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50 Gaming Moments That Made Us Instantly Rage Quit

September 13, 2023

Video games are a fun and soothing pastime... until they aren’t. Here are some of the times that temporarily made us despise the entire medium of video gaming…

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CRACKED.COM The moment I hit the end of my playthrough of PoKéMoN OMEGA RUBY was when I was waking up half an hour earlier than normal so I could water my rare berries. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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I quit Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor after a mini-boss kept coming back from the dead. KIA - In this game, mini-bosses get stronger by killing you. With one of them, even though he got me several times I finally managed to kill him-l thought. Later in the game he ambushed and killed me while mocking me for thinking I killed him. I managed to kill him but he kept coming back. After this happened for probably the 15th time, I just said f-k it and stopped playing. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY I was really into the game, even with the lack of Snake. Until I got stuck NAKED in a tunnel for 15 minutes, just answering gibberish calls from the colonel. 140.85 TUNES I still have Raiden, turn the game console off right now! no idea what happens after this. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM My playthrough of Evil Genius abruptly ended when my trusty henchman Red Ivan decided to fire a rocket in a room with 20 nuclear reactors. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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50 Gaming Moments That Made Us Instantly Rage Quit — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM Falleut 3 Autosaving... The game autosaved before I died. I was trapped in a death loop. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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The best loot in Anarchy Online was spawn camped. Rare mobs spawned every 18 hours, but I couldn't earn anything because the top guilds camped every rare spawn and always did the most damage. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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50 Gaming Moments That Made Us Instantly Rage Quit — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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When you've been learning one of the hardest heroes to play in Overwatch for over <<< a year... But the developers decide to introduce an easy-to-use hero, who also perfectly counters you. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED COM SE S SW I W 150 165 195 210 240 255 285 I decided to pass on FortNite after geting gunned down without even getting to fire a shot for the third time in a row 1:50 13 3 by what I assume were small children. 5 5 472 178 137 ELIMINATED Resting Koala1 B 912 29 1 50 100 98 100 + 38 42 E 15 15 24 — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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The original MAX PAYNE is considered a classic by most gamers. However, when it suddenly shifted from a story-driven shooter to tightrope walking on a blood trail that is barely visible, I immediately lost interest. WARNING - THIS IS AN ACTUAL SCREENSHOT OF GAMEPLAY I could get the same challenge by playing any other game while wearing sunglasses. GRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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FAGIeAL 0 L GEAR 10 ACTION METAL S The infamous thumb-breaking, button-mashing electrocution scene... RESTORE LIFE- LIFE SUBHIT SELECT ...made me repurpose the game disc into a coaster. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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50 Gaming Moments That Made Us Instantly Rage Quit — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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In Sonic the Hedgehog 3, I tried to fight Marble Garden Zone's boss while playing as Tails. The tiny part that damages the boss. The part that dies in 2 hits, because you can't recover rings here. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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A bug in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion broke me. Elder Beautiful Copera OBLIVION Fast I always relied on the game's auto-save feature to keep my progress. At some point, however, the feature inexplicably stopped and I only realized when my character died along with about seven hours worth of progress. I tried to play again but I just couldn't; my spirit was already broken. GRAGKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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RAICHU Lv24 HP DESTRUCTIN Lv28 HP PAR 75/ 75 CHR Foe RAICHU used DOUBLE TEAM! Nothing is more infuriating in PoKéMoN LEAFGREEN VERSION than seeing Lt. Surge's Raichu use DOUBLE TEAM repeatedly, making it impossible to land a hit. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM In Star Wars: Jedi Academy, I didn't get the Force Protection power. 69 20 Then halfway through the game it turned out to be a necessary power for surviving this acid rain. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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These impossible to decipher hints in Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest kept me stuck until I dropped it. WAIT FOR A SOUL WITH A RED CRYSTAL ON DEBORAH CLIFF. How was I supposed to know this referred to waiting for a transporting tornado of all things? CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM ZELDA THE BREATH LEGEND THE OF OF WILD Guardians? Piece of cake. The Four Divine Beasts? No problemo. But f**k the Apparatus Shrines, where I'm forced to guide a ball into a hole with motion controls that don't even track my movements correctly. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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GTA: Vice City's The Driver race mission against Hilary King made me throw the game away. 10:14 RROCK 62hEDhOOS 041 315-30 Your mandatory sh**ty car. Cops that only chase you. His invincible 2nd muscle car. CRACKED.COM — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM Resident Evil 3 had a tone-based music box puzzle. ? ? ? ? ? Unfortunately, I am completely tone deaf, so I never solved it. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM CHOCOLATE Legend of Zelda: This was tolerable Majora's Mask early in the game didn't let you when it was fairly save your straightforward, but once stuck at progress unless you went to a Snowhead, I got save point, sick of going back despite prior and forth between Zelda games save points and that let you wherever I expected save anywhere. to find clues. — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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CRACKED.COM GoD WARS FUTURE PAST After losing the final boss fight multiple times, I realized that I had to max the levels of all my characters to stand a chance. ON an 45 h Paral I sold the game and watched the ending on DO 06/09 YouTube. Lotte in OF 132 - Impure 800 their - Marial Gol Triple Movement tranami محمد to MP HF 377 ??? ME 999 ... Таша Lingo - Democracy Active Energy — Source: Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game

