Playing Destiny on Xbone (Part 2)... (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, May 15, 2015, 19:39 (3724 days ago) @ stabbim

-Anyone that went from playing it on the 360 to the One, or who jumps from PS4 to One, do you notice any oddness in looking around? For me it feels momentarily sluggish combined with a slight acceleration once I hold it down all the way. Makes my movements jerkier than they should be (and I have a bit of a tough time switching quickly between enemies). This didn't happen to me on the 360 version.

Not really. If anything, I feel like I look and move slower on the 360 - more due to the sticks actually being physically stiffer on the 360 than a difference in their response at a given position, I think. However, you're not the first person I've heard say that, so there might be something to it. I just haven't noticed it.

It's the only platform that I'm having that issue on, so who knows...

- The bumpers. Oh God, the Bumpers... I'd say that I successfully pull off a super about 30% of the time that I hit them (usually I just throw a grenade or melee instead). I tried using other schemes (I usually go Puppeteer), but all of them assign a vital move to the bumpers, which kills me. I've tried getting used to the stiffness by using them "as intended", but that just makes me end up looking down, usually botching anything (grenade, melee, Super). How did you guys get around that?

Git gud, son.

Seriously though... I dunno. Objectively speaking, the bumpers are stiffer on the XBone than the 360, but it never really bothered me. In Destiny or elsewhere.

I'd guess that you probably have more difficulty having played Destiny so much on PS4. It has to be a bigger difference coming from that than from the 360. I mean, I'm sure you've played on 360, but probably not the majority of your time. It also doesn't sound like you've played much OTHER than Destiny on the Bone. I wonder if you'd have as much trouble with games you hadn't first played a bunch on PS4?

Maybe. I hate the Xbone controller all around, and absolutely love the DS4 (a complete reversal from the last gen). That said, I haven't had a huge issue with the controller while playing the MCC, but the Halo games have always been slower, stiffer affairs, so maybe it wasn't as obvious.

-Having to use my left thumb to pull up my ghost/sparrow is really annoying, but I know that nothing can be done about that; minor nitpick. Do you other PS folk feel the same way, or wat?

TBH I kinda feel like this would have been the place for Kinect integration, if they'd had the time to do any. I know you don't use it, but still. Being able to say "go to orbit" or "go to X planet," etc. could be nice if done well.

I wonder why that prominent Kinect feature during last-gen disappeared almost entirely, when more games were starting to make use of it (mainly EA/Ubisoft titles, it seems). Or headset integration, yeah. The touchpad on the DS4 opened up tons of doors and possibilities that the Kinect could have kept up with easily, and yet it's still looking like a pointless gimmick. I think Microsoft killed Kinect by releasing an XBone without it, which is a Catch-22, since tons of people wouldn't have bought an Xbone if they had to pay extra for Kinect as well. That's a crappy situation, but developers aren't going to be working extra hard for a clearly niche platform (then again, we've yet to see how well Morpheus is received, but it looks very promising since third-party devs are going out of their way to integrate it)...

Forza Horizon 2 has a pretty slick voice-activated GPS that works very well.

It's up to developer creativity then. Not sure why Bungie doesn't integrate some voice commands, since all PS4 players with a headphone could have complete access, and it would add some needed value to the Kinect for Xfolk.