Are you a "yeller?" I sure as hell am. Any unexpected death or loss in any videogame has me yelling at my television and game consoles at the top of my lungs. I'm not Angry German Kid bad, and I realize that none of these objects can hear me, but it makes me feel better. One time, my dog bit me because I scared the sh*t out of him after yelling at a game.
I suppose I had better watch the volume of my exclamations. One gamer in Denver received a visit from deputies for his.
The Denver YourHub tells us that deputies responded to a domestic disturbance callat 5 a.m. on May 7. The county sheriff's office blotter says that a 39-year-old man said he heard yelling and doors being slammed and said it had been going on for months.
In the apartment below him, the wife of our yeller said her husband plays video games all night, much like you and I. The problem here is that he gets upset when he loses and yells obscenities at his gaming gear. Old Yeller was issued a summons for disorderly conduct.
Do you scream at the television when you lose/fail? If so, what game made you the most angry and loud? For me it was Shadow of the Colossus. Damn those tall colossi!
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I only ever really yelled consistently at 2D fighting games like Street Fighter and Marvel v Capcom. Enemy AI was just redunkulous in those games. I was brought to the brink of tears many a time. I was like 10 or 12, but still. Shit made me hate fighting games.
The only game I yell at is Mario Kart in any form. The AI is so unfair sometimes and just overtakes you at the last moment. BASTARD FUCK MINGES!
I only yell when the game does something thats completely unfair. If it's my own fault I shrug it off and continue playing.
I just spent a good two hours yelling at the television last night trying to get my international a and b licenses for GT.
Funnel the rage into the game, it's great.
I rarely ever yell when playing a game, but when I do, it's mostly lame crap like "omfg are you serious?!".
Sometimes in TF2... When I'm being dominated, I always choose spy and try to backstab the bastard who's dominating me. But I don't scream obscenities out loud. If I'm getting upset with the game I quit and relax. Simple.
That is so much FUCKING BULLSHIT! WHO THE FUCK DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE, PULLING ME AWAY FROM MY FUCKING GAME BECAUSE THEY THINK I--calm, calm... they think I beat my wife? I swear, this is some kind of FUCKING SHIT man... I'm going to go kill some hookers.
Final Fantasy Tactics nearly made my head explode. Blood pressure went through the roof
i'm still hoarse from last nights flOw marathon
Usually no louder than my normal speaking voice... Never got people who yell at the TV whether it's games or sports.
exodus1925 : amen to that shit. "item rape" is what i scream
I just curse under my breath..and if I'm playing with someone then I yell at them.
Fortunately, I'm not a yeller at all. If something is unfair, I'll say so, if someone is listening. My brother is a yeller though- well, more of a controller thrower, which I hate.
the only time i scream at the screen, is when i played metroid prime hunters and i have to cross plataform jumping scenarios.
the level design is abismal. you miss the pad within and inch and bam! you're dead
I usually just loudly say "oh god dammit it."
or if I am playing a friend "No one likes a landmaster (friend's name)"
I don't usually yell. I think the worst I've gotten was nearly finishing a level in fire emblem only to get rocked by an enemies 1% crit chance. Didn't play the game for weeks afterwards
Crap, I need to stop playing GTA4 late at night...I tend to start yelling during escort missions when the RETARD NPCS DON'T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SHOOT FROM FUCKING COVER LIKE I DO!
IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU'RE AN IDIOT WITH CRAPPY AIM!!! ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!!
I yell sometimes, but I always make sure to sit by a soft object (e.g., my bed) so I have something to punch. Protip: punching your bedpost hurts like hell.
Most recently, Contra 4, the challenges. Finally gott'em all, though. I apologized to my DS once I did.
Punch-Out NES also received alot fury back in the day...
i usually dont yell... at most a "GOD DAMMIT"
Definitely Shadow of the Colossus for me, I said some horrible things playing through that. It also happens to be one of my all time favorite games, because of the emotional responses it elicited. Just, you know, not the screaming obscenities emotions.
When I was younger Zelda made me yell and punch the TV screen when I discovered something was wrong with my game save after I died. It hurt so bad I never did it again.
i swear too. i'm chilean so i say something like.
