I take thee, [X], as my QTE

[Juan_Raigada]

@Nightgaunt

Count me among the “dozens of us!”

QTEs are, by their nature, trivial input with ultimate consequences (if you don’t succeed, start over and try again). This is why, when they’re not done very well–and there are a lot of ways to do them poorly–they feel more frustrating than other forms of challenging gameplay.

If I understand right, @_aaron is partly saying that Detroit escaped that problem by taking your failures as just branches in the story, not forcing you to try and try again until you succeed and continue down the happy branch.

Yes, Quantic Dreams games (and stuff like Until Dawn, which I think is more accomplished) use QTE-like input but failure never stops the story, just modifies internal variables and eventually branches the narrative.

It’s the best implementation, I think. QTEs become the main input and as systemic as a more traditional input system.

[Zylon]

Dragon’s Lair was the original QTE game.

[Zalmoxis]

Resident Evil 4 was released before God of War, too.

I think the prototype’s QTEs looked better than what it ultimately ended up with.