"Action Commands" are a pain in the balls.

[Johnny B. Decent]

I probably am not the only guy who is getting tired of these things. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, look here:

Warning: probably some violence

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M2jKSFyI1A)

So, today I was playing Mercenaries 2, and in the final scene, you MUST do the sequence 100% right, or you will die, and that, my fine friends, is crap, especially when I have a Stinger, and can just blow it up right there. There is a poster here whose name I can't think of, has a signature called "Press X to not die", and how right he is. I hate having to do this every single time I want to hijack a Tank or Helicopter. And it's really bad when it happens in a cutscene, and boom, dead.

[The Tank]

Sir, you'd better not try to hijack me. You don't even wanna know what happened to the last guy who tried that.

But, I agree with you. If they're done well, they're tolerable at best. But when you have to do one ever 5 seconds, it gets extremely annoying.

[Johnny B. Decent]

I liked it better in the first game, all you had to do was kill the gunner, get in the spot, press the button, and there you are, got the Tank.

[Mozenrath]

Some games, like Resident Evil 4, work them in and it's fun. A lot of games do it entirely unnecessarily, though. I know it's to try to add variety to games, but some games should stick to what brought them to the big stage and work on that, rather than try to slap stuff on for depth without being able to pull it off.

[Lazy peon]

If you're talking about QTE, quick time events, I agree they suck.

[Johnny B. Decent]

Dec 31, 2009 19:01:20 GMT -5 Lazy peon said:

If you're talking about QTE, quick time events, I agree they suck.

Yeah, they are also called that.

[Mozenrath]

I'll say this, though: they're infinitely less unfun and pointless than button mashing portions.

"Yay, I get to f***up my controller and hurt my thumb just to mash the X button and still not do it fast enough to make them tap out!"