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PS3 Home Official Thread
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MvmntInGrn
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NameGenerated said:
The bell? What do you mean?
EDIT: Whoa new Central Plaza is awesome
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
How do you voice chat in this thing?
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
jett said:
I thought this was the Open Beta ? /:
Escalation
Member
Anyone check out the Uncharted area? Nice lighting.
DJ Crimson
Banned
Loving the potential but its obvious there is a lot to improve.:lol
gutter_trash
Banned
needs a jump button, needs a dash button
they went too realistic with everything, including the slow human speed movements.
I would of preferred more stylized characters that could give them an excuse to jump and move faster.
the loading between Bowling Alley, Store, Apartment ect is a tad slow for some thing that I would of expected of being mostly about interfacing
I even went through the trouble to go the Hong Kong store to get Namco Museum Beta to see if getting items work on a US Home (it does if you unpack your download on your US profile)
but I'm not to thrilled with the Home experience, I will just ignore it for the time being and just play games normally
they went too realistic with everything, including the slow human speed movements.
I would of preferred more stylized characters that could give them an excuse to jump and move faster.
the loading between Bowling Alley, Store, Apartment ect is a tad slow for some thing that I would of expected of being mostly about interfacing
I even went through the trouble to go the Hong Kong store to get Namco Museum Beta to see if getting items work on a US Home (it does if you unpack your download on your US profile)
but I'm not to thrilled with the Home experience, I will just ignore it for the time being and just play games normally
MvmntInGrn
Member
AndyD said:
ew, that could get annoying
Damn, I hate my apartment's internet connection. My roommate was going to fire up Home and I wanted to watch. We started downloading it, but realized it would take a few hours so then we decided to play Brawl while we waited. After about an hour we checked and it seems our internet had cut off so he had to start the download over again. We decided to just do Home later and play Sonic Unleashed. Hopefully we'll have time for Home tomorrow.
I finally got in after two hours of trying, and I can't say I'm at all impressed.
I mean, I knew going into it a lot of what I wouldn't like: The fact that everyone is an attractive and skinny young adult, the fact that they're trying to monetize this thing like making money is going out of style, the fact that it's basically a glorified VRML chatroom and there isn't a ton to do in it.
But there are a lot of really bad lower-level things you don't notice until you're actually playing it. Like how uniform everyone is. I knew they'd be monetizing clothing, but even Microsoft was more generous in its default clothing options - everyone here isn't just young and skinny, they shop at the same section of the same store. 90% of the people you see will be wearing one of three tops, and any of three indistinguishable different sets of jeans.
Or the idiotic design decision to have things like videogames, bowling alleys, and pool tables exist in the physical gamespace. Sure, it's neat-o that you can watch someone else play bowling or pool in real time, I guess. But I'd rather it just teleport me and anyone I invite into a private instance of bowling. Why is physical space a limitation in a virtual world? Why can't more than one person be playing Ice Breakers on the same arcade machine at the same time? Is having an avatar physically there to demonstrate that people are, in fact, using the feature of arcade games so important that we turn away users who want to try it?
Leaving stores is a pain. Hitting circle to leave makes sense, but then having to hit "X" to confirm I want to leave the store and having circle cancel my request to leave is infuriating - especially when you're embedded a few menus deep. To leave the store you have to keep hitting circle until you're at the top level of the menu, then hit circle one more time to quit, then hit "X" to confirm the quit. Hitting circle again throws you right back into the store.
And while we're discussing the stores - there's simply no content yet. Not that I want to pay fifty cents for a ridiculous cowboy hat or a dollar for a freaking virtual footstool, but there are people who might actually want to customize their home experience to get away from oppressive Home logo t-shirts and barebones white furniture in their ridiculous yacht club villa. But even if they do, they're choosing a single footstool, or from a single variety of lamp. It's at a point where you're not even paying for the privilege to be an individual, you're just paying for the privilege to put up more generic crap in your house or a different colored hoodie.
The whole thing is, essentially, a dystopia of corporate entities appealing to eternally rich and attractive twenty somethings, where the idea of work is laughable and people exist to simply consume and be entertained. A world where individuality is defined by how much you spend, and where monetization of a service is more important than whether the service has a reason to exist.
