[General Discussion] These controls are not delicious. Those controls are not delicious.

How long does it take you to remaster the controls for games you've previous played but have taken a long break from? For example, I've been playing quite a bit of RE4 for PS2 lately, but when I went back to working on God of War 1, I totally forgot there was a jump button.

Some games I can remaster the controls in a matter of seconds: Katamari, pretty much most RPGs as they are using maybe 2 different buttons: accept and cancel, but action games and FPS usually take me a few minutes to remember and get used to them again.

I learn button controls much faster for games I've never played rather than having to break old habits to relearn the controls of the game. The best thing I do is to maybe spend 4 or so minutes testing out all the buttons and what they do, then just proceed from there on, and hopefully don't panic when hordes of guys start attacking me.

So in essence:

1) Do you have difficulty remastering controls for primarily action games or FPS? RPGs don't take any time to remaster for most gamers I've seen, since you're really only pushing 1 or 2 buttons.

2) If possible, do you reconfigure your controller to mimic that of a previous but similar game genre you've played before?

3) What do you do to relearn the controls? Just continue playing or spend a few minutes to adjust what each button does again (most of the d-buttons are intuitive. You'll ALMOST always have most games using the d-pad for directions)?

PUSH DA BHUTAN!

Jam it back in, in the dark.