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[manueldelalas]

Weren't they called Quick Time Events in Resident Evil 4? I recall Mikami and co calling them that in interviews, and it was that game that popularized QTEs, not Shenmue.

 

[AuthenticM]

It should be "Fast Timer Event", really.

 

[flatearthpandas]

Just got off the phone with the rest of the world. Quick time event.

Enjoy your fruitless attempt to dictate language.

Edit: damn, I'm a sucker

 

[MrJoe]

Dino Crisis had button mashing 'danger events' earlier the same year.

See you're all wrong people. It's danger events!

Spoiler

Quick time event

I suppose it evolved from one guys shitty idea to another guys shitty idea, repeated over and over until you're left with the modern QTE. it's still a shitty idea.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

QTE is an acronym for "Poor Game Design"

 

[Kariodude]

I just called them Timed Button Sequences before I knew they had a real name.

By the way, the real name is Quick Time Event.

 

[moolamb]

Well guys I just played Shenmue last night, ran into the first QTE, hit 'start' for help and lo and behold...

'Quick Timer Event'

I'm afraid OP has it correct, though Wikipedia and other sources write otherwise. This is the first time the term has been used and coined, so if there's 'one true way' of saying this it is as above.

...

But who the fuck cares.

 

[beelzebozo]

the Java Time Event (JTE) is something the game interrupts you to ask if you want to do the thing now or later

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I'll just stick to my old man shtick and call them QTEs with total disregard for what the acronym actually stands for.

 

[DOWN]

It's a time event that happens quick.

 

[Dryk]

Quick time event is just easier to say. Long-term you can't stop people from gravitating towards a version of the phrase that flows better.

I mean, I don't complain when people pronounce my handle other than the way I intended, because I was a stupid 14 year old that never even thought about that.

 

[pot]

Quick Time Events!

 

[watershed]

Quick Time Event

And we're done. Seriously OP, how did you not know this?

 

[UrbanRats]

Instant Kneejerk Complaint (IKjC)

 

[moolamb]

And we're done. Seriously OP, how did you not know this?

OP is slightly more versed in QTE history.

Well guys I just played Shenmue last night, ran into the first QTE, hit 'start' for help and lo and behold...

'Quick Timer Event'

I'm afraid OP has it correct, though Wikipedia and other sources write otherwise. This is the first time the term has been used and coined, so if there's 'one true way' of saying this it is as above.

...

But who the fuck cares.

 

[watershed]

OP is slightly more versed in QTE history.

I'm sticking with QTE = Quick Time Event.

 

[Anustart]

It's a PSX/PS1 debate.

Oh yes, I loved playing final fantasy 9 on my playstation experimental.

 

[red731]

Quick Time Event? Quick Time Event

 

[Gestault]

Not that they haven't been known as Quick Time Events for quite some time now, but I have to say, the Shenmue explanation videos were the earliest combined instances of that mechanic and that shorthand that I was aware of. I'm inclined to give OP more credit than many here. That said, I don't see the need to change what they're currently called. No one that I'd take seriously would confuse them with Apple's video software.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Shenmue: quick time event
Mario 64 blue coins: quick timer event

 

[Psxphile]

Just for the heck of it, I'll refer to them as "quicker time event" from now on.

"It's a new gameplay term... 'Quick-ER Time'! Eh? Yes?"
*audience applause*

"Quicker Time.... I don't get it."

 

[tsab]

No it's DLC

Dragon's Lair Controls

 

[baphomet]

Its never been referred as a quick timer event as long as they've been around.

 

[a secret-boss]

Quick Tension Event

 

[CaptainSlow]

Thread backfire!

I've NEVER hard it as Quick Timer Event. I'm the most OCD person on the planet about getting vocabulary right and it's always been Quick Time Event.

TL;DR Up your butt, OP!

 

[Prototype]

Quick Time Event

Quick Time Event

 

[Rarity]

Never heard quick timer event before.

JIF not GIF

Choosy moms...

