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QTE Final bosses are disgraceful.
I'm looking at you Shadow of Mordor, Dying Light and apparently The Order.
Quick Time Events are the one, true monster that God of War never killed and that every other game boss can never get right.
The QTE in God of War 2(?) Zeus fight was extremely disappointing because I was enjoying the action and every few seconds some button prompt would come up. It was very distracting and took me right out of the great action that game was displaying.
I also hated the QTE's in Force Unleashed, that is when I really started to notice and hate those design choices in games. The first game was pretty well done, but the inclusion of those felt like a cheap gimmick trying to copy other games that made them popular.
I'm more disappointed with how many games still rely on the same old predictable boss fight to end a game.
Why spend time on complex and interesting bosses, when people can't be arsed to go through the rest of the game? I think developers are looking over the stats of completions, then thinking that exact thought.
It doesn't help that publisher-developers are scared of complex games, because they're sure that through extensive market research, the market isn't there for it. It's funny though, considering the top streaming games are usually complex games.