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c03n3nj0 on 21 June 2012
PSwii60 said:
That's cuz you didn't grow up in the 4th gen


ppsshh

I was born with the 4th gen.

It's just that all the Ninty games I played where above to rely on this QTE shit. It wasn't until I played other stuff was I introduced to the trope. 

Edit: Actually, right when it finished. But still, there was some SNES stuff left over for me to try out as I was growing up. 



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c03n3nj0 on 21 June 2012
Khuutra said:
c03n3nj0 said:
Khuutra said:

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).




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hatmoza on 21 June 2012
Khuutra said:
I tend to press with my wrist and forearm, rather than my thumb. Give it a try; place your thumb on your controller, but keep it rigid, and move it using your whole arm.


This, as a matter of fact, I use that to my advantage when I'm playing multiplayer games that require players to repeatedly press a button faster. I'm notorious for being a fast button masher when I'm playing fighting games like Naruto with my nephews. They hate me for it.

Like Khuutra, I don't use my thumb for speed pressing, it's all in the wrist. My thumb is nothing but the platform that makes contact with the button.



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hatmoza on 21 June 2012

I'm very tempted to make a short video demonstrating what Khuutra is talking about.



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wfz on 21 June 2012
c03n3nj0 said:
Khuutra said:
c03n3nj0 said:
Khuutra said:
I tend to press with my wrist and forearm, rather than my thumb. Give it a try; place your thumb on your controller, but keep it rigid, and move it using your whole arm.

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? 

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. 

I came in here to suggest what Khuutra did. You don't smash by moving your thumb muscles fast, you keep your thumb straight and hard and you twitch your wrist so it spasms back and forth really fast.

Works like a charm. =)

 

PS If you think that's hard, try beating the Canary Mary race with the clockwork mouse in Banjo-Tooie... I still have nightmares over that.



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homer on 21 June 2012

I know what you mean. That was the worst part of Chrono trigger.



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AndrewWK on 21 June 2012

The first few time I played the first God of War I could beat the Hydra Quick time event with my thumb, I had to use my middle finger. But after of Hack´n Slash practice I can finally do all with the thumb even on the highest difficulty



endimion on 21 June 2012

track and field anybody???? haha
on ninty back then i use to put my index and thumb together and scratch the button like a lottery ticket really fast now with the shape of the xb controller or the position of the button it isn't convenient... but since the dualshock is flatter and i believe the button also it might still work well...
now i usually can do it with my thumb but still switch to my index finger because i go faster and it is less tiring for my hands...



IIIIITHE1IIIII on 22 June 2012

This has never been even the slightest issue for me. I remember playing a button mashing mini game in Mario Party 4 where the one who could press "A" the most times within 10 seconds won.

My record? 123.


WiiBox3 on 22 June 2012
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

This has never been even the slightest issue for me. I remember playing a button mashing mini game in Mario Party 4 where the one who could press "A" the most times within 10 seconds won.

My record? 123.


This is one of the reasons I always seemed to loose a Mario Party. My buddy has the fastest thumb in the west.