2. Playstation Vita: Extraneous Vita Functions in a Number of Games
I recently received a Playstation Vita as a Christmas present and I love it. I could spend all day listing to you all the reasons I do, but there is an old lesson I wish developers creating games for the system would take to heart: just because you can, doesnt mean you should. The Vita has a number of neat functionalities, but that doesnt mean they automatically translate well into gameplay, yet developers keep trying to shoehorn these features into their games. For example, consider the ridiculous amount of touchscreen action in Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Some of those functions make sense, like when youre fighting hand-to-hand with a foe and have to swipe your finger upward on screen so that Drake can uppercut the dude into oblivion. But did we really,
really need a charcoal rubbing game? http://youtu.be/xfxd0h_4SSA?t=4m42s This bit added nothing positive to my time with Uncharted:GA. In fact, it kind of detracted from the experience because sections like this are such blatant technology demos. I know what the machine does, guys, you dont have to constantly remind me. Ill leave you with another Vita functionality game in Assassins Creed:Liberation that works oh so well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M6ENDBK4mE