Do you get meltdowns from games?

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When I'm gaming most of the time I'll play on normal or easy settings because I don't like being stressed.

However when I get at a hard point in the game and my character is almost dead I scream at the tv and feel boiling blood flowing through m y head and chillings throughout my body. My mother angrily tells me to calm down and leave the game. I can enter a mad rage over that and sometimes even cry.

It really pisses me off because I like beating stuff on hard diffiulties but whenever I mess up I get a meltdown and afterwards I'm scared to play that game again for days even weeks.

Multiplayer games are the worst though, I don't play them because I don't like the idea of being humiliated by some basement dwellers who have keyboard "skills".

I play on easy difficulty most of the time for the same reason: Stress and the fact that I'm a perfectionist. I played a fighting game on hard today, but that's off topic.

I don't scream at the TV or anything like that, but I still get annoyed but I'm not super annoyed.

Yeah, multiplayer with a bunch of people I've never met before makes me anxious. There's always going to be someone who's a better gamer than me and I accept that.

No, but I can get bored or impatient. I want a challenge out of any game I'm playing (usually a pretty heavy challenge), and if it isnt producing one at the moment... then it's probably making me impatient. This goes for multiplayer games as well. If the other guy isnt putting up much of a fight, then that's probably also making me impatient.

The one thing that can set off anger for me is having some sort of technical issue screw things up during a game. In other words, having Windows be Windows during a game. Since screwing up is all that Windows is good at doing.

I've never thought of it as a meltdown but I used to get tantrums when I played a certain soccer management game. It's a simulation game so I didn't have any direct control over the results and when something random happened, I'd get very angry indeed. It doesn't happen much now because I don't play that game any more and I'm medicated so it doesn't happen much with other games either.

When I think a game is being unfair then I can get annoyed but otherwise I enjoy a challenge.

Yes. Badly sometimes. I been that way for many years now. You'd think at 37 I'd have grown out of it. Nope. I just play fewer games less often. I used to break controllers all the time from throwing them. PS4 controllers are like 60 bucks, and they were for ps3 for awhile. That had to stop.

Part of my issue is my insistence on playing games on the hardest available difficulty. While I hate flipping out, if a game doesn't make me want to at times it's just boring to me.

I had to stop playing Madden games years ago because of this. As a huge football fan I used to buy the new one every year. But sports games have a certain way of "cheating" (you people who play them know exactly what I mean) and Madden was the worst offender ever.

That was the only game I ever had to stop playing altogether.

I am currently playing Deception 4, which is an awesomely unique game (I loved the series going back to part 1) but highly frustrating and one of those games that only allows periodic saves, so when you die, you can lose hours of game progress by a few poorly timed moves. Nothing worse than playing for two hours, getting to the end of a stage, then dying on the last enemy, only to have to start all over. Game immediately goes off and I scream as though I want to murder.

Games have cause me to hit myself, punch holes through walls, I used to hit my younger brother all the time over games. I am not a patient or level-headed person

I use to stress out with mostly either hard games or horror games. I would need to quit and lay down after a hard level or bail on an online friend because it was so stressful it made me mad. It held me behind in progress in MMORPG's until I got put on an anti-depressant that keeps serotonin levels from plummeting. Which keeps me content from having melt downs. So as of this year I've been catching up in multiplayer games like crazy. I played this one game I started in 2007 called mabinogi. And made more progress in less than a month than I did each year before that. I also learned how to make video games and learned that I'm actually pretty good at making them fast. I'm not very good at quality. But I can work extremely fast. As long as I use a programming free game engine like "game maker".

Yeah the medication really changed my life. I don't think I could make money at it but I'm looking into studying web design with some of the more simple drag and drop style tools like beginner word press. So I could make websites for people that don't want anything fancy.

So I might have a career thanks to this new medicine, which is saying a lot since my only other jobs were for minimum wage... As for side effects. I had such thin blood for a couple months that I would bleed just from scratching itches. And I lost 95% of my sex drive for the first few months. But I feel fine now. Life is good at age 25.

My son does this. He is only 7, so when he gets too upset hubby and i will step in and insist that he turn it off and do something else. This is upsetting for him too; but if we don't remove him from the game, he will get angrier and throw controls at the tv, etc. We figure it's better to upset him by making him stop than to break the game or controls.

Yeah, I've had meltdowns when something didn't work out in a game after several failed attempts.

The only time this has ever happened was with state of decay. That game drives me utterly apeshit. I lost a months character progress in seconds >>

I do in multiplayer games if people are being mean for no reason and being unhelpful when I am asking simple questions.

Mainly the reason I stopped participating in guilds in World of Warcraft and have zero friends on my Steam and PSN lists, for my sanity.

I don't have meltdowns when gaming. I might jump around in my seat and yell or say over and over "it's only a game, it's only a game", but that's it.

I'm a female gamer, so I'm not supposed to be good at hard-core games anyway, so I tend to stay away from games even guys find difficult.

Video games are supposed to be fun and relaxing. Well, they can be exciting too. But there's nothing fun about losing over and over and over until you're yanking out your own hair.

Well, I've thrown controllers, yelled obscenities at my computer/consoles, and even once punched a hole in the wall during a particularly stressful TF2 match, so yes, I would say that games have made me melt down before. That said, I've been playing single player games much more than multiplayer games lately, and I find them to be a lot less frustrating since it's generally easier to outsmart a computer than another player, and it's easier to find tricks and strategies that can help me overcome challenges.

I honestly think that being an aspie disadvantages me greatly in multiplayer games, mainly due to three crucial factors; my mindblindness makes it hard for me to predict what strategies my opponents will use against me, my poor social skills make it harder for me to coordinate strategies with other players, and my relatively poor reflexes often get me killed. It also doesn't help that I have (suspected) ADHD as well, which makes it hard for me to focus on things, and also makes it harder for me to keep abreast of the latest tactics and strategies.

God of War I and II. Not bosses fights, but certain traps and obstacles that have proved frustrating to get around.

Nope, I've never broken a controller by throwing it at the wall since I swear this one boss fight was cheating.....

It's very rare for it to happen to me in all honesty. I see what the game is like before I select a difficulty setting although I tend to prefer a challenge, but I also like completing achievements.... So many in gaming now days. So I often have to do a mixture. Raiding doesn't bother me as I'm acting too much being normal, so generally just hard fights or seriously impossibly levels....

I had some meltdowns as a kid when I died but it doesn't cause me meltdowns nowadays.