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Nothing. This. Simple. Should. Be.This. Hard. GRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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Godzilla (PS4) should have been called Godzilla vs. repetition, because all you do is destroy generators and fight monsters, occasionally. II Clear condition(s) Destroy all generators Extra bonue condition Tank dostroyed x20 UNDER LOTE 61.18m Level adidas 000% 1234 And get used to hearing the same two lines ad nauseam. Godzilla is approaching the generator. The generator is losing power! CRACKED COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CRACKED.COM GRAN TURISMO 4 Completing time trials to unlock content was annoying. MAGNAS 10 The IA-15 Driving Test The longest track in-game was the worst. After days of failed attempts I stopped playing. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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Fallout4 CRACKED.COM ULT-TEC VAULT-TEC? CO.ON NOT INTERESTED GOOD MORNING After playing for a couple of hours I realized that my dialogue options were basically; question, agree, sarcastically agree and unwillingly agree. Then it hit me, I wasn't playing a Fallout game, I was playing a Mass Effect game, and it was time to stop. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CRACKED.COM ENTROPIA UNIVERSE Was spending real money to maintain my character. Wanted to find any rare item that I could sell for a lot of money. Close Сауров - ALOE La ЛЕН Trues Realized the game was essentially a slot machine rigged in the house's favor. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU HAD REUNITED ALL THE KNOWN MAJOR SPECIES IN THE GALAXY UNDER ONE COMMANDING OFFICER WHILE BEING THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE TO PREVENT TOTAL EXTINCTION, AND YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN: 1. SUICIDE 2. SUICIDE 3. SUICIDE 4. GENOCIDE YOU CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER, WHY---[MASS EFFECT TERMINATED PRESS OK TO ENTER SUICIDE+ CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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I USED TO PLAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT IN A COMPETITIVE RAIDING GUILD. - ANY I - - Decanne - en - - WINE - - - - - - - Bu rdown Gastfik Bloa on Veliniya Budgements ready1 C minna X adidas DO adidas 463 781 SOLA 1089 BAL IO mymeal 0860 750 Suga - adidas the (25297 overlasts 750 Consectation resisted 6380 HOCK Card Гитрись KIA Gasino Fires en JUST A H Out 0781/7009 192.1% - - Festival Level 12 Undead 100% Theat MADE - People 7 | quit when | started to dread logging in, for fear of — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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When Skyrim is so broken that you have to download mods to fix it... ...then get carried away and break your game even more CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CALL OF DUTY4 MODERN WARFARE Ruined by: The Martyrdom perk, which lets your enemies drop a live grenade at their feet upon death, likely killing you if you outgunned them in close range. Or: Grenade Launcher The Grenade Launcher, which lets your enemies drop an impact grenade at your feet from a distance, likely killing you if you didn't outgun them at long range. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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LINEAGEN WAS LEVELING A CHARACTER VIA QUESTS. ENTERED A NEW AREA AND COULDN'T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THE ZONE WAS OVERRUN BY GOLD FARMERS. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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In Halo: When my friends ganged up on me, killed me and laughed, that was the end for me. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CRACKED.COM PS PERSONA5 I tried to make a dash for the safe room, the ONLY place where I can save my progress and escape, because I was low on HP and resources. In the end, I got killed by a horde of enemies that respawn every time I pass through a f**king door! EMP If they didn't place safe rooms an hour apart from another I wouldn't have to restart from the ENTRANCE. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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grand What's harder than theft flying a real helicopter? auto Jee any Flying a remote controlled one in the mission Demolition Man. 15:10 Once you pick up a 500007686 bomb the radar will show 100 you the position of the ETO target relative to the RC оно helicopter. time: 05:53 targets Left: 3 N If you can beat this part without throwing your control across the room, you're a better man than me. