was there any a point in young Johnny's life that he didn't have a girl on the go? :D
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Yep, the euphoric bliss when you overcome an incredibly hard level/boss is off the charts. Enough to get a man high.
I remember my brother finishing star fox 64 for the first time, and he laid back and put the controller in his lap.
Keep in mind this was the first time we had a rumble pack in the house.
He buzzed his nuts and freaked out hahahaha.
That’s why I play the Soulsborne games haha. The satisfaction is glorious
Well maybe not a man... but a really large child.
Indeed, I remember physically shaking after beating some of Bloodborne’s bosses lol
When I finally beat Trial of the Sword in BOTW with a sever drift I felt like retiring from video games. Hardest thing I've ever done in games due to the crazy drift, but felt AMAZING. I was too poor at the time to get new joy cons.
Sekiro took me to the brink of insanity. The last boss made me question whether a videogame was worth sacrificing my health for. I beat it after about a hundred attempts and had the biggest victory high ever.
Man, that's so relatable! But my punisher was Bloodborne: plus, there's no pause button!! I'm a dad with a full time job and limited free time to play...so I can't see myself going back to From Soft games again!
Yup I beat sekiro.
Did the last few bosses (demon of hatred, owl father, Isshin the sword saint) with the demon bell on (the one that makes the game harder), to see if I could do it. And I did do it.
That said- it's one of those games where it was so hard that beating it once felt like enough. As good of a game that it is, I don't know if I will ever go back to it tbh.
@@angelpacheco1608 I never want to play it again, it was more of an ordeal than entertainment.
@@Steve_UK77 This. I got past the giant snake and stopped. I just lost interest because I felt like I was studying a videogame more than enjoying the journey.
I went into Sekiro with a mindset of beating it regardless of how long it'd take. Surprisingly never raged once, even though Owl took me four hours to beat. Awesome game.
You guys are hilarious. Never broke a controller myself, I just take frequent breaks. And these days I am just really selective about only playing games with balanced difficulty. Love these Johnny and Rob videos.
I tried to break a controller once (For a project), it almost broke my toe. Beware the Wii Classic Controller.
Try mega man 1 or ghost and goblins 😬😡😠🤬
I only did the "throw the controller" thing with one game. Modern Warfare. For what, you ask? Cheaters. And I didn't just throw it at the wall. I threw the controller at my old [sub-HD] TV, and you could literally see the plastic glass CRACK.
The 2nd most angry I ever did was Ninja Gaiden NES. I never got past the first part of the final boss of Ninja Gaiden NES. Ninja Gaiden II was a lil easier, except the final boss. If you lose to the final boss in those days, you go all the way to the start of the level/stage. Annoying.
However, I also got mad at Mortal Kombat and Samurai Shodown for Genesis playing against my mom. I got mad at how my mom kicked my behind sometimes. Eh.
But Modern Warfare is anger inducing. Cheaters, man.
Shao Kahn in *EVERY* Mortal Kombat game...
I remember being a kid and was at the store and my mom was going to get me mortal kombat for genisis. The guy at the counter kept trying to talk me into getting a different fighting game because of shao kahn was so tough. I stayed up all night playing until I beat him. The next time I went to the store that guy was in the game section and I went up to brag that I had beat that game. Felt so satisfying proving that guy wrong but I spent hours just battling him over and over again.
The final bosses in a lot of fighting games
I'll hold my hands up I never beat any mk game or even killer instinct because I could never beat the final bosses
@@TheWiddaC honestly that was the only time I beat him. I was just so determined to prove that guy wrong.
You weak, pathetic fool! Nightmares...
I felt that.
Battletoads. GameBoy. That fucker resulted in my 12-year-old self head-butting my GameBoy and cracking the screen. Never got past level 5.
Ninja Gaiden 2 on 360. The final boss resulted in me twisting my white 360 controller into a warped mess; resulting in the force feedback motor hitting the inside of the chassis when it triggered.
I'm always having a good laugh when Robman is in there. Do a part 2!
Since day one I followed these two for years. So happy you two are still kicking ass and chewing bubblegum.
