Raging

Games are meant to be fun. No question about it. Yet, in most games, we encounter periods of frustration which make us want to stop playing. But, most of the time, it's bearable. We get past it and simply move onto the fun stuff. I find that the true rage is brought out when you play against other people. Because you're playing against someone, you feel more compelled to beat them and you get more competitive, so when you lose or screw up, you feel more annoyed than you would a CPU. I find that this happens most in FPS games. No FPS is absolutely fair to begin with, different weapons are better at different ranges and at time you won't have the right weapon for the right time and get killed because of it. Say you have an assault rifle and you run into someone with a shotgun at close range. He's most likely going to win, not because of skill, but because he came in with the overall advantage. Hard games are what really get people going. The more you die and have to do things again, the less enjoyable it is for us, but if the game is too easy, then you aren't feeling challenged. A game like Dark Souls is very, very hard, but every time you kill something, you feel like you really accomplished something. Beating the enemy wasn't just an inevitability, it was the combination of skill and and tactics. The trouble is, most people get way too frustrated with dying so often to keep playing it. But the worst feeling in games is when you feel as though you've been cheated in some way. When playing Arkham City, I rarely ever get annoyed because every mistake I made was my own, not the game's fault. But in something like Vanquish or Marvel vs Capcom 3, boss battles all have one hit K.O. moves. This is really annoying because you have to start the whole fight again because you got hit by one attack. Not fun. But by now a lot of game devs have worked out what to do and what not to do to make their gamers stop raging. Mostly...








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