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PS Vita general discussion thread, part 5 | The handheld who would be King
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No just read the OT,they are very well implemented especially to guide the missiles.
No. I thought the touch controls were a nicely added part of the game that added even more complexity to the game. :x The rear-touchpad implementation though, that's another story.
I think they are not without merit. The touch mechanics are implemented in some creative ways that I cannot with good conscience call gimmickry.
Unfortunately I think it's less the design than the concept I take issue with. I find rear touch pretty repulsive and annoying, even when the ideas are good. And front touch, while less of a pain in my rear, still demands I take my hands off the buttons and cover up the screen, which flies in the face of how I want to play a game like LBP.
Tarsier did the best they could with the tools they were given. But there's just no helping it when you've got shit tools, in my opinion.
EDIT: And don't mistake me, I don't have a problem with front touch per se. It's when you combine it with standard controls that things start to go awry.
The Grim Heaper
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Oh man, those would be awesome...
It'd be great to have better shoulder buttons.
Sure, they look cool, but I would like for them to not have to be pressed down so far to register.
EDIT: And the speakers. I have no idea who thought that would be a smart design choice. Maybe they didn't have room anywhere else or something, but I don't know or care.
Sure, they look cool, but I would like for them to not have to be pressed down so far to register.
EDIT: And the speakers. I have no idea who thought that would be a smart design choice. Maybe they didn't have room anywhere else or something, but I don't know or care.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Is there a way to deactivate the rear touchpad on PSone games?
I've been playing Alundra and it keeps opening up the menu screen
I've been playing Alundra and it keeps opening up the menu screen
Can't really think of anything i'd like to see improved.
SpaceBridge
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There are plenty of things on the software side I would like changed, but the hardware itself is OK. In fact, I would prefer they cut back on cost as much as possible rather than make "improvements" such as those you describe. Scrap the OLED if necessary, just make this thing as cheap as is feasible.
MisterC20XX
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I love 'em. To me these are the first touch controls that don't feel like a tacked-on afterthought. Unlike many other touch control add-ons I think they actually make sense and are rarely obtrusive.
MisterC20XX
Member
Sony seriously needs to add a "Disable Rear Touch Pad" for PSone games. It's so annoying to trigger controls accidentally.
harriet the spy
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Thanks everyone. I'll use separate cards. I hate having to use a separate card for FF1/2, when i have 3-9 on the same card. (same deal with mgs, where i'd have to get and put mgs
o on a separate card).Also thanks for the bubble placement. I thought i was going crazy, it seems i am not crazy after all. What a weird fucking idea not to save the placement on the card itself. Sony, sony..
Quick extra question:
is there no way to understand where psvita games data live (save games/dlc)? I notice that the physical games you own are present on each card. So far I put all my saves on the same card, but I could see myself getting confused very soon.
tamaster92
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Ooo gorilla glass is a good call
supported with one game per year that is
The Grim Heaper
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test_account
XP-39C²
Hehe, well, least that statement about 10 year support would be true then
SpaceBridge
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I don't understand the blatant Vita trolling, it's one thing to be critical of Vita, it's another to just post mockingly. Case in point: the new "10 year support" thread.
The first page of the thread is basically "who can make the funniest Vita is dead joke". It's kind of annoying.
The Grim Heaper
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Never really understood where the turning point came from. The prices for the mem cards & etc was known at that point. But somewhere between the announcement and like a week later it went from 'Really decent price point' to 'DOA!'.
LamerDeluxe
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The Vita does need a way to disable the back touch per game, it is really annoying in Motorstorm RC, for instance. I keep accidently flipping the menu panels.
Multiplayer LBP is really insane. I joined someone and got slapped around by him (how did he do that?), then I was in a rollercoaster level with a number of people which turned pretty insane with stickers flying around. Next thing someone ends up in my pod without knowing how and follows me around some user levels that we both couldn't figure out. Really funny stuff.
