Same here. If you want to be restarting your system over and over again, play Indigo Prophecy that has so many of the worst quick-time events ever. I love the game, but I could never finish it.

You're fairly lucky in this regard. Indigo Prophecy's first two acts are solid (for what they are), but in the third act it loses that sense of Lovecraftian strangeness and things just fall all to pieces.

The QTEs are relatively easy, though.

I have a slow reaction time, so I kept dieing over and over again. So maybe it's good I never made it to the third act.

This is good advice. I had actually totally forgotten that some people when playing PS3, 360 or Wii etc do simply just use their thumbs when mashing a button. It's so much slower. Myself I simply move my index finger off the triggers/bumpers and use it to grip the handle as well. Then you can just mash away.

Oh yeah, I've tried that; the only problem is that my wrist/palm is too big. I more often than not end up pressing more then one button. Especially on a PS2 controller since I have to evade the right analog stick so I hit both circle and triangle or circle and x. On a GC controller that worked wonders, though. The big green A was big enough for my hands. Like badgenome I just rely on my index fingers. 

Now I'm just wondering, do you have small wrists? 

I don't like quick time events at all. They don't make me feel like part of the action. Instead they just ruin cut scenes. In my opinion quick time events should go the way of the dodo bird. And "games" like Heavy Rain and Beyond shouldn't be called games at all. They are interactive movies. I'm currently playing though the last three Tomb Raider games, and loving them, but the one thing I wish they didn't have is quick time events. The original Tomb Raider on Sega Saturn is a timeless classic and it didn't need quick time events to be fun so why do the new ones need it? The answer is that they don't.

That's cuz you didn't grow up in the 4th gen

No, no. You press with your htumb, but the motion is in your wrist/forearm.

Oh god

Yeah, that makes sense. Well, either way we've established that pressing with your wrist/palm also doesn't work... hehe. 

Well, give it a try. When I pressed with my thumb itself I couldn't do too well in GoW either. When I switched to using the motion of my forearm, I blasted through God mode's QTEs without too much trouble (and they're a lot harder than the ones you're doing now).