What does the A / X button get used for the most in gaming IYO?

Jumping? Selecting? Attacking? Take your guess through video game history at what you think it's used the most for.

Making a confirmation.

Making a confirmation.

King9999

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Making a confirmation.

Blabadon

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Making a confirmation.

fastr

would you rather jump with a trigger?

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And do you realize how many pages of text you go through in the average rpg? Just talking to people on the streets alone produces a lot. And then all of the story events, and then the turn based battles. Even Mario games have you using it to go through text boxes. I'd say that's it's most common use. Just going from one box of text to another.

But there's an A and an X button on the 360 controller. :P

Developers are required to make the X button on the PlayStation controller the confirm button. Don't know about the 360, but I imagine the A button is required to be the confirm button.

Confirm and jump. Can you imagine the jump mechanic mapped onto a left, right or top face button? It's like foreign controls, at least for me. Arghh, it makes me mad :evil:

would you rather jump with a trigger?

davidkamayor

Developers are required to make the X button on the PlayStation controller the confirm button. Don't know about the 360, but I imagine the A button is required to be the confirm button.

King9999

Developers aren't required to use X as confirmation. That's just the standard for western releases. Probably because that's how Sony programmed the menu. In Japan the circle button is usually confirm, even in the PlayStation menus. Some games, like Metal Gear Solid, still use circle in their western releases.

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Developers are required to make the X button on the PlayStation controller the confirm button. Don't know about the 360, but I imagine the A button is required to be the confirm button.

ThePlothole

Developers aren't required to use X as confirmation. That's just the standard for western releases. Probably because that's how Sony programmed the menu. In Japan the circle button is usually confirm, even in the PlayStation menus. Some games, like Metal Gear Solid, still use circle in their western releases.

I suppose, back in the early days, the biggest use of the A button was for jumping. These days, one of the biggest uses I see for the A button is for navigating menus.