Multiplayer LBP is really insane. I joined someone and got slapped around by him (how did he do that?), then I was in a rollercoaster level with a number of people which turned pretty insane with stickers flying around. Next thing someone ends up in my pod without knowing how and follows me around some user levels that we both couldn't figure out. Really funny stuff.
NoizyChild
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Just give me two additional shoulder buttons and I'm fine.
It's a pain trying to play Marvel on that thing.
NO STOPIT IT BURNS.
back touch will always be crappy to me because you have to figure out where you are touching when you use backtouch before you can do what you want.
that alone makes it useless to me, from a fun/smoothness(?) perspective. i guess it could be okay as an extra button but i havent played a game like that.
that alone makes it useless to me, from a fun/smoothness(?) perspective. i guess it could be okay as an extra button but i havent played a game like that.
The same thing happened with Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 3, people flinging shit both ways, constantly. Ultimately bish just made a garbage dump of a thread for all the shit flinging so the other threads stayed moderately clean. Maybe they could make a 'lol Vita is a stillborn failure'-thread so all the game-specific and Vita announcement threads would remain readable. I don't really know if that would work.
Grimpadlock
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You can slap someone by holding the L button and moving either of the analog sticks so that your sack boy's arm moves from facing in to outstretched. Eg if you wanted to slap with the left arm you would use the left stick and move it from the right quickly to the left.
Vita Pad Pro, it's coming
DangerousDave
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It was something like:
"$250 for a Vita? Wow, amazing price!"
to
"There is no memory card bundled, so the real price is $270? Greedy Sony!"
Still now a lot of people in GAF think that bundling a memory card would magically increase the sales.
Shit *stops*
Knew it.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
Improving the PSV : release a Basestation
all it needs is to take the docking station - expand it out to have HDMI and a 2.5 inch HDD expansion dock/USB, and a vita memory card read/writer.
Once connected to the Vita you could theoretically download games through the vita to the HDD dock.
So you can have a "companion" small form piece of hardware that you can take on your travels that acts as a base that could contain all your games, music, videos, etc. from which you can also copy over or watch/play on a TV.
... okay, probably not THAT much appeal of such a device, but i'd be all over it.
all it needs is to take the docking station - expand it out to have HDMI and a 2.5 inch HDD expansion dock/USB, and a vita memory card read/writer.
Once connected to the Vita you could theoretically download games through the vita to the HDD dock.
So you can have a "companion" small form piece of hardware that you can take on your travels that acts as a base that could contain all your games, music, videos, etc. from which you can also copy over or watch/play on a TV.
... okay, probably not THAT much appeal of such a device, but i'd be all over it.
You mean it isn't you?
Oh wait, you're just masturbating
All the talk about lol console ports fails to mention that it's a repeat of the PSP1 situation. And you know what? I loved the PSP console ports (well some of them) to death. So I'm completely fine if the system becomes another port machine and doesn't get exclusives for me. (YEAH BABY!)
It would. I didn't get the system before August because:
-No memory card included
-No games I wanted outside of Marvel 3 at the time
-No PSX playback
Two of those boxes were ticked off around August (well, September for one with LBP PSP2), the first one still hasn't been ticked off and I can tell you it IS a factor for some of us. The only reason it wasn't a big deal for me was because I got a 4 gig stick included with a starter pack that I flipped around for a 32 gig stick.
But the price of the system for the hardware plus 32 gig stick is $350 which is nearly as much as a PS3 with 300+Gig harddrive. What makes it a steal in price compared to just getting a PS3?
LamerDeluxe
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Ah, I tried that and it didn't work, need more practice hehehe.
3 analog sticks and 5 shoulder buttons. Gaming heaven.
includes UMD drive for japan
I was actually masturbating over Mutant Blobs Attack
eighty(one)
Member
Do we know if RE/2/3(Nemesis) will be arriving on PSN/Vita, for NA, to coincide with the RE6 launch on console?
I reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllly, really want to go back and replay these originals.
I no longer have the PS1, nor do i have a PS3....
I reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllly, really want to go back and replay these originals.
I no longer have the PS1, nor do i have a PS3....
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