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[endlessflood]

I was going to say the final boss in Uncharted 1

Spoiler

it was just the Brutal Combo (same buttons, same timing) from the game itself, but with an awesome camera. The brutal combo being the melee technique of choice, and the boss fight seeing you unarmed, it made perfect sense to me and would have been what I tried to do anyway. Went over most people's heads unfortunately

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But having looked at the thread I see that I was mistaken:

Best use:
Ace Combat
somewhat spoiler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9NO4GQJRk

I thought he was going to clock her lol.

 

[Mman235]

The worst is any game (discounting QTE-based games like Heavy Rain and Asura's Wrath where that's kind of expected) that makes the final boss a QTE, no contest.

The best are probably the optional ones, like the Resident Evil 5 ones that have been mentioned and the optional commands to do special actions during cutscenes that Assassin Creed uses.

 

[velociraptor]

Wurst:

Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4.

Every Resident Evil game.

 

[kazebyaka]

Best: Asura's Wrath
Worst: Gta 5

 

[Papercuts]

Bayonetta may have one of the worst. No warning, feel very hacked on, incredibly harsh score penalty for failing a single press here compared to how it's otherwise balanced out...plus they're heavily frontloaded which makes it feel even weirder.

Bayonetta 2 pls don't use these.

 

[hohoXD123]

Worst was Uncharted Golden Abyss. So damn frustrating.

 

[Sammy Samusu]

Best: Resident Evil 4

Spoiler

Wii Edition

 

[Creaking]

Heavy Rain had some great uses. I liked the parts where the game made you hold down a plethora of buttons--one after another--in order for the character to do something difficult, like climb through small gaps in walls of live electric wires, or take medicine while violently shaking and trying to hold a gun on some guy, or shake that orange juice until it was just right.

 

[Auto-Reply]

They are bad when the game tries to mask them as something intuitive and flowing, as if it is part of the game mechanics but the player will see trough em after 1 or two tries. Well, i dislike those the most, i can actually deal with QTEs more that are in your face and don`t try to be something else/more. I'm not a fan of games like Azuras Wrath but what i have seen of the game it does it right, it's a qte fest at first glance and this is what you will be doing.

There are games that don't tell you up front what the next scene is going to be, you were shooting as if it was a standard third person shooting game but in the next scene you are confronted with a semi interactive qte sequence (that's why i cant stand the hand to hand combat system in the Uncharted games). This throws me off balance everytime. I can deal with it in Bayonetta because there i hardly differentiate them from standard combos anymore, but i have played that game countless hours and i probably get used to every qte in any game after that.

 

[pants]

I don't think QTEs have any place in gaming tbh.

 

[Chabbles]

Nothing comes to mind when i try and think of the best QTE's.

But the worst what come to mind are deadly premonition taking the cake, followed by Deadspace 2.

 

[Interceptor]

Best: Wonderful 101 Final Battle. It´s not even close.
Worst. Heavy Rain. Shower.

 

[bwahhhhh]

God of War 3: L3+R3 on Poseidon

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Don't know if it counts but a certain FPS last gen ended its campaign with a "hit circle to commit global genocide" statement

It was a "can't believe this is really how it ended" bad.

Can you tell me which FPS that was? Just interested. Spoiler it if you wish.

The halo 4 ending was the worst use of it ever imo.

Yeah, that was insultingly bad.

Spoiler

The Didact

was a great enemy, and they kill him off in the most unexciting way.

 

[Creaking]

Can you tell me which FPS that was? Just interested. Spoiler it if you wish.

I haven't played the ending in a while, but it sounds like Killzone 3 to me.

 

[jsnepo]

I have always loved GoW implementation of QTE. never understood the complaints about it.

Same here. Though the QTEs that I like are generally more with the combat. The good thing is they are often optional to do anyway. The good thing about them is they are very seamless unlike what other games do.

 

[flatearthpandas]

From my limited experience with QTEs

Best:
Mass Effect 2:
Dialogue QTEs were a really great addition in my opinion as you could immediately influence the flow of a cut scene in a direction. You could miss the opportunity to speak or act, but you didn't "fail" your conversation.

Worst:
Everything else

 

[omonimo]

Worst: GOW Ascension. Disgusted.
Best: I don't know honestly, maybe RE4 & GOW 3 executions. But I'm not a great fan of QTE.

 

[Barry Burton]

Worst was Resident Evil 6. Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left...

Battlefield 3's were also pretty bad.

 

[Elvin Atombender]

I started playing Mass Effect 1 after buying it cheap from the PSN-sale a few days ago.

There are really annoying QTE-sequences when you want to get into some doors or containers where you have to be really quick or you will fail. There is no chance at all to make it if you've had a few Christmas-drinks before playing.

I actually thought I had misunderstood something or that there was something wrong with the game at first.

 

[No-Ink]

I thought W101 did QTEs pretty well since it used a main gameplay mechanic.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Haven't played many games with QTEs, but the only where I liked the QTEs was The Wonderful 101, mainly the Unites.

 

[DracoBlade]

God of War 3.

