Vestin: It can get even worse.
I have a habit of rebinding every key before I even see the game. As a result - tutorials that have the bindings hard-coded instead of reading the config on the fly... give me incorrect information.
It can get EVEN WORSE STILL. If the text says something like "Press
F to turn on your flashlight", I just press something like the fifth mouse button or tilt my scroll wheel to the left, depending on what I remember manually binding "toggle flashlight" to. If the tutorial merely says "Press
F now", wanting to follow up with something like "See? That's how you turn on your flashlight!" I have to either guess, memorize "
F means the button above the scroll-wheel" or press every bound button at random until I discover the right one >_<.
I had that problem with AC, IIRC. I was playing the PC version, and it was giving me the keys using the XBox controller. I didn't have an XBox controller, so I had to remember that the X key was mapped to whatever keyboard key it was mapped to.
timppu: For instance, I quite often see avid gamers who are completely lost with the whole idea of WASD + mouse for FPS games, simply because they haven't played such games on PCs before. Like recently when I tried to teach one kid to play a PC FPS game with the keyboard, he still tried to use WASD with two hands, not one. I bet he wouldn't have learned it by just looking at key bindings in the options screen.
FraterPerdurabo: I remember when I got a PC when I was 7 years old and I used both hands to press the arrow keys when playing Doom! Also, for a long time I did not manage to get past level 1 because I did not know that the green thing on a wall at the end of the level was meant to be pressed in order to proceed to the next level. Then for a very long time, I did not manage to pick up the red key in level 2 because you had to run across that little pit using the Shift key and I never used the Shift key because I could not handle the controls at such speeds. I never owned a console and the PC was my first gaming experience. A lot of the things that seem completely intuitive right now did not seem quite as much so back then.
Wow, when I was that age, we randomly hit buttons when we were in a situation like that. Didn't the end say exit? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
