Question Mid-Week Question: When a game asks you to 'Press Any Key', which key do you press?

[PCG Chris]

I think for me it's Enter. I don't know why. Space would be easier. But I choose Enter.

How about you?

 

[drunkpunk]

If it works, my mouse button, because it feels like a sort of rebellion. If that doesn't work, then escape, despite it being probably one of the less convenient keys.

 

[DXCHASE]

Space since my thumb is on it but i occasionally stretch for the enter key.

 

[Pifanjr]

It depends on whether I've already been repeatedly smashing a specific key to get through the splash screens and intro and such. A mouse click usually works, but some of them require the escape button specifically.

However, I think the last game I played that had one of these screens was Assassin's Creed: Rogue, which I played with an Xbox controller, so I used the A button.

 

[Yargion]

I usually try Ctrl, just to see if Any key is really Any. But if not, it is usually spane.

 

[Frindis]

Enter key has been my go-to for as long as I have been playing games. At times the Enter key will not work and I have to use the mouse, E key, or some other fancy-schmancy combination. That is when my brain overloads and I start button smashing like a hippopotamus poked while eating.

 

[SquireZed]

Almost always space. Thanks to my typing teacher's otherwise mostly forgotten work (I was already typing up a storm way before learning the "right" way) I almost always have a thumb hovering over my spacebar, ready to pull the trigger and sometimes interrupt something with an unintentional jump.

 

[Jzek]

Either my mouse button or space

 

[Sarafan]

As there's no real "Any" key, I always press "Space". It's probably my favorite key on the whole keyboard. It's big, so there's no chance of miss and thus it requires no effort to press. In my case "Space" is a full-fledged equivalent of "Any". Pressing something other feels unnatural...

 

[JDTucker]

If im on my computer its space bar with a controller always the B button

 

[bh3bh3]

Usually the space bar =)

 

[Krud]

I usually try Ctrl, just to see if Any key is really Any. But if not, it is usually space.

I used to do this all the time! I also used to try Caps Lock.
But I don't have the patience any more to be quietly snarky to myself.

 

[Krud]

Usually the games that make me "Press Any Key" are also console ports, which often means I'm using a controller, in which case I'll hit the Start button, since some of them also like to say "Hit Start" (even if on a PC that doesn't have a Start.)

 

[Rolfil]

Space unless it's a game that supports a controller. Then it's A as it's directly under my right thumb when holding it.

 

[Brian Boru]

^^ My answer demo above ^^

ETA Geez, pesky forum software doesn't like my show n tell

Okay then, S P A C E

Happy now, Forum God?

 

[ZedClampet]

I don't press anything. They aren't the boss of me.

 

[Zloth]

Sneaky necromancers, waking up a topic almost exactly a year old!

First, of course, I'll grumble about how we do not need these screens that say 'hit a key' now and haven't for decades. Lose the attract mode, devs, this ain't the arcade!

Then I probably hit space. Sometimes I'll hit enter, but not the normal enter - the one on the number pad. I can reach that with my thumb from my mouse. If I'm grumpy, I'll do control-C to see if it breaks the game, which would allow me to grumble even more.

 

[ZedClampet]

Sneaky necromancers, waking up a topic almost exactly a year old!

Oops. I followed one of those "Similar Threads" links. Didn't even pay attention to the date.

 

[Zloth]

Fooled me, too, for a while. Strange I didn't answer earlier, but now I got a chance to do so!

 

[DXCHASE]

Im assuming theres gonna be lots of old topics coming up since they were posted when there were less people on these forums and its easier to have them be on the same thread than a new one. I honestly forgot i had answered this question lol and it was in the recent replys section. I stick by what i said previously, spacebar for me