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Skeeuk on 09 March 2014

there will be clever uses of touch pad and light bar, but speaker is excellent

in horror games it could really add to tension, picking up audio log in killzone and it playing from your pad whilst you carry on playing was a neat touch



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d21lewis on 09 March 2014

Touchpad is okay. It's like a big button. Also, in Tomb Raider, I can just run my finger across it to light a torch like a match. The speaker is pretty nice, too. Audio is nice and clear. A big step up from the Wii's shitty speaker and a step down from the Wii U's awesome speaker. Good for immersion in some games.

Fuck that light bar thingy. It really hasn't served any purpose for me. I don't notice it though. I just look down and see it's changed color or something sometimes. Doesn't even really reflect in my LED TV, either.

That "Share" button was a waste of space, though.



adriane23 on 09 March 2014

The speaker and the touchpad are awesome. Not seeing the point of the light bar yet.



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Xenostar on 09 March 2014

Audio tapes on KZ playing through pad speaker, justify its inclusion alone, it really is cool :)



Euphoria14 on 09 March 2014

My touchpad no longer works with gestures, only works now when I press it in. It's my own fault though since I spilled my drink on the table where the controller was.

Either way, I am not really missing it yet since not much requires the gestures.


I do like the speaker though, just as I did on the Wiimote.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 10 March 2014
vivster said:
Actually I don't like any of those.
The touchpad feels cheap(ACIV), the speaker is useless since I game with headphones and the lightbar I hate with a passion.
The DS4 as a whole is for me the single worst thing and biggest disappointment of the PS4.


So whatever has disappointed you about the PS4? ::Grabs popcorn::



S.T.A.G.E. on 10 March 2014
Skeeuk said:
there will be clever uses of touch pad and light bar, but speaker is excellent

in horror games it could really add to tension, picking up audio log in killzone and it playing from your pad whilst you carry on playing was a neat touch


I was saying the same thing about the speaker for any horror games. If anyone has a haunting message to tell you it could be used through the speaker. LOL There were some times that freaked me out during Killzone because the audio came out of nowhere in the dark.



S.T.A.G.E. on 10 March 2014
adriane23 said:
The speaker and the touchpad are awesome. Not seeing the point of the light bar yet.


The light bar tells you two things:

1) How much charge you have in the controller.

2) How much life you have in a videogame. 

The biggest issue I see is with number two. You cannot see the lightbar while you're gaming. It on the under side of the controller.



vivster on 10 March 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
vivster said:
Actually I don't like any of those.
The touchpad feels cheap(ACIV), the speaker is useless since I game with headphones and the lightbar I hate with a passion.
The DS4 as a whole is for me the single worst thing and biggest disappointment of the PS4.


So whatever has disappointed you about the PS4? ::Grabs popcorn::

The lack of DS3 compatibility :P



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think-man on 10 March 2014

That speaker always gives me a fright, resogun and dead nation have that same chick speaking through the speaker and it always takes me by surprise xD



 

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