Sony PSVITA Discussion

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Well we really dont know who's all supporting remote play and who isnt.

[mgoblue]

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Well we really dont know who's all supporting remote play and who isnt.

Exactly. I'm waiting to see how it plays out. Sony can force all they want but devs can apparently just say no.

[DJ]

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Not sure how NBA 2K is going to work with fewer buttons on the Vita, but that is good news.

[aholbert32]

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Not sure how NBA 2K is going to work with fewer buttons on the Vita, but that is good news.

The touchpad on the back will probably serve as the LB and RB buttons.

[Victory23]

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2K on my Vita, FINALLY. And next gen 2K at that.

I love my Vita as it is, but remote play will take it over the top for me as the number one handheld. My 3DS is essentially a Pokemon machine at this point, lol.

[ckarlic]

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The touchpad on the back will probably serve as the LB and RB buttons.

Im thinking you may be right. Thats they way God of War worked with PS3's remote play feature. I believe the touchpad in the back act as R2 and L2 (Right portion of touchpad and Left portion of touchpad respectively)

[mestevo]

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That's hard to imagine as someone who's never really used the back touchpad for anything. How hard was that to get used to? The idea of using that to sprint or something in Madden doesn't sound fun. Really wish the Vita revision had dual triggers, or something to snap on emulating dual triggers and thumb stick plungers.

[Blzer]

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That's hard to imagine as someone who's never really used the back touchpad for anything. How hard was that to get used to? The idea of using that to sprint or something in Madden doesn't sound fun. Really wish the Vita revision had dual triggers, or something to snap on emulating dual triggers and thumb stick plungers.

I haven't played a PS3 game like it, but it's really weird when I tried it with 2Xtreme. R2 and L2 are mapped at the top right/top left, and R3 and L3 are mapped at the bottom right/bottom left. It's just really bizarre when you're trying to hit it like it's a button and you press down hard on it.

But at the same time, I also have issues with default FPS control schemes. The fact that I can't turn and press a button at the same time is annoying as hell. I don't know how you people like that. Legacy all the way.

Maybe some games that support it have some touch screen icons that show up, or allow you to customize the buttons as you need. Doubtful, though.

[mestevo]

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/11/5091294/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-ps4-ps-vita-remote-play

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is one of the more robust third-party titles to be ported to next-generation consoles, but in a brief hands-on session with the PlayStation 4 version played on a PlayStation Vita via Remote Play, we could detect almost no differences in the shrunken-down handheld version of the open-world title.

According to Sylvain Trottier, associate producer on the next-gen versions of Black Flag at developer Ubisoft Montreal, it only took the studio a few days to get Remote Play up and running — "like, half a day" to read the software development kit and then "a day or two" to remap the game's controls for the PS Vita. The handheld's default layout for Remote Play games wasn't suitable for Black Flag, said Trottier, because it puts the L3 and R3 buttons and the triggers on the device's rear touchpad — a problematic control scheme for the way Black Flag handles aiming for gameplay elements like naval battles.

Instead, Remote Play on Black Flag puts the triggers on the PS Vita's shoulder buttons, and shunts the rarely used L3 and R3 clicks to the handheld's touchscreen. We played through a full battle on the open sea through Remote Play after dying during one on a PS4. And although Trottier acknowledged the controls would "take some getting used to," we adapted relatively quickly and were able to survive a fight with several smaller ships.

Trottier also pointed out that because Remote Play is built into the PS4's hardware, it doesn't eat up any system resources that the developers would have already been able to access. We were playing in a relatively controlled environment and noticed only a split-second instance of some pixelation in the wirelessly streamed game, so it seems that Remote Play will work fairly well for players who have a strong Wi-Fi signal on their local network.

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag launches Nov. 15 on PS4.

[aholbert32]

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That's hard to imagine as someone who's never really used the back touchpad for anything. How hard was that to get used to? The idea of using that to sprint or something in Madden doesn't sound fun. Really wish the Vita revision had dual triggers, or something to snap on emulating dual triggers and thumb stick plungers.

It takes some getting used too. I used remote play for the Show and it was an adjustment.

[ckarlic]

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It takes some getting used too. I used remote play for the Show and it was an adjustment.

Correct me if im wrong but I thought the Show was not remote play capable.

[bcruise]

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Correct me if im wrong but I thought the Show was not remote play capable.

Yeah I'm not sure where that came from. Maybe he meant he played the Vita version?

[aholbert32]

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Yeah I'm not sure where that came from. Maybe he meant he played the Vita version?

Thats what I meant. As always i'm an idiot.

[Burns11]

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Solution is a vita grip with L2/R2 triggers that touch the back panel. Somebody needs to get on that one. That would make the Vita less portable, but it seems remote play is just an at home activity for the most part so that shouldn't matter much (right now anyway). I doubt that will ever happen though.

[mgoblue]

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Solution is a vita grip with L2/R2 triggers that touch the back panel. Somebody needs to get on that one. That would make the Vita less portable, but it seems remote play is just an at home activity for the most part so that shouldn't matter much (right now anyway). I doubt that will ever happen though.

That's an interesting point...someone could come up with a "controller" type case/dock that the Vita goes into (similar to iPhone/android controllers maybe) that uses special buttons to give you the normal features.