The final boss of Onimusha 2... I'd used nearly all my herbs on a fight just before thinking it didn't matter because I was near the end. The fight has 3 stages and there's no save in between and I had like 1 medicine and a few herbs (not to mention the difficulty added by tank controls). It must have taken me over 20 tries
I don't know if you will ever see this but i wanted to say the way you talk about videk games in your videos and with your friends i can literally feel your passion and how dedicated to you are to games. It shows how its a part of your identity and a part of your soul. You arent holding back or afraid to show this art and this true passion of yours with the world. I truly enjoy your videos because of this. The reason i say all this as well is because this reminds me how i used to be when i was younger, i used to gush over my favorite games with such passion and could talk about them for hours even days. Im not saying im not a gamer anymore im just saying its super hard to find gamers like that anymore. Gamers that truly live and breathe a game and dont take as "just another game". Thx for reminding me how passionate one is and can be about games. Because without games idk where id be today as a person. You're the best Johnny and keep being you man! And u dont need me to tell u GAME ON!
This isn't about my own gamer rage, but it is a time when I caused someone else to rage out. I was about 10 years old when the original Legend of Zelda came out for the NES. I didn't own the game myself but my friends dad and next door neighbor did. Well he had been trying to get past the final dungeon (Level 9) for months with no success. Him and his family went on a trip one weekend and lent me the game. Over the course of the weekend I beat it and when he got back and found that I had finished it he got so mad that he threw it in the trash can.
So, I have a funny story about my gamer rage game. When I was 15 I watched a lot of AVGN and the one video I constantly remember watching was the Ninja Gaiden episode. Well after saving all my money I went and bought the game and played through it for a week and eventually after hours and hours of trying my darndest I got to the final boss. Beat the first form and kept dying on the second form that eventually I gave up in a fit of rage. Five years later I ended up replaying the game and beat it within the same time frame with my thumbs going numb because I wanted to beat the game so badly. I did end up playing through the other two games and won through all three on the NES.
That episode is the reason “nunchuck fuck” is part of my rage-swear lexicon to this day.
Ninja Gaiden 2 was easier.
Playing Arcade games was more than a rage than playing home Console games just because if you loose you had the other person in back of you wanting to play next.
Your lady staying with you after smashing the controller is the ultimate proof she is a keeper lmfao love it
I knew the most quiet and friendly guy from work and he would just laugh and joke about how many controllers he breaks during gaming sessions
I never knew how bad he was til i witnessed it. Holy shit dude you need an exorcist
knew a kid who had to have drywall patched in his basement pretty regularly because he'd lose at tecmo bowl or goldeneye or nba jam and freak the fuck out
now he's in jail
I wouldnt have survived the first hole. Dads wrath would have consumed my flesh and seared my soul into oblivion! Kept me out of jail though.
@@EDFCentral ditto - i put a hole in the drywall by accident once. never again. you'd think i took a dump in the louve by my dad's reaction
@@bradybrapples Hahaha!
For what, assault?
@@GbrJose Drywall Abuse. Its punishable by death, but the sentence usually gets reduced to a hefty fine and a weekend of mud and spackle work. Death is preferable.
Can’t wait for the sequel were they talk about co-op/2-player Gamer Rage.
Great to see you two shooting out multiple vids. Always brightens my day seeing these videos
Kindof funny that the Angry Video Game Nerd is a very calm dude off camera and the HappyConsoleGamer is an angry gamer off camera.
James can get as angry as the Nerd if a game pisses him off though lol
that reminds me of my father raging at lego racer... I was like 7 then and he was could not hold it lol
Final fantasy X chocoholic race... need I say more?
@@capcomfan82 back in the day when I had all the time in the world I had the patience to finish the race perfectly. A year or so ago I was trying it again on the switch and had been going for two hours or so. I finally had a perfect run and at the end of the race my car ran in and ruined my rhythm. I gave up after that.
I was doing this last evening, i never been so frustrated in a long time. The final part of that race is all luck, my goodness.
Dodge the lightning 100 Times 🎤 🤚🏼
@@skybebop2870 if the controls were better then maybe it wouldn’t be so frustrating. But it’s so clunky.
Yeah its so clunky but man did it feel great when we finally hit 0.0 after HOURS of playing it over and over again.
So many memories. Love your stories gents.
Let's see my.. Uh frustrations
Mega Man: falling, plus spikes, one hit instant death
Castlevania: also lots of falling, medusa heads
Metroid: getting lost, but eventually finding the right way
Crash Bandicoot: the bridge levels, also perfectly timed jumps that will test every fiber of your being
Tomb Raider: yup lots of.. and glitches with reboot. Lost data. And um I was done
Also lots of falling. Oh hey Crash 4: oh god
Rob, I am with you on DOA, I feel that.
