How many game controllers have you murdered in your gaming career?

Hello folks,

Long time no see. Life's been busy so I haven't been online much. Good to be back! :biggrin:
Still have yet to post reply to my thread since July... Wonder if I still can? o_O

So, any of you get really pissed off when you play a game because it's so goddamn unfair? I have quite terrible anger management issue, and it really shows when I play games (heck, might as well just say at anything I do).

Like last night, I was playing EDF 2025 on my PS3. There was this mission (mission 62 for those who played) in which I have to destroy a giant walking fortress. The thing releases drones that shoot lasers at you and giant mechs with destructive cannons. I have to chase after it, try to get a good angle to shoot the hatch, while avoiding getting hurt and taking down the drones. It's a sci-fi kind of shooting game, so having you in open spaces and tanking hits are the norm. Sometimes, its legs would stomp on me when I was too focused on the hatch. So after about 20 minutes or so, I think, of enduring all those nonsensical bullcraps, I finally took down the giant fortress. I had a bit of health left and some leftover enemies. "Alright, don't die. I just need to kill some of them and hope one drops a healthpack." Well, I got killed shorty after that for obvious reason (open space, surrounded by drones). My blood was boiling, and I wanted to stop, but I couldn't, end smashed my controller against the sofa. It has a small crack at the bottom left, but luckily, it still works fine. I beat the mission in the next try. But now I am worried when or what the my next rage will be. :eek:

During the last 7 years owning a PS3, I have murdered 3 controllers just like that. Two of them were smashed in the same fashion. In March, I got pissed while playing Yakuza 5 and although I didn't smash it, I broke the left analog stick by pushing it too hard. I asked my father to to fix it but couldn't get it to work, and it got worse when he couldn't put the buttons together properly. Now, I am down to the last one. I know it's pretty damn immature and stupid, but honestly, no one wants to do this. These babies are expensive and it's not their fault, either. It just... sorta happens when anger takes over. PS3 controllers from Sony are hard to find nowadays, and it's hard to tell if one is real or not. I think Newegg has some, but the other sites only have 3rd party controllers. I just want to finish this game and P4A Ultimax before moving on to PS4. I keep telling myself that I should just punch the sofa with my hand instead, but the poor innocent controller just happened to... be there. :oops:

Well? What is your biggest raging moment? :confused:

I have been using my ps4 controller since 2013, works fine till now.

Playing PC games with keyboard and mouse in all my life career, I murder no controllers.

I did have 3 controllers to stop working in my whole life. 1 nintendo 64, 1 gamecube, and 1 Wii. In my defense, I used to play A LOT, moved all my consoles between my dad's house and my mom's house weekly (yes, they are divorced), and my little brother and all my cousins (which means a lot in an asian family) also used to borrow all my stuff to play with.

I'm in the same group as Theoallen, no murdered controllers yet as I spent most of my life on PC with Mouse and Keyboard. Though I do remember a monitor almost getting it once, but that was because it was almost dead anyways (the only reason I was still using it was because I was just being cheap and trying to get a few extra months out of it) so I didn't care too much what happened to it.

I've never broken any controllers...any things that stopped working were just from overuse, haha. I have kicked out a small window before in anger, though.

I have a pretty mild temperament so I've never broken anything of mine out of anger. That's not a very exciting story, but it's all I got.

I murdered one controller. It was low quality, but still, I pressed the arrows too hard once and it didn't withstand the pressure. I didn't murder it out of rage though, I was just playing my game.

It seems I'm pretty much alone in here...

Me and my brothers together have destroyed about 5-6 controllers. Some PS2, some Xbox 360... Also destroyed a Namco game console, which technically counts as a controller since the whole thing was one unit (controller + console).

Wow, so now I know it's my fault and not that the controllers are made to die about 2-3 years after they're made.

I grew up with the Atari and Nes so I kind of got used to taking out my frustrations on the controller. Those things were tanks, though, and could take a beating. Fast forward to PS1 and 2 era and I murdered quite a few.

I've broken them through regular use a couple times but not because a game makes me emotionally unstable and I break them in a rage.

No, I usually take out my frustrations on a punching bag or by lifting weights, used to take them out on human volunteers in mma matches before I busted up my knee. Ill just straight out quit a game long before I get to a point where I feel like getting physically violent or anything. The whole reaction makes no sense, if your entertainment is making you that flustered then it ceases to be entertainment entirely.

