PS and Xbox are fine, but literally everything is different with Nintendo and it pisses me off.
How do you deal with this shit?
You use PS icons whenever possible to avoid it, and then you curse Microsoft for copying the Dreamcast layout, and then you curse Sega for using that layout which was just the SNES layout but in different places.
I hate to inform you that nintendo and ps has the same layout and it's all just in your head.
Tendy is y, x, b, a top to bottom left to right and ps is 4,3,2,1
I use O/B to confirm whenever given the option
The main problem is that Nintendo kept changing where the confirm button is. Yes, I'm aware it was always the A button on Nintendo controllers, but Nintendo kept changing where the A button was. The confirm button, in my opinion, should be on the bottom, it's the first button your thumb touches. It's literally all Nintendo's fault.
Nintendo was the first of the three and funny enough, sony used to follow their order as well with "O" being the "press A to continue" format
MS did it different and then Sony followed making X the "press to continue" because the rest of the world was fucked and didn't understand that "O" means yes and "X" means no. It's OK if you're to young to know any of this.
everything is different with Nintendo
Zoom alert
How do you deal with this shit?
What "shit" is there to "deal" with? Are you incapable of something so trivial as memorizing four buttons?
Simple, I don't play games with a controller.
I think the issue might be whether you want confirming to be the "default" option, a lot of things default to no so you have to go out of your way to confirm.
You use prompts that arent related to what's on the button, like botw. Sackhead guy's "games for a non gamer" videos showed that's the best way to give prompts
How do you deal with this shit?
Tfw I'm so autistic that the distinct feel of the buttons on each type of controller is enough to instantly activate the correct muscle memory needed
My problem is I can't into keyboard and mouse.
I'm PC only and a lot of games have mods for any button icons you want. Thankfully newer games just let you pick the icons in the options which is nice.
My problem is I can't into keyboard and mouse.
Quit using a phone for 2 years, zoomoid
You mean everything is different with Xbox and THAT should piss you off. Nintendo's layout came first. Sony's layout mimics Nintendo's because in Japan Circle is confirm and X is cancel.
Nintendo
Too dumb
Xbox
Too soulless
Sony
Soul and perfection
By not being sub 90 iq
The XBOX layout is more intuitive simply because the X is on the horizontal axis and the Y on the vertical. A, the first letter, is the closest to you, while B, that is after it, is to the side.
I've never owned a single console in my life by the way
Sony's layout mimics Nintendo's because in Japan Circle is confirm and X is cancel
Sony should have put O where X is and vice versa and had O be confirm so that we'd have a layout where everything is correct. Confirm on the bottom is objectively better than confirm on the right.
Technically, it's Microsoft who was different, likely because they wanted to avoid a Nintendo lawsuit. But before that, it was the rest of the world's fault, as we all preferred X as confirm as opposed as O. It just made more sense to follow that tradition of the bottom-most button being confirm, and it would feel awkward if it were B to confirm.
MS did it different and then Sony followed making X the "press to continue"
Except this change happened long before MS came into the console market.
the stupid swapped buttons between nintendo and xbox is the only reason why I use a playstation controller/layout. I also think "LB LT, RB, etc." is extremely retarded
tradition
Tradition because the PS1 was the console to win (by a landslide) that generation. But I just noticed Sega started that layout with the Dreamcast.
Just think of it as "up button", "left button", etc. and assign the letter/shape of the button to the corresponding direction in your head.
For example I know X on Xbox and Square on PS is always the left button.
X to confirm was common in the PS1 days before xbox existed, even japan started to do it in many games not just because the west did it but because the thumb naturally rests close to X and makes it a better main button.
Only for western games.
This had to of happened mid PS1 life cycle, probably with the release of the dual shock yeah?
This is going to sound really fucking stupid but I use the part of my brain that learned to read comics backward for manga and just invert the inputs in my head.
Nintendo buttons and Playstation buttons are real.
Xbox buttons are fake dumb shit that should have never been made.
nope
Haven't played on PC since I was 20
Tell friends all the time that 13 year old me with a mouse and keyboard would absolutely stomp 30 year old me using a controller any day of the week
The friends that have always played shooters on console don't understand the huge difference
The difference is if wasn't so casual these days and really wanted to win, I'd be on mouse and keyboard.
Here's your word of wisdom to remember it.
Nintendo is japanese, so the button is read right to left like manga, hence the B A
Xbox is english, so the button is read left to right like normal, hence the A B
They didn't, SEGA had a
XYZ
ABC
layout.
If you really wanted to win at shooters nowadays, you use controller because games (even crossplay between PC and console) come with insane aim assist for controllers nearing aimbot levels
Nintendo layout is the soulful way to go, others are for retards and inbreds (they're the same thing).
You are so stupid. I hope you think about this post in ten years' time when you're trying to sleep at night.
not into tendie shit
Maybe in Japan, but in the West, early PS1 games were using X as confirm. Crash Bandicoot definitely did, and that released in 96
grow up playing exclusively console games
go to college and move to a laptop
be absolute dogshit with a mouse but stick with it for convenience
get serious about a few shooters over the years
operate at a casual level of skill that would have my 16 year old self calling me a cheater
I didn't even realize it until a friend of mine streamed himself playing a shooter and I realized he was strafe aiming. I hadn't done that in almost a decade and it took me a second to realize why he kept moving left and right.
This.
Japan reads right to left
Is that why?
Exactly. I don't have any problem switching confirm/cancel buttons when I go from PS to Nintendo. But if there are Xbox prompts on a screen I will hit the wrong input every time.
The "mouse" part of the kbm isn't the problem
My left hand just gets stiff and hurts and I constantly have to look at the keys every now and again. It's never been worth the better aim imo. Seriously considering getting one of those claw things with the analog stick built in.
The only button I sometimes have brain lags for with these configs are X since nowadays everyone's just using colorless button prompts and that shit can be in three different positions.
Nintendo started it
Playstation (Japan) kept the same layout with O being confirm
Xbox ruined everything
I don't have any problem switching confirm/cancel buttons when I go from PS to Nintendo
The 'a' button is synonymous to circle. What needs switching?
Xbox ruined everything
Xbox didn't start their current layout, Sega did with Dreamcast
I think back in the day the only shooter that I work would use a controller for on PC was Halo 2. The aim assist in that game using a 360 controller was insane. It felt like cheating.
press a to continue
They usually use X for confirm. It ends up being functionally the same as the Xbox layout
They usually use X for confirm.
Only ports swap to X. Circle is confirm.
How about Neo-Geo?
All the imported PlayStation games I have have the O button as the confirm button. It's a Japanese thing, not a console thing.
Didn't some games use the square to confirm and triangle to cancel or am I thinking of something else?
I haven’t seen it much in the core franchises. Maybe during speech or in a menu, but otherwise it conforms to Xbox muscle memory. It was way harder adapting to on screen prompts than the actual layout, yet I’m a fumbling retard with a switch
Xbox muscle memory
Found your problem.