Spam button to do <something>

WWWHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY does this "mechanic" exist? Playing God of War 3 and I'm tired as shit of spamming Triangle to move a log or open a door or chest or whatever. I just finished The Last of Us and had to spam Square if an infected grabbed me and also had to spam Triangle to open shit.

THIS IS NOT FUN. Why do devs add this garbage? What's wrong with just pressing triangle once? When has a mash event EVER been good? The only time I remember it being done kinda well is in the original MGS during the torture scene and that's because they made it almost impossible to spam Square fast enough to survive the torture. It also kinda works in Olympics games as it's a test of how fast you can throw a spear or run or whatever. BUT THATS IT. I DONT NEED or WANT button spamming in my games EVER again!!

Is there something we as 4channers can do to get developers attention on this so we can remove it from games for good?

its immersive and cinematic.

Have you played American Wasteland? There's a section where you need to do that and it's genuinely unfair because you need to do it fast for like 30 seconds.

Tony Hawk game? I don't recall that, maybe I didn't reach that level/

Yeah. It was complete bullshit and I almost stopped playing the game.

You had to tap it so fast and for so long that as a kid, I could barely do it.

you do realize that most of the time just tapping the button helps? it's not hard, you're not supposed to damage your controller and it adds a little to immersion.
but you're probably exaggerating

Its only fun if its competitve. You and a friend on a couch just spazzing out on your controllers is what made mario party fun

>you're not supposed to damage your controller

Not OP but MGS1 literally claimed a controller. Dualshock 3 held up for MGS4 though.

it's a lot easier to program a button mash event than it is to make a unique set piece that is engaging and uses the default controls

actually, it's not that hard, bad designers are bad lol. also retards will call it HOOOIYPE re: w101

fuck i remember that i never finished the game because of that

>WWWHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Seems as though you have no trouble spamming the same input.

I was bitching about this a while ago. Seems to mostly appear in cinematic games like Uncharted. Since you're mostly just walking, it tricks you into thinking you're actually doing something instead of taking even more control from you and just letting you watch a cutscene within an already game-lemgth cutscene. That's my guess.

They want you to do something to achieve something,
>oh i'll just dantily touch a single button to open a massive door like some sort of sissy britches
NO U MUST SPAM IN A MINUTE OF POWERFUL BUTTONG PRESSING

I don't even remember how I passed it. It's probably the best example of why these design choices suck.

Spam button is annoying but doable.
Mechanic where you need to jiggle your stick left to right to exit a stun like in MGR for example is worse. I'm aways afraid I'm going to brake my controller

see this is where you are outed as the retard, because you just need to hold the button on a keyboard for it to do that, even basic typing gets it right

I think he was just trying to make a simple joke, man

>complaining about a QTE
>on a playstation exclusive
>on god of war
>the game that is defined by QTEs

>Actually works in God Hand to give you maximum Kenshiro effect

TIME FOR THE TWO OF US TO TEAM UP!

my friend passed it because he had some knock of controller that had the turbo button

It took me 8 years to forget this part of my life you motherfucker

At least in God Hand they were all hilarious.

I didn't know you could also press x.

Because you have to give brainless players something to do, otherwise they fell asleep watching 2 seconds open chest or heavy gate animation.