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SvennoJ on 02 August 2024
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LegitHyperbole said:
SvennoJ said:

It's been decades since my last rage quit. Now I simply don't play if it's not enjoyable. No rage, just go play something else and usually never go back.

Actually that's incorrect, my last rage quit was in GT7 online, too many hostile players sapping the fun out of online racing. It was a long time since I felt that anger, didn't like it, haven't touched online play since. (That after nearly 15,000 online races in GT Sport. PD not caring about fair play in GT7 killed my appetite for online racing)

There's so much to play out there, my backlog is huge, why play something that frustrates? I still play GT7, but now in VR, against AI with my own custom races. No lag, no frustration. The AI isn't great but doesn't deliberately target you nor dive bomb in every corner.


But I've been young too. I have smashed keyboards with the keys coming off, taken a hammer to mice that would cause me to die (old roller ball mice), smashed discs so I could never play the game again. Now I go for a run when I feel frustrated, 15K in 75 minutes and all troubles have faded away.

Omg yeah, Online Racers are the worst. The best experience I had with them was the original Project CARS, people actually respected the race and other Racers, they'd crash instead of bump. GT7's rating thing does very little cause you start out where gamers don't necessarily do it on purpose but might be shite. A good way to do it would have been to put you in the top rank from the start and then have your ranking degrade as you crash or rule break in the way chess.com handles rankings. 

You've smashed a mouse with a hammer, lmao. Nice. I've broken discs when I was a kid but I can't see the use in letting my anger break me like that these days. Since my adolescence only one controller has been broken and that was outta shear instinct, it left my hand before any thoughts entered my head. Now, I just let my anger turn into some form of depression. I love challenging games but it almost feels to not be worth it at times. 

You actually start in the middle with SR (sportmanship) but at the bottom for DR. So you get matched with the lowest skilled drivers that are mostly just clumsy, not intentionally hitting you. Yet when you advance in DR, people will start to deliberately hit you to preserve their hard earned DR. (Goes up or down based on your finishing position)

The SR rating has been broken for years and is easily manipulated. The further you go up with skilled players, the more you'll encounter those that 'game the system' and hit you in such a way that you get a penalty...

It was good at the start when GT Sport came out, mostly enthusiasts that wanted to race 'clean' contact free. When it started getting bad PD added strict penalties for contact. But then streamers complained loudly as well as the fast drivers that think 'rubbing is racing'. PD dialed the penalties back, even turned them off at some point. GT7 started with hardly any penalty system in place so from the start people treated it like bumper cars :/


Anyway in GT Sport 4 out of 5 online races were good, respectful, hard racing without pushing people of (in the higher SR/DR ranks at least, plenty mess at the lower ranks of course). In GT7 4 out of 5 races are shite. Not worth the aggravation.


I have crumbled controllers with my hands as well :/ PS3 controller pulverized, don't remember what game triggered me so badly lol. I've also snapped a Wii mote in two, I didn't think it would actually break lol. It might have been Zelda Skyward Sword, the one with motion controls where it kept doing the wrong slashes, reacting to my back swing, not willing to register a thrust. I abandoned that game so must be it.

Challenging games are still fun, games with frustrating obstacles (boss battles) I stay clear off nowadays. It's not so much anger anymore, it's more the feeling of wasting my time and getting frustrated instead of doing something that is more enjoyable. People always mention to feeling of accomplishment when beating a hard boss. I just feel "never again" what a waste of time. Now back to the fun stuff.