QTEs have got to be one of the worst things to make their way into games.

Exactly. While I still hate them, they're a bit easier with a controller cause controller buttons are color coded, while on a keyboard, you have to actually read the keys it puts up.

Nah, I played the first one recently and, while it was pretty incredible back in the day, it hasn't aged very well.

That said, I'm still excited for Shenmue 3.

A quick tip that helped my friend and I a lot. You can rebind the F and V keys to make them less stupid. When looking online for some advice I found someone that mentioned it.

We changed it F>E and V>Q.

It was a bit awkward at first, since we played the whole game with the controls how they were, but after getting used to them, even disregarding the QTEs, they felt much more natural.

Definitely. I have several other complaints about the game, bosses in particular, but the QTEs easily take the cake and damn near ruined the game for us.

Hell, we were almost going to say "hell with it" to Resident Evil 6 until I found a thing that said it has something that more or less takes care of QTEs for you.

Definitely. I forget which game it was, but there was a game I played several years ago that did QTEs pretty well. Basically it would have QTEs and if you got them you'd get some kind of bonus, but if you failed it didn't affect you negatively. If a game is gonna have QTEs, it needs to have them like that.

Hell, I stopped playing Tomb Raider because of one point where I was constantly having to restart a scene due to failing QTEs.

Yeah, at the end of RE5 there's a cutscene that's actually really interesting, and then boom, ded cause my hand was off the keyboard cause I was watching the damn cutscene.

To make it even worse, several QTEs later we had to completely redo the scene because I messed up the last one of the scene.

That's my biggest issue with cutscene QTEs also, they completely remove you from the cutscene. That scene went from "Ooo, this is a pretty cool scene" to "Oh god fuck the scene I have to state intently at this spot to not miss these damn buttons."

Heh, be like Until Dawn.

I watched Markiplier play the game, and while it was a very enjoyable time, the entire time I thought to myself "Damn, I'm glad I didn't buy this game cause I would have hated playing it.".

I enjoy a good story based game. I even enjoy games that are light on gameplay, To the Moon, for example, is one of my favorite games. One thing I'll never enjoy though, is a story based game that substitues QTEs for gameplay.

I'll pass. As much as we enjoyed the game overall, the QTEs made it so it's one we'll likely never revisit.

At least Dragon's Lair was entertaining in that it was actually pretty enjoyable to see the many ways the game would kill you.

That said, I hate that game.

It's a shame because, like Resident Evil 5, it's a very enjoyable game outside of the QTEs.

Haha, wat? XD

Exactly.

Near the end of RE5 was a pretty interesting cutscene. Too bad I died immediately cause I was, you know, watching the cutscene with my hand off my keyboard.

Then I got to proceed to not enjoy the cutscene at all because of having to stare at the spot for QTE prompts.