 

[LiK]

CUTIE

 

[KillerDark]

Not sure if OP is attempting to troll or what...

 

[kittens]

Quickly Touch Eject

then return the game to the store

lmao

 

[danielcw]

Today I learned something


I wonder how long it will take for Wikipedia to settle on the correct wording.
And if the discussion will be as frantic as the one about the capitalization of the i in "Star Trek Into Darkness"

 

[timetokill]

Quickly Touch Eject

then return the game to the store

Hahaha this one got me

 

[jonezer4]

Gill, give, gimp, git, gift. That's all off the top of my head without looking at a dictionary. Your logic is flawed.

Giggle. Gigahertz. Giddy. Girl. Girth. Gimp. Gizmo. I'm fairly certain that the hard g is more prominent than the soft g when it precedes an I. Whatever the inventor of the gif says be damned.

It doesn't matter what the person that happens to start a word thinks when the word is in its infancy and under no scrutiny. What matters is what people that adopt it make it. In the instance of QTE it's definitely Quick Time Event. In the instance of gif, it's a little more debatable I suppose, but I'm going to call it a hard g "gif" because it's just "gift" minus the t. If it were more similar to a word with a soft g, eg. gip (gipsy) or gis (gist) or gin (gin), I'd defer to the other persuasion.

 

[NeoRausch]

I don't think I've seen anyone say QuickTime event. People say quick time event.

Yes!

... Wait, what?!

 

[Yoshi]

Why not just call it "G.A.R.B.A.G.E." (you can choose what this acronym stands for)? You are probably right in regards to QTE being the acronym for Quick Timer Event, though Quick Time Event is well-understood (and any sane person just translates it to "shitty and lazy gamedesign" anyway) by now, so I don't see any point in forcing a change in wording.

 

[Shadow Ranger]

OP is one of those people who, when asked what kind of game Shenmue is, replies "F.R.E.E."

Oh man, the (deliberate) arguments my buddy and me would have over this.

"It's a damn RPG at the end of the day!"
"No, it is a F.R.E.E game!"

 

[jimi_dini]

Uh...gift, give, gig, gigawatt (hee hee), girl, gimp, giddy, girth, gimmick...

Right

And those are pronounced jift, jive, jig, jigawatt, jirl, jimp, jiddy, jirth and jimmick

 

[Blackthorn]

Quite Tedious Errtime

 

[CTLance]

No, this is Patrick!

Anyway. Currently most people are using the "Quick Time Event" label, so that is by definition the correct spelling, no matter how it was spelled initially. That's the thing about spoken languages: They're constantly in flux, and work with the majority rule.

Spoiler

I dread the day "would of" or "alot" reach similar status.

 

[FleckSplat]

Even if it wasn't Quick Time Event, Quick Timed Event would make more sense than Quick Timer Event.

Yeah, man, like, just cause you have to do things quickly doesn't mean the measurement of time goes faster, brah.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Well guys I just played Shenmue last night, ran into the first QTE, hit 'start' for help and lo and behold...

'Quick Timer Event'

If possible, take a picture of the screen and post it in the thread.

 

[dose]

If possible, take a picture of the screen and post it in the thread.

It is called that in ShenMue, it's even in the manual, but no one since then has actually called it 'Quick Timer Event' with the 'r'. Quick Time Event is now the standard.

 

[CambriaRising]

All this hoopla over a single letter.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Thanks for the correction.

I'll be sure to use Quick Timer Event from here on out.

 

[User 73706]

Is that press X to save her or press X to let the ball hit her?

 

[Coolwhip]

Let's just call it PGD

Poor Game Design

 

[Rocky_Balboa]

#campquicktimeevent

 

[moolamb]

 

[molnizzle]

Yeah, no. It's Quick Time Event.

That's what they called them in God of War, which is the game that actually made the stupid things popular. Nobody played Shenmue.

 

[scitek]

Shouldn't it technically be "Quick, Timed Event"?