PlayStation Home Comments by Oli Welsh
Where the heart is?
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Sir_TimAlot
12/12/08 @ 15:57
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Home is dumb.
Discuss.
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I thought it was incredible.I was completely blown away by how good Home looks. I didnt have high expectations though so I had a laugh.
It seems that it is lacking alot of content though and hopefully, updates come thick and fast. Home is only going to get better. and I cant wait for full game integration.
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PearOfAnguish
12/12/08 @ 16:07
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Hahaha oh wow, it sounds like Second Life without the flying penises and ability to shoot people and send them flying into the air.
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Sir_TimAlot
12/12/08 @ 16:10
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"home is something revolutionary"
Oh god....classic.....can't stop giggling, thats made my entire week. |
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I bet the monthly fee for clubs will never arrive. The upfront fee is pretty dumb as well: if you're going to be stupid enough to charge for clubs, at least make it so each member has to pay ~20p, instead of one poor sap having to pay the whole fee.
Are there really people dumb enough to spend £3.99 on a virtual house? Who are they trying to appeal to? I can't see the Sims crowd being interested with the poor selection of objects to choose from and expensive downloadable content. |
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PearOfAnguish
12/12/08 @ 16:14
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"home is something revolutionary and should not be so pettily criticised"
Yeah it's revolutionary if you ignore the existence of Second Life, Habbo Hotel, There, Entropia and all the other virtual worlds. And pointing out that it is bland, soulless and ultimately pointless isn't petty. "Are there really people dumb enough to spend £3.99 on a virtual house?" Sadly, yes. There are people in SL who pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, on virtual houses and virtual land.
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HiddenPooh
12/12/08 @ 16:15
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Lots of silly comments from people who obviously have not tried what is actually a really fun application for the early stage its at. "Tough Review" ?!?! - did I miss a review somewhere?
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insincere_dave
12/12/08 @ 16:16
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Man, I totally need a PS3.*
*When it's under £150 and there are 10 exclusive gamers worth playing on it, xmas 2010 then. |
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Finally got into home this morning and was massivley disapointed.
First, while it CAN look great there are a lot of rough edges on fairly basic things. Just as a quick example, go to the theatre, zoom in to a movie and look at the graphics quality of the 'theatre' itself... just terrible. Actually, the theatre is a good example of what's wrong. It's a neat idea BUT the content is lacking and it take FAR too long to get to see any of the videos that are there from the point you decide you want to do so. The quality of the video is prety poor and, just to cap it off, you can't even view the stuff full-screen. The thing is, I just can't see the point of releasing Home in its current state. There's very little content, there's huge swathes of functionality that's just flat-out missing, the underlying infrastructure seems to be suffering under the load and even the basic community features are lacking and badly thought out. Sony have been building the expectations for Home for almost two years now and what they've released is just a huge anti-climax with micro-payments for virtually everything that'll suck the life out of the eco-system if Sony persist with that approach. I'd guess at this point that they've released earlier than they wanted to to try and compete with the 360's price drop and NXE but it just feels like they've blown a major opportunity to jump ahead with something really innovative, well integrated to the PSN and the first community environment built to the needs of console gaming. Instead we've got a bare shell full of potential but delivering nothing like what was initialy promised. Say, that sounds familliar for some reason...
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HuggyAtHome
12/12/08 @ 16:22
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shocker - I fail to see why anybody would want to use it, even if/when it contains more stuff? Pointless. And I DO own a PS3 and an Xbox. Online is about playing games with friends or otehrs, not wandering around aimlessly. Home sounds like the lobby in Everybody's Golf.
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DanWhitehead
12/12/08 @ 16:27
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I'm really surprised that they haven't dumped a bunch of new content into the thing for the Open Beta stage. There are maybe four or five clothing options, a couple of moustaches. I'm also saddened to learn that the movie trailers still aren't full screen or HD. It takes Quicktime a few seconds to start streaming HD trailers online, so I can't understand the decision to go lo-res with these.
Of course, I haven't actually been able to get past the avatar creation screen yet, thanks to the ongoing connection problems... |
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iokthemonkey
12/12/08 @ 16:31
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The thing is, people keep going on about Second Life, but look at the latest Animal Crossing ads and the "social" potential there. People pay £30 quid for that and it appears less advanced than Home...