Ninja Gaiden:.. So uh yeah
Lots of ways to obtain a game over.
One hit death, jumps that have to be precise, health bar that can literally be destroyed, fish, unseeable enemies, bosses that are a nightmare
Those bridge levels in Crash suck lmao
I've had a lot of gamer rage. I can't play online games because of it. Also, my patience for games has thinned out so much as time has gone on because of my lack of time as an adult, so I always just find myself playing easy, relaxing stuff. I find myself getting really frustrated when I die over and over and have to play through the same part of a game multiple times.
Same here. After 40, easy mode is on by default. My knees are on hard mode now so it evens out.
Awesome Final Fantasy tactics music in the background.
When i was a kid i threw my NES controller all around the room many times for many different reasons. Once i got so angry that i kicked my clothing cabinet door so hard it dropped off and broke the plate that was under it. I heard the steps of my father coming to my room after that and god damn i was afraid what he is going to do. Well he took my megadrive from me for about a week, but it was a big thing for me then. Now when im older i do get frustrated with games still fairly quick if im stuck for a while, but i´ve got rid offf smacking my controllers and stuff. I do swear a heck lot though. If im streaming and my friends are watching they occasionally tell me to stop playing when im angry, but i usually don´t because even though im frustrated and angry to the game i still like it a lot. I cant change who i am. It would be nice to have better nerves but what can i do.
Nice to know this side of you two guys as well. Keep up the good work. Love the channel.
It's funny in those moments one seems so miserable and angry, and you are angry, but at the same time it's like "guys, back off, I'm having fun here".
Indeed... It´s like love&hate relationship with the games.
Has Rob played Blaster Master ZERO for the Switch yet?
Metroid Prime - Omega Pirate - Mom kicked me outa the house for an hour and threatened to wreck my GC!
Another Rage point is ppl who say - "Calm down, it's only a game..."
Johnny has a mass grave of broken controllers buried in his back yard.
There’s a landfill full of 20 dollar pc controllers all mine.
You know it's gonna be a great episode when Rob Man's here. Glad he's doing better than the last time we saw him.
My two best friends. And we’ve never met haha 😎
Great video guys! Thanks for the birthday present!! I remember getting really into call of duty leaderboards back in 2010. I had broken into the top 1000 and began to lose back to back games on a streak. Eventually the RAGE took over. I lost a controller that day, but never since.
Only had gamer rage in online team-based games where my teammates do litteraly nothing or when a fighting game gets lag spikes multiple times per match. Don't rage in the teamchat though, just to myself.
Love hard single player games so even if I die 20 times to a boss I'm enjoying myself learning the patterns. And I like getting stuck and having to find out how to get further.
Hearing about gamer rage and how it reminds me of my own makes me feel glad I’m not the only one.
I'll never look at a bowl of fruit again without laughing. Its great to see both of you together again. Oh, and chasing that bloody train in San Andreas was a ball ache
Last boss of Sekiro. Took me DAYS to beat! But the euphoria after finally doing it felt incredible....except then I said I would never play the game again afterwards 😆
Yep same here took me a week to beat him and I'm never playing the game again.
The way Rob says "sorry" cracks me up! I love Canadian accents.
Man, I love this show. Canada always comes out with the best stuff 😎
My first gamer rage was pac-man world 2 on playstation 2. I was playing it and I got so angry trying to get through a certain level that I was biting my left controller stick after all that frustration I managed to beat it in the end it was not easy. Any kids game that's this hard should not be for kids I can tell you that.
I know this is late but was the level you’re talking about Blade Mountain? The one where you ice skate down the mountain. If it is I don’t blame you. To this day I never got 100% on that level.
@@alexkoch5543 I think so. It's been a long time so I don't remember much.
No matter how many times I play through dark souls, demons souls, bloodborne, I always get pissed. But there is no terror like that of the obstacle course on double dare for NES. Absolutely impossible.
Nah man. Y’all are trippin. No matter how pissed I get I’m not breaking my own equipment! Screw that! I’ll just take a break n come back later.
