When I see someone look at their controller before they press a button...

bobartig · 1 year

I learn games by mapping functions to locations. When I see a map of the controller, I'm good. But when a singular button appears on the screen, "Press [yellow] to not die!!!" I'm dead. I know the block key, the switch weapon key, crouch, whatever. But, I have no idea where the yellow button is. I have to look down, and that's long enough for whatever to eat my face.

PaulSach · 1 year

Fucking Bruges.

shattererofworlds · 1 year

Sorta relevant story time! My parents have always thought video games are stupid, so to give them a wider apprecieation for them, I'm teaching them how to play, starting from the ground up. I started my dad out on castlevania for nes this weekend. He does this. Every time he has to jump. THERE'S ONLY TWO FUCKING BUTTONS ON THE CONTROLLER. HOW CAN YOU MIX THEM UP! I can't wait till he gets to xbox. Four buttons, two triggers and two bumpers, plus a d-pad and two analog sticks? God give me patience.

Mordy2011 · 1 year

Guilty... I'm a PC gamer...

M3RV · 1 year

Introduces Wii U controller

drakeypoo · 1 year

I don't need to look to see which button it is during the normal course of play. But when it comes to a quicktime event, or some kind of unusual action that says "PRESS Y!!" I ALWAYS have to look. Mentally, the four buttons aren't "a, b, x, y", they're "right, bottom, left, top" or whatever. I have a hell of a time telling other people controls too.

Silent_Inquisitor · 1 year

Well, I rarely, very rarely, use my PS3 controller. So, sometimes I forget where X-O-T-S are located.

And I seem to have a different keyboard every year. For instance, right now I'm getting used to the Lenovo layout where the Fn key is where the Ctrl key is, usually.

So, be nice.

cockwaffle · 1 year

Ok science lesson kids.

First, open this handy image. This is an oversimplification. I've left out a lot of the story and a lot of cool and interesting ways that all of these things go together, but if I get the message across with this and you go looking for more information you'll know the truth when you see it.

The parts in GREEN have to do with language and meaning (the parts in the "Temporal lobe") and vision (the parts in the "occipital lobe"). These are used when you try to hit a button on a controller because of what it says on the sceen.

The parts in RED have to do with what we might call "muscle memory." The part in the "frontal lobe" is where the cells that move your fingers live, and the "cerebellum" has parts that are kind of like an effects pedal for them that turn the "I want to move my hand to avoid that rock" into "I'm going to thumb the analog stick left just a hair"

People who have played a lot of games have programmed the red parts to work with the game. The fact that you can read and know that the button labelled the "B" button is the button that makes your F-zero car brake is irrelevant, since it runs mostly from circuits in and between the "green" parts.

I could bash you on the head and make you unable to understand speech, but if you'd learned to play the game beforehand, you wouldn't need to know how the "B" on the button had to do with the activity of braking your car in order to play the game with your muscle memory, which as you can see actually lives in the brain.

So just remember that you are a massive collection of parallel processes many of which have nothing to do with one another and cut someone a break when they haven't trained with a particular controller.

NathanMcCoy · 1 year

This is why.

When someone is playing an Xbox game and asks me "How do I jump?" my response is usually "Press B. ...And by 'B', I mean 'A'."

I also refer to the buttons on a Playstation controller by their SNES equivalent, which confuses people to no end when I tell them to "Press B to jump. Oh, dammit. I mean, press... press the button that would be B. Nintendo B, I mean. You know, the jump button..."

PandaBearShenyu · 1 year

As someone who plays piano, I find your elitism rather... unbecoming.

TychoVhargon · 1 year

I knew someone who couldn't drive because she couldn't move her feet without looking at them.

phemice123 · 1 year

What movie is that from?

lordlicorice · 1 year

In my defense I've only used an xbox360 controller a few times and when some button icon appears on the screen I have no idea which of the four to press.

Lennon4President · 1 year

funny, i have the same exact look when i see someone look at my controller before i press a button

mb86 · 1 year

I have a similar expression when I see someone look at the transmission when changing gears, primarily reverse to drive, in an automatic (looking at the shifter in a manual is a full-on slappable offense).

justsomeguy75 · 1 year

I hate to admit it, but I still have to occasionally look at my keyboard for keys that I don't use regularly.

