what an excercise in pointlessness. Penny Arcade put it best "this is what happens when you let your marketing department make a game". There is no discernable purpose for me to go into the Home program seeing as how it essentially does with the XMB does but with waaaaaay more load time. I guess I can't play cheap browser games like "bowling" in my XMB, so it has that going for it....then again I probably won't be able to do that in home either.

The whole thing feels like an surreallistic post modern nightmare world. Everything is sterile and emotionless...and quiet...so quiet. Last night I'm told to join the all night dance party out in the plaza, so I decide to leave my silent, overly clean, uber modern apartment to go join the rave. I walk out into the plaza, it's eeriely silent, and it's filled with ghosts wandering aimlessly, a man sits next to a fountain staring straight ahead with a blank expressionless face, and a lone fat guy with a mohawk does the running man. I halfway expect to just start hearing "number nine....number nine......number nine......number nine....." followed by an explosion (beatles fans get the reference). WOW.

It's wierd, boring, pointless. I'm sure somebody somewhere will have fun with it, hell a community will actually form. But keep in mind EVERYTHING will form a community if it's free and readily available. That doesn't mean it's not a surrealistic nightmarish postmodern hellscape.

Edit: Fuckity fuckerstein....wait, twesterm has a kim possible avatar, that's why he wins....fuck

You make it sound hilarious! I want to try it now.

Can someone link twesterm's rant? I think I'll make a compilation

Out of ALL the rants I have read so far, and it's been a few due to the general hilarity, this one made me laugh the hardest from PA, especially the last sentence REALLY got me laughing aloud:

"Chief among these bizarre maneuvers is the idea that, when manufacturing their flimsy dystopia, they actually ported the pernicious notion of scarcity from our world into their digital one. This is like having the ability to shape being from non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS."

I haven't tried or even seen it (so feel free to skip this post for obvious reasons), but from what people are saying it confirms what I thought about Second Life and similar things... A service like this can only be interesting if it has a lot of content, or if users themselves can create interesting content. Otherwise I can see people getting tired of it after a few weeks if not days.

If Sony can put the content in or allows for creativity to thrive, people will continue to use it. Otherwise, I'd be very surprised if it was not a fad.

Waiting for the " It's a Beta " reply's.

For Second Life it's not just the content as well, it's the fact that you can make real money with the content.

If people like Habbo Hotel, I imagine people will like Home too.

Personally, I haven't even bothered to download it yet.

ok, I'm not on my ps3 anymore and I spent more time with home.... and I got to say....

Before it launched I was very skeptical about it. I was actually not even gonna give it the chance. I don't see a point to the thing.

When I loaded it up it didn't take anywhere near as long as some were saying. I have 710kps speed. The slowest DSL someone can get (10 dollars a month). I didn't wait long for the mall, theatre, or bowling alley to DL. The Bowling Alley was the longest and the theatre was the fastest.

Character creating.... Not enough options yeah you can morph your face (and I made a heroine junkie looking guy with big dopey ears and no nose) But I wanted more facial hair and clothes.... but why would they do that? Microtransactions. I did have fun with the joke avatar and laughed really hard while doing it, but that didn't last long.

After I went into my space I took everything away RIGHT away. It looked real sterile. I wish they gave you a basic picture frame and a basic rug with the space. I saw no real potential to make my space any better so my room is completely empty. I would have fixed it up a little if I had some options.

I walked around the outside part looking for something to do. The dance thing was interesting... but for the most part the bubble pop game was the only thing worth doing outside and I didn't have framerate issues.... I found it pretty boring. Then I went to the theatre... wow left right away. It was taking forever for the video to load and there was nothing to do. Then I went to the mall... I looked in the stores. I would have bought some furniture but for 5 dollars for something I might not keep using... no thanks. If it was like 5 dollars for a furniture set I might have done it. I talked to people while playing chess. (don't know why chess is in the mall and not outside. Most stone chess tables I see like that are in parks) It was pretty fun. I liked chess. I suck at the game but it's okay I was 2 for 2. After that I left and went to the bowling alley. all the pool tables were taken so I played arcade games. I tried echochrome but i saw how slow it was moving and went to ice breaker. That moved much faster so I played it. That game is pretty sweet, but the train game was fucking awesome. thats what to the most of my time. I played 2 frames of bowling... it was boring. Lack of people with mic and no friends... could have been better. A pool table opened up and I played with someone with a mic. It was much better than bowling. I won in pool too.

I didn't make it to Uncharted or Farcry rooms.

I didn't have problems with immature people. Most immature person I saw where people sitting in a circle talking about smoking a bong outside and some people going "Wanna fight about it? I'm bigger than you. Watch this /dance You just got served" They had a mic. But mute button fixes that.

Bottom line - better than I expected but I have no incentive to keep going back. I'll give it some more shots though. (chess will probablly take up most of my time)

EDIT: CONNECTION PROBLEMS - I had a problem trying to connect at 5pm CST my very first time connecting but i had to leave anyways to go to the mall with my mom and pick something out for christmas. We got back at around 7pm and we watched the first half of the Bears game and she went to bed so I tried goin on home. I did get the time out error but I tried again and connected. It wasnt that big of a deal... Most people talking bad about this are over exaggerating on the issues.

I agree, but I was already expecting this anyway. I do not really care, it's good if people enjoy it though.