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Most egregious, enfuriating QTE's?

Mineshaft_Gap said:
So I finished Far Cry 3 last night and I have to say, fuck the "boss" battles in this game. QTE's the worst type of shit and during each and every climax of the game control is taken from the player. This game stands out to me as being particularly lazy.

The worst being the fight with Hoyt. You're at a poker table surrounded by enemies and all of a sudden you're transported to a trippy empty room and a QTE sequence. Once completed the games main antagonist is dead and so are all the guys in the room in spite of you having only killed Hoyt by playing a shitty minigame.

I can't tell you how disappointing that is considering how much I enjoyed the rest of the game. For the most part engaging enemies in combat is fun and rewarding. Exploration is interesting and the world is gorgeous.

Oh yeah, and turret battle endgame. Fantastic.

So what game had the worst QTE's? Something that really brought you out of the experience.
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Yeah, the boss battles in Far Cry 3 are puzzling,

Especially the one with Vaas. He surprises you and stabs you in the chest. As you faint you enter a dream sequence in which you kill Vaas, and when you wake up it turns out you actually DID kill Vaas. The game never mentions the likely-fatal stab wound you received from him.

Weird.
 
Uncharted golden abyss without a dout. fucking worst segment i've played in ages. don't know who's idea it was to put in that bullshit.

firstly, they're sprinkled in the middle of the final cutscenes. and they weave in and out of qte and cutscene. and tey just pop up out of nowhere. plus they're touchscreen qtes. if you fuck up 3 times, you have to redo the entire segment again. and it's a really fucking long segment.

the issues get exponentially worse in crushing mode, where they give you like 1 hit before you die from a qte. fucking hell...



Also bayonetta as a runner up.
 
Not sure if this is classed as a QTE (I class it as one) but the final mission in GTA 4 had a right shitter of a QTE on the PC. You had to "mash" the spacebar to get your character to climb into a helicopter. No problem right ? oh did I mention it's bugged and doesn't register all the mashing so you will fail and go all the way back to the start of the mission (an hour of work lost).

Eventually it was discovered if you recorded with fraps it would register the keyboard mashing and work.
 
i think the qte at the end of the mine cart chase in RE4 is the only one that ever made me rage. didn't expect it at all, but mostly because it started me back at the beginning of the whole sequence.
 
Indigo Prophecy

because they were like 60 percent of the game

you were literally playing simon almost the entire time
 
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The torture scene in Peace Walker takes the cake. Had to swipe a bottle cap back and forth on the button to get through it.
 
A toss up between Golden Abyss and Drake's deception. I loved both games but the final bosses made me so mad.

Golden Abyss on crushing is in the lead but I'm yet to play Drake's deception on crushing.
 
The rat QTE in BF3 owned, but the worst one is the second train QTE. In the prologue, there's a part where you get thrown out of a train and the game instructs you to press Space to climb back up. Simple.

The final mission has you replaying the prologue, except when that situation occurs and the spacebar QTE pops up, you press Space again but this time you fail the jump and die. WTF? Turns out this time you need to mash the spacebar, and the game gives you no indication about the change.
 
The most irritating ones were in Heavenly sword. I think the game had some sort of input delay cause I never had problems with any other game. I platinumed Golden Abyss and that was fine.
 
barrymatharoo said:
The most irritating ones were in Heavenly sword. I think the game had some sort of input delay cause I never had problems with any other game. I platinumed Golden Abyss and that was fine.
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I forgot there were QTE's in HS because there were so few them tbh. Though I agree, I hated having to repeat that stupid Flying Fox fight because I was a split second too slow.

Anyway, they weren't strictly QTE's but I really hated the Kamui system from Genji Days of the Blade. Besides being so mind numbingly boring, they basically became essential later on against the later enemies which just made it a whole lot worse.

Also to answer OP's question, any QTE's that make you restart a fight from the start if you miss them are easily the worst QTE's ever.
 
Jack Scofield said:
Yeah, the boss battles in Far Cry 3 are puzzling,

Especially the one with Vaas. He surprises you and stabs you in the chest. As you faint you enter a dream sequence in which you kill Vaas, and when you wake up it turns out you actually DID kill Vaas. The game never mentions the likely-fatal stab wound you received from him.

Weird.
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Yep. That was a particularly baffling brand of arse biscuits in what was an otherwise great game.
 
As much as I love a lot about the game, I was recently playing the Director's Cut of Deadly Premonition, and the running sequences with the Raincoat Killer are the worst. Especially when you start pushing a crate that's half as wide as the hallway you're in. Run around it, dumbass!
 
Now that I think about it, Bayonetta did have some oddly annoying ones. I almost never have trouble with QTEs, but I would constantly mess up ones in Bayonetta and die because of it.
 
mrmickfran said:
Metal Gear Rising`s "Shake the analog stick vigorously" QTE`s.

Mastiffs are a bitch.
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Oh yeah, this too

My brother and I couldn't never figure out a reliable way to do it. Sometimes just wiggling in all directions doesnt work, other times wiggling left to right doesn't work either. It made the Monsoon fight way more annoying than it should've been.

I had no problem with 95% of Rising's QTEs, though. That was the only annoying one.
 
Worst for me was technically not the game's fault, but still absolutely horrible. Apparently some settings I had in Binary Domain caused lag on only the QTEs and not the rest of gameplay, so I just thought they were awful until I realized that. However, that wasn't before I failed the part where Dan jumps out of the truck and reaches out like 20+ times in a row. So much slo-mo falling to my death, so much of my partner crying out in terror...

That said, on PC you can make the QTEs in RE6 autocomplete. :D

toastyToast said:
The QTE where you have to pull out that gem thing on Jill's chest during the Jill/Wesker fight in RE5
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It's like doing the MGS torture scene 7 times before the damn thing finally comes off.

The only QTEs I find acceptable are the ones where you push a single button (with a reasonable amount of time to react, unlike RE games), like the original QTEs in Shenmue. Once it becomes "mash the button a lot" or "get the timing right" or "move this direction" or any other little minigame, I am taken completely out of the scene. They are also the worst excuse for cheap deaths that make no sense and serve no purpose or real challenge but only separate you from the events of the game, which interestingly enough is the exact opposite of their intended purpose!
 
geebee said:
Changing a diaper in Heavy Rain. Dumbest shit I've ever done in a game.
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Bahaha I started this game just recently (no spoilers please!), and I was a little confused when I started playing (have avoided reading about it), but when this happened I was like "Ok hold on now really?" I'm enjoying it, but it's weird.

Somehow some of the tedious things that you do seem even more tedious than you imagine they would be in a video game. It's like, I never asked to be able to shave myself in a game, but now that I'm actually doing it it's even more tedious than I thought it would be!

Still, enjoying it, still very early and waiting for things to pick up.
 
I have to say the RE6 rope climb, as that's the only part of RE6 I've played, and that's only because a friend actually asked me to come over to his place for the sole purpose of trying that QTE for sake of verification that it was as bad as he thought it was and wasn't just him. :lol
 
The
torture part
of Peace Walker, my thumb literally cramped after it weas done and I ended up not playing any games for about 2 days afterwards.
Also Halo 4's press A to awesome thing...
 
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