Same
MGS 1 got me bad, with the codec frequency on the back of the CD case. I ran around that damn game for days looking for a CD case. Then a friend found it in the screen shot just looking at the game case for no reason. I was so pissed about that I refused to play it for a while after. Psycho Mantis pissed me off shortly after lol
I remember playing the star road levels in super Mario world at my buddy’s house back when it first came out and after many failed attempts my friend ripped out the controller chucked it out of the window it landed in the road and a delivery truck run it over and it smashed into a million pieces oops
I experienced some ‘gamer rage’ last night fighting the 8th assassin on No More Heroes for the first time, that was fun..
Contra: Hard Corps on Sega Genesis gave me the rage...
I frequently get annoyed at games, but have never broke a controller or a disc.
Meat Circus in Psychonauts had me absolutely raging.
Man, I stopped counting the amount of controllers that fell victim of my wrath over the years... It got even worse since I became a fan of Souls type games! lol
Souls aren't bad unless you try pvp. Pvp in those damn games is the only thing to make me mald
Some games that gave me rage:
- Double Dragon 1 NES final boss (he’s frickin cheap!)
- Double Dragon 2 NES final stage where you jumping on the missing platforms with all those spike below like holy s*!
- Contra: Shattered Soldier final final boss the Triumvirate
- Sekiro optional boss Demon of Hatred
- Furi final boss The Star (those bullet hell & lasers)
- The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Sega Genesis). The whole game was crazy hard 😭
Rob does amazing physical comedy. Seriously talented.
Last boss...Final Fight SNES...controller didn't break when it hit the wall...it did when it was jumped up & down on repeatedly...and with enthusiasm.
When Rob said that for 3 years the bowl of fruit never moved, I laughed so hard that I started choking.
"because i got stuck and didn't want to look it up"
Literally me in every game ever before 2 hours later i begrugingly look it up.
Most recently for me the Pull Up Pro challenger in FF7 Remake.
For me it's playing FFVII Remake in general... fuck everything about that game.
Glad to see Robman again. Great videos guys!
Dark Souls rage complilations on TH-cam always make me feel better about my own little tantrums haha
Oh man I never even thought to look those up, but it sounds kinda therapeutic after getting one-shot by every other boss in Elden Ring lol
I watched a friends kick and scream on the couch from a losing streak at COD. After this display, it was followed by him throwing his ps3 controller at a block wall (it literally disintegrated), he then ran to the TV screen and spat all over the screen.
I barely knew the fellow at the time as i just moved in with him, but to this day I love bringing up that story in-front of him.
Rage: The thing caused by fighting King of Fighters bosses on high difficulty; moreso, doing it without using assists offered at the Continue screen.
...But somehow the games are still very enjoyable.
Welcome to snk boss syndrome being made cheap on purpose cause snk wanted you're quarter.
I remember Blaster Master on NES. The level 5 boss was definitely a skill check that separates the casuals from the hard core. Probably one of the hardest games from my NES days.
The nameless king in Dark Souls 3 made me lose my mind, took about 40 attempts to beat him, the worst thing about souls games is it doesn’t let you instantly retry the boss, you have to make your way all the back to him to die again in 4 seconds
I think the worst thing about the Souls games is that it has bosses that take 40 attempts in general... that's not on you, that's on the game for being poorly designed and cheap. I feel like the Souls games have made people in recent years start to celebrate bad game design rather than condemning it.
@@Jordan3DS Just because a game is hard, it doesn't necessarily have bad game design. Each of the Souls games aren't that difficult compared to titles from the 8-bit era. If anything, they are quite fair. You get punished for getting hit, and you get rewarded for dodging. Also, you are given access to 10 or more healing items. Imagine an NES game like that?
You can also grind if you are really struggling with the game.
I heard about that...That's prob the reason I didn't even touch a Souls Game haha
@@user-yi5mt2df5q exactly. The souls games are difficult, yes, but everything the bosses do is telegraphed and can be avoided. You just have to learn the telegraphs and whether to run, or whether to dodge and in what direction. Also have to learn when it's smart to heal.
@@user-yi5mt2df5q There's a massive difference between hard but fair and cheap, though. When a game has a boss kill you in 2 or 3 hits, then that's not providing a fair challenge, that's demanding perfection and punishing the player for not mastering the game (which no game should ever do unless you're on some super insanely hard difficulty or something like that). Something like God Hand is a good example of a fair game, where you have to take a lot of hits to die and have to be good at the game to succeed, but you don't need to keep fighting the same boss 15 times to memorize its pattern in order to continue the game. Dark Souls is the equivalency of having a 20 x 100 grid where you start at the bottom and have to find the right path to the top. Sure, you'll get a little farther each time you attempt it, but you can't really say that it's exactly well designed in terms of difficulty or fairness, it's all just mindless repetition until you memorize the pattern.
