Gaming Humour

K.O.Kiki · 12-09-2019 9:23pm

https://twitter.com/OnlineXPersona/status/1171172442171224065

Zero-Cool · 12-09-2019 9:51pm

Xbox throwing love and shade at the same time.

https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1172178061627932672?s=19

nix · 12-09-2019 10:32pm

How is it throwing shade?

marcbrophy · 12-09-2019 10:35pm

nix wrote: »

How is it throwing shade?

Cos last week PS said that it's a cross, not an "Ex"

steve_r · 13-09-2019 8:35am

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1172175556735094784?s=20

Retr0gamer · 13-09-2019 8:40am

marcbrophy wrote: »

Cos last week PS said that it's a cross, not an "Ex"

I'm actually baffled how that is even news as it's been stated as being cross since 1994 by Sony.

Clickbait ****e.

Sabre0001 · 13-09-2019 9:30am

It's something that will always get clicks, like the pronounciation of gif (the creator himself clarified in 2013...but he can be wrong - hence more articles, comments, and clicks). Think it was PlayStation themselves who brought it up again; a good way of getting free promotion and coverage (even if it's just in a general sense).

Sabre0001 · 13-09-2019 9:43am

marcbrophy · 13-09-2019 11:24am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'm actually baffled how that is even news as it's been stated as being cross since 1994 by Sony.

Clickbait ****e.

We all know it's a cross, cos they are shapes, but it's just easier to refer to it as X.

Easier to explain to someone in tight situations.

Quick, hit X!
Quick, hit cross!

One of those above is going to cause confusion

Retr0gamer · 13-09-2019 11:32am

I remember being confused in 1995 when I played one for the first time and wondering why they didn't just use letters like a normal console.

Evade · 13-09-2019 12:22pm

There is a reason behind the symbols. X cross is no, circle is yes, square is inventory, and triangle is menu.

As for why those particular symbols, O and X are commonly used as yes/no in Japan, the square is suppose to be an item storage box, and the triangle is supposed to be a head so you can change you mind.

Penn · 13-09-2019 12:24pm

Evade wrote: »

There is a reason behind the symbold. X cross is no, circle is yes, square is inventory, and triangle is menu.

As for why those particular symbols, O and X are commonly used as yes/no in Japan, the square is suppose to be an item storage box, and the triangle is supposed to be a head so you can change you mind.

Yeah I think it was the first MGS game where I kept backing in and out of the menu forgetting that unlike most games, O was Yes/Accept and X was No/Back. Always confused me at the start.

Evade · 13-09-2019 12:28pm

Penn wrote: »

Yeah I think it was the first MGS game where I kept backing in and out of the menu forgetting that unlike most games, O was Yes/Accept and X was No/Back. Always confused me at the start.

Final Fantasy VII was like that too.

The circle is often red too which makes it doubly confusing for Europeans where a red circle on a sign usually means no.

nix · 13-09-2019 1:57pm

If they wanted it to look like and be called a cross, they shouldnt have made it so much like an X, but then again if they rotated the graphic people would likely call it plus +

:pac:

13-09-2019 2:15pm

Evade wrote: »

There is a reason behind the symbols. X cross is no, circle is yes, square is inventory, and triangle is menu.

As for why those particular symbols, O and X are commonly used as yes/no in Japan, the square is suppose to be an item storage box, and the triangle is supposed to be a head so you can change you mind.

Huh. Thanks for that.

I always thought it was just representing the button number:
1 : Circle
2 : Cross
3 : Triangle
4 : Square

Penn wrote: »

Yeah I think it was the first MGS game where I kept backing in and out of the menu forgetting that unlike most games, O was Yes/Accept and X was No/Back. Always confused me at the start.

Nintendo says "hello". Everytime I alternate from Switch <-> PS4/Xbox I do the same.

marcbrophy · 13-09-2019 3:13pm

Also, Square is often called Box
And Circle is often called Oh

But Triangle never gets called Pyramid

Retr0gamer · 13-09-2019 3:19pm

Penn wrote: »

Yeah I think it was the first MGS game where I kept backing in and out of the menu forgetting that unlike most games, O was Yes/Accept and X was No/Back. Always confused me at the start.

Evade wrote: »

Final Fantasy VII was like that too.

The circle is often red too which makes it doubly confusing for Europeans where a red circle on a sign usually means no.

Nintendo consoles and every other console before it used the button in the O position as yes and X as no. There's a lot of confusion in early PS1 games before it got standardized as X for accept and O for cancel in most western games. Japanese games took longer to adopt it, but only for the West, they still use the came set up in Japane. MGS was one of the last to adopt it, right up to MGS3 they used the classic Nintendo set up.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-09-2019 3:23pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Huh. Thanks for that.

I always thought it was just representing the button number:
1 : Circle
2 : Cross
3 : Triangle
4 : Square

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Zero-Cool · 15-09-2019 5:22pm

https://twitter.com/ERIK_303/status/1173047408063737856?s=19

Grumpypants · 15-09-2019 6:53pm

Penn wrote: »

Yeah I think it was the first MGS game where I kept backing in and out of the menu forgetting that unlike most games, O was Yes/Accept and X was No/Back. Always confused me at the start.

If you change your PS4's region to Japan they X and O reverse. So if you press X to log in to your profile as normal it turns off the controller.

Took me ages to figure out it was working as intended.