Press "O" to fail
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How do you button mash?dallan262 said:
If you use your thumb, that's what you're doing wrong. Try putting the controler on a conveniently located surface (like your lap) then mash with your index finger. But don't actually use your finger, use your wrist. Try it.
same, there was a few times in heavy rain where that happened and im goin, "AHHH SHIT X XX X X X X X X X X X X)SnootyEnglishman said:
also this happened once in the force unleashed
Maybe your sense of timing is a bit off or you lack a certain dexterity in your fingers.
I remeber having quite some trouble with the QTE's in the first GoW, but now I never even need to look at my controller in order execute them.
I remeber having quite some trouble with the QTE's in the first GoW, but now I never even need to look at my controller in order execute them.
I have nothing against QTEs per se, as long as they are practically used.
Currently playing God of War Collection on my PS3 and one of the QTEs that bugs me is the "button mashing" one which makes you stab a minotaur in the head or something. You have to press O pretty damn fast to get it right, which involves putting the controller in an unnatural position if you want to do it fast enough comfortably...all they'd have to do is change which button you have to press and it would solve the problem
Another is the "wiggle the left stick" one (which was repeated in the GoW3 demo), which I simply cannot do correctly with my left hand because of the placement of the PS3 left analog stick - if it was on the 360 (with the thumbsticks in a more comfortable position) then I'd have no trouble.
And a major one that I hated on Heavy Rain was the "shake the controller" one which, in order to avoid repetitive strain injury, I could only use hand one for...and often you'd need a "stick sweep" or button press right after a shake during a fight scene, making it even more awkward.
On SW: Force Unleashed the QTEs were one button presses which I have no problem with (and even the button mashing parts didn't require you to hit the button as fast as in GoW...plus it was a better placed button to mash). The only problem with FU's QTEs were that the on screen prompt distracted you from the cool finishing moves you were performing in the Jedi battles.
I do like how in GOW3 the prompts are positioned on the screen as they are on the controller - so even if you're not familiar with the layout, you know that when it appears on the left, you press square, on the top you press triangle, etc. And they don't interfere with your view of your awesome finishing move.
Anyway, my point is that having to change the way you hold a controller does not make a "challenging" QTE, it means it has been badly designed.
Currently playing God of War Collection on my PS3 and one of the QTEs that bugs me is the "button mashing" one which makes you stab a minotaur in the head or something. You have to press O pretty damn fast to get it right, which involves putting the controller in an unnatural position if you want to do it fast enough comfortably...all they'd have to do is change which button you have to press and it would solve the problem
Another is the "wiggle the left stick" one (which was repeated in the GoW3 demo), which I simply cannot do correctly with my left hand because of the placement of the PS3 left analog stick - if it was on the 360 (with the thumbsticks in a more comfortable position) then I'd have no trouble.
And a major one that I hated on Heavy Rain was the "shake the controller" one which, in order to avoid repetitive strain injury, I could only use hand one for...and often you'd need a "stick sweep" or button press right after a shake during a fight scene, making it even more awkward.
On SW: Force Unleashed the QTEs were one button presses which I have no problem with (and even the button mashing parts didn't require you to hit the button as fast as in GoW...plus it was a better placed button to mash). The only problem with FU's QTEs were that the on screen prompt distracted you from the cool finishing moves you were performing in the Jedi battles.
I do like how in GOW3 the prompts are positioned on the screen as they are on the controller - so even if you're not familiar with the layout, you know that when it appears on the left, you press square, on the top you press triangle, etc. And they don't interfere with your view of your awesome finishing move.
Anyway, my point is that having to change the way you hold a controller does not make a "challenging" QTE, it means it has been badly designed.
The microwave corridor of MGS4 is the worst bit of button mashing since track and field.Mr. Gency said:
For those who haven't played it, snake has to get though 4 parts of a corridor were the walls are covered in microwave "emitters" the entire section goes on for about 3 minutes but it feels like 10. In that time you have to press triangle faster and faster, while snake goes slower and slower which means it takes longer and longer. Till snake crawls past the last door.
About half way down I was in agony in my right arm, thumb and index finger.
I'm usually fine with Quick Time events, though I usually fail some of them in Bayonetta and Assassin's Creed 2 purely because I'm not expecting them or spend to long realising what it wants me to press. I do however hate ones that involve rotating the analog stick. Particularly for Lulu's overdrive in Final Fantasy X, I've never gotten more than 5 or 6 rotations. :S
I can never tell if the fucking thing is telling me to mash it or just press it once. I hate the bloody things
I am alright at QTEs. They are really annoying though, except in GOW, since thy are a regular part of gameplay.
The play at the start of FF IX, that was the first time I ever came across QTE. Bloody sequence, to this day I still have never got 100/100. A friend was over playing once, and had the the indecency to get 100 on his third try. I nearly decked him, had to leave the room.