{"id":240,"date":"2023-07-24T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2024-02-15T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:23:27","slug":"why-i-play-video-games-that-make-me-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/why-i-play-video-games-that-make-me-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Play Video Games That Make Me Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have played video games for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I frequently play video games even if they make me angry or frustrated. I often stop playing them for a while. But I still enjoy playing these games overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will explain why I like playing some games, even if they have frustrating moments. Maybe some readers will relate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/why-i-play-video-games-that-make-me-angry\/#I_Love_Hard_Video_Games\" title=\"I Love Hard Video Games\">I Love Hard Video Games<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/why-i-play-video-games-that-make-me-angry\/#I_Am_Stubborn\" title=\"I Am Stubborn\">I Am Stubborn<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/why-i-play-video-games-that-make-me-angry\/#I_Play_Games_Better_When_Angry\" title=\"I Play Games Better When Angry\">I Play Games Better When Angry<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/why-i-play-video-games-that-make-me-angry\/#I_Love_and_Hate_Some_Video_Games\" title=\"I Love and Hate Some Video Games\">I Love and Hate Some Video Games<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Love_Hard_Video_Games\"><\/span>I Love Hard Video Games<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy playing difficult video games. I enjoy the challenge of playing a video game more than the story or exploring the world most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of my favorite Steam games have the difficult tag on them. I did not make a deliberate choice to buy a lot of hard games. But it seems I gravitated to buying them without noticing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I hear somebody say a video game is hard, that sounds like a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I see people say a video game was so hard or frustrating it caused them to quit playing it. Statements like that makes me wonder if I would feel the same way. That makes me want to try the game to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought games on Steam because I saw they had a mix of good and bad reviews, and some reviews mentioned the game was too hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy video game achievements more if they are harder to accomplish. Sometimes that makes struggling and becoming frustrated as I do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Am_Stubborn\"><\/span>I Am Stubborn<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If I feel something is possible, I won\u2019t stop trying to do it. Even this means trying well past the point of having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often if games have challenge modes or hard bosses, I will do my best to beat them. Even if I already beat the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why am I so stubborn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it is because while playing video games, I hyper-focus. I don&#8217;t think about anything else when I am in the zone. I also don\u2019t like admitting defeat or giving up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Play_Games_Better_When_Angry\"><\/span>I Play Games Better When Angry<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I have noticed something interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I get angry at a video game, I sometimes play the game slightly better. For a while, that is. But eventually, I will be too frustrated to do anything useful anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for a short while, a bit of frustration and annoyance gets me to pay attention and try harder when playing games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Love_and_Hate_Some_Video_Games\"><\/span>I Love and Hate Some Video Games<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to play Counter-Strike, DOTA 2, and a few other multiplayer games. I very much enjoyed playing the games. Even if playing these games made me frustrated or annoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out I can like and be angry at a video game at the same time. I have this weird relationship with some games where I like to play them even if doing so slowly makes me angry or frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t play most multiplayer video games anymore. So I don\u2019t face these issues much. But I still feel this way about some single player video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes video games I struggle in and lose over and over tend to be my favorite games. That is my odd combination of being stubborn and liking hard games. I still seek out new hard games to play to this day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerGamingFox My Thoughts Post #1: Why I Play Video Games That Make Me Angry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computergamingfox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}