8 Most Stressful QTE's In Video Game History

4. Krauser's Knife Fight - Resident Evil 4

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If one was to list all of the potential "most stressful moments you'd never want to live through", I'd say that battling another person to death with only a knife would be at the tip-top of that terrible pile. Therefore, is it any wonder that the knife battle with Krauser from Resident Evil 4 makes its way onto this list?

Making matters even more stressful is that the entire experience is relayed to the player through QTE's meaning that from start to finish you're just one or two button presses away from instant death.

The game pulls no punches in this section, throwing prompt after prompt after you and even mixing up the combinations should to get sliced and have to start over, making for an experience that is going to see you're veins bulge as big as Krauser's mutated arm.

The scene is a wonderfully choreographed struggle for survival, with the two men pulling off moves that even the Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon team would applaud.

However, you're not going to see a jot of that juicy action when playing as you'll be laser-focused on the centre of the screen, just waiting to see what horrible prompt is going to try and kill you next.

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