But yes, seeing someone looking at their controller always makes me chuckle.

Xcalibeer · 1 year

I have to trouble remembering which button is which...

Except when there's a QTE in a game. My mind instantly blanks once those pop up. There are tons of monsters in the GoW games that I end up just beating to death because I fuck up the execution QTEs so much.

usrnme_taken · 1 year

someone needs to make a rage face of the first part of this .gif

pianobadger · 1 year

I do that when I play on a friend's Playstation. I haven't had one since the original and I don't remember where all the symbols go.

ihavenomp · 1 year

Being an SNES owner and PC gamer with many XBox friends, I mostly have to look because of this. I will never need to look at a PlayStation controller though, thanks to several hours of PaRappa!

somerandomguy255 · 1 year

Same reaction to people who don't use hotkeys in SC2.

nonethewiser · 1 year

When you have R1, R2, R3, R4...R6, L1, L2...L6 buttons, you kind of need to know the ins and outs of the controller before you play.

aerialistic · 1 year

The most interesting thing about this site (maybe it's new or I just haven't noticed) is that I could play that gif in reverse...

Bouchnick · 1 year

I do that same face when someone tells me a controller is better than a keyboard.

mediumsizedarms · 1 year

Isn't that what the Vietnamese used to say?

stefan_89 · 1 year

On the contrary, when I see someone who gives that look when they see someone look at their controller before they press the a button.

beetrootdip · 1 year

You mean because they spend the majority of their time socialising and working? How dare they!

Sparticus2 · 1 year

I take advantage of that if we're playing against each other.

lawnessd · 1 year

I've been laughing for the past five minutes that this. I haven't seen this .gif before.

inahst · 1 year

This may be the highest quality gif I've ever seen

Yamatoa · 1 year

Okay the second look back got me. "Okay I give up....unless....nope."

jorsiem · 1 year

This happens to me whenever I play madden on x360. I'm used to the ps3 controller, so whenever the wide receivers' buttons show up I have no clue which button is which.

berserkering · 1 year

I do that all the time, I don't play console games enough.

Inopportune_Zubat · 1 year

Fucking Bruges...

DefinitelyHittinOnYa · 1 year

My dad this...my dad that...my mommy this...JFC I feel old.

indivi · 1 year

I consider myself a patient guy, and I enjoy playing games with people who are less skilled than myself because I can usually make it fun for both of us. However, there's a certain level of incompetence that becomes difficult to bear after a short while, and a key indicator of this fundamental lack of skill is the "looking at the controller before they press a button" tell.

I recently watched a friend play Resident Evil on the Gamecube for the first time. This person owns a PS2 and has played games like the Playstation Final Fantasy games and isn't exactly a stranger to video games in general. To watch her struggle to even meet the first zombie in the game for a solid half-hour was painful. Despite my most helpful advice, she barely managed to escape the first zombie and died to the second one.

Aaaaaaaa.

guest75 · 1 year

Same thing when people look down to shift from p to d.

AnalBumCovers · 1 year

after almost 10 years i still mix up X and B sometimes... I have no idea why.

Fallingdamage · 1 year

Thats the face I make when someone asks me what time it is and I pull back my sleeve, show them my Bulova, and they say "Oh, I cant read those dials, cant you just tell me?"

The_Allfather · 1 year

Oh my god! This is the greatest thing I have seen all night!

thisisawebsite · 1 year

Put any controller except for an XBOX controller and I have no problem. The XBOX controller is impossible for me because it's so similar to the SNES controller.

themapleboy · 1 year

i've been a PS/PC gamer for most of my life so when one of my friends( or the AI) tells me to press x while playing x-box... things get confusing.

maxxpowa · 1 year

Whats a controller?

gotohell666 · 1 year

In Bruges, great movie.

Cendeu · 1 year

I'm the same way. Good thing my entire family's (mostly) game-literate.

[deleted] · 1 year

My family got me started by playing WoW 6 years ago. I played my first XBox game about 3 weeks ago (Portal 2) and I was a flibbin moron at it. I can't get the controls down. I give up- I wasn't born with a penis or the innate ablity to play video games without massive interventions.

filya · 1 year

That is why I play flash games with a mouse. 2 buttons and I still hit the wrong ones if I dont look

Rossco1337 · 1 year

I still have to look at the Xbox controller constantly when I'm playing it at a friend's house.

