Some of you should try Shenmue IIx,now those truly are QUICK TIME events.
ESP the rooftop fight do not miss that one or else your screwed haha
QTE's don't bother me really but maybe it's because Shenmue is my fave game ever and so used to them.

I don't think it's a "reaction to a cutscene" thing, as QTEs are usually started with a button press. The difference is more simple than that. A CSA is a single action that can only be done at a certain time by pressing a certain button (like a last minute counter or dodge). A QTE is a series of timed button press (or motion control) actions in a row. Or, to be even more simple: A CSA is an action, a QTE is an event.

Ahhh. An interesting point - but I see the emphasis in CSA and QTE. A context sensitive action is defined by an action that occurs in a specific context - you initiate it yourself, and there is no limit on how you might perform this acion. I can stand in front of a door in Wind Waker for days and it will only open when I press A, for example.

Quick Time Events, as I understand them, have more to do with the fact that you do not necessarily initiate them, and it often involves a sequence above what you initiated - so the knife fight with Krauser in RE4 is a QTE, but the kick to the face of Ganados would be a CSA.

But I don't think we can necessarily draw a distinction between the two that paints them as being mutually exclusive, either. Grabs in God of War are CSAs - when you grab at a Harpy Kratos stomps on it and rips off its wings, and he will do that every time you grab at one. When you grab onto one of the bosses, however, it begins a QTE, during which you must react to on-screen prompts or otherwise fail the QTE and suffer damage.

CSAs leading into QTEs is only really common in God of War that I've seen, but I've never played Shenmue.

in zelda? hell no

Talk about strange. The last few years I've been pondering writing a dynamic/context/skill sensitive Dragon Lair esque combat system(QTE). It wasn't until last week when I was looking into Shenmue that the command system recieved a name QTE.

Then I hear about the idea of a branching QTE. I'm thinking huh.

Ok heres my opinion. I know i'm late.

QTE as they are sorta suck. I understand them, but they serve little purpose than to force a restart of a scene or slow you down if you don't succeed. blarg. What a waste of time.

What I want to see is context sensitivity.
If my acrobatic character is backed against the wall a QTE can come up showing me a Motion Up(run up the wall and flip over the bad guy) or a Button Forward(strike at the enemy) or ....

As they are, ho hum

In a QTE,you can't be hit ar affected by external forces until the sequence is over.In Twilight Princess,many times I got knocked out of the air mid-move(helm-splitter or ending blow,anyone?).In most of the WWE games on the PS2,once you start a grapple,your character can't be hit until he's done.Some special moves even automatically altered the positions of you & ur opponent in the ring!In WWE Day of Reckoning on the gamecube,you could be hit at anytime,no matter what you were doing.I've even seen someone power bomb an opponent through a trash can that was in the opponent's tag partner's hand!