Create an Account
username: password:
 
  MemeStreams Logo

MemeStreams Discussion

search


This page contains all of the posts and discussion on MemeStreams referencing the following web page: PlayStation Home Open Beta. You can find discussions on MemeStreams as you surf the web, even if you aren't a MemeStreams member, using the Threads Bookmarklet.

PlayStation Home Open Beta
by Dagmar at 7:24 pm EST, Dec 12, 2008

Finally and at last it's freaking out.

...and I suppose now we can all see what Sony did with their virtual-reality shopping mall, er, pardon me... "shared space".

Good luck logging in. Find me as 'evilDagmar' if you like.


 
RE: PlayStation Home Open Beta
by Dagmar at 2:01 pm EST, Dec 13, 2008

Final assessment:

You know how (okay, maybe you don't personally know but bear with me) when you walk into a strip club you look around and everything you see makes you think "That will cost dearly"? Well, that's PlayStationHome in a nutshell. They give your avatar a basic apartment and a choice of clothes (which don't matter since everyone else looks like a jellyghost most of the time) and absolutely everything else is going to cost ya'. ...and there's barely any "everything else" at the moment.

Weak launch.


  
RE: PlayStation Home Open Beta
by Stefanie at 9:21 am EST, Dec 18, 2008

Dagmar wrote:
Final assessment:

You know how (okay, maybe you don't personally know but bear with me) when you walk into a strip club you look around and everything you see makes you think "That will cost dearly"? Well, that's PlayStationHome in a nutshell. They give your avatar a basic apartment and a choice of clothes (which don't matter since everyone else looks like a jellyghost most of the time) and absolutely everything else is going to cost ya'. ...and there's barely any "everything else" at the moment.

Weak launch.

I haven't had time to play with it yet, but I probably will this weekend.


  
RE: PlayStation Home Open Beta
by Stefanie at 12:33 pm EDT, Mar 18, 2009

Dagmar wrote:
Weak launch.

Now that I've had a while to play with it, I generally agree with you. With all the time spent on it, and all of the hype surrounding it, Home is rather underwhelming.

However, I do like playing the occasional game of chess and pool there. Unfortunately, there's no way that three chess tables in the Mall and six pool tables in the Bowling Alley can accommodate the vast number of users. They need to do something about that, and a good start would be to allow users to have chess and pool tables in their personal spaces. I've met a handful of nice players there, but unfortunately, the ratio is about 10,000 ass-clowns to each reasonably cool gamer.

I think many users are unhappy that Sony is focusing on the social aspects of Home (another Second Life) as opposed to being more game-oriented in its approach. I think Home has the potential to be both a social and gaming network for players, but there's a lot of work to be done.

***topic shift***

By the way, do you play Resident Evil? I got RE 5 this past Friday, and while it's not perfect, it's a lot of fun (more fun than GTA IV, in my opinion). Anyway, I'm StefanieTN on PSN, if you have the game and are up for some co-op play.

Capcom reportedly has some add-on content for RE 5 on the way for additional multi-player modes, including some "vs." modes. Hopefully, we'll be able to use our upgraded weapons.


 
 
Powered By Industrial Memetics