These game moments make us rage quit
Games are the greatest thing ever - at least until you fail for the hundredth time against the same #$@&%*! opponent or mess up the timing of a jump. That's when mice and controllers start flying around. We'll tell you which games drive us crazy.
The opponent has their back to you. You have all the time in the world. You take aim and fire away. And yet you fail to land that 100 per cent kill. Instead, your opponent turns round and shows you how it's done and it's you who is sent back to the lobby. To freak out! If the mouse and keyboard weren't so expensive, I could throw them against the wall. This completely fictional scenario, which in no way reflects my behaviour in PUBG, is a good example of Rage Quit - Alt+F4, Playstation/Xbox button and quit. I asked my colleagues which games, levels and moments drive them up the wall the quickest.
"Clash Royale", Philipp Rüegg, Senior Editor
In addition to my love-hate relationship with "PUBG", I had a particularly traumatic experience with a mobile game of all things. I rarely play a mobile game for long periods of time and certainly not online. "Clash Royale was and still is the exception. Losing duels against other players is absolute hell. Especially when your opponent taunts you with one of three annoying smileys. Aaaarg. The only thing that tops this is when you're playing on a train, even though you know that the connection is constantly dropping. Instead of reacting and sending out troops, you just look stupidly at the display while your stupid characters twiddle their thumbs. When the game suddenly resumes, you're guaranteed a smiley face because your opponent knows you're on the move and can't shout out loud.
"Overwatch", Stéphanie Quintana, Category Assistant
Hanzo in "Overwatch" is the definition of failure. Hanzo players are the "special kind of people you want to throw into an erupting volcano". No matter how or where, a Hanzo is never near the payload or objective. All they can do is stand somewhere in the middle of nowhere, randomly send out the fucking arrows, miss by 100 metres and still land a headshot. Then, on the off-chance, fire the ultimate, which is still active after 10,000 years and travels through the entire map. Ideally, you'll also get the Play of the Game. Yep, the hate is real.
"Fifa", Raphael Knecht, Senior Editor
The #$@&%*!"Fifa" always makes me thirsty! Especially when the AI refuses to accept defeat. A scene with unprecedented potential for aggression: when I'm leading by a goal, then concede the equaliser in the 95th minute - with 3 minutes of added time - and when the opponent's attack that led to the goal didn't even come close to touching the ball. Fuck you, "Fifa"!
PS: I'm already looking forward to the latest edition - I'm sure this bug will be fixed then. NOT.
"Fifa" - Luca Fontana, Editor
The "Fifa" algorithm that always activates when I'm leading 1:0. The opponent's passes arrive reliably like the SBB, even if I deflect the ball. My players no longer run free, can no longer play a 3-metre pass and every shot from the opposition ends up in the net completely undeservedly. Not even the opponent knows how he managed that. Apart from that, he's allowed to foul endlessly and I'm not. The referee gives me a yellow card just for looking the wrong way. And if I do manage to find a way onto his goal with a skilful pass and combination play - which would of course be vastly superior to that of the opponent - my strikers fail miserably and, at best, play a back pass to the goalkeeper.
I can't prove the existence of the algorithm, but I know it exists. #fifaalgorithmexists
"Battlefield 1" - Sebastian Karlen, Category Marketing Manager
What bugs me the most is a #$@&%*! of pilot with 100 service stars who has no balls to fight on the ground. Meanwhile, I have to deal with an incompetent team that is incapable of setting up a decent air defence. Incompetent team members who somehow confuse BF with COD and instead of PTFO only care about their own KD (kill/death ratio). They just want to get their 2 KD and therefore wait at the edge of the map with the artillery truck for some poor infantryman to get within range and then get shot down with one shot.
Now I'm under high pressure.
"Dark Souls", Fabio Endrich, Category Sourcing Specialist
10 minutes from the first "Dark Souls".
"Guild Wars", Andres Weber, Category Sourcing Manager
I was a full-blooded gamer until I was 16. I was particularly fond of "Guild Wars" back then. I played hundreds of hours of PvP and PvE and had more or less everything there was in terms of in-game items. At some point I could no longer log in, my account was hacked. At first I really missed the meaning of life. Now I'm grateful to the hacker. I have no idea how many thousands of hours I would otherwise have "wasted" in virtual worlds. :P
"Unreal Tournament", Dominik Bärlocher, Senior Editor
I hate Loque from "Unreal Tournament". Yes, the game from 1999. I've never met a bot before or since that gets me so worked up. To explain: I play UT99 with Instagib if nothing else. So one hit leads directly to death. And there's Loque somewhere. The pale bastard has ambushed me hundreds of times. Even in levels like DM-Morpheus where there are theoretically no ambushes.
Well, then I'll just go and make the bots dumber. Instead of Expert or whatever it was called back then, I'll set them to "borderline moron" level. Loque still gets me. Tamerlane, Archon and co. are somewhere around the skill level of a dead dog that's been lying in the sun for a fortnight, but Loque happily keeps asking me questions.
Loque, I hate you. Even 20 years later. You're the biggest arsehole in video game history.
"Zelda Breath of the Wild", Jan Heidenreich, Category Marketing Specialist
I got caught in a storm pretty much at the beginning and never realised that I had to take off metal equipment to avoid being struck by lightning. I must have died ten times because it was always guaranteed to flash where I was going.
Lags, Aurel Stevens, Chief Editor
I still mourn my level 83 necromancer from "Diablo 3." ;)
"GTA IV", Roy Sonderegger, Category Sourcing Manager
THE!!!! I was SO annoyed. I must have tried it 100 times before I realised it must be a bug.
Jump 'n' Runs, Kevin Hofer, Editor
At the moment it's Super Mario Odyssey, specifically the Broodals in Rabbit Ridge Tower on the Dark Side of the Moon. All the Broodals in one go and then you don't even get your health meter topped up after the fights? And if you die, you have to start all over again! I hit the ceiling a few times! When I didn't manage it for what felt like the 100th time, I put the game to one side and haven't touched it since. "Super Mario Odyssey is dead to me!
What about you? Which games or moments in games drive you crazy?
Being the game and gadget geek that I am, working at digitec and Galaxus makes me feel like a kid in a candy shop – but it does take its toll on my wallet. I enjoy tinkering with my PC in Tim Taylor fashion and talking about games on my podcast http://www.onemorelevel.ch. To satisfy my need for speed, I get on my full suspension mountain bike and set out to find some nice trails. My thirst for culture is quenched by deep conversations over a couple of cold ones at the mostly frustrating games of FC Winterthur.