"por la mierda"
"juego culio"
"maquina conchadetumadre"
"I heard him yelling at you the other day, 'You can't shoot straight, you big-titted bitch". Somtheing about a key."
no I just break things quietly
Oh man, Homeworld had me screaming at my computer. Fucking ships would not move to where I wanted them too and stay there. "NO! FUCK! NOT THERE! FUUUUCK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" I remember throwing my keyboard once too, keys went flying. Learned not to do that again. My apartment neighbors probably thought I was crazy too but I fucking beat that game! Other than that I just curse at a controlled level. I use to be really bad, but I've mellowed out some. Plus I've become better at staying away from unfair games.
I sometimes do the quite controlled rage where I grip my controller and just squeeze it as hard as possible, twist it, maybe smack it hard on the side with one hand. Works out that tension a lil bit. It is much more satisfying strangling something instead of just tossing it against the wall >:-)
I shout a lot, but I don't do it in the middle of the night. Lucky for me though, neighbor below is deaf anyway.
I curse. A lot. And Mario Kart brings the swearing to new levels. When I play Shadow of the Colossus, Agro made me curse frequently; I was so mad at him once I promised to turn him into glue.
I recently checked with my neighbor about the noise level and he said that he never hears me. Either the insulation is as good as the developer said it was or he fears my wrathful ways.
oh, im a yeller
I do yell at the screen. Like GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
great responses here!
I lol'd at this, Demtor:
I sometimes do the quite controlled rage where I grip my controller and just squeeze it as hard as possible, twist it, maybe smack it hard on the side with one hand. Works out that tension a lil bit. It is much more satisfying strangling something instead of just tossing it against the wall >:-)
I'm SUCH a yeller, that I shook my DS (original) until the part that binds the top and bottom screen broke. Damn you, Pokemon Diamond, DAMN YOU!
GTA 4! Oh MY GOD! when im chasing someone and i crash because of something stupid or i die in dumbwaays i fucking yell
When I die and haven't saved for an hour. Especially when I don't have much time to play games anymore. Most recently was going up 15 floors of Tartarus in Persona 3 FES.
Ikaruga or any 2D side scroller because one little slip means you're dead, which is very frustrating.
Playing Pro Evo online is horrible aswell because the lag is just so bad, the Centre forwards just warp from the half way line to the box with the ball and score, bloody annoying.
Also Halo 3 when someone steals my kill.
If it's my fault that I fucked up in a game, then I just cuss, but if the game itself is flawed or unfair in some way, that's when I start yelling ridiculous things to my TV.
Once I get into that pissed off mindset, even the slightest of annoyances will set me off.
Mega Man was pretty bad, I usually swore but kept it quiet (I was young) and I still do that but out right screaming never happens, I'm a pillow bitter...lol
I tend to insult the game when I am angry.
I yell weird shit about how the game thinks it is cute trying to piss me off or something.
Really strange.
I bit my controller once when playing Soul Caliber 2.
I HATE VOLDO
Hmm, well maybe when I was younger, but I like to think of myself as an easy-going mellow type of guy.If I find a game is getting really hard I just switch it off for awhile and come back to it later.
If that doesnt solve the problem then I find playing frisbbe with the disc works well also. :P
I used to have pretty bad rage issues when it came to frustrating games. Ive broken countless controllers either from throwing or trampling. Spat on my tv a few times. Kicked my Gamecube. I even broke a tv once playing Soul Calibur 2. That was probably the most angry ive been.
Ive learned to calm down though. Replacing controllers and anything else close to me that can be thrown gets expensive.
Two words: Puzzle Quest.
Five more words: "Mississippi Queen" vocals on Expert.
If you're gonna be that pissed from video games, it's time to buy a house, or better yet a farm.
every once in a while i'll play COD4 and suck so bad i want to punch a baby t-rex on the mouth in front of its mother, but I rarely yell. if i do its a good ol' fashioned "FUCK!"
Heh, I can actually see that happening to my younger brother. He regularly throws hissy fits when playing, and refuses to take a break to calm down until he has thorougly demonstrates his superiority over the software program in question. It's scary and amusing at the same time. xD
my apartment neighbors are such assholes, especially when i go to bed. my 3rd floor neighbor cranks their TV volume right aroun 10-ish. Makes it very hard for me to go to sleep.
But whenever i plan to stay up i have my headphones jacked into anything that i'm using, i even bought a new TV that has headphone jacks since the old one i had to -Macguyver- in a way to use headphones.
I wish people would be considerate to others since the walls are so fuckin' thin...>_>
Haha, glad you got a kick out of that Dale. I learned that one while playing Tekken 5's boss. I grew tired of yelling at him and learned to focus the rage inwardly to a much more satisfying result.
