Gaming Mechanics

[Skyblade]

Ahh Quick Time Events, I despise them. They are an insult to gamers. Here's why: quick time events are there to feed you eye candy and nothing else. You're either not good enough to pull these moves off with the normal gameplay controls, or the developers think you definitely prefer eye-candy over self-controlled moves, so now they'll make you do some badass moves while solving a color and shape input puzzle like you did in kindergarten. It's just not real gameplay and totally breaks a games' immersion factor. It's eye candy and nothing else. Only ignorant gamers will fall for this trick.

It's not even that, though. In most games with QTEs, you can't even enjoy the eye-candy (as you can with most cutscenes), because you have to focus and watch for the QTE indicators. If you are busy enjoying the cutscene, well, you'll be unprepared when that square pops up and gives you a half second to press it. Perhaps the gamers with the best reflexes can watch the scene, but no one else. It makes the entire cutscene pointless.

[Mercen-X]

Yes, by far the best automatic attacks are finishers like those in Darksiders, and timed attacks that only use a single button so that once you've practiced in what they're sure to give you as a tutorial, you'd pretty much be the only one to blame if you couldn't pull off the move while enjoying the scene at the same time.

Personally, I've been able to enjoy quite a few of these. Of course, I'm able to dual-attend to whatever I'm interested in such as watching a show while reading its subtitles. My mom complains that this doesn't apply to listening to a world outside my attended medium because well, I'm not interested in what you have to say at the moment in case you couldn't tell lady!

[Henry Pease]

Well for me it is Cid Pollendina whose gaming mechanics is just awesome as far as I think.