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Year one review - touchpad for DS4 essential or a gimmick?

HAZE-Unit · 2015-01-18 03:51:22

After one year of playing PS4 games, the touchpad have become an essential part for DS4 controllers, it became very intuitive to the way people play games and a very useful button especially open world games and the way players access their maps for example, this was a great use for accessing maps in 2014.The touchpad became a standard for different games and from the countless other expected uses of the touchpad for different games, one standout use in 2014 was how to access maps.During the period of time playing 4 open world games from Ubisoft then going back to GTA5 PS4 edition, the Touchpad clearly left a mark on my brain on how to use controllers in 2014.I immediately clicked the touchpad to access the map since my brain clearly adopted to the touchpad and it was the natural thing to do but it didn't work so I thought maybe there is something wrong with the touchpad, afterwards I tried again and after two tries I realized how outdated and antiquated GTA5 felt when accessing their map because you have to pause the game by pressing the options button> go through the menu> click the X button to access map instead of one click from the touchpad..This is one clear advantage of the touchpad over the Xbox One controller.What is your opinion of the touchpad? did it become an essential part of the controller? do you feel it's nothing special yet?Discuss.

The Dual Shock 4 Touch Pad and the lights are essentially just another Gimmick and a cheap one at that

we've seen sony doing the gimmicks with PSP Vita and considering that was a terrible hand held nobody cared

but when you start to bring gimmicks to your flagship console thats where i gotta chime in. Sony enough is enough the touch pad is crap its useless the lights drain energy and suck and is really bad if your playing a dim lit room with the lights going off

enough is enough we didn't want this we didn't ask for sony shoved it our face and who knows how much they charged for it since it standard on every controller

it doesn't nothing with games nobody using it no real game maker is using that or the lights

we didn't use the touch pad on back of the vita either just stop, stop it already

no good game makers are using them make a new controller like the ps2 that has some weight to it a little bigger get rid of of the touch pad and the lights, make it have better battery life. enough with the cheap plastic garbage controllers call Dual Shock 4.5 make it out of a heavier material

Year one review - touchpad for DS4 essential or a gimmick?

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