Poll: Universal Controls

[berault]

So today I decided to play the Uncharted 2 online, again, and I found myself getting frustrated with the controls, I had the same problem with Kill Zone 2, I might be biased because the first game I got for my Play Station 3 was Call of Duty 4, and grew accustomed to the controls. So my question is, do you think all same-genre games should adopt universal controls?

 

[Airfireme]

It would never work if it was all the same controls, because whenever a game wants to put in a new game mechanic, like Dark Void's use of a jet-pack, the MW2 controls wouldn't work.

 

[squid5580]

No. I think they should all have customisable controls.

This!!! What happened to customizable controls? Most PS2 games had them then they devolve when we get into the next gen.

 

[lwm3398]

Like you said, you can grow accustomed to another game's controls, making another's feel sticky, strange, unintuitive, etc., etc., etc. But if you could set the controls at the beginning, to avoid death early, the game could be easily mastered.

Besides, what if someone else playing Killzone 2 loves the controls, then everything changes to Call of Duty controls? Then they'd be pissed. So compromises for all, customizable controls!

 

[Simalacrum]

Yes, its a good idea, but we should also have customisable controls

edit: basically, default setting should be the same, but other than that, customisable

 

[berault]

Like you said, you can grow accustomed to another game's controls, making another's feel sticky, strange, unintuitive, etc., etc., etc. But if you could set the controls at the beginning, to avoid death early, the game could be easily mastered.

Besides, what if someone else playing Killzone 2 loves the controls, then everything changes to Call of Duty controls? Then they'd be pissed. So compromises for all, customizable controls!

I'm not saying CoD:4 controls, just universal controls

 

[fix-the-spade]

So my question is, do you think all same-genre games should adopt universal controls?

No, customisable controls or nothing. Every player has their own opinion of what works and it's better to change the game to suit you than the player to suit the game.

 

[lwm3398]

I'm not saying CoD:4 controls, just universal controls

I was just using what you said as an example.

 

[KurtzGallahad]

HAving the defaults the same is best for jump right in action and enabling customisation allows oyu to fine tune your experience, this is the best form of control layout.

 

[berault]

If there was customizable controls, you would set them the same for roughly every game, correct? so wouldn't universal controls make customizable controls obsolete?

 

[sln333]

No. Each game's controls is part of what makes each game unique. Also, some game's controls make sense only for that game and not for others in the genre.