Comments on: A Honeymoon of Cut Scenes and Gameplay

By: Rohan

Rohan — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:04:12 +0000

I generally find quicktime events lessen a game’s immersion. Nothing screams ‘video game’ like button-mashing sequences, if only because – b definition – they need to display meta-information on the screen.

When your button presses are all known by you, memorized, and not displayed on screen, and all you’re seeing is the game world, it’s easier to forget you’re sitting on your couch or in your office playing a game…

By: Ravenred

Ravenred — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:15:26 +0000

Assasins Creed is a good example. A million dollar idea, well-recognised setting and unusually intriguing plot, but the quicktime events required to move the plot along were finicky and repetitive. I suppose it breaks immersivity if a task that’s obviously complex becomes mechanical in terms of how the player interacts with it. Combat sequences, OTOH, are generally pretty mechanical exercises, and there is an appropriate place for non-freeform quickttimery if used moderately.