The only controller I ever ruined completely was a N64 one, but it was not my fault! Mario Party 1 was to blame and it ruined my palm in retaliation!

The only controllers I've ever broken were just worn out. Now if you go back to the NES days, you can ask "how many fingers have you murdered on your controller".

Never. Also I can't understand this.
As videogames being my passion, my love.. how could I possibly do this?
Yes, also can get annoyed etc.. I am also getting annoyed at times by my kids.. would I smash them for this? - Never.
So imho either you don't care enough for those things if you destroy them.. or you have a way too much money.. or you have a problem, keeping yourself under control.

- talking here about breaking them in rage, not because of "normal use"

Just to be clear, I don't intent to compare controllers with kids.
I just give this example to explain, that it is actually possible to keep urself under control if you care enough.

I really wish I could remember what game caused it, but if it counts, my old phat DS has a small bitemark in it from when I was younger.

Before playing SuperMeatBoy = None.
After playing SuperMeatBoy = Plenty.

I've never broken a controller but I did have a rage moment.

It was back when Mortal Kombat deception first came out. I was plodding through the konquest mode and fought against Tanya. She was the hardest battle in the game for me and I raged, punched the arm of my chair and in snapped on me. Never raged like that since.

(Chair had aluminium arms, so it wasn't like I was punching through wood kungfu style.)

Everyone in my family was taught from a very young age that if you don't control yourself, someone else will control you. Out of control moments meant getting choices taken away. Oh, they still happened, everyone in my family has a tendency to a hot temper and we're not perfect, but we all learned quickly to keep ourselves in check. We also all knew that if we broke a controller we would not be getting a new one until the person who broke it bought a new one. We didn't have big allowances and this was back when having one console for the whole house was a huge deal, so a damaged controller would be a very bad thing for the siblings too. That's a lot of pressure to take care of something! So no, never broke a controller in my life, neither have my siblings, even though we all have bad tempers, have adhd, one of us (me) is bipolar, and another is autistic. This has continued to be true carrying on to handheld gaming devices, cell phones, and into all our adult lives.

One of my friends suffers from Emotional Dysregulation, a mental disorder where she feels all emotions at 100%, with no gradation. It's a blast when she's happy, but when she's suddenly hit by a negative emotion due to an external event she often over reacts and it's hard to switch her back. She grew up in a similar family situation and so, even with her disability, learned quickly to vent that emotional lash-out towards something that could handle it. She'd pound the couch or her bed quite a bit. I'm pretty certain she's never broken a controller either. (She's since gone into some really helpful counseling to learn techniques to self regulate better, and no longer does this from what I've seen.)

I'm with Henryetha, I don't understand being so emotionally out of joint that you can no longer choose to control yourself on some level. To me that would require a pattern of behavior where I am consistently removing myself from accountability, blaming that emotional overload or action on someone or something else. I would be reacting instead of acting, being buffeted around by everyone else's actions instead being the person who decides what I am doing. I vastly prefer to be more in control in my own life, and don't understand it when others make different choices. Life is unpredictable enough, why shouldn't I do everything I can to take charge of the things that I can take charge of?

That doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to be overwhelmed by emotion. Like I mentioned before, I'm bipolar. An external emotion pounding down on me and distorting my view of reality is a very common thing. But I've always, on some level, had a choice. I learned ways to counteract emotions I felt were unhelpful in a situation, to arrange my life to make certain negative choices harder to make, things like that to keep myself in as much control as possible. If you don't have a choice then I think there must be something going on, something huge that requires another external influencer to solve like counseling or medication.

I think I broke one or two normal controllers through pure wear and tear. I don't know what ones you got, Frogboy, but all of our Atari controllers would break at the drop of a hat. This was way back when the entire concept of a controller was brand new and we had a joystick, a button, and maybe a second button if we had a really fancy one, so maybe the newness of the technology had something to do with it. Once we got into the NES era though, things seemed to be built better and I haven't broken one even on accident since. Once had a "broken" handheld passed on to me which mysteriously worked again when I used it though.

Two, but they were really, really cheaply-made PC controllers and they somehow stopped responding, probably because of something that Windows XP was doing. The remarkable thing is that they broke because I put them in my mouth and bit with force in my anger, shattering the plastic.