sublime085
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Apparently Attack of the Show is gonna attempt a flash mob in Home today during today's episode.
Could be entertaining.
Could be entertaining.
PS3 Home Official Thread
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twilitesparklemotion
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Sunday, at the comic shop, my buddy was like "hey home is cool we should get on and make a train." I'm of the mindset that Home has excellent, but unused potential, but I agreed. We met up tonight.
First we made a train.
Then some guy started trolling home.
Then the train disbanded. Guy still trolling.
Race war erupts, n-word dropped, race war won early on with the Obama card ("Can you name your president?") but fighting continued. Guy still trolling.
My buddy gets into drag.
We begin a new train.
I quickly throw together a girl's outfit.
Our transgendered avatars begin to engage in a promiscuous romp of sorts.
Then he changes sex again.
Then, after a bit, he decides to go to bed.
Long story short, I hate this game and should have played Fallout.
First we made a train.
Then some guy started trolling home.
Then the train disbanded. Guy still trolling.
Race war erupts, n-word dropped, race war won early on with the Obama card ("Can you name your president?") but fighting continued. Guy still trolling.
My buddy gets into drag.
We begin a new train.
I quickly throw together a girl's outfit.
Our transgendered avatars begin to engage in a promiscuous romp of sorts.
Then he changes sex again.
Then, after a bit, he decides to go to bed.
Long story short, I hate this game and should have played Fallout.
twilitesparklemotion
Member
Non-game? Application? Block of code?Cruzader said:
Yeah... I just exited Home (need to continue work). Was chatting with a young texan wife for about half an hour.
Found out she completed the LBP "Bunker" level alone. God damn it. To my knowledge, none of my guy friends made it alone. So anyway, I think Home is great if you know how to use it.
Sony better don't drop the ball on this. They should also save the name of the homies I chatted with in the "Recently Played" list.
Found out she completed the LBP "Bunker" level alone. God damn it. To my knowledge, none of my guy friends made it alone. So anyway, I think Home is great if you know how to use it.
Sony better don't drop the ball on this. They should also save the name of the homies I chatted with in the "Recently Played" list.
frAntic_Frog
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anyone know if i can delete individual home files (like the farcry rooms i downloaded)?
Septimus said:
Holy shit.
-Actually loves the manual downloading of areas when you try to enter them, and praises the backround downloading as if it's a great solution
-Walks into theater and sees loading screen. Turns camera away to hide it. Talks for a long time. Never finishes loading
-praises group viewing in the theater, as if you are really watching the same content at the same time. Actually believes people are going to actually find seats and sit together, while chatting about advertisements. Dancing in the aisles = totally fun
-says users love grouping together and dancing the night away
-Praises bad ass physics only seen when placing items in apartment
-Apparently there are tons of things to do and Uncover in the Uncharted space
-Spins RedBull, Deisel, Furniture Designers as providing compelling content and not just advertisement
This guy is the director of Home
Home is doomed
xKilltheMx
Member
Future said:
:lol
antiloop said:
Here's a crazy thought - download them all at once at the start. They make us download the apartment space, then launch us on a short tutorial that ends with downloading the new area. Why? Why in the hell would those user-critical areas not be part of the initial download - doubly so when you immediately point them towards it?
Then the arcade games need to download as well?
That whole part of the experience just told me 'we're making this up as we go along'
antiloop said:
Like any game would. Start loading areas before the user ever gets to the area. When the apartment first loads when you start Home, who the hell ISNT going to eventually walk outside. Start background downloading this data immediately...why wait for me to choose to do so and then make me wait. When I get outside, start downloading the extra areas as well. Obviously, if the user attempts to enter an area before its done, there will be some waiting time. But at least the game was designed well enough to try and alleviate the issue
EDIT: Beaten
Chrange said:
I agree, they could make the initial download bigger with a few spaces.
I guess they just want the initial download to be as small as possible so people can try it out even on 56K or slow cable.
I assume the modular design is what makes Home such a smooth experience with streaming videos and such. Pretty effective use of the bandwidth.
antiloop said:
Even assuming there's someone out there on 56k who wanted to try Home, you're giving them a long download (77 MB or so?) then immediately tossing them another download, only this one has no indicator aside from the progress bar.
They'd have been a lot better off to toss at least the Plaza in - that's a central area. You could argue that the rest are non-critical, but if you can't at least leave your apartment without another download, you're starting to make people wait too much to see what's going on.
One download - even if it's a little longer than it would otherwise be - is better than two in quick succession, because you're not doing anything when it downloads aside from watching the screen and growing bored.
I wonder if they'll scrap the idea of a dedicated "trophy room" where you just have static models of stuff that you can't do much with, and instead have it so earning trophies gets you special clothes and stuff to decorate your personal spaces and clubs? Like, if you earn a specific trophy in R2, you get a Chimera hoodie or a Chimera ornament for your apartment. I think that'd be much cooler personally.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Future said:
youtube like real-time streaming... right... they cannot even get the video downloaded from their private test server to the single user connecting to it?!?
...Loudninja said:
http://www.andriasang.com/e/articles/2008/12/17/bandai_namco_lounges_in_home/
Bandai Nmaco will be providing Home open beta participants three new lounges themed around Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Ridge Racer. As with the current lounges for Siren and Hot Shots Golf, these lounges will offer fans a themed communication space, complete with streaming videos for the series in question. The Bandai Namco lounges will also include additional arcade units for the Namco Museum Beta.
