WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 79•10 months agoIt’s select and start.
What’s it supposed to be, windows and hamburgers?I won’t give it up. Select and Start.
My wife makes fun of me for it whenever we play couch co-op games. “What do you mean press start? My controller doesn’t have a Start”
WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 36•10 months agoSo you married her for her looks, it could be worse.
WhyIDie ( @WhyIDie@lemmy.ml ) 8•10 months agoI’ll never give up start, but the select button hasn’t been used as an actual selector button in decades
Disgusted_Tadpole ( @Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml ) 3•10 months agoThis is the way.
flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) 30•10 months agoDid the buttons really need renaming? It’s not like options and share or + and - make any more sense
ursakhiin ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) 12•10 months agoFor the switch, plus and minus have a symbolic benefit of matching their position on the console itself when the joycons are detached. It’s not significant enough to warrant the rename but it at least is more than just a rename.
TheAndrewBrown ( @TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee ) English2•10 months agoI get being nostalgic for Start/Select but how does Options/Share not make more sense? The options button brings up a menu of options for most games and share allows you to share screenshots or video from the game. Whereas start did the same thing options does now which has nothing to do with the word Start and Select was sorta a catch all button for an action you only used occasionally, but was never used for selecting which was usually X but sometimes one of the other shapes.
flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) 3•10 months agoOptions I kinda get but it sounds dumb to me, would’ve been better as “menu” because it’s not exclusively for options, also for pausing and other menus.
Share isn’t what that button normally does at all in my mind, sure maybe PlayStation have it bound to that but normally it brings up an alternate menu to start that isn’t the pause menu (like in Minecraft and overwatch it brings up player list/scoreboard as an example
A lot of games I believe use it for the map too
TheAndrewBrown ( @TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee ) English1•10 months agoI haven’t played Overwatch or Minecraft but every game I’ve played with one of those options used pressing in the touchpad to do that. I’ve never played a game where the share button didn’t share somehow.
I just looked it up and for Minecraft it’s used to take a screenshot or bring up a screenshot menu. I couldn’t find anything for Overwatch though. Are you sure you didn’t remap the button? Or are you using it for PC? It might work different in that case.
I do agree that menu would’ve been a better name, but that doesn’t mean that Options doesn’t make more sense than Start which is what the original comment said.
flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) 1•10 months agoI was thinking of java edition Minecraft which I now realize I made my own configuration for
Still, not sure where I’ve got it from but I’ve definitely got the idea the select button is for menus that aren’t the start menu
GreenMario ( @GreenMario@lemm.ee ) 23•10 months agoStart and Select for life. SNES was my first gamepad.
Brother
banazir ( @banazir@lemmy.ml ) 18•10 months agoMy nephew was so confused when I kept telling him to press “Select” when we played on a PS5.
You must teach the boy the old ways.
Blake [he/him] ( @Blake@feddit.uk ) 13•10 months agoYeah, same. I actually forget the name of the button, too, so when I give someone the controller so they can play and they ask “how do I open the menu?” I’ll say “oh press start. It’s not called start actually but you know press the button that looks like it should be called start.”
Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English12•10 months agoThe touchpad is just “big select”.
I’m not sure who in the name of all fuck decided that controllers should have a dedicated Tweeting button, but I suspect this gen will be the last of that.
Legendsofanus ( @Legendsofanus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•10 months agoBut…we have two buttons right? The right one was always start and the left one was options ig? I’m an Xbox 360 player
This habit is pre Xbox 360
unfnknblvbl ( @unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months agoStart and Back, respectively. Now it’s “Menu” and “View”
…or possibly “hamburger” and “restore window to smaller size”. Because that’s logical?
callouscomic ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English10•10 months agoI’m sorry, are we discussing paddles?
TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ) 1•10 months agoLike…the Atari kind? Because I’m old enough for those.
Wanna play some Combat?
DAMunzy ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 10•10 months agoEverytime I start up Burnout: Paradise Remastered it tells me to hit Options to start the game. No! It’s Start to start!
Blasphemy
lukini ( @lukini@beehaw.org ) 10•10 months agoI will always call it the start button, but to be honest, menu or options are better names for what it does.
MrBusiness ( @MrBusiness@lemmy.zip ) English1•10 months agoSame, but never liked options as the name though sounds like that should be the word to replace ‘select’. Menu is an adequate replacement for ‘start’. Won’t call it that but makes sense.
Spot ( @Spot@startrek.website ) English9•10 months agoSame. My older SO corrects me. I won’t have any of it.
Carlos Solís ( @csolisr@communities.azkware.net ) 9•10 months agoCuriously enough, the “start” button is now more of a “pause” button. Sometimes also a “skip cutscene” and “open menu” button. Microsoft was into something by actually renaming it to “menu” in the Xbox, since that’s what it’s used for nowadays. Sony probably chose to call it “options” on the PS4 onwards solely to avoid being sued for plagiarism.
unalivejoy ( @joyjoy@lemm.ee ) English5•10 months agoShould’ve gone the Nintendo route and used symbols. “+” and “-”
Entertainmeonly ( @Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•10 months agoWhat are you talking about? The NES was what solidified the select/start names for me. No matter what any manufacturers call the two bottoms in the center of their controller, they will always be select and start.
IDontHavePantsOn ( @IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee ) 1•10 months agoLet’s not get political now.
SternburgExport ( @SternburgExport@feddit.de ) 3•10 months agoThe zoomers of today are the the boomers of tomorrow.
explodicle ( @explodicle@local106.com ) English2•10 months agoOn Xbox we have Big X and Little X too!
Disgustoid ( @Disgustoid@startrek.website ) English2•10 months agoMy primary gaming is on Xbox and I still can’t tell the hamburger and copy button icons apart without looking at them when a game refers to them in a tutorial or menu.