What Happened While Playing Prototype

My Aunt gave me her NES when I was a wee lad (about 6 years old maybe) and I would get really pissed at mario, I would really throw my conroller at my dresser in front of me.  I guess they were pretty durable controllers.

The duct tape and one screw (all the other screw holes are broken) is the only thing holding this together. Other than that it works fine.

Definitely Ragequit.  It may be fairly recent (Left 4 Dead), but it's still applicable to almost every situation.

I've thrown a guitar a few times after failing Jordan for the hundred billionth time. I've played the first 2 minutes of that song probably over a thousand times and I've finished it 4 or 5 times. Not sure what it is about that song, since I can 5 star Raining Blood on command and can pass TTFAF no problem.

I managed to pretty badly damage the left bumper on a 360 controller playing DOA4, too. There's an achievement for 80 wins in survival. I got to 77 with both characters still alive and the game 100% comboed both of them back to back. I threw it at a wall. Hard. If DOA4 wants you dead, you are going to die. End of story. That was years ago and I never did get that achievement.

That's nothing i once got so pissed playing GTA3 on the PS2 i twisted the controller and the plastic splintered everywhere. I went through 7 PS2 controls in the end. They are so flimsy :(

I threw my ps2 controller directly at my TV trying to beat Ares in the first God of War. That was awesome. I've also thrown my controller half way across the room while playing pretty much any fighting game ever. Especially ones with extremely cheap final bosses. *stares at all guilty gear games*

The last time I had a good video game rage moment was the 3rd form of the final boss in tales of vesperia. I got so angry I threw my tv remote at my rock band drums which caused it to go flying at my wall.
Though my favorite video game rage moment was one that my friend had while me,him, and another friend were playing SSBM. He could never beat either of us which made him so angry he stormed out into my garage and took a shovel and preceded to destroy his wavebird with it.
Also one more from that same friend we were playing a dragonball z game for the ps2 and he couldn't beat a custom character I made which made him so angry he yelled, " I PLAY THIS GAME MORE THAN YOU!", and then stormed out of my house.

I did the same thing when playing SFIV; While the controller survived the battery pack didn't

Street Fighter 4. Seth. Hole in my wall. That's all that needs to be said

I usally swear a lot (and I have a very good vocabulary in that sense) and then put in Rock Band. I play Don't Stop Belevin or Still Alive and I calm down. One of my friends has Rage Naps.

Has been quite a while since I last threw a controller through the room. Now I prefer squeezing it. Buying a new controller is cheaper than buying a new TV ;-)

I normally just slam stuff down on my bed since it's right next to me when I play.

I haven't found Prototype that annoying, though. Done 26/31 missions so far and I'd say only two or three have been that frustrating. I imagine these next few will up the ante difficulty wise, however, just like Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. I never did finish that game, the last mission was just too damn hard and annoying.

Prototype is the only game that I'm ragequit on in the past few months.
The game is so frustrating I can hardly force myself to keep playing it.

God of War challange of the gods is total bullshit but worth it for the cow costume. That made me break some controllers.

the words are "nerd rage"

I did the same thing during Star Wars: Force Unleashed at that Star Destroyer part.  I threw thew controller pretty hard and part of it broke open.  There's a picture of it in my profile somewhere.  Thankfully, it still works though.

COD4 on the hard difficulty on my first run through.  The part where you must defend your injured buddy while waiting for a helicopter had me so mad I slammed my highly durable 360 controller down on my not so durable cell phone.

Only thing I've ever thrown in anger to cause some real damage was a buddy.  I wanted to go to bed, he wanted to keep partying and he grabbed me.  Well don't grab a grumpy Carpathian because I threw his ass through a wall. (Gotta love drywall, makes the phrase "threw him threw a wall" sound a lot cooler than it is!)

I shake my wireless controllers so much that they disconnect. I also yell expletives at the top of my lungs. Only the vilest, foulest words.

