So you went Home ... (now what?)

hahahaha that video is hilarious!! damn Home is great!!! =]

A lot needs to be done for it to be the revolutionary godsend Sony hyped it to be. We all should remember that it is still in beta and this is far from the finished product. When more of the promised features come I believe we'll see Home blossom into something truly magnificent. As of now, though, it's a neat program.

PSN ID: rattlehead91

That video pretty much sums Home up. There really isn't much to do but mess with people. Properties are 5 bucks which, if that's the case for the final version, I'll be staying in the studio with my 80's wallpaper and three pieces of furniture. Small accessories are still 50 cents which isn't much but I'd rather not go through the hassle. Seems like Home is turning into a joke rather than the revolutionary social networking simulator everyone expected.

It's getting annoying to find that idiots are still thinking that Home is a game. It's a social network. The obvious function is to be able to chat with people who share your interests in games. It's a place to meet new friends outside of just shooting each other in the face. It's a place to be able to ask "hey, is this game fun?" to real people before you buy something. It's 3D IRC. And for the last fucking time, Home is NOT A GAME! You're supposed to go on to chat with people. THose who are arguing like "if I wanted to just walk around and talk to people, I'd do that in real life." Then explain why you use AIM, MSN, Google Chat? Sometimes people want to chat with friends without having to waste minutes on cell phones or without having to reach for their keys and drive. Sometimes I want to talk to my clan mates outside of the game, so it's not all serious all the time. Sometimes I just want to hang out with my friends without actually moving from the comforts of my home. Unless all you want to do with the PS3 is to play games alone, then Home is useless. If you want to talk to other gamers and jump into games with people you just met and find interesting, then Home is perfect. Actually, if you want a social life without all the hassle, then Home is perfect. (well, it's not perfect right now, load time can be bothersome).

In my experience, that video speaks more to the Home experience than the Penny Arcade strip. The gender bending to an extent, but specifically the swarming of female avatars. It's an interesting study in human behavior I take with a big grain of salt, but even my jaded eyes hurt from rolling at some of the situations on occasion....

I think this APP shows great, great promise and I will surely be on the train. All the negativity confuses me.

When I'm talking with other PS fans/fanboys, I'll be honest with them. I don't think Home quite lived up to expectations. It's not revolutionary. It has potential, but even then, I think the hype went above and beyond what Home could provide.

But when I talk with people who aren't avid PS fans, I suddenly become very protective. Maybe I'll hear similar (or ruder) criticisms, and I'll jump in and say that it's very good for what it is and it's only a beta and will be much better later on.

I guess it's because everyone talks about how Xbox Live is the best online community, but I really wish PlayStation Network could get closer to an equal playing field.

I did not like it, I was always worried that it would take over the appearance of the xmb, I am glad its a seperate app. I have reclaimed that 3GB space back, home will have to bring something major to the table to get that back.

Home has promise and if Sony keeps rolling out stuff for it on a regular basis it could transform into something awesome. Here's my only beef with it...the games in the bowling alley - you actually have to wait in line to play them?? Well shoot, that's just like real life, except instead of me waiting to bowl, I'm sitting on my couch making my virtual avatar wait to bowl. I get that it's a social interaction app, but seriously, I have to wait behind someone to play a digital arcade game?? What? I can just go to the real arcade and do that except at the real arcade, I can actually watch them play the game.

Hilarious video, i laughed out loud!

why does penny arcade despise home so much?

One thing I dislike about home is if you're with a group of friends and you decide to move from one location to the next (e.g. Bowling Alley to the Central Square) it is almost guaranteed that you will all end up in different instances of the same place (ie. on different servers). I know it's because each server can only handle a certain amount of people, though you would never notice this if you were just exploring home by yourself. (it's witchcraft I tell ya!) One way me and my friends got around it was to let one person go first then the rest of us would go into our menu pads and click the option to join them. But this simple task is already way too tedious than it needs to be, since load times for each place are already horrendous, it feels like we're waiting twice as long to reach our destination. There definitely needs to be some kind of party system. Home really has a lot of potential, but right now it is severely lacking in some key areas. I would really like to see what they have planned for it in the future.

