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    Post by IHateTheFourKings Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:40 pm

    I'm not sure if this warrants a whole thread of its own, but I want to bring up something that kind of bothers me: In gameplay footage of Dark Souls 2, the B button seemed to be used to perform most actions, which was instead assigned to the A button in the first Dark Souls. If that's the case, I honestly don't like it all that much. Any thoughts?
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    Post by Serious_Much Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:51 pm

    I'm confused... There's no 'A' or 'B' button on a playstation controller lol!
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    Post by skarekrow13 Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:07 pm

    Aren't many Japanese versions of games mapped with the circle and X buttons (A and B) reverse that of US versions? I seem to recall that being the case on games I've imported.


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    Post by Reaperfan Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:10 pm

    I think it's because of regional differences. Japanese games tend to reverse the "select" option to the rightmost button where westerners prefer it on the bottom. The Japanese version of Dark Souls has O as select instead of X, for example. In localized, non-Japanese versions of the game it will likely be normal to us.
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    Post by Serious_Much Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:15 pm

    Reaperfan wrote:I think it's because of regional differences.  Japanese games tend to reverse the "select" option to the rightmost button where westerners prefer it on the bottom.  The Japanese version of Dark Souls has O as select instead of X, for example.  In localized, non-Japanese versions of the game it will likely be normal to us.
    I didn't know that, nice little gem of knowledge you just gave me happy
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    Post by IHateTheFourKings Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:24 pm

    Oh, I never knew that. At any rate, I'm glad they didn't just arbitrarily change it. Thanks for the clarification.
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    Post by FexDS Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:25 pm

    Japanse O = yes, ok, good. X = no, bad, rejectect so this translated to controls

    No idea why it got switched around for Western markets
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    Post by Serious_Much Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:26 pm

    FexDS wrote:Japanse O = yes, ok, good. X = no, bad, rejectect so this translated to controls

    No idea why it got switched around for Western markets
    Since westerners are all obviously so lazy I think we just wanted the button that was the closest to the analogue stick to press silly
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    Post by Myztyrio Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:11 pm

    In most Japanese rpg's, O, or "B," is the primary select button.

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