This is basically Brave New World: The Videogame.
I mean, I knew going into it a lot of what I wouldn't like: The fact that everyone is an attractive and skinny young adult, the fact that they're trying to monetize this thing like making money is going out of style, the fact that it's basically a glorified VRML chatroom and there isn't a ton to do in it.
But there are a lot of really bad lower-level things you don't notice until you're actually playing it. Like how uniform everyone is. I knew they'd be monetizing clothing, but even Microsoft was more generous in its default clothing options - everyone here isn't just young and skinny, they shop at the same section of the same store. 90% of the people you see will be wearing one of three tops, and any of three indistinguishable different sets of jeans.
Or the idiotic design decision to have things like videogames, bowling alleys, and pool tables exist in the physical gamespace. Sure, it's neat-o that you can watch someone else play bowling or pool in real time, I guess. But I'd rather it just teleport me and anyone I invite into a private instance of bowling. Why is physical space a limitation in a virtual world? Why can't more than one person be playing Ice Breakers on the same arcade machine at the same time? Is having an avatar physically there to demonstrate that people are, in fact, using the feature of arcade games so important that we turn away users who want to try it?
Leaving stores is a pain. Hitting circle to leave makes sense, but then having to hit "X" to confirm I want to leave the store and having circle cancel my request to leave is infuriating - especially when you're embedded a few menus deep. To leave the store you have to keep hitting circle until you're at the top level of the menu, then hit circle one more time to quit, then hit "X" to confirm the quit. Hitting circle again throws you right back into the store.
And while we're discussing the stores - there's simply no content yet. Not that I want to pay fifty cents for a ridiculous cowboy hat or a dollar for a freaking virtual footstool, but there are people who might actually want to customize their home experience to get away from oppressive Home logo t-shirts and barebones white furniture in their ridiculous yacht club villa. But even if they do, they're choosing a single footstool, or from a single variety of lamp. It's at a point where you're not even paying for the privilege to be an individual, you're just paying for the privilege to put up more generic crap in your house or a different colored hoodie.
The whole thing is, essentially, a dystopia of corporate entities appealing to eternally rich and attractive twenty somethings, where the idea of work is laughable and people exist to simply consume and be entertained. A world where individuality is defined by how much you spend, and where monetization of a service is more important than whether the service has a reason to exist.
This is basically Brave New World: The Videogame.
fin said:
64 in one space I think for now.
And they dynamically generate more rooms as needed. Plus they try to put you into rooms with friends in them if theres room.
So if theres a 1000 people all in the mall, then the servers only use malls, if they all go to plazas, then all the malls become plazas... there are no "empty" places.
)King of Cups
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I'm ready for the club as well!
PSN ID: illspoken
PSN ID: illspoken
vicissitudes
Banned
I dunno, I used to be really excited about Home. Like 2 years ago. Now I don't know if I'll even bother downloading it. This is Sony at its finest. Delay their products so much no one cares anymore.
first off, could i get added to the club? elohel
so is the general consensus that home is complete garbage? lol
do you guys think that sony will actually listen to the feedback that people provide or will they just ignore it since a majority of it will be so negative that they think that people are just pissy for no reason?
also, do you guys think that sony was sincere about creating home as a community application and a unique experience first and then as a money generator second or vise versa?
just curious
so is the general consensus that home is complete garbage? lol
do you guys think that sony will actually listen to the feedback that people provide or will they just ignore it since a majority of it will be so negative that they think that people are just pissy for no reason?
also, do you guys think that sony was sincere about creating home as a community application and a unique experience first and then as a money generator second or vise versa?
just curious
Yep, pretty much agree with this. There's no content or customization at all. What have they been doing the last 2 years? But I did have some fun in the Minna no Golf space, playing music through a mic around people dancing and standing there. However, I'm not sure how long that fun is going to last. The character creation is kind of bad but I was able to create a good interpretation of Heather from Silent Hill though.Campster said:
brandonh83
Banned
besada said:
:lol :lol
VGChampion
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Seems pretty fun to me. As long as it stays populated I'll keep coming back. Listening to people on mics is hilarious.
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