So seeing all the Home articles I decided to give Home another try.  It has been a while, I didn't try Sully's Bar and the Red Bull area last time so I decided to give it another try.

So was it worth the time? First, my notes while playing:

Bowling Alley

• First thing I notice is that for a small space, I'm having frame rate problems.  Why is such a small space so hard to do?
• Every pool table taken
• Every bowling lane taken
• Every arcade machine taken
• The hip music playing in the background doesn't hide the fact this place has no life what-so-ever.

Central Plaza

• I'm just going to say this-- downloading every area is a pain and just all around stupid.
• What a pretty dull, bland, and lifeless world but at least Fiddy is everywhere
• I keep seeing textures pop in (similar to Mass Effect)
• There's still one building that every time I try to enter I get a scene download error and then my character can't move.

Mall

• Bad framerate here too
• There's this weird clicking, chime, sort of sound.  What is it?
• Chess tables taken

My Space

• It's just so boring, and I'm not talking about my place.  There's nothing outside except a sterile, bland, boring, lifeless world.
  

Sully's Bar

• HOLY SHIT!  FREE ARCADE GAME!  I play me some Mercenary Madness...I see why nobody was there.
• This place has more personality and atmosphere than everywhere so far, but it's still pretty lifeless.  There's just no real interaction in the world.  Every thing is nailed down and just eh.  Am I missing something?
• I looked at my artifacts which was ok...I guess.
• Why must I download every damn room separately?
• Sit down to watch a video, my character looks like a goof sitting in the chair, wait for it to download, video plays, my characters fat head is in the way.

Red Bull Air Race

• it's dead fucking quiet.  For a few minutes I hear nothing and then suddenly sound of airplanes occasionally flying overhead kicks in.
• Um, is there anything to do here?  I walked everywhere and saw nothing to do.  I saw a leaderboard so I assume there's something but I didn't see it.  I looked at the little Red bull stand and by every helicopter and plane but didn't see anything I could interact with.  I walked around the area a good five times but couldn't find anything so I left.

Theater

• Even this theater has shitty frame rate
• Video loads for more than two minutes, in the mean time dead silence.  No sound at all.
• After all that waiting, I get a shitty quality Knowing trailer.

Gamer's Lounge

• So...Gamer's Lounge...I see a lot of seats, some empty glass rooms...no games.
• Not one sound

So yeah, another night with Home and another night feeling sorry for the people who put a lot of work into that thing.  I would seriously be embarrassed if I had anything to do with Home, I would probably tell people I'm a bank teller or something, anything, else.

It's sad they had potential to have something pretty cool but then they took years to give us...that.  Home is such a monumental epic failure and fails at just about everything it does.  Avatars have no personality.  Frame rate was shitty everywhere except Sully's Bar.  You wait in line to play games.  I can only guess I was having sound errors. 

What does Home do right?  I mean I guess you can log in, dance, and chat but was that really worth the time and money put into it?