PlayStation Home Comments by Oli Welsh
Where the heart is?
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"Home is awesome an will no doubt get better and better:)
360 avatars are complete trash compared that do NOTHING and your forced to use them!! " What you mean choose between accepting a default and then forgetting about it or sculpting one of your own and playing games using it? Home sounds like a stinking pile of cow waste :) |
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markypants
12/12/08 @ 17:02
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@Evilfoxhound I know what you're saying... But Home 'beta' IS crap. It's not like I'm making it up to be cool. It is rubbish. The fact that is now an open beta means that Sony are satisfied that they be judged on this, and as it stands it's a mess. I genuinely couldn't believe that this was what all the fuss has been about for the last few months/year.
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ArniesLeftNut
12/12/08 @ 17:05
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God I don't think I could bear to look at the crowds that would be gathering around the female avatars. I've been close to vomiting on each of the few occasions that I've encountered a female gamer as the attention that the blokes lavish on them is pathetic.
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the thing with home is that regardless of it's flaws and the silly microtransitions if it was a nice place to inhabit then it would work.
Unfortunately its not a nice place to inhabit and falls flat on it's face, it's like one of those websites that has a 5 minute intro just to prove that they can do flash. Home looks like it's there to prove that sony can do a 3d world, unfortunately it has no idea why or what for |
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It reeks of being designed for 'young people' by 'slightly older people' who think they know what young people want based on what young people are currently enjoying (texting, talking incessantly and pointlessly on mobiles, community web stuff).
I think it's awfully well done, but I just know I'll never spend any time with it. So that's 3GB of HD space well used.... |
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iokthemonkey
12/12/08 @ 17:09
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Unfortunately its not a nice place to inhabit and falls flat on it's face
---- How much of that would you say is down to design and how much is the community/other users? |
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It sounds like Second Life with the good bits (the fact that, with a bit of technical know-how, you can do just about anything and if you can't, you can buy it from someone who can) stripped out.
It's like the internet. You have to put up with the porn and the gambling and the people trying to rip you off because they're byproducts of the freedom that allows you to do the good stuff. Without that freedom, you just get bland, consumerised tosh. Second Life almost got it right. If someone can make SL, but newbie-friendly, stable and relatively bug-free they'll be on to a winner. |
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Whoever mentioned Logans Run was spot on. That's the vibe I got from my few brief visits in the closed beta.
It's some nightmarish, sterile, futuristic place where everone looks similar and are all in their 20's. If you can't be bothered to queue (which I found ridiculous) for one of the games then there's nothing else to do there, as it stands. Lets see what pans out in the future because currently it's pretty useless. I think it has potential but potential isn't good enough. Mostly though I just don't like the way it looks and the load times for each area, oh dear, that was something I didn't expect. |
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The mood in Home is way off the mark. From my hour's play, it strikes me as a very cold, clinical consumerist experience, and encourages all the wrong sensibilities in people.
If it's always been your dream to stock up on designer clothes/furniture, play tacky arcade and pub games, and dance to cheesy corporate advert vids/posters, then Home is for you. I'm off to actually play some games.
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@iokthemonkey - that's a good question
I'd say a bit of both, the environments and characters just don't have any wow or fun factor about them, the view across the harbour in your starting pad is ok but nothing great. And as others have said the characters are a stale in comparison to miis or xbox avatars as for the interaction - its no different to any other chat room I've encountered ie loads of people saying alot about not much This opinion is based on two visits both lasting around 5-10 minutes before I got bored if you were wondering |
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Personally I liked what I saw in Home yesterday. Apart from the log in snafus, once you where inside it seemed solid and stable and more importantly, it did not try to be second life or World of Warcraft. Instead it was clear it was designed to be a 3D console gaming portal. Home will be phased in just like Trohpy's have been and in about 6-9 Months from now we should see Home living up to its potential.
Once you can start filling your online house with your 3d trophies and you gaming clan can met up at someone's house before jumping into your game of choice I think it will be clear to people that Home is a cool and well working idea. But of course, just like Trophy support wasn't very interesting as long as only one game had trophies, Home will not be interesting before you give Sony and the 3rd party publishers time to start supporting it with their games. Sony has showed one thing very clearly since the PS3 launch, that they will release frequent and major feature improvements on a regular basis for the core PS3 system. The same will be true of Home. |
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Halo Jones
12/12/08 @ 17:35
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I changed my avatar to a female toon and it didn't take long before the boys gathered round like I was some whore offering to open up her legs and perform some cyborsex..
