The Introduction to
Gamer Rage
If you’re a gamer, I bet I can make you grit your teeth or at least make your blood pressure with 10 simple questions:
1) Have you ever been really far on a level and died without saving, causing you to start over completely?
2) How about being spawn killed 3 times in a row from the same person?
3) Or even worse a camper holed up in some abstract corner of map who keeps killing you over and over and being pissed at him for camping but at the sometime pissed at yourself continuously being killed by that POS.
4) How about having a teammate block a doorway while your getting shot in the back?
5) What about that time you were doing really well in online multiplayer and the game disconnected due to connection interruption.
6) How about when your in the middle of a really intense game and other people in your house are asking you ridiculous and annoying questions?
7) The controller runs out of batteries in a crucial moment of your game....PANIC RAGE
8) No? Let’s try this… Not being able to move or throw a single punch in a fighting game because the person you’re fighting is using some outrageous combination?
9) A power surge shuts down your console right in the middle of slogging through a Halo game on Legendary without saving progress.
10) Having to choose to pee or keep playing causing you to fidget uncomfortably through the next 3 or 4 games until you finally are mad enough to take a piss.
Told you I could do it. Just writing about it caused me to remember bad memories of games past. The struggle is as real as could be. We all have the “rage” inside of us and have experienced it at least once in our gaming lifetime. Some of us can prevent outward displays of the rage, some get verbally abusive to the gamers, family members etc., but the worst cases are when people go full blown cave man and start destroying stuff. We’ve either watched videos online or have seen the rage up close and personal. There’s different degrees or shall I say stages gamers progress through on their way to full blown rage.
This chart should to gauge the rage.
1) Have you ever been really far on a level and died without saving, causing you to start over completely?
2) How about being spawn killed 3 times in a row from the same person?
3) Or even worse a camper holed up in some abstract corner of map who keeps killing you over and over and being pissed at him for camping but at the sometime pissed at yourself continuously being killed by that POS.
4) How about having a teammate block a doorway while your getting shot in the back?
5) What about that time you were doing really well in online multiplayer and the game disconnected due to connection interruption.
6) How about when your in the middle of a really intense game and other people in your house are asking you ridiculous and annoying questions?
7) The controller runs out of batteries in a crucial moment of your game....PANIC RAGE
8) No? Let’s try this… Not being able to move or throw a single punch in a fighting game because the person you’re fighting is using some outrageous combination?
9) A power surge shuts down your console right in the middle of slogging through a Halo game on Legendary without saving progress.
10) Having to choose to pee or keep playing causing you to fidget uncomfortably through the next 3 or 4 games until you finally are mad enough to take a piss.
Told you I could do it. Just writing about it caused me to remember bad memories of games past. The struggle is as real as could be. We all have the “rage” inside of us and have experienced it at least once in our gaming lifetime. Some of us can prevent outward displays of the rage, some get verbally abusive to the gamers, family members etc., but the worst cases are when people go full blown cave man and start destroying stuff. We’ve either watched videos online or have seen the rage up close and personal. There’s different degrees or shall I say stages gamers progress through on their way to full blown rage.
This chart should to gauge the rage.
Stage 1: Excitement (the process of getting the game)
List of emotions:
1. Ecstatic- you’re on your way to the store to get the game
2. Happy- you finally bought the game and its in your hands
3. Optimistic- this will be the best game you’ve ever played
4. Confident- you’ve played the previous or similar game in the series and know the controls
Stage 2: Moment of Truth (playing the game)
List of emotions:
1. Surprised- you get killed for the first time
2. Confused- how did he get me again?
3. Disbelieving- there’s no way get got me for a third time in a row!
4. Suspicios- they’ve got to be cheating!
Stage 3: Redemption (or so you think)
List of emotions:
1. Determined- not going to get me again! FOCUS!
2. Relieved- I almost died but didn’t
3. Frightened- I can’t move without somebody trying to kill me
4. Overwhelmed- This is a lot harder than what I thought
Stage 4: Hopelessness
List of emotions:
1. Pained- you just got killed again without have any kills under your belt
2. Frustrated- I thought I was better than this
3. Ashamed- I’m the only person on my team that sucks
4. Miserable- I give up, I don’t even know why im playing this game
Stage 5: Rage (!!@#$!)
List of Emotions:
1. Aggressiveness- cursing at an opponent, yourself, family members (including pets)
2. Angry- heavy breathing, muscles tensing up, squeezing your controller
3. Enraged- (low level) rage quitting, (medium) throwing your controller across the room, (high) breaking anything hooked up to your console, controllers, screen, and trhe console itself
