Playstation Home

[fuchikoma]

I've had some fun with Home, pre-revamp. It was a neat way to sightsee and fool around. Basically, to do the things I spent 2/3 of the time doing when playing MMOs anyway. My main problem with it was that whenever I got alone, it liked to kick me off the server every minute or two, so I eventually just gave up trying to use it. In public, this never happened.

 

It's funny though - does anyone remember the PSN launch title, Shiki-tei? You get a little one-room Japanese house and garden, and can place a few things outside - you cannot enter the house. Home + Japanese apartment? 100x better than Shiki-tei. You have a nice large building, bigger yard, and can place all sorts of things everywhere. Photos from my hard drive hang on the walls, I have a working Galaga machine in my gazebo next to an easy chair and a rack of archery gear. Swords and guns line one wall of the house, while the living room has a nice couch and collectible trinkets from Namco. This is all stuff that was free too, I'm fairly certain. I bought a couple little things, but very little.

 

But it's not a videogame itself (if you don't count their special zone - what was it, "oxygen", "thorium", or some other element - where you stomp on scorpions...) It's more like taking a walk IN a video game and running into other people who play it. Home isn't something you'd play instead of a game, but if you don't feel like fending off a thousand attempted assassins at the moment, it's a good place to just go be virtual and wander around a bit.