Now, I can't even log on to tease all the school boys.
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Seems to me like they rush-released this to an open beta stage just so they could get Home out in 2008. Don't think they could afford another PR disaster of another "killer app" slipping to next year.
Reality is, an "Open Beta" is pretty much the same as a full public release albeit with a disclaimer attached ("sorry if this is shit but it is still beta after all!") They should have just had their closed beta, taken care of the full content, then done a full public release. Why have an open beta for a half finished product other than for PR reasons? Any SDF defending this article with "but it's just a beta!" should note that Sony chose to release it to the world in this state. They could have easily just extended the closed beta but they chose to make it public, meaning they must have been happy about the quality of the version you can download now. |
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@ iokthemonkey
I get the fact that it's not a "game", and that it's sort of a form of social networking, I guess I just don't get why I (or anyone) would use Home (or even Second Life for that matter) for the purpose of social networking. It just seems like a really longwinded way to do the same basic things that can be achieved via MySpace/Facebook (sharing things with friends etc). And this is coming from a long time gamer and shamefully heavy user of Facebook (though I don't update my status everytime I've had a new thought unlike some people do). On a basic level I guess I'm trying to say that I fail to see how being a part of Home would enhance my gaming/entertainment/social life. I just can't see what it offers. |
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HiddenPooh
12/12/08 @ 18:03
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A terrible article which totally misses the point AND it's attracted a whoile crowd of tossers to the comments thread who love to bash stuff they've never tried. Idiots.
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Home is a virtual environment that has the MASSIVE benefit that anyone with a PS3 has access to it. Currently it doesn't really do anything because it's not supposed to do anything. It's a platform for commercial endeavours and these will come with time. In years to come it will be taken for granted and will have a strong commercial presence.
Think long term. |
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themorganator
12/12/08 @ 18:13
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"Home will be phased in just like Trohpy's have been and in about 6-9 Months from now we should see Home living up to its potential."
BUT, what about all the people who've been waiting for this in the first place? what about all the people who've shelled out the big bucks for something that's completely unnecessary? All people need is to get online, party up (with cross channel voice support), and get playing games. Why do gamers need this from a console? I feel sorry for PS3 owners who've been shouting about this for years (yes, years you deluded monkeys) as the savior of the system, and once again, Sony has completely fallen on its arse. This 'beta' is still a fairly accurate representation of the final product! PS3 out of 10. |
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seedaripper
12/12/08 @ 18:16
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360 fans who've never 'used' the application,but instead form their own judgements via FUD; Could you please bugger off!
here's a quickie..ITS BEEN OUT FOR ONE DAY! yep, just one day, isn't it blatantly obvious that they (Sony) are still stress testing the servers? Alot of the content is coming next week, and I'm sure that (as somebody helpfully pointed out before) with Sony's track record of updates, it will indeed grow...there's nothing wrong with a bot of cynicism, but this hatred (of a BETA) is downright stupid. Granted there are micro-transactions, but it is possible to win alot of stuff (play the arcade games) and I'm sure in the future this will expand (if you play namco arcade beta from japan, you can win an arcade cabinet, as well as pacman caps etc), from what i hear, from time to time the whole layout will have special themes (there was talk of a chimerean invasion (R2) on the home square, with pods stuck in the middle and everything being a bit more post apocalyptic, or maybe snow and decorations for Xmas...there's a lot to think about there, and as i pointed out before,its been out a day. But hey if its hyperbole and FUD that you crave and not imagination, keep reading cynical, sceptical 'pieces' from sites such as this... seedaripper1973 |
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wewillselfdestruct
12/12/08 @ 18:20
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"What a completely shit article. It's missed almost everything that Home is supposed to be, as well as the fact that it's not yet what it's supposed to be."
If it's not yet what it's supposed to be, then why is it here at all? Perhaps they'll release Uncharted 2 early as well; you'll be able to wander around the game world but they haven't got around to including the missions yet. And despite reading numerous articles about Home over the last couple of years, I still don't know what it's actually supposed to be anyway. To all intents and purposes it appears to serve no purpose. I hope that changes but I think it's a long road Sony have to walk. |
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marronthered
12/12/08 @ 18:21
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all the complaints voiced in this article arent unique to the authors head the official home forums are full of this crap. they have said it will get better and i believe it will.
as far as the cash for every item is concerned... you wont find me buying a virtual coat for 59p... no fucking chance! but i bet some sad losers will, it has a lot of promise but its just a mess at the minute! |
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