I have to agree with him about the quick time events. Just got through with Tomb Raider Anniversary, which was terrific except for all the, "Dammit, I thought I was watching a freaking cutscene! Now I can't watch it because I'm too busy looking for button ques."

RE4 did them the best, but I still think the game would be better with most or all of them removed.

I guess Itagaki prefers games that are either more based on T&A value than good gameplay are which are so ridiculously difficult that they alienate all but the most masochistic player base.

Itagaki has always been quite open about how much he dislikes Tekken.

QTEs have their moments. I think that RE4 did them right and God of War walked the fine line of almost becoming a pain. Spider-man 3 showed just how bad they can be.

Cut scenes with QTE > Cut scenes. It should keep you on the edge but not be too punishing. If the demo is any indication, HS did that pretty well.

Instead of a big freakin button icon, I'd prefer it if they'd simply give you a subtle audio or visual cue for the timing and make the buttons you have to press logical though. Move left, duck, jump...

Actually, games like Dragon's Lair and Cliff Hanger got that down 25 years ago.

You got your symbol backwards. When I press a button during a cutscene, I expect it to skip the cutscene. I'd at least like the option to turn them off.

That's already been announced.

DOA = More oogaba

I feel the same way as Itagaki: QTE suck. In fact, I couldn't think of many more ways to ruin my gaming time than to be pushing a button like a monkey, because a machine tells me to. I don'e even care for a challenge all the time. If I encounter them in a game, it becomes hard to play. I lost interest in Overlord when I HAD to use a simple strategy to be a repetitive enemy. I get challenges at work. I just want toys, like Rabbit said. Toys don't tell you how to play with them.

They do play very differently. DOA is a twitch based attack and reversal fighting game while Tekken relied heavily on combos and super moves. I always found Tekken to be the Mortal Combat or Killer Instinct of its generation. It was visually rewarding but not very deep.

That being said, neither of them come close to the Soul Caliber for Virtua Fighter series.

I don't really see how QTEs "empower" players when they fail if they don't do it right.

Also, Tekken is better than DoA. It just is.

Having considering brightcrazystar's, Rabbit's, and Will Wright's arguments; no.

DOA was a gateway game for many of the girls I used to work with. They never really got into any games until they saw us playing Tag Team matches on DOA2 on the PS2. Now they all own their owns sytems. They even got pretty good at countering. It only takes a few days to really get the hang of a character. Yes, they laughed at the silly boob physics, but it never really seemed to bother anyone.

The same things can't be said for the other two games. So yes, it's more approachable to me and just about everyone else I've ever introduced it to.

I don't know. I gave up after Tekken Tag Tournament on the PS2. I bought it.. tried and tried to find something about it I liked. Then when all my other friends (including said girls that enjoyed DOA) played it about once each and said it was awful I just gave up on the series.

But we already had a few. David Jaffe, that Shadowrun guy, he-who-must-not-be-named...

Yes.

That said, on the one hand, QTE's give you a modicum of control over something you had to simply passively watch in the past -- Some would argue that some control is better than no control. Yes, it would be cool if actual game mechanics could accomplish all the whiz-bang things you can do in a QTE, but they can't... not yet, anyway.

One reason why people (e.g. Me) complain is that they're caught off-guard because we've spend 10 years viewing cut-scenes as being useless and are just something you keep trying to skip through. It's an ingenius/cheap way to force us to pay attention.

I really don't mind them... but then again, I used to play Dragon's Lair & enjoyed SHENMUE.

From the one QTE in Heavenly sword it's really unfavorable to compare it to something like RE4. Where RE4 was a full cutscene with seemingly random button presses mixed in Heavenly swords one QTE was more of a little mini sequence that had button presses that were mapped logically to what the character was trying to do. Further it lasted for all of about 5-10 seconds. Granted it could be a lot different in the full game, but from what i've seen Heavenly Sword does the QTE the best i've seen yet.