What about smack talking a game? You guys ever get that in to a game where your trying soooo hard to finish a section, or beat a boss, that you start trash talking out of no where.
"Sup now bitch? Where's that cheap ass move now! Come on! Get some! FUCK YEAH! UH!" *followed by incredibly nerdy white boy groove dance that brings all the girls to the yardsale*
some bosses in Ninja Gaiden had me pretty pissed,the second installment will most likely drive me batshit insane.
That bonus mission in COD4 on veteran mode... God damnit! I spent so many hours on that bloody mission!
I just lost the second boss fight in Persona 3: FES. There is no way I'm going to skip through all those scenes again.
I only yell at fighting games, because I love them so much but suck so badly at them
I only yell if there's someone to hear it, i.e. a pissant on XBL.
I occasionally pound my fist on my desk if it's single player.
I wept when I died in SoTC.
I usually mutter curse words under my breath. I certainly don't yell.
It's almost unavoidable that I will swear while playing a game. How often and how seriously I swear depends on what I'm playing and how badly I'm losing. Last night's Brawl games against a friend of mine saw six uses of "fuck" in a single round and a thrown TV remote.
I yell when I'm sure no one is around. More than anything, I punch the bed or the soft cushy armrest.
A few times, when the bed is too far away, I punch myself in the leg, that area right above the knee.
Usually happens on games where I consider something "cheap" has happened, Virtua Fighter, NBA Street, NFL 2K5, games like that.
I silently cast my voodoo hexes on folks I'm playing against.
I don't want users to think i'm an assh*le with that last post, but in my younger years i would spew obscenity after obscure obscenity like a garbage geyser.
But when tough games get to me, i would punch the armrest or punch my leg. For extremes i'd go side and -vent- at the bars. And by -vent- i mean drink.
I yell uncontrollably. And swear. Not all the time, just in BS situations. Mostly in online Halo3/Cod4 matches with randoms. Getting stuck on team retard is a guaranteed rise in blood pressure. Makes me feel better that I'm not the only one.
I've never been a huge yeller, but a handful of games have made me get noisy in recent months. I yelled (a bit) at Rainbow 6 Vegas, and mario kart wii got me to vocalize a bit, but also? i recently started playing No More Heroes, and.. yeah, I can't help but shout everytime travis does a finisher or a wrestling move... or when his health is low. i'm a little embarassed, but nobody's called me on it yet, so....
also, I was really vocal through the Half Life episodes of Orange Box. Gordon Freeman doesn't talk, so I spoke for him, and... by the time I was done, I'd lost all respect for Alyx, for putting up with the abusive language I vommitted at her, and still giving Gordon the big puppy-dog eyes.
still, you know a game is providing the awesome action if you'll get so involved that you provide your own voice-acting for the mute characters.
I don't ever recall yelling but I did use to make weird whining and grunting noises when I died a cheap death or just died multiple times.
The irony of the above article is that had something had really been going on and he was chopping someone up with an axe or using his bedroom as a dungeon, no one would have noticed what was going on until someone broke for the door and was found wandering the streets naked and covered in blood .
I yell a lot at Team Fortress 2. The whole Critical shot system is pretty much designed to piss you off.
im not a yeller much, but on rare occasions when the game is being a cheap ass fucker I get mad and yell. When I was little I was controller thrower. I even did the famed "Ball And Chain" swing where you unplug the remote and swing it by the cord into the couch repeated times. I dropped this habit when I started buying my own systems.
I constantly swear "fuck!", but it's usually under my breath.
Lol fighting and screaming that has been going for months before he decides to call the cops? If it would have been a real domestic disturbance, the wife would've been dead allready :-)
Depending on how much I care I scream, but I find myself screaming more frequently at fighting games. It's usually in short bursts to, like 'SHIT FUCK!' or 'MY ASS!!!'. If its real bad and I'm wrapped up in the moment I start to rampage on inanimate objects... One time I was playing Tekken 5 DR on my PSP... I pushed the screen with my thumbs till the LCD shattered. That were a costly rage dump.
I had a friend who actually got insurance on his controllers because he would throw them and break them so often!
I also have a group of friends that received a noise ordinance for playing Rock Band too loudly.
hahaha, i just smile viciously and tighten my lips. And if im gonna curse out loud to no one on live, i turn off the mic first. I swear the lag on COD is gonna kill me one day.