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FAILING A QTE ON PURPOSE
QTEs have become a rare breed in video games in recent years, which is, in many ways, a relief. When pulled off well, they can punctuate cinematic set piece moments to great effect, but a lot of the times they end up feeling like they’re limiting interactivity. Regardless of how good or bad a QTE is, though, one thing we can’t resist doing is failing on purpose to see what gruesome deaths our character will die as a result of our failure. Poor Spider-Man probably never imagined he’d die by crashing into a slab of concrete because he failed to time his web swing right, but hey- at least you got a kick out of it.
