With all the demos that came out last week, it's not a surprise that the Xbox 360 got a week's worth of comics from Penny Arcade. Friday's offering takes a look at some of the less than stellar offerings supplied, in the simple form of the controller layout shown during the loading screen for the fictitious demo of Starfire Saga: Laserion. Obviously this takes a jab at some of the more convoluted controllers found in games. Our favorites are the controls found for the Back, Start, and A buttons, although there are a bunch of hidden gems to be found. Any button assignments make you crack a smile, or even a smirk?
With all the demos that came out last week, it's not a surprise that the Xbox 360 got a week's worth of comics from Penny Arcade. Friday's offering takes a look at some of the less than stellar offerings supplied, in the simple form of the controller layout shown during the loading screen for the fictitious demo of Starfire Saga: Laserion. Obviously this takes a jab at some of the more convoluted controllers found in games. Our favorites are the controls found for the Back, Start, and A buttons, although there are a bunch of hidden gems to be found. Any button assignments make you crack a smile, or even a smirk?
Reader Comments (6)
Posted: Jun 11th 2007 10:23AM (Unverified) said
What I hate is that in most demos, the only time you can look at the controls is the 5s it takes to load. How hard can it be to add something to the pause menu for you to look at in-game?
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Posted: Jun 11th 2007 11:31AM (Unverified) said
@2 I agree completely, it always seems to be the demos with the most complicated controls that suffer from that too
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Posted: Jun 11th 2007 11:33AM Omega Aero said
I hate demos that show you controls while it's loading, but as soon as it's finished loading, the game starts instead of you just pressing A to continue. So most of the time you get to look at two or three buttons before it starts.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2007 11:51AM (Unverified) said
"choke pixie" sounds novel enough for hours of entertainment. might make a good game in-and-of itself
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Posted: Jun 12th 2007 12:23PM (Unverified) said
Where to start?
LB-Damage Vectron-7, LB+RB-Repair Vectron-7, so efficient.
Oh... an Cycle Through Mandibles made me almost choke.
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LB-Damage Vectron-7, LB+RB-Repair Vectron-7, so efficient.
Oh... an Cycle Through Mandibles made me almost choke.
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