Honestly, idc for home. It's too much of a hassle to do and everyone is not into mini-games or MMOs. I like my Ps3 but Home is seriously un-needed. They should've spent that production money on things like their online service at hand. ya know... in-game features like Xbox has? Would be a good start since this whole console race is starting to be a "Copycat" fest. Honestly I feel NXE was executed better due to the fact it is like a secondary application. Home is too much of a hassle and like it has been stated several times, it really isnt much to do.

I must say, it's actually entertaining for me. The only thing that sucks is that the theater in the UK version of home is 100 times better than the US one. Better looking place, multiple theaters, WATCHMEN trailer! Aside from that, I honestly have no gripes about it other than arcade machines for my personal space are not yet available. People who were in the closed beta from early on got em, the fuckers!

Home is a primary application that isnt needed unlike NXE where it is a secondary application where it isn't in the way. Anyways thats just my opinion. I've been in there a few but i find myself going into Japanese Home just to drool over the WKC and Dissidia trailers. It has potential though i guess. Could just gave ppl in-game voice chat,music and something else creative for PSN instead of this money-sink called Home.

This poll is shite. Seriously? We either hate it, aren't impressed, or absolutely love it?

I would consider this a golden opportunity for a website entitled "PS3FANBOY" to be more productive in its so called journalism.This is a BETA, that allows a user to create a likeliness of themselves, and use it in a social environment that allows you to play bowling, pool, chess, and arcade games for FREE. The potential here is great, and when one considers the game spaces have YET to be seen, I don't see why so many people are complaining.Sony has stated this is just the BEGINNING, and plenty of outside support has been signed already.But hey, one could always go to the 360's "NXE", and make a cartoon bobblehead of themself and do NOTHING with it.Oh wait, they Netflix, right Xbots?

Check Home again in 2011... might evolve into something then, maybe!

I really don't understand what took Sony almost two years to complete since first showing us Home. The main problem is that all of the cool stuff they showed off such as media streaming and the Hall of Fame for your trophy collection has been stripped out and we are left with just the very basics. In my opinion, it's a complete joke until the features that were promised and shown off before are incorporated. Seriously Sony, it took years of development for this!?

lol that video was amazing. the ol' bait and switch.

Man, Home f'n sucks. There's nothing to do but dance, play some silly arcade games, play some wierd ufo game, bowl, play pool, and talk to people. Why the hell would I want to talk to people? I'll tell you what, if I knew back then what I know now, then I never would have spent that monthly fee on that service . . . . . wait a minute, I forgot that there is no monthly service. That's right there's that $50 annual fee . . . . . damn it! There is no $50 annual fee. (sigh)
Oh yeah, I never would have shelled out the dough to buy this . . . . . fudge!! I never spent a damn dime on it. WTF!! What the hell can I complain about then. . . . . oh yeah, I know! I want my free back! I hate having to spend nothing on something!! I mean crap, what the hell? That goes against the laws of both Jesus and nature! I protest!!!! Give me my free back so that I may waste it on something else!! You all suck!! I suck!! Religion sucks!! Politics suck!!!!! Exclamation points suck!!!!!! The only thing that doesn't suck is what I DO think about the PS3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI

lol... why does the comic censor ASS but not FUCKING? yea its only still beta... i like to just mess around and chat with people there. I can only see it getting better, so nothing wrong with that :D

I don't really understand the negativity. It's basically just a 3D chat-room for PS3 gamers, and that's all I ever thought it was supposed to be. Yes, it's missing some of the key features at the moment, but most of them are still coming.

Anyway, my take on it is that it will just be like PSN updates for me. I'll look forward to the updates, check them out, and then not pay much attention to it for the rest of the week. That's enough to keep me happy.

Hahaha, nice video.

Home is boring. There's nothing to do because bowling is always full, the arcade games are always taken, Twighlite is the only trailer I've come across, there's not enough to explore around now. HOME is pointless right now.

LOL im so gonna do that!