Why did Microsoft decide it was OK to steal the SNES/DS buttons from Nintendo but change the layout of them? I still play with my SNES and DS so any time I touch an Xbox controller, I go full retard when it tells me what buttons to press. My friends know this now, so they'll say "Press square and circle!" etc because I know what buttons they are.

tallowspammo · 1 year

I'm gonna admit it.

Never owned a playstation until recently. I cant remember the position of circle and square....I ALWAYS forget.

Rapph · 1 year

I do it every time i have to hit x on a ps3.

SkyHawkMkIV · 1 year

That's a little too broad for my liking. The very first time I play any console, it takes a game or two for my muscle memory to get used to the control setup. If an experienced player does this, your "reaction" is appropriate. However, this is not conveyed.

oicup · 1 year

Ok, maybe I'm getting old, but the xBox 360 controller has two analog sticks, a D-pad, two pressure sensitive triggers, four primary action buttons, three secondary buttons in the middle...and oh, aren't the analog sticks buttons themselves?

Yeah, because "pressing B to jump" means absolutely nothing to me until I learn that muscle memory. How dare a person not know the exact function within that game out of 11 buttons, two sticks, and a d-pad. What an ass indeed.

NuclearWookie · 1 year

Actually, even though I've played many playstation games it was always my least favorite console since the button labeling makes no sense to me. Whenever I played a game with quick action mechanics I'd always fuck it up because I have no intuitive idea of what where the fuck the triangle or square buttons are.

captainschlong · 1 year

In Bruges is such a good movie! No one ever believes me though.

leroywho · 1 year

my dad is 50 and can stomp me at any game from ps1 backwards throw in analog sticks and he's doomed. btw loved In Bruges

SpaceyKraken · 1 year

I do this on playstation controllers cause...the symbols confuse me..I guess I'm the only one...

jaap424 · 1 year

The fact that my father had the patience to help me and my brother through countless of nes games, especially on level 8 in Super Mario Bros shows me he was a very patient man.

But it all payed off after we started schooling him in quake and notably duke nuked 3d mp.

sttct · 1 year

I taught my 58 year old Dad to play Call of Duty. :)

Subtracting · 1 year

That's the same reaction when I see someone actually look at their keyboard.

[deleted] · 1 year

I admit that instinctively, I'm fine, but if a game actually tells me to press Circle or Square on a PS3 controller I have to stop and think. I always get the two mixed up.

jon_titor · 1 year

I like playing 360 with my more playstation minded friends, and yelling at them to press triangle instead of Y, or square instead of X.

JohnPolices · 1 year

Bullseye knows his way around a controller too, apparently.

[deleted] · 1 year

"Dude I am way too high for this..."

True story bro, sold the movie rights to pixar.

I2obiN · 1 year

i fucking hate belgium

KlausTeachermann · 1 year

'Raglan Road' brings a tear to my eye every time that scene plays.

nesagwa · 1 year

I do this when a game tells me to hit the RB / RT buttons on my 360. I can't remember which one is which. I know B stands for Bumper and T for Trigger, but its kind of hard to get that into my head after playing PS1 and 2 for what, 15 years?

efwxrwfwf · 1 year

but I use tons of different game pads. I don't remember the names of the buttons. I remember what they fucking do. If a thing pops up saying "Press Y", I don't go "Oh sure, Y. I love Y". I go "Is that the one to draw my gun?"

alfx · 1 year

Yeah, I bet it's just like this, except you are a fat mouth breather and not a colin farrell look alike.

GeTaReMiX · 1 year

This post is the final tipping point to me unsubbing from /r/gaming.

DeeKan · 1 year

Well it's an inanimate, fucking object.

EClark15 · 1 year

I give this look about 10 times in a day. I work at my local boys and girls club.

G_Morgan · 1 year

TBH I do this all the time with quick time events. I never learn what the keys are. I just learn to play games based upon the spatial positioning of the keys.

Also I then turn the game off because any game that uses quick time events is too stupid to exist.

Chrispy52x2006 · 1 year

I have no idea where the 360 buttons are. So every time I'm at my friends house, I have to look at the controller to figure out which button I need to press.

I have 10+ years with a Playstation controller, so I have no problems with that.

joehouin · 1 year

I still do this on the damn PS3 -_-

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