kitler53 on 06 March 2014
| jonathanalis said: quick time event sucks. seems you are not playing, just controling the flow of a video. i like ice and water. |
QTE don't have to be bad. heavy rain built the entire game around QTEs and i loved that game. having just finished puppeteer that game used QTEs for all of the boss fights and it was fine.
The "bad" QTEs, imo, are the unexpected QTEs. Here I am playing 3rd person shooter IV just walking along doing my thing when out of no where a GIANT rock falls from above and if it don't hit X or A within the next 1 second i'll be crushed into oblivion. yeah, that's a big fuck you moment in games. but when regular and expected like in puppeteer (it was every boss fight and the first button press was always really long acting as sort of an acknoledgement that i'm really for the QTE) it can be fine.
but yes, it's typically abused.
