Author Topic: Holy shit if i was a qore annual subscriber i could get invited to a home beta! (Read 8331 times)

Tieno · « **Reply #1 on:** October 30, 2008, 06:00:00 AM »

Imagine the possibilities

FatalT · « **Reply #2 on:** October 30, 2008, 06:19:48 AM »

I'll be sure to give impressions.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 30, 2008, 06:26:28 AM »

LOU BARLOW

abrader · « **Reply #4 on:** October 30, 2008, 08:20:40 AM »

i subscribe - where is my invite?

I really just wanna see what this Bullshit is all about

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #5 on:** October 30, 2008, 08:54:01 AM »

Or if you were friends with Wollan.

cool breeze · « **Reply #6 on:** October 30, 2008, 09:46:02 AM »

don't hate! I'm in the beta and it provides minutes of wasted time.

The only real thing worth looking forward to in home are those flash-like arcade games to play. Only the Uncharted 2D one in the Uncharted 'game space' is actually good, but the potential (keyword here) for other games to follow could be interesting -- of course there has to be a bad to this, and it's that like real life only one person can play on these virtual arcade machines at once. This is the actual situation you're looking at in the game: you and a couple other people are waiting for a guy to leave an arcade machine, then as soon as he does, you all have to bum rush the cabinet in hopes of playing. If you are unable to get to the machine first, you're back to waiting. WHY?

Positive Touch · « **Reply #7 on:** October 30, 2008, 09:49:24 AM »

Will I have to download home or is it completely optional?

dark1x · « **Reply #8 on:** October 30, 2008, 10:02:17 AM »

I still wish they would just scrap this whole Home thing and focus on a more streamlined online interface.

I'm sick to death of this focus on avatars, though. The NXE coming up soon looks fantastic in every way EXCEPT the f*cking avatars. It cheapens the look of the interface. Hopefully they can be disabled. Home seems even worse. I blame Nintendo.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #9 on:** October 30, 2008, 11:12:47 AM »

Can I get 8 player private chat with comprehensive game invites?

nxe

cool breeze · « **Reply #10 on:** October 30, 2008, 12:39:23 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on October 30, 2008, 10:12:25 AM

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and it's that like real life only one person can play on these virtual arcade machines at once

seriously, when people on the very early roll out told me about this, i howled with laughter.

how stupid can they get?

It is really something you need to experience. It feels like a big elaborate joke you're in on, almost like someone from Sony is watching you guys and laughing.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #11 on:** October 30, 2008, 05:33:17 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on October 30, 2008, 12:40:56 PM

You have to wait for lanes to open to play bowling?

Do you have to pay a $2 microtransaction to rent virtual bowling shoes for your avatar?

$:-\$

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #12 on:** October 30, 2008, 05:36:59 PM »

house

Eric P · « **Reply #13 on:** October 30, 2008, 07:02:51 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on October 30, 2008, 05:36:59 PM

house

[youtube=425,350]8dEee7IDuhw[/youtube]

Bildi · « **Reply #14 on:** October 30, 2008, 07:09:03 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on October 30, 2008, 09:46:02 AM

of course there has to be a bad to this, and it's that like real life only one person can play on these virtual arcade machines at once. This is the actual situation you're looking at in the game: you and a couple other people are waiting for a guy to leave an arcade machine, then as soon as he does, you all have to bum rush the cabinet in hopes of playing. If you are unable to get to the machine first, you're back to waiting. WHY?

I'm speechless.... that's truly insane.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 30, 2008, 07:33:29 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on October 30, 2008, 10:12:25 AM

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and it's that like real life only one person can play on these virtual arcade machines at once

seriously, when people on the very early roll out told me about this, i howled with laughter.

how stupid can they get?

its cool, we'll just be chilling in wollans pad talking about the official Heavy Rain thread with BruceLeeRoy.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #16 on:** October 30, 2008, 08:18:57 PM »

Can we recreate the Xboat in HOME? I wanna be one of the passengers on it.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #17 on:** October 30, 2008, 08:24:56 PM »

That sounds awesome but I bet Sony would start banning us Xbot hooligans.

Akala · « **Reply #18 on:** October 30, 2008, 11:05:24 PM »

I bet sony will let you put an arcade machine in your house to alleviate that problem.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

for the low low price of $1.99

[close]

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #19 on:** October 30, 2008, 11:11:59 PM »

$2.99

Trent Dole · « **Reply #20 on:** October 30, 2008, 11:14:49 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on October 30, 2008, 08:33:03 PM

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That sounds awesome but I bet Sony would start banning us Xbot hooligans.

actually, a better idea might be for us to stand infront of all the arcade games , not playing them, just standing in front of them.

