agreed, i'd like to see more fully playable cinematics; *cough* (im looking at you Kojima and your castlevania project)!

The best move they made in that direction was not going back down the route of "balancing" minigames when walking across a beam. It's about time that a game did away with those ridiculously out of place roadblocks.

hbk0: That wasn't what he was saying at all. Heavy Rain goes all in on the Quick Time Events and delivers an experience unlike any other. It's not the right one for Uncharted 2 (which is easily one of my top 3 games of all time) but it definitely was right for Heavy Rain, which is also a pretty fucking great game.

I don't think QTEs ever work.

QTE's do work, Heavy Rain and God of War show that, it's just that Heavy Rain was built around QTE's, and GoW uses them as a fundamental game mechanic. Whereas Uncharted was built around the 'Playing an action film' idea, si they wouldnt of worked

But Uncharted 1 only had two QTEs in the entire game, and shaking off enemies that grab you, that was it. I would say that QTEs were never a serious part of the game to begin with so this comment makes no sense to me.

What? Uncharted 1 had quite a few QTEs, always positioned at the least conspicious moments. You would assume an awesome cutscene or expository dialogue when suddenly a column falls on you. BOOM dead. Continue? No, you frustrating sonnuvabitch.

The QTEs of U1 were unforgiving and almost non-sequitur. Instant death is only sometimes good. Here it was not.

" its only holding game design back."
that's bullshit.

heavy rain does them great and pushed game design up a peg.
god of war does them and drops fucking jaws when it does.
how exactly is it lazy when games mainly have a limited array of moves and when they do do something different, its usually during a cutscene? a good qte may be just another short cutscene, but its the cutscene i control. and that's what all games have in common, control.

I think God of War 3 kinda has the right idea about not breaking up your attention while doing QTE's. Face buttons mapped corresponding to the extreme sides of your TV.

I hope more devs take note.

Stuff falls on you without warning with a QTE like TWICE in the entire game. It makes those times even more pointless, but still Uncharted 1 doesn't really use QTEs.

You need to look at other games that are loaded down with pointless QTEs, not Uncharted 1. So I still maintain this was a pointless statement by the developer.

I am not a fan at all of QTE's it always seems like you are playing dragon's lair.

QTE is an art.

if there were more or less we would complain over the lack of control involved or the removal of content for flair.
zazziness has a cost people...

I'm fine with well-done QTEs, personally. They simplify and signify when used properly. Furthermore, when you think about it, do you really want to have to conrol every little thing?

Using sprldr's example, what would you do if you had full, total control over Kratos when he's executing the minotaur-stab fatality?

Is there going to be an extra button for grapple/takedown? Once you've got a minotaur down on the ground, what commands do you have to go through to get Kratos to pull one of his swords out and go for the thing's head? You'd have to have more options than just "stab this thing in the mouth" since you'v got total control over Kratos at this point, but then you have to ask yourself exactly what difference it makes how I kill this thing, dead is dead, really.

The reason you can get away with not using a QTE for Drake's collapsing hotel escape is because the action that Nathan Drake is performing (run over there as fast as you can) much simpler than what Kratos is doing (wrestle this monster to the ground and engage it in a contest of brute strength so you can stab it in the face).