Spoiler

Gouging out Poseidon's eyes by pressing L3 + R3

was pretty neat.

Was EYE CATCHING to say the least...

-----

Also

MGS4-Haters gonna hate.

Spoiler

i.e Microwave sequence and Ocelot tanker battle

 

[MichaelFassbender]

Deadly Premonition's QTEs are pretty annoying, especially on the PC version. You'll be pressing A and D a lot to win. And if you die, you can't skip the cutscene!

 

[Fox Mulder]

I don't think QTEs have any place in gaming tbh.

they're fine to give some interactivity to a cut scene, but flashing them for a split second during boss fights and punishing you for it is awful and lazy.

 

[FuuRe]

God of War 3 by far, just because you don't have to take your eyes out of the action to make the inputs, thus missing all the gore

 

[pikablu]

Any and all QTEs are terrible. Worst is when you die because you don't know one is coming up and when you retry it the buttons change.

 

[gngf123]

There is no such thing as a good use of QTE's.

 

[Error404]

God of War..especially 3

at least in gow you don't die if you miss a qte and you can just try again

 

[Kouriozan]

I agree, W101 have definitely one of the best use of QTE.
That final was mind-blowing.

Also when you fail there is almost always a nice easter egg.
A shame that nobody played that game.

 

[dragonbane]

Best: Heavy Rain
Worst: Battlefield

 

[Zornica]

best: the only time it is used during the "bad ending" of pandoras tower. (around 2:30)

worst: the rest

 

[Elvick]

I think Bayonetta had some of the worst given that there was no warning before and you only had a split second to react.

Ugg, yes. I don't mind the ones in combat for the finishers, but the ones in actual events... like jumping off a tower, or dodging a tower in one of the early sections... ugg.

I died almost every time a new QTE came up when I played it first, because I didn't know there was one coming so wasn't expecting to need to react. Then bam, dead.

LEGO Marvel (and most LEGO games really) has waaaaaaaaaay too many.

 

[Retro]

The halo 4 ending was the worst use of it ever imo.

Came in here expecting this to be the first response. One final disappointment to cap a long series of disappointments, the last sad point of punctuation at the end of what turned out to be a poorly-written obituary for a lot of long-time fans.

As for a best, there isn't one. QTEs are garbage, just the latest way for game developers to take a stab at being film makers. Amazingly, they somehow manage to be less appealing than the old live-action laserdisc "interactive games" with their porn-quality production values. At least those could provide some entertainment value by being laughably bad.

 

[R_thanatos]

BEST :
Ashura wrath
heavy rain

WORST :
Bayonneta
Uncharted golden abyss

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

I'm not sure about the worst, but the best to me is unquestionably Heavy Rain.

The game used them perfectly.....especially all of the motion controlled QTE’s.

 

[Naked Lunch]

There is no such thing as a good quick time event. Halo 4's comes first to mind for worst.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Deadly Premonition's QTEs are pretty annoying, especially on the PC version. You'll be pressing A and D a lot to win. And if you die, you can't skip the cutscene!

The chase sequences are so damn bad. Not because they're hard, but because they're so pointless and tend to last way too long.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Well... since this gen is just getting started, it's obviously going to be Shenmue 3 for best use.

 

[phosphor112]

No mention of Ninja Blade!?

For shame Gaf! For shame!

 

[djplaeskool]

Best: Asura's Wrath

Worst: RE6

 

[Kimawolf]

Easily Tomb Raider.

"Mash E to stop man from molesting you!"

Mash left and right arrow to kick man away!!!"

 

[Forkball]

Best: Assassin's Creed II DaVinci bro hug. You can easily miss this if you don't pay attention. Also Lee in the last chapter if Walking Dead.

Worst: Deathstroke battle in Arkham Otigins because it doesn't tell you it's basically a QTE fight.

 

[Whompa]

Re6 designed a 1 hit k.o. QTE attack for all characters and it broke the game and ruined mercs.

 

[phosphor112]

Easily Tomb Raider.

"Mash E to stop man from molesting you!"

Mash left and right arrow to kick man away!!!"

That whole game was just unnecessary. The whole "narrative" is just a stupid cover up for throwing the worst possible shit at her and being edgy.

 

[flyinpiranha]

There is no such thing as a good quick time event. Halo 4's comes first to mind for worst.

I second this.

Best QTE: LOL, does not fucking exist.
Worst QTE: All of them.

If you can't make your game work without QTE then go back to the drawing board. Even in my personal GOTY (ACIV) there are QTE's and I try and avoid them.

 

[NineOverSeven]

Can't really give a best, but worst for me are games using the Telltale tool (or whatever its called).

Half the time it doesn't register d-pad directions for me.

 

[Horp]

BF3 SP was the worst I encountered.

 

[jett]

God of War 3 was by far the best use I've seen of it.

I think Platinum's games making awful fucking use of QTEs and they should just goddamn stop. Don't ask me to violently shake my analog sticks from left to right. Don't fucking ask me to goddamn break my controller, you imbecilic turds.

 

[maxcriden]

I'm not sure if I have played any games with QTEs in them this year. What would the general definition of a QTE be?