DIGITAL TERRORISM!!! :O :O :O

Arcade's closed?

cool breeze · « **Reply #21 on:** November 20, 2008, 08:23:47 PM »

They updated it to 1.0 today (out of beta I think). I went back in check it out and there are some improvements, pretty much still pointless. The dumbest shit is that they didn't fix the arcade cabinet issue where only one can play at once. And there is actually a good arcade game this time, it's just an arcade score based version of Echochrome. It was actually pretty packed for the most part, well, except the gaf clubroom.

this is the home experience in a nutshell

demi · « **Reply #22 on:** November 20, 2008, 08:25:10 PM »

demi · « **Reply #23 on:** November 20, 2008, 08:27:54 PM »

Preach it, honey

CurseoftheGods · « **Reply #24 on:** November 20, 2008, 08:37:20 PM »

that looks awful

Bildi · « **Reply #25 on:** November 21, 2008, 01:59:36 AM »

That pic is awesome. Wollan is the icing on the cake.

ananus · « **Reply #26 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:05:30 AM »

wollan's characters looks like he's ready to rob a house.

cool breeze · « **Reply #27 on:** November 21, 2008, 09:45:27 AM »

I'm pretty sure Wollan was the neogaf 1 club leader (there had to be two since the first one filled up). To be fair, he was in the clubroom because he needed to accept new people applying, and if he didn't accept my application right away I probably would haven ever checked out the bumpin' neogaf club room. I'm still amazed by the bad choices and pointlessness of home. Sometimes have improved from the beta, like you're now able to download the new locations in the background as you walk around, then a message pops up asking if you want to go there. Before you had to wait at a loading screen for new areas to load.

The worse part is that the one featured that I was somewhat interested in with home, the game launching thing, didn't seem to work. This doesn't make sense because the beta let me select it.

And last time I tried it the entire place was empty, but even now that it's packed, the other difference is that people are now talking using voice chat all the time. Doesn't stop it from feeling like a pointless and lifeless experience. It also makes arcade machines more difficult to get onto...still the entire idea behind 1 person to an arcade machine is ridiculous

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #28 on:** November 21, 2008, 10:32:50 AM »

The CLUBMASTA needs to be physically present in the room to accept new members? lol

How many people can be in a club?

Grecco · « **Reply #29 on:** November 21, 2008, 12:05:54 PM »

This sounds so awfull. Why the heck would anyone want to play this?

cool breeze · « **Reply #30 on:** November 21, 2008, 12:30:03 PM »

I don't know if he needed to be in the club room to accept people or not, but he was there, so it could have been a coincidence. No clue how many people can be in a club, I'm not about to go back in to check, but there were about 3 people in that club room besides me and Wollan and the 'current member' list had around 20 or so (before it was full).

Also, the actual home launch icon is no longer with other games and now right above the playstation life item in the internet menu with it's own icon. They also seemed to remove the two game spaces they had up (uncharted and far cry 2) to, I'm assuming, fit them for 1.0.

cool breeze · « **Reply #31 on:** November 21, 2008, 12:56:20 PM »

The only useful feature is that it acts as a party mode, but this feature isn't up yet. Basically you can start up a game and others can join in from home, you all launch the game together and go straight into a game, then when you quit out you're back in the club house and can move right into another game.

Bebpo · « **Reply #32 on:** November 21, 2008, 01:05:55 PM »

I got my home invite, loaded it up and it said "HOME TAKES UP 3GIGS, PROCEED?" to which I immediately quit and went and played RB2 instead.

I'm not downloading 3gigs to try out a terrible app.

hyp · « **Reply #33 on:** November 21, 2008, 01:39:52 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on November 21, 2008, 01:05:55 PM

I got my home invite, loaded it up and it said "HOME TAKES UP 3GIGS, PROCEED?" to which I immediately quit and went and played RB2 instead.

I'm not downloading 3gigs to try out a terrible app.

home

Grecco · « **Reply #34 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:56:07 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on November 21, 2008, 12:56:20 PM

The only useful feature is that it acts as a party mode, but this feature isn't up yet. Basically you can start up a game and others can join in from home, you all launch the game together and go straight into a game, then when you quit out you're back in the club house and can move right into another game.

you mean like NXE party mode?

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #35 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:04:48 PM »

can't be stressed enough that home is a failure.... if it was ready at launch, it would garner some oohs and aaaahs, but Sony should just drop it and suck up their losses. Nobody will ever be interested in an elaborate 3D menu.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #36 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:12:05 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on November 21, 2008, 12:56:20 PM

The only useful feature is that it acts as a party mode, but this feature isn't up yet. Basically you can start up a game and others can join in from home, you all launch the game together and go straight into a game, then when you quit out you're back in the club house and can move right into another game.

Isn't this the whole point of home?

duckman2000 · « **Reply #37 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:23:00 PM »

So, does Home still allow you to use the features without actually stepping into the Home application? When they announced it, they declared that the virtual world would be an optional feature, with all the community features available from the XMB. Is this still true?

cool breeze · « **Reply #38 on:** November 21, 2008, 04:37:18 PM »

So far, no. The quickest you can do it now is jump to the game, have your friends jump to your place (you can teleport anywhere if you want to avoid walking), then start up the game menu through the gui. No quick menu in the PS3 XMB.

