[POLL] Joypad-only controls

hansschmucker

During the discussion over at the PSP thread, a few different control schemes were discussed, and while they were of course discussed with the PSP (only 1 analog stick) in mind, it's probably worth thinking about them for the PC version as well.

The poll can of course only include the options we thought of so far, but let that not stop you from discussing alternative ideas, just vote for the one that sounds best to you so far.

• Classic: One stick for movement, one for cursor.
• Hotspot: Autoselect nearest hotspot when movement ends, cycle with buttons.
• Classic Snap: One stick for movement, one for cursor; cursor snaps to nearest hotspot after cursor movement.
• Rails Classic: Tapping one stick moves only between "crossings" (spots where there's either a hotspot nearby or there really is a crossing). Other stick emulates mouse cursor.
• Rails Hotspot: Same as Rails Classic, but using hotspot cycling.
• Centered Classic: One stick for movement. On button press a cursor spawns at the current player position and can be moved manually until the button is released. Releasing the button when the cursor is over a hotspot causes interaction
• Centered Hotspot: Same as Centered Classic, but cursor focuses automatically on the nearest hotspot in the direction the player pushes.

Chris1

If I was going to do it, I'd have it so that you moved the character with the stick. But rather than point to things, the A/B/X/Y buttons would be automatically assigned to the nearest 4 objects as your character came close to them.

hansschmucker

Hadn't even thought of that... kind of like Broken Sword 3 (although it didn't work to well there as you often had to get too close to allow for interaction).
Well, I can't add it to the poll anymore, but I think Centered Hotspot is probably the closest match.