HOME demonstration

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kber81 said:

johnsobas said:

Honestly this looks like the biggest waste of time ever, but at the same time i think it might be a hit with ps3 fans. I can just imagine all the obsessed fools out there spending all their money on their apartments. The kind of conversations that go on inside these kind of cyber places are pathetically bad too.

 

Only fool around right now is you. Home is a software for masses. It's like combination of The sims and Second life. I'm totally astonished that you and guys like shams have no balls to admit this is a real deal for you. This is kind of software you should worship. It's like Wii stuff. It's not for me. It's for you. Biggest waste of time? It's a communicator you know. Maybe rather go and feed your puppy...

I don't spend any of my time playing MMO's (always considered them a waste of time), and Im the last one to use chat clients (same reason). I find my time fairly precious, and Im generally picky about what I do with it.

Its like how I (preceive) the differences between say... Zelda & Oblivion. Although Zelda is a fairly long game (and I do get distracted with some side quests, fishing, etc...) its fairly focused, and gives you distinct goals. Oblivion (again in my perceived opinion - I may be completely wrong) is just *too* big, and *too* free roaming. I get the idea that I could waste hours, or days wandering around.. .doing random stuff.

If I had nothing else to play, or things to do with my life - that would be sweet. But as I do, the game *scares* me - and I wouldn't even consider a purchase (even on the Wii).

I have no interest in HOME (in its current form) at all. It looks like a complete time waster - no objectives, yet lots of ways to waste time doing various crap (including chatting). I have VoIP at home - if I want to chat to someone, I generally ring them ;) This may also be why a general VoIP application holds more interest to me than wandering around in HOME, trying to chat to someone... using the PS3 controller (??!?!?).

(as for the Nintendogs swipe - I did play that for a while, but once all the "obvious" objectives were completed I stopped - and haven't played it since. I have two REAL cats, and they satisfy any requirements I might have for looking/playing with pets ;)