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There's no standard control scheme in top-down view games

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2011-12-25 13:40:54 in Media
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
Age of Empires, Starcraft: left-click unit to select; right-click to move to or attack target

DEFCON:
* fleets: left-click to select, right-click to move
* silos: left-click to select (right-click to change to ICBM mode), left-click to choose targets

Torchlight: left-click to move to or attack or interact with target, right-click to use secondary action on target

Eden Eternal (based on what I remember from playing this a few months ago): right-click to move to/attack/interact with target

Dungeons of Dredmor: left click to move to/attack/pick up/interact with target

Comments

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Pokemon - Move with D Pad, interact with A, pause with start, cancel with B

    ...Well it's a top down game when you aren't in a battle!
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    They're also entirely different genres.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    But you tend to have a jump button and an attack button in like every game that uses the platformer format.  Why can't there be a standard control scheme for everything using the top-down view format?
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Because that would be simple?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I thought for all its other problem Zelda: Spirit Tracks did a very good job of making top-down work with the stylus.
  • DYREDYRE
    How the hell could you ever possibly play, say, Ikari Warriors and Starcraft using the same control scheme?
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    I thought he was talking about top down real time strategy games where you command units, in which case I can see why it's an issue (and why I made that joke post)
  • DYREDYRE

    Except that half of his post is about RPGs.

    Three totally different kinds of RPGs, even.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-12-25 14:04:13
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Never heard of Ikari Warriors.

    But at least all the games I've mentioned are all on computer.  And we're pretty much talking solely about what the mouse is used for.  Does left-click select an object of interest, or does right-click do that?  Which button moves a unit that I control and have selected?  Which button is used to target something for attacking?  What about interacting with it, such as with an NPC, or something else that's not a valid target?
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