Ryse Has Been “The Most Frustrating Game At E3″

Posted by: Ernice Gilbert June 14, 2013 in E3, E3 2013, Microsoft, News, Xbox One 3 Comments

Ryse, Microsoft’s Xbox One exclusive and answer to PlayStation’s God of War has apparently been the most frustrating game to play at E3 according to a Kotaku journalist, who said that the game’s QTEs (Quick Time Events) just happens. Yes, even if you fail to press the right buttons, the event gets completed without your input.

It’s pretty hilarious to be honest. Here’s the full event in quick time. Forgive the pun.

I’m on the battlefield. I’m stomping through the corpses of my comrades swinging my sword at anything that moves. I begin a combo, I slash twice and then whooom slow motion is initiated, shit is about to get ‘cinematic’. A button prompt hovers elusively above the sword I’m about to drive into the throat of my enemy… argh I’m too slow! The prompt flickers, disappears.

I missed it. Damn.

But then somehow, for some reason, I still complete the cinematic ‘kill’.

What?

Maybe it’s a bug I think, but no. Next time I deliberately press the wrong button. The kill goes ahead, no consequences. Then I try hitting no buttons whatsoever. The kill goes ahead. I put the controller on the table in front of me, the kill goes ahead.

What is going on here?

I ask one of the Crytek people hovering at the booth – is this a bug? Why am I completing kills when I hit the wrong button prompt? Or, worse, no button at all. Turns out it was a deliberate design choice.

“We don’t want the player to feel frustrated,” I am told.

marcofdeath

That is not true. ” Kotaku journalist, who said that the game’s QTEs (Quick Time Events)
just happens. Yes, even if you fail to press the right buttons, the
event gets completed without your input.” Google the game play.
Baran Altuncu

Man you are persistent aren’t you?
Sheldon

If this is true, and the kill goes throw no matter what you do, I wont be buying this game. I wont feel like a BOSS with the combat, if it doesn’t matter if I mess up or not.