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Whenvideos games tell you to press X
(lemmy.world)
I propose a new standardization:
Press the dickbutton!
If Nintendo 64 had a Dickbutton, it would be at the tip of the middle handle, and the Z button would be balls.
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All in favour?
Aye
That's actually quite a good idea; press "West" will take a bit to get used to but easy nonetheless.
Every controler and keyboard should come with a dickbutt button.
A dickbutton if you will
North East West South, or NEWS for short.
Biggest annoyance for me is how on playstation and Xbox the bottom button makes is the "okay" or "enter" button and the right button is "back" but on the switch it's reversed so when I click the bottom button to select something in a menu I back out of it instead.
Worse than that, on the psp if you play japanese games that are not localised to english, the circle becomes the okay button, but in the rest of the os, the x is the okay button so you have to mentally switch.
Genshin Impact had that problem on launch. After a few months they added a setting to reverse (fix, in American terms) the OK and Cancel buttons on controllers. It was especially bad on XBox controllers on PC, as originally the green button was cancel and the red one was OK.
That is why I use a third party controller that allows me to remap buttons.
8BitDo Pro 2
I can use it for the PC, Switch, Xbox, or PlayStation.
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I am currently going between Zelda and a couple games on PS5 and this is driving me nuts! Total first world problems but I will continue shaking my fist in the air.
For the exact same reason, I switched those two buttons on the switch. That's a pretty neat feature. Except when I alternate playing with the kids who got used to the switch default buttons, I need to remap everytime but you can save and load mappings.
In Zelda you can also change the mapping, which I did so that I could run with one button (bottom one if I recall) and jump with the button next to it (right I think) instead of the top one, because it's way easier to run and jump by simply rolling your thumb.
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Technically Xbox and Playstation are the ones that are reversed. Nintendo's scheme came first and follows right=forward left=back. Then when the PlayStation came out Sony followed the same scheme in Japan, but picked a symbol that was perceived in opposite ways in Japan and the rest of the world for accepting something (⭕), so they inverted the scheme for most of the world. And then Microsoft mixed Nintendo's letter semantics with Sony's button position, creating the current mess.
IIRC on the PS2 and earlier triangle was usually back. Just an extra little dash of inconsistency to ruin your day.
Circle was traditionally used for the Back button as well.
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Its a old japan thing from what I remember . On older Japanese ps1 games circle was ok and X was back . And even if you get a Japanese ps vita it's like that too. Not sure about other sony consoles.
I played Sniper Elite 5 on my fiances Xbox the other day and hadn't played games in forever. (34 years old now) I knew I could remap the buttons if needed, but the melee button they made Y. I pressed down the right stick every damn time as a built in reaction from years back.
I don't know why I felt I needed to say that, but I tell you when you find yourself looking through binoculars and getting lit up at point blank range it reminded me how frustrating games can get during quick scenarios.
So aggravating.
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Especially wack considering two of those controllers are from the same company
You forgot this
My brain naturally translates this.
Example: emulating PS2 games using a Xbox controller.
Yeah, when you play enough it's just like being fluent in multiple languages.
My friends hated playing gamecube games on an emulator with me using Xbox 360 controllers because I would always respond what the button was on a GameCube controller. PRESS B, I AM... oh I mean X.
Nintendo and Xbox are the most confusing, as if my dyslexia didn't suck already.
The SNES trained me that X = top button, but I use PS controllers enough that it's not a problem switching. Xbox button prompts have always messed me up, though. Those labels are wrong!
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Fun trivia about the Xbox controller is that their design is heavily influenced by Sega's. The Xbox controller has the same face button layout as the Dreamcast's. And if you compare the Duke (original fat) controller to a Saturn/Genesis/Mega Drive 6-button controller, you can think of those black and white buttons as the former C and Z buttons.
Some consider the OG Xbox as a successor to the Dreamcast.
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Just use a PC, where "act on thing" can be one of 57 possible letters and/or combinations.
When a console game finally releases a PC port and the title screen still says "Press Start," you know the keys are going to be completely unhinged like, "I" to open your inventory. "C" is yes, and "V" is no, except in the escape menu, where "Enter" is yes and "Backspace" is extra-yes. Left-click to either attack or walk forward, depending on how your character is feeling.
Press ctrl+shift+alt+Num0 to pay respect
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This has only ever fucked me up with a recent game because they use the colors of a PlayStation controller (which I am using) but the buttons are for Xbox. So when it said I needed to press X to finalize my character at creation, I kept pressing X and nothing was happening.
I propose we colour code it
Technically it’s a cross on PlayStation since it uses symbols not letters.
Yes, a X as they said.
The XABY (clockwise from top) pattern has been around the longest. It's the one true button pattern.
In fact, if it weren't for Nintendo being such assholes with the patent system, consoles could have standardized on it but noooooo...
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I have such a hard time understanding why not everyone loved the game cube layout the most tbh
It's kind of annoying playing Crono Trigger with the wrong kind of remote for that reason.. XABY
Switch messed me up with their button placement. It might be just Nintendo in the general.
Snes, n64, game cube, Wii/u, and then switch.
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All console controllers since the Atari 2600 are absolute garbage.
I only game on the 2600 or the PC, peasants.
I'm content with my Magnavox Odyssey. Some people can't appreciate the purity of the true, original game console. The 2600 was just overkill.
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Nobody cares what I think, but I am a firm believer that xbox does it best with the "BAXY" button scheme/placement.
Nothing feels more right to me than using a Dreamcast controller or xbox controller and having that standard.
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