Comments on: Aliens: Colonial Marines Has Quick-Time Events

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:31:48 +0000

Exception to the bad QTE rule (as I do feel as you guys about this, they are generally really bad…) is Indigo Prophecy. This game is essentially all QTE’s, and they pulled it off only because is is _the_ game mechanic.

At least, that is my opinion. I encourage people to disagree with me :)

Shane

By: jonfitt

jonfitt — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:28:10 +0000

Boo for QTEs.

I’ve got a QTE for you right here: It’s my fire button. It’s my panic button, for when aliens get too close.

They worked in Fahrenheit because it was made clear that you were entering a Simon-Says mini-game, they did not occur randomly as one offs.
In CoD4 they weren’t true QTEs because you always had to press the same logical button (knife). It never said, press left arrow, or press jump. Knife made sense.

On Colonial Marines in general, is there any reason I should hold out hope that this will be anything other than a console lead PC port? Gearbox have a good pedigree, but who knows nowadays.

By: jackflash

jackflash — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:03:32 +0000

I will be voting against QTEs in the November elections.

By: vic

vic — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:22:37 +0000

Hey on the subject of COD4′s dogs. Remember the dog pack you are meant to avoid in the sniper section. Well I spent an hour deliberately taking them on … and I couldn’t beat them although I gave it a fair shot. Can’t remember the exact numbers but I’d get 7/9 and the last two would either get me or my sniper mentor. Just wondering if it was possible to beat them.

By: Lockenator

Lockenator — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:44:57 +0000

The worst QTE for me was Spider-Man 3…. Both the fights against the Sandman or Venom required PERFECT button sequence presses and if you failed on the very last QTE with Venom you die instantly and have to start the whole thing again.

By: Surgeon

Surgeon — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:25:02 +0000

I just have one question. How do I get out of this chickenshit glorified Simon Says minigame?

You secure that shit, Meer!

By: Chaz

Chaz — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:22:23 +0000

You clearly haven’t seen Alien then. the facehugger that gets John Hurt breaks its way through the front of his spacesuit’s helmet which consists of a four or five inch thickness of glass (Or possibly space plastic!).

That’s true, but I think Weyland-Yutani must have skimped on their space suit budget to produce such a flimsy helmet. Perhaps if it was made out of the stuff those stasis jars were in “Aliens”, nothing can break out of one of them, probably acid proof too.

By: Alan Au

Alan Au — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:27:37 +0000

Gearbox has heard your complaints and will replace the hated quick-time-events with stealth-action, timed, platform-jumping escort missions instead.

By: Garth

Garth — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:40:34 +0000

Quick-time Events are like Jumping puzzles – the second you encounter one you know they ran out of ideas.

The sooner this occurs, the more you know the game is fucked up in some way, likely beyond repair.

I can’t remember a single QTE where I was like “Awesome!” because I almost die to them the first time, pretty much every time.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:48:53 +0000

I like the IDEA of the QTEs in Call of Duty 4, but I think I pulled off at most two or three. Never could get the timing right, which meant far too many QTE related reloads and loads of frustration.

I only managed one. After the first few failures, I made damn sure I shot every dog before they were within so much as sniffing distance.

My problem with it was pretty much the complete lack of feedback, whether you’ve been successful or just a fat handed twat, until the final animation so I’ve still got no idea what manner of button presses the game wanted (be it mashing, instantaneously upon the icon appearing or waiting for some nebulous ‘right’ moment after the icon appears).

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:10:25 +0000

Regarding the face huggers, you would have thought the Marines would have figured out to wear full face helmets by now wouldn’t you? A cheap motor bike helmet would do the job.

You clearly haven’t seen Alien then. the facehugger that gets John Hurt breaks its way through the front of his spacesuit’s helmet which consists of a four or five inch thickness of glass (Or possibly space plastic!).

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:49:12 +0000

Regarding the face huggers, you would have thought the Marines would have figured out to wear full face helmets by now wouldn’t you? A cheap motor bike helmet would do the job.