10 Stressful Gaming Moments That Made Us All Lose Our Cool

By Scott Tailford /

Ah gamer rage, that unbelievably incendiary feeling that can turn even the most mild-mannered individual into a controller-smashing maniac at drop of a fail screen. It€™s something that€™s hard to get across to any non-gamer, but it€™s something that can come out of a wide variety of factors; the biggest of which being anyone in the remote vicinity proclaiming that €œit€™s only a game€. To them I say thee nay, as for in that moment of unbridled purposeful rage, finishing a particularly taxing quest or nailing that landing in any number of platformers is without question, The Most Important Thing Ever. From bad scripting and lack of checkpoints to sequencing that asks too much of lacklustre gaming mechanics, any number of the aforementioned can make sections of even the greatest videogames memorable for all the wrong reasons. Here, on the cusp of a new generation of motion-captured rage I€™m sure we€™re all going to feel at some point, is a list of the most infuriating moments so far that combine the above elements into one life-questioning dirge of window-smashing fury. So, gluttons for punishment and gaming veterans alike, time to buckle up...