Lets face it, we all get stressed out from time to time, whether you're unable to beat a certain boss, mission, or clue that will lead you further into the game, so the question is as stated in the thread name.

As for me, well it depends on how I feel, sometimes I just want to take my controller and throw it up against a wall and smash it into a million pieces, sometimes I'll curse, other times I'll say to myself "Relax...it's just a game, take your time and be patient". I'm quite certain that a lot of people have different ways to deal with not getting mad/stressed out. How do you personally deal with it?

Get a bj or hj while playing though I am no longer focused on the game at that point. Still its relaxing.

If I do get to the point where I get really stressed at a game, I take a break from it.
But usually, I keep trying, and at some point I succeed, and than I have that "IN YOUR FACE!" moment that makes it all worth it :P

thank god I don't take my anger on the controller, I usually just punch or throw my pillow against the wall...I suggest this method to anyone who has a habit of throwing their controllers haha...

This happened to me when I was trying to kill the last boss(Sin) while playing Final Fantasy X.... I went into instant rage after about 20 tries and screamed VERY loud . I was 11 and I played that game in 2002. I eventually beat the boss though.

Well, it just happened a few minutes ago while trying to complete the last mission of the Allies campaign in Red Alert 3... Let's just say I kept swearing? >_>

A better example was the escape part of the sniper mission in CoD 4 (and that fricking tunnel in the before last mission... MAN!). I usually just stop the game, let the day pass, go to sleep, wake up early in the next morning, and boom I get it one shot! I must be lucky or something.

I never get frustrated to the point where it's really affecting me.. in fact, I don't remember the last time I was stressed out over a video game..

Oh god, I just remembered. x_x Trying to unlock all the extra stages in Super Monkey Ball. I never actually was able to... but yeah I never let it get me too fired up. :P

I break the controller.

Man, I've got issues.

I go get tips online or at least discover that boss X is frustrating a whole lot of other people and not just me.

there hasn't been a single game this gen that has stressed me out in which performance of other daily objectives would be affected.


but in my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that i've been using ever since:


it's a secret though.