Uncharted 3 launched this past Tuesday to near-universal critical acclaim and excitement aplenty from fans of the franchise. Being the excited little boy that I am, I pre-ordered myself a copy and sure enough it arrived in my mail box on Wednesday morning. Hoorah!

Playing Uncharted 3 has made me realise something; I really get angry with video games, like a lot. I flew through the first seven or so chapters in UC3 in my first sitting but since then the game has given me a serious test in patience. Why? I can't quite put my finger on it. I had some grievances with Uncharted 2. I got a bit frustrated in the latter stages, but overall I think UC2 is a fantastic piece of business. However, I was literally seething with anger after my little UC3 session today. It's a problem I have been experiencing a lot with games recently; complete and utter rage.

Frustration has been tapping me on the shoulder and whispering bad things to me for a good while now. Batman Arkham City is a great product but sometimes I got incredibly angry at the combat for no real reason. I couldn't even play Outland anymore because that game just irked me in a strange way. These are all high-quality video games and yet I find myself shouting at the television and wishing death to my innocent 360. Going back to Uncharted, I find myself just getting stuck or just simply dying in a shoot-out an incredible test of my shitty patience.

Looking back on what I have written so far, it makes me sound like a bit of a schizophrenic. Believe me, I'm not (I think). It seems like I can't enjoy these top-shelf games as much as I could be due to my lack of patience. It seems to be getting worse. We are all aloud are little spurts of anger when things aren't going our way but I seem to just be on edge when I playing my games. Even if I respawn immediately (and let's be honest, games aren't particularly difficult anymore) I still find myself swearing profusely if I take one too many bullets.

Weird question but is anyone else also experiencing this stupid reality? I am now getting ready to go beyond this fickle rage. Whether I just remember to stay calm when I am playing through Uncharted or I start taking heavy medication before turning on my PlayStation. Either way, I promise to cool my proverbial jets. *Raises hand* I promise to forever remain chill when I play games. At least when I am not playing Dark Souls.

Sensible footnote: Maybe the Uncharted 3 combat is just a bit sucky.

I only get frustrated with competitive FPS/Fighting games because I suck at them and lose a lot/don't do well.

I'm with you there my friend. I've put down the controller for the night as I got seriously pissed by some later opponents... keep dying, more anger. It really is a horrible feeling, and one need to relax and stop when that anger starts bursting out.

It's been like that for me in all the Uncharted games. They suck you in with some great early levels, and then you get into the combat heavy later parts of the game and bullet sponging starts to kick in along with you getting flooded by like 30 dudes chucking nades and shooting their RPGs with pinpoint precision and it's suddenly not fun at all.

I have nearly beaten it now and I have really been enjoying. There was one part, however, on the boat where the game throws like 30 dudes. I died. A lot. Anger ensued.

I get where you're coming from. Batman Arkham City can mae me really emotional, however, I don't get angry, I just get sad with myself. I see all these people on the net talking about their 90-string combos, and if there is 1 armored guy in the fight, my max combo is like 6. I haven't played much of U3, but played through U2, and I feel like sometimes the game want's to make these really epic fights, which just aren't happening because it's impossible to fight fluently with a controller. Drake sometimes moves so mechanic. Like, going up to cover, going in to cover, then moving the crosshairs like a robot, a little too much to the left, little too much to the right, back again, all the while getting shot at. I really liked the option to auto-aim in Red Dead Redemption, it made the combat so much more epic.

@MjHealy: Don't pay UC3 on Hard, then! With the new (Awful! Surely it's bugged?) weapon aiming and how ridiculously you are outnumbered by snipers, shotgun and RPG bearing bandits at any one time (even for Uncharted!), Hard difficulty almost ruined my UC3 experience. Almost!

I didn't rage, but I did certainly quip out loud, "Ugh, really?" and, "What? Agents appear from thin air behind me, now?" and, "Snipers. And shotguns. And RPGs. All at once. Yeah, ok!" and, "How do they expect me to traverse cover if I only live for a second between cover?!" and, "Why can Drake only aim in perpendicular lines this time around?" a number of times. Nightmares of Drake's Fortune's Crushing difficulty did haunt me, though it certainly wasn't that bad.

The second half of the game redeemed itself. I may have to play the campaign on Easy to cleanse these few negative thoughts!