I broke the part that hold the bottom of the battery pack in on my 360 controller during a Gears of War 2 match when the lag was so bad I couldn't do anything but be killed. I now have to use tape to hold it in.

if i'm ever frustrated by a difficult bit in a game i usually shout "FUCK" repeatedly very loudly and if this continues i rage quit and grumble for a couple of hours while watching YouTube videos of kittens.

Prototype frustrated me, but it didn't go far because I noticed little differences in my situation thanks to checkpoints that helped me out. I would get myself in a bad situation, die, and find that I had been respawned at a checkpoint and that the conditions were improved from the previous conditions. That helped me cool down no matter what...until I got to the last boss. At that point, I would die, then mumble "This is impossible." Even though I know that's not true at all. So I was able to somewhat control my frustration until, thanks to a bit of luck, I defeated the boss with less than a second left on the clock. I felt such relief, it kinda hurt.

As for frustration, I used to throw controllers, but I got into the habit of throwing them in a way that would keep the controller from getting damaged. The only thing I've really done was hit a keyboard hard so now it doesn't stand correctly on the table. At certain points when I type, the keyboard wobbles. I think it was while I was playing Mega Man 9, but I don't quite remember.

Currently, I just say "Dammit", then continue. If I can't get past something, I just go do something I really enjoy, like running around in Prototype! :)

I got stuck in GTA4 and smashed my Sharkoon X-Tatic 5.1 Digital surround headset.
This headset has four speakers in each earcup with atleast two wires connected to each of the speakers. Fortunately only one of the earcups had broken wires.
I then took several pictures of the broken earcup and mailed it to Sharkoon support asking which wires connected to which speaker. Two weeks later I received an email with an attached image that showed a pre assembled earcup, where I could clearly see which wire went where and a detailed explanation in text telling me so. I have now soldered the wires to the corresponding speakers and PCB board aswell as glued the plastic shell together with extra hard epoxy.

I now have my Sharkoon X-Tatic 5.1 Digital headset back!

The headset comes with a small digital decoder that serves as a surround receiver and supports two headsets. Sharkoon also sells the headset without the receiver. This means the support team could have recommended me to buy a separate set but instead went through all this trouble to serve their customer. That saved me some money!!!

I highly recommend Sharkoon

I've also destroyed atleast two dualshocks and one remote

and now I feel ashamed

The Force Unleashed almost made me throw the controller off my balcony, but instead I stopped playing the game and never picked it up again.
While getting the platinum trophy for CoD5 I almost smashed the PS3 controller into the floor on veteran on Relentless, but I restrained myself, because I love that controller too much. I kept on playing in a catatonic state until I eventually had crawled through a rain of grenades from endlessly respawning enemies for two hours, giving me the platinum and the chance to never play the game again.

My biggest moment of frustration was slamming my fist into my keyboard some years ago.
The game is forgotten, but the shame lives on.

Overall I really liked Prototype, but the frustration definitely kicked in. I think the problem is that the first 2/3 or maybe the first 1/2 is just ridiculously easy. Then it's like someone flipped a switch and its frustratingly hard. I had to do exactly what you did... back out of the area when my health would get low, consume some people, then come back.

The MOST frustrating fight was against Elizabeth Greene when she's in the form of that giant rock-spewing brain that erupts from the street. It was such a chore.

I'd be mega pissed at myself if I did anything as small as that to any of my gaming equipment...and to the awesome red controller, too. Geez.

I don't take my anger out physically. I take it out verbally. And I rub my nails.
Speaking of destruction, my father had "destroyed" my Secret of Mana cartridge when my brother and I were quarreling one time. Tore that sucker in half, then later super glued it. Somehow, it still works perfectly fine.

I suffer from that anger mis-management, what I do now, after profaning the air with my serpent tongue, is simply drop the controller and turn off the console and come back to it later and if the problem persists, I blame it on the developers and quit.
I'm better now, after bestowing my fierce frustration on my hardware and going through enough consoles to understand how to calm down. Pics of some of the damage I made will be posted soon, I broke handhelds, control pads and even made the front buttons of my PS2 become loose after throwing the controller at it. I will show the handhelds. I also smashed a Code: Veronica X after trying to get an A Rank in Battle mode, I'm not sorry I did it because it was the PAL version which is slower.