Playing King Dice in Cuphead. Having to fight all those mini bosses just to quickly die trying to parry the cards lol.
Me too. Could parry 2 or 3 times in a row but no more. I did most of my damage behind his gloves. For me he was the most difficult boss in the game.
The victory though. That was an awesome game.
“Tempe crab boss at the end of level five. “ 😂😂. Only on HCG.
Even though this video was about GAMER RAGE, it seems like Rob is in good spirits. It may not be immediately apparent to you John, but having a friend as amazing as you has probably helped Rob a lot during his tough times. Life is tough and it really helps if you have someone to help you through it.
Rob in thumbail makes me laugh hard, cause he look like devil especially with flame effects and rage red skin color and with the thunderbolt and his angry face fits so well, while Johnny actually tries to look mad at his best! Oh man, i love these thumbnails! 🤣
Blaster Master used to piss me off where I would make it to the Final boss without continuing but then I died, But eventually i got good and actually finished it without continuing
One thing I can say is the NES controller is extremely durable.
My God, yes. That thing can take abuse like nobody's business.
Adventure island on the nes was one of the few games that got me angry when I was little. That game was sooo hard for me. I don't really lose it anymore when I play.
This video is hilarious, I used to punch holes into my bedroom door, the cheating computer opponent in street fighter 2 used to make me rage hard, I bought a 6 button controller and it lasted for 2 days, also Virtua racing trying to get the perfect lap and crashing into a stray Computer controlled car on the last corner of the last lap
I remember this. Life Force or Batman on the NES were my rage games.
Somehow, I dunno how, I've trained myself not to rage. I stop once I get that feeling and move on to something else.
And for some reason it's transmogrified into only playing games 10 minutes at a time and then I lose interest. I don't know what that is. I still want to play games, but it's like a switch turns off in me and I'm like, "Okay, time to stop." So, the era of playing a game hours on end is gone for me. It's kind of sad.
Try Farming Simulator or something tranquil like that
The best way to get gamer rage is to have to do an annoying mini game perfectly. No mistakes allowed.
@rockman fan The one that comes to me mainly is Paper Mario: The Origami King
doing the shy guys finish last minigames perfectly is nearly impossible without cheating by recording it.
I did need to do it for 100% though and yes I did cheat, no regrets.
Full comboing in rhythm games. It doesn't make me rage but it's still annoying and dropping a note in the moment still hurts.
My first case of gamer rage ended with me slamming my fist down through the top of my NES, leaving a huge hole in it! All because of Athena. I still hate that game to this day.
P.S. Thank you for making feel normal.❤️
Nioh....is the only souls like I've never beaten, it's to damm hard for me
Did you went pass tachibana muneshige already? Cause if so, that means you're really good and you should keep trying.
Nioh is very much based on gear and level. Do the side quests and you'll be better off.
I remember breaking my Wii U Gamepad while playing Mario Kart 8. I don't know why that game made me rage so hard but it did. The Megaman X games are also not my proudest moments as a human being.
Final fantasy tactics music :)
That, Chrono Trigger, Resident Evil 2 (original), Metal Gear Solid, Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, Chrono Cross, and Xenogears are my favorite game soundtracks.
@@Silvergun_Raven For me it's FF Tactics, Ys IV: the Dawn of Ys, Persona 3/4, and Xenoblade Chronicles Wii
Hey, calm down Johnny, it's only a game! Man, I remember some serious rage. Just before we got the internet me and my buddy played Command and Conquer networked over a phone line, It was amazing but he wound me up so much, I remember getting so angry as he decimated my forces. We've all been there but this seemed more intense as we were playing online for the first time!
Well I got few moments of gamer rage but most of it was years ago back when I was very young. But the most recent was playing shin megami tensei strange journey, I think it was 2019 or something. There's a boss next to the end of the game that was insanely hard. Smt games usually are hard but heiwbduejrueisnkee that was ridiculously insane. I think I spent an entire day just to beat that boss. That game is broken. Oh I just remembered also Devil survivor the boss that is immortal, literally, I forgot it's name. Lmao it's ridiculous. Just by thinking of it I start to laugh because I was so mad.
