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  • 9 years ago
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    OK, so here's my theory as to why the X franchise of video games is such an earth-shatteringly financial success. You wanna know why X3 is so popular with kids and teenagers these days? One word: accessibility.

    You see, these games are very consumer friendly, easy to pick up with literally no learning curve whatsoever.
    The devs designed it so that basically anyone can jump right in, play for a few minutes and then come back later for more.

    Take me for example. I'm by no means what industry experts would call a so called "hardcore gamer, so I was surprised that it only took mere 120ish minutes to configure the controls of X3 to my liking by remapping them to my dualshock 4.

    Casuals eat that shit up.

    And that's why Egosoft is rolling in money. The end.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … I bought a bunch of these in a bundle and I swear it's my Hell. I tried to find the simplest of the trilogy to just TRY it. I can't... it's just.. I can't. I mean, I can barely figure out everything on Civ V, but at least I can understand enough to play it and feel like I'm doing stuff and make decisions whereas in this game I'm just like "HOW CAN I NOT CRASH INTO THIS AND WHAT ARE ALL OF THESE WORDS!?"
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    • Erektionsite
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      Editing … Crash is filthy casual confirmed.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … Imma change my nickname to Filthy Casual
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … yup, that pretty much sums up my feelings as well. The first impression was awful, but somehow I feel like there's a real gem hiding behind all of this user interface mess.
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      Editing … Thankfully I'm playing with a controller, cause imho the default k/m controls are a disaster. Just now I've finally figured out how to properly navigate my ship through space and it feels like a small, personal accomplishment even. Jesus fuck, why is this game so unintuitive? ^^
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … I should probably try that as well then.
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    • Erektionsite
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      Editing … Filthy McCasualsson
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … By default the game assigns the "confirm" button to the dualshock's square button. Not X or O like any normal game would. Nope. motherfucking SQUARE... my current button layout looks like this: move around with left analog stick, roll and look around with right analog stick, shoot your main weapon with R2, accelerate your ship with R1 and decelerate with L1. Boost is mapped to the dualshock's L2. Confirm is x, cancel is circle. You know, normal stuff. That works for me, at least. Now that I've sorted out the controls, I can finally start checking out what this game is actually about. I'll keep you guys posted, if you're interested.
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … I FIGURED OUT HOW TO TURN ON THE AUTO PILOT AND DOCK AT A SPACE STATION. YAY, ME!
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … "so I was surprised that it only took mere 120ish minutes to configure the controls of X3 to my liking by remapping them to my dualshock 4" oh he's being sarcastic I think
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