So I finished God of War 2 last night and boy was I pissed off when the credits finally rolled.
Hold on a second, before I go on, lets go back a bit and say oh yes, there will be spoilers.
So at the end of God of War when you're fighting Aries, at the end you have to do two QTE's that happen so fast you almost just have to press random buttons to get past it, or at least I did. I just suck so much I couldn't legitimately do those so it took a while. Luckily, there were only two and the checkpoint was in a good spot so I finally beat.
Fast forward to the end of God of War 2 against Zeus and they do the same damn thing, except this time it's 4 QTE's! Since there were four, my pressing random buttons was just not going to work.
These damn QTE's happen so quickly that you just don't have time to react and press the button. Can people even reliably do these? Anyways, these aren't skill hard, they're just the game being bullshit hard and it's infuriating! This had me more pissed off than the damn spike room puzzle from the first God of War.
Anyways, after 30 minutes of failing and even trying to switch the game to easy mode (which did nothing for that) I finally get the situation where it gives me four x's in a row!
Rejoice!
So I'm concentrating on the center of the screen waiting for another QTE and then the little mash circle prompt pops on the bottom right. Before I have time to react since I'm staring to intently at the middle of the screen, I fail. I have to start all over.
I almost break my damn controller out of frustration and just leave the game alone for about 20 minutes and watch some King of the Hill. I come back and give it another go. About 15-20 minutes later I finally get another situation where it gives me three square's and an X (the two easiest for me) so I make it through that and immediately start spamming O.
I finally make it through and I am absolutely livid. I make it through the credits, get my damn trophy, and I seriously consider breaking the disc and don't only because it isn't my disc.
Hours later when I'm in bed I realize something-- I was as pissed as Kratos at end of God of War 2.
That was the genius of the developers. They made the end so frustratingly shitty that they made you feel the anger Kratos felt.
So congratulations people who made that game whose name escapes me, you succeeded with your shitty QTE's that reinforce my hate for those. I'm fucking pissed off just like Kratos.