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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I used to play Eve Online in a big, high-level group. I was asked to set my alarm for the middle of the night to participate in a surprise attack on an enemy group's space outpost. I just quit. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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Start grinding for heartwood so you can make a nice dresser for your house The Glder Scrolls ONLINE After grinding hours for one piece, realize it will take years to accomplish literally anything significant in this game CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CRACKED.COM RESIDENTEVIL 3 NEMESIS FORGET Needed an item to SOMETHING? complete a puzzle and the game wouldn't let me go back to pick it up. Loaded an earlier save point and saw that I would lose hours of progress. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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GRAGKED.COM PoKéMoN When the S.S. Anne left without me! An unforgivable disappointment. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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I was once told by a much younger sibling that I was adrid end no fun to play 0 against in FIFA, because was LOW US on too easy to beat. CRACKED COM I haven't played it since. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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A super hard enemy at the beginning of the game protecting a dead end alley, there must be an awesome reward for beating him. 953 12 18 7 Pebble Bloodborne After 10+ deaths, and using all my healing items J finally beat him and get... F#*K ALL! CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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METAL GEAR SOLAPY THE PHANTOM PAIN TACTICAL ESPIONAGE OPERATIONS - 6/19 UNITED I GOT TIRED OF WATCHING SNAKE RUN THROUGH AN EMPTY DESERT. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CRACKED.COM HEARTHSTONE HEROES OF WARCRAFT Varian Wrynn Tried playing for free, but kept losing to players with legendary cards. 7 7 — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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In World of Tanks, my tank got wrecked by a random hit... WORLDOFTANKS ... from a player who didn't take time to aim or even get into position. | gave up when | realized how huge a role pure randomness plays. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CRACKED.COM KINHDOTO! on! LDC HD COPPAND Attack Magic MPHP Items Summon Right before you fight possessed Riku, there's a very long cut scene. A cut scene you had to rewatch every time you died, because the original Kingdom Hearts didn't have skippable cut scenes. After watching the same cut scene 20 times you'll never want to play the game again. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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CITIES SKYLINES HEARING THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER... A TSUNAMI HAS STRUCK THE CITY! TAKE CAUTION AND AVOID ROADS AND WATERFRONTS UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. A TSUNAMI HAS STRUCK THE CITY! TAKE CAUTION AND AVOID ROADS AND WATERFRONTS UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. A TSUNAMI HAS STRUCK THE CITY! TAKE CAUTION AND AVOID ROADS AND WATERFRONTS UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. A TSUNAMI HAS STRUCK THE CITY! CRACKED.COM TAKE CAUTION AND AVOID ROADS AND WATERFRONTS UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. A TSUNAMI HAS STRUCK THE CITY! — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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GRACKED CON COUNTERASTRIKE SOURCE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT A TEAMMATE. GOT VOTE KICKED OFF THE SERVER. — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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X No more lives Candy Time to next life: SAGA 16:15 Crush There's only so Connect! much of those a f > More lives now player can take. > Life's too short. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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I start playing it in my sleep? Game over, man. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Video Game Moments That Made You Walk Away, Forever

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