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JohnnyWashnGo
12/12/08 @ 16:38
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Having spent some time on it today, and approaching it with an open mind, without expecting it to behave in a similar way to MMOs (because I don't play them), I have to say that I found it somewhat sterile and also claustrophobic.
There isn't that much to do, and what there is seems to be slow and somewhat cumbersome. The lengthy downloads for most things are irritating to say the least. All that being said, I rather enjoyed my hour or so in Home. Creating my avatar was by far the most exciting bit, the rest of it was a bit of a let down. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. It is a beta however, so there is plenty of scope for improvement by Sony. |
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JediMasterMalik
12/12/08 @ 16:38
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People seem to be utterly confused by just what Home is, it's not launched in the best condition, no, but for what it is, it doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as people are making out.
I can't get on because my Uni blocks ports for it, but reading other people's impressions it doesn't seem so bad. |
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haven't managed to look at it yet, but from this read through I might not run home just yet... maybe when I have nothing else to do. But honestly, this home thing seems to be a project dreamed up by some internship guy/student.
one student started it off as a pet project for uni, while doing his intern at sony... he then ran out of time. so the next intern took over... he ran out of time... the next one has managed to get it to the beta stage. so, 3 years later and the beta is out. Makes perfect sense. give it another 10 years (10 students) and maybe Sony will be broke. |
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captainrentboy
12/12/08 @ 16:42
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Sounds pretty darned poor at the moment, then again it has never sounded particularly appealing to me anyway. Online chatrooms and all that jazz stopped being of any interest when I was around 16, I couldn't be bothered with all that random A/S/L? crud nowadays :) And the fact that it sounds like most of Home's inhabitants wont bother using a mic makes it even more uninteresting.
But I can see how it could all become pretty groovy (If you're into that type of thing) once they get around to putting a lot more content on there. Just give me the basic chatroom setup of Live anyday, ''You wanna play so and so?'', ''Yes'', ''Let's go''. |
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Moonprince
12/12/08 @ 16:43
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Oli - In your excitement to bitch and moan you forgot to run a spell / grammar check. Might want to fix that buddy ;)
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markypants
12/12/08 @ 16:50
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Home is horrible horrible horrible. Seriously. Second Life could be horrible, but at least there was always the option to do something interesting and outside the norm. This seemingly has no point at al and everything you can do here, you have been able to do online for years... and... nobody bothers. This could possibly be the biggest flop since curry flavoured condoms.
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elephant_stone
12/12/08 @ 16:51
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I think the article was overly harsh. It might be because I don't play MMO's so I probably don't "get" what the problem is.
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"Sorry, can someone please explain to me what the f**k the point of Home is?"
I was in the closed beta, and I never worked that out. It seems to be a really inconvenient way to launch games and videos while pretending to live in a nightmare vision of the future where eugenics has made everybody look the same and corporations are placing adverts on every available surface. It's a sort of cross between Gattaca, Logan's Run and Bladerunner. |
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iokthemonkey
12/12/08 @ 16:53
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Sorry, can someone please explain to me what the f**k the point of Home is? Seriously, I cannot for the life of me see what the aim of Home is. It just seems like....nothing frankly. Is that the point of Home? That it is just a big giant nothing?
--- I'm reminded of Bruce Lee pointing at the moon... Yeah, it's "nothing" because you're not seeing what it is to you. It probably is nothing to you if you're not the sort of person who digs this kind of thing. But you know, you could look at the Internet and say it's just a load of nothing. Don't think of it in terms of winning or point - it's a social space. Think of it as a 3D myspace or facebook. It'll be what the community make it or don't make it. |
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PearOfAnguish
12/12/08 @ 16:54
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"Hey Oli... OPEN BETA!!!
Do you know what that means?" It doesn't mean 'immune from criticism'. If you just want to read puff pieces you should stop visiting gaming web sites and download press releases instead. |
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markypants
12/12/08 @ 16:56
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Home brings to mind the line in Jurrassic Park "Your scientists were so pre-occupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should".
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