I remember raging at Nocturne recently. I was completely under-leveled whilst fighting the third fiend (the first rider). I just kept dying and dying. I hate how he is right outside a terminal. I also love how I would lose 30 minutes of progress because one attack would insta-kill the MC.
Haha! It finally comes out! The Happy Console Gamer has an angry side! This was a fun episode.
Demon souls, Dark souls, Dark souls 2, Dark souls 3 is all I will say. It´s a damn wonder my Controller is not broken. But man some games on PC made me rage allot and I always hit my hand on the desk screaming rely bad words. My dad one time had to check in on me asking are you beating some one up becuse it sure sounds like it.
Why play the games if they're so unfair that it makes you genuinely angry?
Whenever I get too angry it’s best to quit and try again later. The more tense I am the worse I play. As annoying as it is to give up, a good nights sleep usually does more for me than endlessly trying the same battle over and over.
Bloodborne sent his best regards! I swear, I'd dream of that cursed game bosses...
I think most of my rage moments have been with Smash. I've had a bad habit in the past of both taking it too seriously with friends who weren't quite as into the game as I was and being a sore winner, but also being a sore loser when playing against people who were clearly better than me, been to tournaments often and such, and I shouldn't have ever felt bad about that at all.
I watched this episode and then encountered the smile puzzle in Medieval. XD lmao. On top of that I remembered after looking it up that I figured it out on my own back on PsOne.
I'm gonna try that blaster master, looks interesting.
when I was younger I was doing one of those time trials in Infamous 1, where you had to go from satellite dish to satellite dish. There was one in particular that I was stuck on for over half an hour, on my last attempt I was like one second off. so I flipped out, and punched this clip on the computer screen protector.. on the bright side, it did its job and protected my computer.
Yes, the boys are back in town!
My shame was jumping up and down on my PS3 controller and my wife walking in and looking at me like a complete mental patient. We both agreed we would never talk about it again 😦
Are we not getting our Sunday fix? 14th March episode?
I'm like that with Rhythm games "WHY CAN'T I DO THIS SONG CHART ON HARD DIFFICLTY?!" But my god, the euphoria and joy you feel when you overcome a wall of difficulty is like nothing else and so satisfying
Playing any arcade game when you didn't have enough quarters
Blaster Master: scrolling and overhead camera in one game. Back in the NES days, this was unheard of. Thanks Gents!
Games that make me say, “this is fuckin bullshit,” are my favorite games 😆 My wife doesn’t understand it.
Hahahah 💖
It hurts so good
imagine getting that mad from a game. love games till the day i die but ill pass getting so mad i break shit lmaoo
I’m glad you admit that you have gamer rage. Can’t stand people who deny it.
Not having the patience to play video games caused me to almost completely drop them during the PS3 era. I've played them much more during the PS4 era but I never did get back to being as interested as I was from the SNES - PS2 era. A lot of people find games to be something that allows them to wind down from the stress of their job but I found that my job devoured so much of my patience each day that I had nothing left for games anymore.
Rob’s story about the coffee table hit home. I put my fist through the living room table (don’t even remember what game I was playing 🤦🏻♂️) and switched it out with the basement coffee table before the mrs. got home. Told her I just wanted to “change things up”. Took her almost a month to notice the hole that I placed a candle over in the table. Boy was she pissed...
Thanks for sharing! Do you guys recall your first experience with gamer rage? Probably my first with it was playing Gopher on the 2600. That and River Raid made my 6-7 year old self rage and somewhat 'break' the 2600 joystick more than once (though you could easily pop the joystick back in). To this day, watching Gopher will bring up those feelings without even playing it!
my boyfriend also had the worst rage of his life playing Shadow of the Colossus hahahahahahahahha Kim, I sure know how you felt!
Nioh made me want to break my ps4 in half when it first came out. That sea worm boss pissed me off beyond belief.
Vacuous spider ROM- a boss that seemed so easy in the walk throughs took me way too long to beat.
Seriously...in Nioh the vampire lady was tough enough at first, but the sea worm boss was infuriating! That was the boss for me where I finally caved and started recruiting online players for help
I got a love hate relationship with the Niohs and Ghosts n Goblins of the world..
All hail the robbeth of the manneth returneth
Would love to see a video about games that make you do that victory dance when you win the opposite of gamer rage the pure thrill of victory