TGM

I love first person shooters... and I hate, and subsequently SUCK at driving games. So, inevitably these games have a segment where you have to do something other than just aim, run, and shoot, and it takes me forever, usually, to get through that and back to the fun.

Anyone feel similarly?

foxdvd

I know this is not what you are asking for, but I find QTE to be a pain. Not so much the 2 or 3 random presses, I seem to be ok with those. I am talking about the bashing A as fast as you can. I don't move as fast as I use to, and it almost makes me want a turbo controller just for these parts.


Edit to add..I don't have a particular game in mind, but I LOVE stealth games (oh how I miss you Thief) but I find games that are not stealth games that add a stealth segment or level almost always suck.

PopcornTreeCt

I quit playing AC3 at a Desmond sequence. I'll get back into it but as of now I don't really care.

Duran

While I don't mind the idea QTE, I often find they prevent me from watching what is actually going on. Considering QTEs are typically used in exciting/important sequences, that's annoying.

dugan

Ultima 1. Such a fun RPG until it turns into a flight simulator.

mhg83

I remember in Uncharted 1 it was shooting and puzzle solving and out of nowhere we get fucking QTE

TGM

forgive me, but what is QTE?

Obi-Wanma

Quick Time Event. Its when a game requires you to push a specific button (or sequence of buttons) that are displayed on screen.

discostu1337

Its actually "Quick Timer Event" as first used and named in Shenmue. We have all been wrong for years calling it "Quick Time Event"

davidh777

The damn mash-one-button-as-fast-as-you-can is what turned me off of God of War despite the game being in my wheelhouse in almost every other way.

Moopher

Always any sort of stealth element interjected into a game. I'm speaking mostly of the Zelda series...or in COD4 with the Ghillie suit.

spainlinx0

I don't mind the bash button as fast as you can segments. Those are usually really easy for me.

atrium

It was used long before Shenmue, Shenmue just did it in a way that's been popularized and emulated.

mhg83

I think it all started with those Horrible Sega CD FMV games

Drexl

The thing I hate about those games is, if I'm playing it on the PC, I want to use a mouse and keyboard for better aiming. But, the keyboard sucks for driving. So if the driving requires some skill (like racing), I'm not quite comfortable with the m/k combo. Games like Far Cry 2 and Borderlands are okay because the driving is usually just to get you from place to place.

Speaking of button mashing, back in the day I stopped playing Metal Gear Solid because of the torture sequence.

Michael Corvin

Dragon's Lair is one long QTE.

vballboy51

for me, i just wish FPS's could get together and have standard controls. i know most are customize-able to some extent, but right now i'm playing Borderlands 2 and Halo 4 at the same time. it doesn't go well for the first hour of each. i try to zoom in halo and throw a grenade (LT). i try to jump in borderlands and use my action skill (i use "bumper jumper" in Halo so this is LB for me).

other than that, i just wish that games where there is a key gameplay element (i'm looking at you Assassin's Creed) made slightly more intelligent decisions. i hate running in that game then suddenly jumping off a building because i "missed" a ledge due to controls instead of me actually missing

Kedrix

For me, it is just about any game that goes into a QTE or a adventure/rpg that tries to throw in a driving element. Or when a RPG tries to throw in some lame platforming jumping exercise. Mostly for the reason the others mention that it is always poorly executed. A platform game by itself, just fine. A Driving game, yeah I can deal with that. But mixing genres that have no business being by each other, yeah.


The worst game I can think ever of mixing game genres almost constantly is Demolition Man for the 3DO. It was light gun action, it was fighting, it was driving...heck it was a sex simulator (props if you remember what I am talking about).