I think it's about time I pay my respects to those games that have the nerve to expect its user to follow the on-screen instructions it displays.
Which is to say requiring me to press the start button when it commands so.
Far too often after a parade of company logos, the game's main screen comes up. Well, most of it anyways. Before the display cascades into the full main menu, we generally need to press a button. And that button is almost always said to be the start button.
But how many times have you hit the A button instead, only to have the same results? What about select?
Some games have taken notice to this trend of refusing orders, and prominently display a "Press Any Button To Continue." Why press that far away Start button when my thumb is already primed and ready on the A?
But it's those games that force me to press Start that I respect like a fallen rap artist. Honestly, how glaring an example of a loser if you can't be bothered to hit the right button? By choosing to ignore this request, the game should immediately question your intelligence and force you into some sort of baby mode.
I'm only a recent convert to the pressing Start club, but I can already see the error in my previous ways. The button says start right on it, what else would you press? When exactly did we move away from this intelligent way of life?
I want the times where pressing any other button would result in a brick wall between you and the game. I need those times back.
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