Video: Footage From Playstation Home Beta
Are you jazzed about Home? So jazzed you'd spend 25 minutes watching someone futz around with all the exciting features like "sitting on a virtual couch" and "placing a virtual candlestick on a virtual table?" Well, you're in luck! Gametrailers user Tigerj has uploaded almost exactly that amount of footage from Home's closed beta so you can get a better feel of where features like the virtual PSP interface and character customization stand at the moment. My favorite part is when he starts demonstrating all of the different emotions and expressions your avatar can express - it's like a tiny virtual Stasberg workshop!
Playstation Home is still set to launch in March 2008, but an open beta test is expected before then. While the above video may be informational, it's not exactly exciting. If you couldn't care less about social networking but you've still got 25 minutes to spare, might I recommend the most recent episode of 30 Rock instead?
Frank: I'm gay for Jamie.Liz: No, that's not a thing. You can't be gay for just one person. Unless you're a lady. And you meet Ellen.
Frank: I got some real thinking to do. It's scary, but also exciting.
25 minutes of Home in action [GameTrailers]
[Via: NeoGAF Forums]
Dawdle
Posted to Video Games, Videos on 2 December 2007
· Comments (4)
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Once again, I'm baffled by why this is going to be interesting; I mean I understand that The Sims and Second Life are super popular... is there more to Home than this and the extensions brought to the table by Sony (the social aspect is focused on games)?
Honestly, I couldn't care less about customizing a house and inviting my friends over, or customizing an avatar. Am I missing something, or is this just not targeting me?
That's not all HOME will be about. There's the trophy room where ur fiends can visit and see ur achievements in games in full 3D. As well as game specific lobbies that will allow u to talk with folks that share u interests like a gaygamer lobby or a leather daddies lobby. Some game specific lobbies will allow u to launch into a game with your friends. Game lobbies that allow for multiplayer games right in the HOME enviroment. If these things don't interest you then yes, ur not the target.
Pretty. . . .
Heh, I guess they aren't. My 360 gamer score (which seems to be a rough analog to the trophies) is something I never even notice. I really couldn't care less about glorified chat rooms, even if they're done really well. I guess I'm indoctrinated as to not using my game device as a social tool, let alone a gateway to one.
But more power to people who are into that; choice is good.