Interview IGN: Two Worlds II Interview

I will take this opportunity to say that I despise QTEs in almost all cases I've come across them.

 

I will take this opportunity to say that I agree with you. FFS, I thought we had evolved past the Dragon's Lair phase of gaming and now it's coming back. FFS.

 

Heh. Someday, people will realize how stupid this "cinematic experience" shit is. Someday...I expect it to be more embarrassing than the "mascots with attitude" craze of the 90's.

"What a deep and involving game. I press the button that occasionally flashes on the screen, so I can watch an animation."

 

I will take this oppurtunity to rage and swear a lot.
"QTE" is a retard piece of permanoob-wanna-be-smart shit acronym for a really piece of shit feature and needs to be destroyed by fucking fire. Twice.

 

I will take this opportunity and say that QTE:s are even much worse than popamole shooter mechanics. God I hate QTE:s.

 

I hate the cinematic trend of nowadays gaming. I wanna experience everything from the point of the player character and the surroundings should be according to Me, I don't want to be a part of someone's narration.

 

It's far worse than Dragon's Lair. At least in that the whole game set you up to expect it all the time, so it wasn't such a jarring "event". In other games you'll be leisurely watching a cut scene or trying to do a puzzle like the rest of the 99% of the game and then - think fast, QTE time!!! - you've either died or you are going to be reloading to do it properly and get the satisfactory outcome you wanted. Awful mechanic and completely unfair. If you want to give the player variation in the story or cut scenes then either give them dialogue style choices for their actions (presuming it is an adventure or RPG) or base it on their stats and past choices have it run one of the possible outcomes automatically from that.

If it's more of an action game then it still needs some kind of fair warning to get the player ready to move in case he was drinking coffee, stretching, scratching, etc. It's meant to be a game, after all.

QTEs seem like a terrible idea someone had as a cheap and easy compromise to add some variation to the cut scenes and make them more "engaging" for the player (to avoid half the people skipping them the first time and about 90% skipping them the second). Instead it almost always adds an unwelcome piece of frustration and an interruption to the flow of the game. Fahrenheit/ Indigo Prophecy was a monstrous example of how badly it can end up, an otherwise very promising adventure game completely trampled with twitch elements that had no place in the genre and forced the player to reload (and heaven help you if you simply weren't able to complete such twitch elements - your otherwise okay adventure experience is down the toilet prematurely unless you can find someone to play it for you).