Taking the Xbox plunge

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So I was at a friend's house for a party and instead of being around people, chatting and whatnot like a healthy normal person, I was hole up in a room playing their Xbox. The game was LEGO Star Wars TCS. I have it at home on the Wii but I found the playing experience on the Xbox much better and easier.

See, there was a time that I was very intimidated by the number of buttons on one controller. I felt the I could only handle the SNES controller with the amount of buttons on its controller and that was it. That is, until Saturday night when I found that it seems that I was very comfortable with it.

Looking forward to getting it for my 43rd birthday along with some games like most LEGO games (don't care for PotC), Alien Isolation, Grand Theft, Halo...

Thanks for reading!

Kind, respectful and thoughtful replies always welcome!

Hm, I think alot of people that hadnt already fully gotten into gaming can find the number of buttons on some of the controllers to be a bit daunting.

Sometimes, this seems a little odd to me, mostly if the person in question already knows how to type on a keyboard, for instance (where there's about a bazillion different keys), particularly if they can type really fast. Always thought that a bit funny, heh.

But yeah, there's plenty that get intimidated, but really, it's just a matter of getting used to the things. Whatever the thing happens to be. Beyond that it's just a matter of preference... far as I'm concerned, the only actual differences between the XBone and the PS4 is the controllers, since the game library is *very* similar, with very few exclusives on either. I have the PS4 mostly for the controller, as I need it for the PC as well and particularly need the dpad, which is HORRID on the Xbox controllers (always has been). That and LittleBigPlanet 3. But beyond that, they're really interchangeable, those two consoles.

I've forgotten where I was going with this. Well, enjoy the gaming, then!

Congrats! I bet the buttons will soon become second nature, like a qwerty keyboard.

Yeah, I've experienced the, "there are more buttons on a keyboard" argument before. Truth is, you only use W, S, D and A keys for movement, the mouse to look, fire, alt. fire or to operate things and space to jump.

Do you mean the XBox 360? TCS wasn't on the XBox, it only had the original LEGO Star Wars 1 and 2 as two separate games.

Whichever system it was on, it was a good experience so I intend to get the latest model of it.

Actually what I meant was full-on typing, using pretty much every key there is very rapidly... it's then kinda funny to watch someone that is skilled at that go and get confused by a controller. THough it was much funner with the older consoles that really didnt have that many buttons.

It depends on the game.
Many shooters and other PC games use more than those buttons.

I can't remember what it was, I was reading, or listening, or watching something that was talking about the daunting difference of controls as well as mechanics between modern games to earlier generations. And how people have seemed to adapt is that you have kids who are getting right into it, or you see games and such that actually bridged the way over, like if you looked at camera control in things like Mario 64 era which is kind of broken by today's standards, but many things have just been an evolution that makes sense after thinking through it.

In terms of xbox I remember being kind of overwhelmed by the buttons above the triggers. Usually there is some similarity, A and B usually do expected things, until you find some games of the same franchise mix things around, like Halo that changes certain parts every other game. But not anything some looking at the button layout and getting a comfortable grip can't help. It becomes reflex after a while.