Games nowadays are becoming as difficult as the ones in the 16-Bit era I think, the whole thing with super high maximum "insane" or "impossible" difficulties are making games too esoteric in my opinion, there never seems to be an adequate setting (I wish games had only one like the Nintendo games), plus people who play for achievements and trophies are even more susceptible to become frustrated and uninterested in playing the game past a difficult phase.

Dude, two words: Metroid Prime. I broke two or three innocent gamecube controllers a few years back playing MP1 and 2, especially 2, as I think I only broke one controller whilst playing the first game.

I had some serious 'Roid Rage. (Like metROID. Get it? Get it...? Yeah, I thought it was lame too.).

Ninja Gaiden 2 made me so angry I physically hurt myself. I kicked a chair and bruised my toe pretty badly. It was embarrassing as hell, yes. But when I get so frustrated, part of me just feels like I can't "let the game win", when, really, by forcing myself to keep going, I lose EXTRA hard. I also have some similar damage as Brad on a controller of mine which I chucked against the wall on some Conan-induced rage. But that's the only time I ever threw my controller in rage.

I have never thrown a controller, or even tossed it in the air and not caught it. I just tell the game, "you suck" and keep going.

That's why I play games around pillows and gluttonous people all the time.

Good lord I don't know how many times I've alt F4 rage quit Prototype.

the only thing that brought me to the brink of annialation was the mile high club achievment. Damn that plane... luckily i beat it :)

Prototype can be frustrating. Right now im at the long fight with that wormy Elizabeth Greene monster. After 20 attempts myself, i ended up calling it a night and play something simple like NBA 2K9

if i foreseen this i would have taken an image of my fighting stick ex2 after being (admittedly it's pretty embarrassing) beaten by a tiger knee spamming sagat on street fighter 4.
yeah, i went all sorts of tiger knee on that fight stick and dented up the bottom pretty good,  controller surprisingly still works fine.  anywho, im now sticking to hd remix, close to no rage from that game.

Gamerage is what I have called it before. I have thrown my controller a few times in my life (three I think). However, I have only ever broken one. I broke a PS2 controller while playing FFX trying to get 0.00 seconds on the chocobo race. It was dumn, and I regretted having to buy a new controller; it worked out though because I got the time when I returned home with the new one. Either way, when I fell gamerage coming out I general walk away and do something else for a bit.

Wow the only game I got mad at this generation is almost like yours: inFAMOUS. That game has it's challenging points, and being hit by a rocket, and only to get back up and hit by yet another rocket makes me flip off the screen. Yes, it works.

UFC 2009 caused me to throw a pack of cards I had on my desk and shatter it against the wall.....DAMN YOU RASHAD EVANS!!!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!

I totally understand the game frustration thing.  I worked for Sony during the beginning year of the original Playstation and testing bugs brings out the worst in many.  I have at least 20 controls broken (my friends breaking at least 18 of those) and though I have never broken a controller, it hasn't been due to lack of trying to twist it in half. 

I love prototype but I have literally thrown my controller multiple times. Some of the bosses are so over powered and the enemies can be overwhelming.

I keep dropping my controller by accident. I screwed up the B button on my 2nd 360 controller and the right stick is sweaky on my first.

I've gone through so many controllers. Including 2 360 controllers. Holes in the wall. A messed up heater. stuff like that...i'm much better now though.
As Brad  said, it is a Very Childish way of dealing with this game induced rage. Too late now. The Damage has been done.

Brad, if this is the worst damage you have done to a controller in the 25 years you have been gaming, you have NOTHING to worry about.  I have a pretty good temper, but I have lost it a couple of times while gaming and done some serious damage to my controller and other stuff.  I used to play Halo 3 a lt, until I threw my controller across the room one night and broke a piece of furniture.  Another time, while playing N+, I through my controller across the room and put a hole in the wall.  These are much worse then anything you have done.