yeah I don't even use the control pad usually, outside of menus. the circle pad works fine.
it's almost comical how much I struggle to find a comfortable position to hold the Vita. A couple days ago I worked out something adequate, but it requires me to use the middles of my fingers to press the trigger buttons, which is pretty annoying.
It's tough being the apparently one guy in the world who isn't in love with the Vita's form factor
I don't know if there was a clock downgrade, but I doubt it. WipeOut was always going to be 30fps according to the developers, because they thought it was goog enough and really wanted to try to get the poly crunching up to PS3 standards as much as possible so it would be easier for them to share content between the two, hence we now have the HD and Pure DLC for Vita. I am not 100% sure it was worth the trade-off, but generally art is more expensive than code so there's something to be said for it, and the Vita is helped by its OLED display adding practically zero lag compared to sometimes horrible figures from HD TVs. John Carmack mentons this advantage of OLED in his recent keynote.
Vita has 512MB of main ram and 128MB of video ram, so definitely no memory cut ... The PS3 and 360 wished they had this much.
For me the Vita is pretty much perfect in terms of controls btw, got used to the smaller sticks real fast. The only gamewherethey didn't feel great was Uncharted GA for some reason, but I never spent much time tweaking the controls either, relying on tilt in tight spots. And yeah, that d-pad ... Look forward to seeing more straightforward platformers, maybe with PSM launching ...Rayman felt so good, going back to the console version the DS3s analog sticks felt ridiculously oversized.
3DS games are designed around the circle pad for the most part, so I've been fine on most games. The only exception would be Dead or Alive Dimensions, even though it works better than expected, I still need to use a D-pad for more complicated combos. Now if you try playing 2D games that require precision, then it gets ugly. I've had that with a lot of ambassador games with Yoshi's Island being the most recent one. Those kind of games work best with the D-pad and I'm being forced to use a circle pad because of how painful it can get after a while.
Your situation is quite unique with the Vita, because you don't hear it that often and it's hard to imagine coming from someone who finds it very comfortable to use. My hands would be a bit on the small side and my minor problem would be reaching the triggers comfortably and how cheap they feel. While they're not as a big of a deal as having a D-pad in the correct lay-out, it's a shame there's one minor imperfection of an otherwise perfect hardware
Btw, I have no idea if the D-pad lay-out is improved and fixed with the 3DS XL? That would be a good reason to get one in the future if that's the case.
According to EU owners, the D-pad sits better and is like the DPad on the DSiXL. The slide pad is also different, no longer has flat outer edges. - I won't be able to say conclusively either way (on comfort), until I get my unit in 2 weeks.
I love the form factor of the Vita. It just feels so good. The DPad is THE BEST DPad I have EVER used. On all systems (NES--->through current) - my only gripe(s) though minor are the flat/flush start/select/PS buttons and the chincy trigger/shoulder buttons. Vita is a beautiful, classy system. In my 25 years of gaming (31 years old), the Vita is by far the prettiest and most elegant console. It just gets so mucky with fingerprints
Yes, it's a very good game and well worth the asking price.
Depends on your taste and your history with games of its ilk. I bought the UMD double pack and ended up selling it as I couldn't get past the first boss despite my best efforts.
It took me a while to get used to holding the Vita properly (with middle fingers curled against the 'grips') because I was holding it like a PSP with my fingers all over the rear touch panel.
I want this to happen.
Yes, but I don't like it as much as the original. I still play it all the time, though. Come into it with an open mind, and you'll have plenty of fun.
I see people saying this quite often, but I personally don't understand it. Movement sometimes feels off compared to the original (maybe it's just the animations or something, but there's less pleasure dashing and jumping in this). The action no longer stylishly halts for health refills. The remixed music is hit-or-miss. The extra exposition is for fans who don't care about how deliberately paced the original was. And Vile is a nice addition but nowhere near as fun to play as X.
Probably a lurker? More vita friends tho ...
Maybe it's because I love Miku, but it looks great. Does it affect the back touch panel in any way? And feel better!
You are definitely in for a treat. :3
Echoing this. It's a pain to delete messages on the Vita when they're all from different senders.