I used to have a problem with QTE's, specifically the God of War/button mash variety, no matter what I did it just seemed I couldn't pass these. Looking online it appears I wasn't the only their are tons of people that couldn't pass these parts and didn;t know what they were doing wrong, Well I actually figured out the trick to these minigames and I'll share it with you now, don't let the your finger ever leave the button. In my quest to figure out a way to beat these parts in games, I recognized something I was inadvertently doing, which is I would hit the button than my finger would fly into the air more so the faster I was pressing, this messed my timing all up. What you want to do is hit the button than let the button pop back up, but don't take your fingers off it (this may take some getting used to if you're not used to it so practice it with the console off for awhile) Now that you know the secret QTE's should be a snap, I know they are for me.