Also hitting the service on the 18th will be a set of paid avatar items and furniture from Bandai Namco, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Nippon Ichi Software. Sony will offer a number of Christmas and winter themed items, including Santa gloves and boots and a Christmas tree. Nippon Ichi will offer shirts and furniture themed around its Prinny mascot character from the Disgaea series. Bandai Namco will offer clothing for such arcade classics as Pacman, DigDug, Mappy, Xevious.
GrayFoxPL
Member
I just wish Sony would make the gift system like in Namco Beta mandatory.
Like every game would have 5, 6 gifts hidden for home.
About trophy... Well, we're still waiting for the promised trophy room. Other thing I'd wish is that all trophies would be "physical" objects. I mean mandatory for old and new games, if only those had them. Devs should be required to make a patch with 3d trophy collection.
Well maybe not all trophies - that would make 20 objects per game, the room would be a clusterfuck. But only for platinum or maybe gold would be ok.
Like every game would have 5, 6 gifts hidden for home.
About trophy... Well, we're still waiting for the promised trophy room. Other thing I'd wish is that all trophies would be "physical" objects. I mean mandatory for old and new games, if only those had them. Devs should be required to make a patch with 3d trophy collection.
Well maybe not all trophies - that would make 20 objects per game, the room would be a clusterfuck. But only for platinum or maybe gold would be ok.
Panajev2001a said:youtube like real-time streaming... right... they cannot even get the video downloaded from their private test server to the single user connecting to it?!?
Actually, test servers are more likely not to work for demoes. Murphy always strikes at the "right" moment.
I have been to Home everyday. The video screens always work (They need more content though).
I think Home has issues, but I am liking it more everyday. They need to make the environment appeals to the majority of the gamer population than just pure chatters.
Sadly.doogles said:
What Home needs is some sort of currency so that it can be gamey and rewarding and motivating in itself. Containing games just doesn't count.
The only point of Home as it is now is discovery of people to put on your friends list, and even that is completely without merit to me personally because a)the few games I play online have decent enough matchmaking that I'm usually just fine playing random strangers and b)I'd default to using a forum (or "players met" in the XMB) for finding people if the need ever arises. I can maybe imagine that there's a group of people out there that doesn't function this way and would rather discover people through Home, but it's surely a minority of those with an existing interest in online gaming, even moreso in the PSN environment.
I know I'll never purchase anything for my apartment. The moment I saw that even the rubber duck I fancied to place on my table as a basic act of customization costs 99 cents was the moment I quit out of Home.
Future said:
lol at that interview.
I havent laughed this hard (at a Sony shill) since I watched the videos that came on the SOCOM:Confrontation disc, where Seth Luisi is talking up all sorts of features that didn't even ship.
I guess if the kool-aid Sony has been drinking were sitting in front of me, I would drink it too.
doogles said:
Get with the program!
It isn't a game. It's a 3-D social network. (Useless but pretty stuff sold separately (TM))
overthehill99
Member
On 1up FM Shane said that he went into the Redbull Space, and it was too crowed so he left.
Where did he pull this from?
Where did he pull this from?
I really like playing pool in HOME...bowling is fun, as well as the other games...but this pool game is fun...I like how they set it up....... but I'm wondering if there is anyway they'll let us get a pool table for our apartments.... it'd be cool if we could set up a pool table outside (if there is enough space) with the sun light and all....
Doc Evils said:
:lol Girls != MILF. She just happened to be married.
I am interested in female gamers because I am curious. The same way I am curious what Aeon712 is playing now (so I sent him an XMB message last night). Doesn't mean I am planning to stalk Aeon712 for instance.
My wife was a gamer too... until she got sick of Halo 2 and have rejected gaming since then.
antiloop said:
Every single Home user is going to want to download all of the Home public areas. They should be have been automatically queued for downloading while the user is screwing around dressing up their avatar for the first time. If you enter some other game zone you should also have the option of downloading all zones at once.
The background downloading also has weird behaviour - if you background download one zone and then background download a second zone, your first download is suspended in favour of the second one.
The startup *really* annoys me. I fire up Home and go out to stick the kettle on. Then I come back to discover it's stuck on a confirmation telling me not to turn my PS3 off while the HDD is on. Why can LBP tell me this without requiring confirmation, but Home (an app I'm supposed to use like its second nature) can't? It should require exactly one and only one click to go from launching Home to being transported into your apartment or favourite zone. If they need to show a message of the day it should happen at the end.
Home is just full of stupid or odd design decisions and irritations which should have been spotted a mile but seem to have slipped through.
I think overall the concept of Home is sound and issues will be fixed but that these flaws made it so far make me wonder if the lights are on but nobody's home (pun intended). It's like its functionality was designed by a committee of marketing nitwits and middle managers who were totally clueless of what makes a good user experience, what the focus of development should be or even what their core audience actually want from an online service.
Wake up Sony.
TheIroning
Member
Why the fuck am I still getting Network Error C-931?
Opus Angelorum
Member
Septimus said:
I still cannot get into the beta (same error code), but having watched this interview intently I'm convinced Home is a huge mistake.