PSN Home Goes Live - inFAMOUS, Killzone 2 and SOCOM tomorrow

PostRe: PSN Home Goes Live - Updates pg1 by KK » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:33 pm

UK RESISTANCE seem to think it's awesome...

SONY'S LIFELESS HOME HELLHOLE WILL NOT SAVE THE DAY
Sony's sent out some new images of Home, the cumbersome 3D PC avatar system from 1998 it mistakenly thinks people will give a toss about. It is grim.

As depressing as a motorway service station at 4.25am when the arcade is closed and the restaurant has sold out of chips. And a cup of tea is £3.99 and it's 20p to use the toilet.

Imagine a new-build city centre flat. You bought it in May of 2007 for £249,000 with a 100% mortgage. It's currently worth £169,000. The laminate is already starting to come up. The taps are broken. The ground rent is an additional £1500 a year no one mentioned at the time. That's PlayStation Home.

Abandoned film set. Three stuntmen died in an accident and shooting was cancelled.

Decaying future world after the 'Great War'.

HELL. LITERALLY HELL. Laminated HELL.

A seven-hour trek around Homebase with the wife to look at - BUT NOT BUY - new kinds of taps.

As empty and bleak as the hearts of the few PS3 owners that will pretend to be excited by this. THE HORROR. THE HORROR.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.

HOME is not for gamers. If you want to play a game, don't download HOME. What are Sony doing pouring millions into a piece of gooseberry fool like HOME?

$ilva $hadow wrote:HOME is not for gamers. If you want to play a game, don't download HOME. What are Sony doing pouring millions into a piece of gooseberry fool like HOME?

its not a product, its a service.

1cmanny1 wrote:
$ilva $hadow wrote:HOME is not for gamers. If you want to play a game, don't download HOME. What are Sony doing pouring millions into a piece of gooseberry fool like HOME?

its not a product, its a service.

Well what are they servicing us with? Are you buying into Home because you're a silly new zealander?

$ilva $hadow wrote:
1cmanny1 wrote:
$ilva $hadow wrote:HOME is not for gamers. If you want to play a game, don't download HOME. What are Sony doing pouring millions into a piece of gooseberry fool like HOME?

its not a product, its a service.

Well what are they servicing us with? Are you buying into Home because you're a silly new zealander?

what i mean is its never going to be finished, it will be growing all the time, its not something you can buy in a store.

PostRe: PSN Home Goes Live - Updates pg1 by **BID0** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:52 am

1cmanny1 wrote:
$ilva $hadow wrote:HOME is not for gamers. If you want to play a game, don't download HOME. What are Sony doing pouring millions into a piece of gooseberry fool like HOME?

its not a product, its a service.

It is a Lifestyle.

BID0 wrote:
1cmanny1 wrote:
$ilva $hadow wrote:HOME is not for gamers. If you want to play a game, don't download HOME. What are Sony doing pouring millions into a piece of gooseberry fool like HOME?

its not a product, its a service.

It is a Lifestyle.

well, no, you cant live in it...

Well I finally downloaded this last night and there are some nice touches. Communication works very well and I didn't seem to have lag problems. The trailers and stuff on the big screens are a nice touch too.

Other than that, what a waste of time. 60p to buy clothes, £3 for a chair? Who the heck are they kidding, its an absolute rip off! There is no way I am going to invest any time (or cash) in this and buying stuff that isn't actually real.

I'm actually shocked at just how much of a rip off the prices are. I mean, if I went to somebodys virtual home and they had kitted it out with loads of stuff they had bought I would just think they are crazy.

As you may already know, there's RE5 and SFIV stuff coming to Home. Make of it what you will...

Resi 5 will also support game launching from within Home and the giving of special items through Home Reward support.

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/02/03/resi-5-sf-iv-coming-home/

PostRe: PSN Home Goes Live - Updates pg1 by KK » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:06 pm

Every time I use Home, the worse it gets. This isn’t getting better, it’s falling further into the abyss with each passing update. The newest being two Far Cry 2 areas (again, both need to be downloaded, both need to be loaded up, & both take up yet more space on the HDD). They look nice enough, however there is absolutely nothing to do in either of them. This seems to be the running theme throughout; there’s still jack gooseberry fool to do apart from aimless running around txt spking to strangers.

Yet more hilarity ensues upon entering Sony’s new Events Space. Sony were clearly being ironic when they thought this one up as it's lacking anything that can even remotely be called or described as an 'event'. On the Landing is the same old LocoRoco 2 & “You’ve got the Whole World” trailers playing on the screens. There is some sort of competition running where you’re given the opportunity to win a PSP 3000 by finding 8 codes scattered around the vicinity. Once you’ve found the codes, you’ve then got to go to one of the many Touchpads & input your details. That of course, is in theory. When has anything in Home worked in reality? ‘Game is currently unavailable. Waiting for server.’ And that’s not actually to play a game – it’s to load a sodding webpage. In the Gallery are two massive PSPs on the wall, with photos of static tomatoes within (I’m not making this up, you know...). In another room are 6 advertising posters for PSP. And in the last remaining room are a load of LocoRoco bouncing about. Again, totally & utterly pointless.

