Home for the Holidays
Playstation HOME, that is. So after about 50 attempts to log in, agreeing to the EULA three times and making a Mii, er, Avatar, er whatever version of myself, I’m HOME. It has the new car smell? Well, you know that new car smell? Even Kia’s have that new car smell and we all know how cool they are.
So I turn up in a stark sterile and sleek apartment overlooking a seaside town. Now I don’t know if everyone has the same view as my place but its a good bet. Its very sleek and cool. Its funny how all Sony marketing is about being cool and beautiful. Fun? Well, only if its cool and beautiful people. Your apartment is empty simple because you can BUY things like furniture and decorations for your fake apartment with REAL Money earned in the REAL world. Yes, you can stop laughing at people who make money as gold farmers since you’re expected to spend money.
There’s no gameplay in Home. You walk around. Of course, Home doesn’t download more than the areas you want to go in, so the first time you step outside, you are prompted to start a 77MB download. And then when you go over there, and in there. So unfortunately, you can’t do this overnight.
And then that’s it. You can then talk to the other metrosexuals (or people lieing about their weight) using your headset or with canned speech selected through your menu. At this point I got bored. I’m not big on things like Second Life or Habbo or any of that stuff so obviously this isn’t for me.
Will people in Home get together and go on epic raids? Will they form guilds? Will people get so lost in home that their real life relationships suffer. WILL PEOPLE BUY SHIT WITH REAL MONEY TO PUT FAKE CRAP IN THEIR FAKE APARTMENTS? Is this the first step to Better than Life as seen in TV’s Red Dwarf (or in the shitty book)?
I can’t see what you are meant to get out of HOME. Its free, but does that make it good?
December 15th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I am baffled at the hype that bubbled around both Home and the New Xbox Experience. What perversion of the industry took place to make it think that people who play games would be excited about bits of software that AREN’T GAMES AT ALL? They look pretty and all, but they sure don’t make the actual games any better! I thought games were the reasons we bought these systems. Now we have to be satisfied with DLC game chunks, ugly avatars, and NEW USER INTERFACES. Fuck these consoles!
December 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I like the NXE but the Mii is much ado about nothing and mostly it’s made it more difficult for my wife to start up DVD’s.
(Yes I know I can change the system settings to have it start up the dvds on insertion)
Maybe I should get another dvd player anyway, everything considered:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/documents-suggest-microsoft-knew-xbox-360-could-damage-discs-all/