This can go beyond gaming, as examples below show. The thing that's really to blame is the cerebellum, a knot of tightly-folded tissue at the base of the brain responsible for conditioning of physical responses, note it's the reason you don't have to think, "lift right foot, adjust shoulders to maintain balance, extend right leg, swing left arm to balance pace, shift weight to right foot using hips, lift left leg." every time you want to walk but "cerebellar memory" doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.įor when this is done intentionally as a game effect, see Interface Screw. And, on a neurological note, it's technically not your muscles at fault: Dumb Muscle is just that, an unthinking hunk of contractile, fibrous flesh attached to some bones. Psychologists call this negative transfer. Of course, allowing you to change the control scheme in a game with different characters who need different schemes can lead to this within a single game. Emulators, special controllers, and 3rd-party utilities can function as a workaround of sorts as well.
PC games generally let the user reassign the controls, so this is very much a console problem. This can lead to problems when playing one game for a while, then switching to another-especially if they are in the same or a similar genre.Īny game where you can change the control scheme will obviously avoid this by default, though the effectiveness depends on how far the game will let you remap its controls.
And maybe this difference is what completely throws you off your game. With so many video games, it stands to reason that most will be somewhat similar, and have similar control schemes.īut there's no guarantee that a developer will use what's usual, and might do something very different instead. There are many, many Video Games out there. The Angry Video Game Nerd (on Mario Clash), The Angry Video Game Nerd
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