KKLEIN wrote:Yet more hilarity ensues upon entering Sony’s new Events Space. Sony were clearly being ironic when they thought this one up as it's lacking anything that can even remotely be called or described as an 'event'. On the Landing is the same old LocoRoco 2 & “You’ve got the Whole World” trailers playing on the screens. There is some sort of competition running where you’re given the opportunity to win a PSP 3000 by finding 8 codes scattered around the vicinity. Once you’ve found the codes, you’ve then got to go to one of the many Touchpads & input your details. That of course, is in theory. When has anything in Home worked in reality? ‘Game is currently unavailable. Waiting for server.’ And that’s not actually to play a game – it’s to load a sodding webpage. In the Gallery are two massive PSPs on the wall, with photos of static tomatoes within (I’m not making this up, you know...). In another room are 6 advertising posters for PSP. And in the last remaining room are a load of LocoRoco bouncing about. Again, totally & utterly pointless.

Visisting this room was the straw that broke my "I won't uninstall it just yet" back. Wandered in, noticed that there was another pathway available, but which was walled off, had to load up the gallery, which after doing so, I was notified that I'd received two new items. Not what they were, just that I had them. I had to go back to the wardrobe and browse through all the clothing settings to find, a PSP cap. :fp:

Well, there were two notifications, I thought I'd see what the other item was. Searched through all the male and female clothing, nothing extra there, so I head back to my apartment , thinking that it might even have been some god damned furniture, but no, it wasn't. I never found out what it was for, maybe it was twice because I'd unlocked a male and female version of the hat, who knows.

I then went back to the gallery where I was deafened by ad music that I couldn't even tell where it was coming from, and then found the PSP competition KK mentioned. The entire text was in Spanish. I had no idea what it was supposed to be, just that it had to do with the PSP and some number panels I'd noticed. I then noticed a conversation going on behind me where a pre-pubescent boy was asking an old fat man disguised as a girl if she was a lesbian.

Waste of hard drive usage, and I say that with well over 150GB of free space.

Why do you keep playing it, KKlein?

The majority of us tried it once and never went back. You don't have to be a Hero, just delete the thing and move on!

PostRe: PSN Home Goes Live - Updates pg1 by KK » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:31 pm

The Alchemist Penguin wrote:Why do you keep playing it, KKlein?

Because Sony insisted it was going to get better.

2 months later...it hasn't & it isn't.

The Alchemist Penguin wrote:just delete the thing and move on!

How do you delete it for good? I got rid of mine ages ago but the icon is still there, annoying me.

chalkitdown wrote:
The Alchemist Penguin wrote:just delete the thing and move on!

How do you delete it for good? I got rid of mine ages ago but the icon is still there, annoying me.

The icon will always be there, as far as I know.

I haven't been on Home since the day of its release.

I went on there the other day. Waited around for a Race in the Red Bull area for about 5 mins left and now Home is deleted.

If it lives up to Sony's expectations, Home will end a money-printing extravaganza. If. So Sony won't just let any old chum with a dev kit work on it! They're only letting these developers.

There are 24 companies in all, ranging from the expected (Activision, Sega) to the unexpected (D3) to the borderline unknown. And those 24 are:

Atlus
Activision
Acquire
Irem
EA
SNK
AQ Interactive
GungHo
Games Republic
Q Entertainment
Capcom
Koei
Hudson
Sega
Disney
D3
Spike
Genki
Nippon Ichi
Ubisoft
Bandai Namco
Paon
Tecmo
Konami

It's a list that's more interesting for who's not on there, as opposed to who is. No Take-Two? No Atari? No THQ, no Midway, Lucasarts?

No Square Enix?

http://kotaku.com/5149362/only-these-developers-may-work-on-the-ps3s-home

Some massive omissions there.

Paramount Pictures is readying a major marketing push into Sony's PlayStation Home service for the upcoming film Watchmen, with exclusive footage, a filmmaker Q&A session, and of course, Watchmen costumes for your avatar.

The film adaptation of Alan Moore's classic comic book series The Watchmen is a major deal for Paramount, and no on is safe from their relentless marketing campaign; not even the residents of Sony's PlayStation Home. With exclusive clips of the film already available for viewing, the PlayStation Home Watchmen invasion escalates on February 27th, when players can purchase exclusive clothing and items for their avatar, including clothing, a doomsday clock, and a couple of fine-looking costumes of characters Nite Owl and Rorschach. >

Then on March 6th, Paramount is hosting the first-ever filmmaker Q&A session in PlayStation Home, featuring the movie's director Zack Snyder (of 300 fame) along with graphic novel artist Dave Gibbons. While the Q&A is an invitation-only event limited to 10 guests, it will be streamed majestically across the internet, eventually incorporated into a full Watchmen webcast that includes footage from the film and clips from the UK premiere .

The PlayStation Home push is being orchestrated by the fine folks at specialist film marketing agency Picture Production Company and Deluxe Corporation, who previously worked on one hell of an amazing Second Life campaign for the Transformers movie, complete with custom transforming robot avatars. You know, for the kids.

While I've not spent too much time in PlayStation Home at this point, I might have to log in long enough to pick up a sweet Nite Owl costume. Wake me up on the 27th please.

http://kotaku.com/5154530/watch-the-watchmen-invade-playstation-home

I have to say all credit to KKlein for his dedication!

I have kept Home downloaded for now in the hope that it might one day get better. I too went to the Farcry areas and to be honest I thought I was missing something as I couldn't understand why there was nothing to do aside from looking at a few pointless maps.

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