Quote from: Grecco on November 21, 2008, 02:56:07 PM

you mean like NXE party mode?

Worse (for the most part) and better. Worse in that you guys can't talk while playing different games, better in that it supports more people.

Quote from: Zero Hero on November 21, 2008, 03:12:05 PM

Isn't this the whole point of home?

Apparently the point of home is to find friends to play with, which is basically a useless feature if you post on a message board, but yeah...Well, that and wasting time doing other boring tasks there. It's actually part that whole networking thing and half a glorified lobby, but since hte lobby aspect isn't there, it's just not appealing at all.

drohne · « **Reply #39 on:** November 21, 2008, 04:40:32 PM »

patrickula · « **Reply #40 on:** November 21, 2008, 05:53:35 PM »

I just got an invite too. Oh boy

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #41 on:** November 21, 2008, 05:59:06 PM »

So did I. Let's meet up.

Grecco · « **Reply #42 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:00:41 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on November 21, 2008, 04:37:18 PM

So far, no. The quickest you can do it now is jump to the game, have your friends jump to your place (you can teleport anywhere if you want to avoid walking), then start up the game menu through the gui. No quick menu in the PS3 XMB.

Worse (for the most part) and better. Worse in that you guys can't talk while playing different games, better in that it supports more people.

I guess having more people is neat. But not a need. The fact that you can do that shit now. On Xbox when its taken Sony years to do is embarassing.

Sonys biggest issue is they keep adding fluff, crap, garbage to home. Home spaces. Arcade machines, Places to form "warhawk strategies" instead of the basic stuff people want. Which is what Microsoft did.

drohne · « **Reply #43 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:02:11 PM »

oh my god FUCK YOU SONY for sending me this instead of a killzone code

y2kev · « **Reply #44 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:19:11 PM »

someone give me their code

demi · « **Reply #45 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:22:22 PM »

I propose we ban y2kev on account for being interested in Home

drohne · « **Reply #46 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:24:06 PM »

Quote from: y2kev on November 21, 2008, 06:19:11 PM

someone give me their code

sent, but i'm with demi

y2kev · « **Reply #47 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:25:26 PM »

i'm not so much interested in home as i am unhappy with feeling left out

edit: says the code is no longer valid

drohne is unprotected sharing with someone else :'(

cool breeze · « **Reply #48 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:29:10 PM »

you're really not missing anything. The only fun bit now is playing Echochrome in the arcade, and the Uncharted 2D game was also fun, but they took that out since the Uncharted game space isn't there.

home is such a waste. I know people were saying things like Eight Days was canned because it didn't look good, but from I could tell it seemed interesting, and when Sony continues to fund home I can only wonder if they have a good sense of what quality is.

demi · « **Reply #49 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:29:42 PM »

u can display ur trophies

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #50 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:30:53 PM »

im in home

y2kev · « **Reply #51 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:34:50 PM »

im playing the pure demo instead

it has some of the same music as motorstorm i noticed

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #52 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:44:32 PM »

oh god my character is horrifc

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #53 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:45:52 PM »

i just got a code in the mail, dunno if i want it or not

how big of an install are we talking

and will i have to associate with people like rapping granny

y2kev · « **Reply #54 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:46:08 PM »

weird, the code wollan gave me months ago is working now

THIS WOULD BE TOTALLY COOL IF IT WERE AN AVATAR

it reserves 3 gb of space, not downloads

bebpo $:-\$

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #55 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:47:19 PM »

this shit is going to be optional, right

i mean, i'm not ever going to be forced to load up a bunch of bullshit just to play lbp am i

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #56 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:49:27 PM »

i'm standing in front of a giant screen waiting for it to load this is so cool

cool breeze · « **Reply #57 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:49:57 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on November 21, 2008, 06:47:19 PM

this shit is going to be optional, right

i mean, i'm not ever going to be forced to load up a bunch of bullshit just to play lbp am i

seems like it won't make you use it

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on November 21, 2008, 06:49:27 PM

i'm standing in front of a giant screen waiting for it to load this is so cool

Is there a guy sitting there yelling about how he's a socom fanboy and asking for people to play with? that guy was awesome. He's like the 1% of PS3 owners who likes home.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #58 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:51:03 PM »

explain further

if i install this, will it always be my interface EDIT: n/m

can it be uninstalled

will i have the wollans all over me

TVC15 · « **Reply #59 on:** November 21, 2008, 06:51:46 PM »

I got an invite. Too bad I don't plan on hooking my PS3 up to my network ever again.

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Author Topic: Holy shit if i was a qore annual subscriber i could get invited to a home beta! (Read 8331 times)