PS Home = WOW. Sony is upping the ante.

[Stromprophet]

windbane said: Lynn said: You are saying that a Second Life clone will smash Halo 3? This feature will not increase the PS3 sales. If it became popular Microsoft would just copy it and then have it on Xbox Live. Sony needs to fix what they have before they add new features. Still no unified friends list, custom sound tracks, PC streaming or in-game messages. A lot of things combined could smash halo 3, including halo 3 sucking. I'm sure if Home is successful Microsoft will just code their own overnight for all those paying Live customers...right...cause copying what someone else does gets a lot of praise nowadays. Not to mention the time it would take. You don't think it would be easier to add a unified friends list, in-game messages, custom sound tracks (which ridge racer for ps3 already has), and pc streaming? You realize the PS3 can run linux, right? PC streaming is just a network feature...

Put nicely, Halo 2 IMO sucked. And I am a gigantic Halo fan. I used to play Halo all day every day. Halo 2 had to be one of the worst sequels of all time IMO. I remember standing in line and seeing all the different types of people and I was like, "these are halo fans?" I played Halo in tournaments all the time and hung out with lots of Halo 1 fans. But standing in that line I knew the shine was off, we had a bunch of ghetto thugs playing now and I thought for sure someone was gonna get jacked for something. Which is what made online so terrible, you had people that just wanted to be jack offs. It's entirely possible Halo 3 could suck balls. Just because a game has great graphics or was great before doesn't mean it will continue to do so. Halo 2 did a lot of things wrong and lost me as a fan, they have to win me back now. They easily made the crappiest story line I've ever seen (yes, you do still have to make a single player game, we don't all play online all day Bungie) and hamstrung 2 of the most fun weapons in the game, the pistol and sniper rifle. They insisted the pistol was too powerful with the zoom in MP, hello? We all played halo one on 16 player hubs with pistols and there was nothing wrong with it.