History YMMV / QuantumBreak

* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler: SERENE. During the final boss, you're constantly being hounded by enemies that make your powers rather limited in how they're used so you're vulnerable a lot of the time. To make things worse, Serene uses his own time bombs to hurt you any time you are remotely close to standing still, and they ignore your shield. To make matters worse, heavies appear with dampeners which WILL end with you dead if you lose your powers for even a second. The cherry on top is that, on your first attempt, you WILL die to Serene's time 'nuke' during the phases as it envelops a huge amount of space which will kill you in one hit if you are not ready.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that commercials for the game feature a cover of "Come as You Are" is either this or a FunnyAneurysmMoment due to it's release date coinciding with the 22nd anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death.

* EightPointEight: [[Website/GiantBomb Jeff Gerstmann,]] the TropeNamer, caused this when he gave it 2/5 stars. For reference, Metacritic's average for the game came to 78%.

* FollowTheLeader: The gameplay resembles ''Videogame/{{Singularity}}''.
** Also, it was released not long after another game where the player had time powers, ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange''. To be fair, the game was in development before Life is Strange.

* AngstWhatAngst: Although it's clear that [[spoiler:Jack looks distraught over Beth's death at Paul's hands, it did not affect him as he said in his interview that he barely knew her]].

** [[spoiler: The Control timeline of the final episode hypes up Liam Burke as a boss fight Jack needs to fight in order to reach the Countermeasure, unfortunately even though he's a badass on the level of Jack, and Jack doesn't have access to his Time Powers, Burke's too badly wounded by the time he confronts Jack to be anything other than a brief distraction]].

* PortingDisaster: The PC version is horribly optimized, running at less than 30 fps at 1440p on a GTX 1080, the most powerful card available at the time of the game's release. According to developers the game was designed to be rendered at a lower resolution and then upscaled, and running it at a native resolution was simply never intended. And even with upscaling enabled the game barely manages 60 fps. The PC version, to put things into perspective, apparently runs better on pirated copies than legitimate purchases. On top of that, the live action sequences have to be streamed (as opposed to being downloadable on the console release), and, according to [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-what-went-wrong-with-quantum-break-pc this article]], [[EpicFail can't run at 60 FPS on monitors designed for 60 FPS]].

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The game's engine is extremely impressive and photorealistic enough, but whenever the game enters a stutter and time stops, things go from merely pretty to ''jaw-dropping''.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: An especially jarring animation error is that reloading the assault rifle will cause Jack to go through the actions of reloading while the rifle stays static and unmoving. The magazine stays on the gun during the entire animation, Jack's hand visibly clips through it at times, and Jack has nothing in his hand while he "loads in a new magazine".

* SpecialEffectsFailure: An especially jarring animation error is that reloading the assault rifle will cause Jack to go through the actions of reloading while the rifle stays static and unmoving. The magazine stays on the gun during the entire animation and Jack's hand visibly clips through it at multiple times.