I don't understand what that has to do with anything. Controls can be defined any way the programmer chooses in any phase of gameplay.
square is the most used face button in western games even though you literally need to arch over every other button to reach it. Square+triangle is the most common duo input in western games even though your thumb isnt shaped like that. Again compare to bayonetta where the only dual input is circle+triangle for TA's your thumb naturally covers both of these.
I'll reiterate: that has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm talking about. No relationship whatsoever.
I'm talking about logical conclusions to draw for how controls work BEFORE you know what they do. The nips got it right on this front they focus right side for most used and put tiertiary actions on the inside of the controller further from your thumb's stress point. The bottom button being confirm on the other 2 consoles is just wrong.
Standardization leads to stagnation and it's also not good for your brain to settle in and feel comfortable all the time. When you change your neutral point your brain actually works harder and you play better as a result.
If you're so against standardization because it makes you play better, every game should randomize the cardinal directions on the D-pad and analog sticks every time the game starts. That'd really make your brain work hard.
That doesn't make any sense at all it's a false equivalence. What I'm saying is that when games all follow a standardized layout of what they "should do" you get worse games because at best every game starts to feel the same and at worse games literally just don't include actions because they didn't think about what worked best for their particular game. The reason snake eater played so well was because every input was carefully thought out to give you full control of snake. None of its controls are intuitive when looking at games on a broader scale but I wouldn't change a single one of them because the degree of control and precision you have is unmatched.
"It's good when controls don't follow standard conventions. Oh, except for the conventions I like."
No because it literally wouldnt work on a conceptual level. If up is left and left is down what does diagonal up and left do? Even if you were to swap it, it would only work under rotational means. Maybe that could be an idea for a game with gravity shifting but up and down always need to be opposite or their diagonal would be a contradictory input and you'd lose some gradient of direction. Again this is a problem your brain being unable to comprehend changes and their impacts.
That's for you to figure out, bro. Make your brain work hard so you play better!
I already did it doesn't work you're an idiot and I proved why your statement is a false equivalence given in bad faith.
You're never gonna git gud with that attitude.
The world first winners weren't even streaming, they were just streaming it to a guy in their discord so he could record it.
I didn't even bother watching Datto's stream because he's a fucking asshole on a normal day, and I heard he was going nuclear. Same with Sweaticle and probably some others. I watched Cross until i had to go to work, and while it wasn't terrible his teammates were trying really hard to pin the blame on someone everytime they wiped.
Rigged by whom? Nominated where? There are so many Internet gaming outlets that every single game released could be named "Game of the Year" by somebody.
I thought we were all silently agreeing to pretend to care about GOTY to make retards think it matters so we can laugh at them when their shitty game doesn't win? Like when KaiCenat was having a meltdown over Soypider-man 2 didn't win a single award at the VGAs. Awards are super fucking gay but it's very funny to watch people mald over them.
It's more that the people deciding most of these GOTY awards are all gaming journalists and they're an openly biased group of retards that have their opinions decided for them.
What? No it's not. It's the reload button in most shooters, and the Pip-boy menu button in the Fallout games. If there's any major difference in how Western and Japanese games are controlled, it's that Western games tend to use triggers more often. For, you know, firing guns and accelerating cars.
Holding my Xbox controller, my thumb's knuckle naturally lands between A and B, with the part underneath the bottom of my nail landing between X and Y. I do not have to arch my thumb to reach any of them.
I can't think of any Western games where you use a square + triangle combo input. I think Dead Rising 3 used Triangle + Circle a lot.
Excessive use of the right-side face button is uncomfortable for me, though I am an American and my hands are large.
I agree. It really has been a pain in the ass to go back and forth all my life.
Funny enough, non-standard button design on websites are now called "dark patterns", and are used as ways to manipulate people into accidentally clicking accept/cancel when they didn't intend to. Like to slow a person down if they're trying to cancel a subscription to a streaming service. Standardizing inputs is very important.
Nah, bro. I'm told by reliable sources that non-standard inputs makes you a Pro Gamer™.
They said "face buttons", as in the 4 buttons on the "face" of the controller. The pipboy menu button is O in Fallout 3, NV, and 4 while square is the reload button in all those games. Trigger is easily the most used button in most western games but that's not a face button, so the most commonly used face button is often reload unless the game has heavy movement usage like Titanfall 2 where you're crouching, jumping, and sliding all the time.
