Mini-rant number 4.

Quick time events, or QTE for short. Don’t you hate them?
Well, I don’t. I don’t actually hate QTEs, I think they can be done well, the issue is that they’re more often than not not handled well at all. And here’s a big no-no when it comes to quick time events:

Don’t make quick time events that you automatically fail, particularly not if the punishments for failing are harsh, if you press the wrong button if it’s during gameplay where you’re expected to press buttons. Getting blind-sided by a QTE when you’re attacking, dodge-rolling or otherwise doing “stuff” and then taking a large chunk of damage is not fun, it just feels cheap and frustrating.
I’ve now played two games in a row that had this problem. Resident Evil 5, and Prototype. RE5 did not have a whole lot of these instances, though it still had some, but Prototype had plenty. It was always fun to try and do a jump attack, only to then be blind-sided by a big soldier, and instantly failing the QTE because I had just hit the attack button, thus getting suplexed into the ground and losing most of my remaining HP.