4:00 PM on 03.07.2007
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Niero
The last leg of my shakycam GDC tour quickposts is the demonstration of how the media center within Home works, and the room of doom: a personal trophy ampitheater of your best achievements in the games you've played. The prospect is very exciting: capture your best in-game footage and your merits all in a place that your friends can visit. When he overlooks the balcony to the ocean of trophies it reminded me of a mix between the grand Star Wars conference room and electric fetuses in the Matrix. Exploring this world seemed fun, but seemed slow despite PSP warp points. I waited but it never came: no mounts, Hummers, or suicide jetpacks. Well, they have until Fall to fix it.
So what do you guys think of the interface? I'm both impressed but am on the fence -- I have usability concerns. This is completely visual, which is a far departure from the OS-like approach on the Xbox 360. This concerns me: just like VRML was too cumbersome to actually serve any purpose, I feel like something about this needs to behave more like software or have a software-like alternative we can access without having to run from point A to point B.
So that's it for me. The guys and gals will soon be returning from their interviews and I'm running off to eat a boxed lunch and explore the floor, wish me luck!
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The teleportation with the PSP seems like it would take care of the "walking" issue.
I wish they would concentrate on games rather than this crap. I've been saving up and considering a 360 or a PS3. This demo doesn't make me want a PS3, although Heavenly Sword does. But, that's one game. Show me more Sony. My money is your's to lose.
And, Luck!
Also, cocks.
The trophy room is interesting, looks a bit like the bat-cave, but they seemed to have missed the point with acheivements. Its not about which achievements you get, its about how many. The simple number that a gamerscore represents encourages competition and even drives people to buy or at least rent games they dont even like. Looks like Sony are still missing out on that.
However the get-stuff-from games-for-your-home thang might work. Sure t-shirts/wallpapers blah blah, but if you can unlock an item which is the girls from DOA hanging out in your crib, just by buying the game people would probably want that.
/360 fanboy atm
@wintermute: I'm with ya on the trophy room thing, if they're all just trophies, they might as well just be a numerical gamerscore. However, if they made the achievements more tangible- say the guitars I unlocked in Guitar Hero 3 also showed up in my living room, it'd become a totally different kind of incentive.
Really, this reminds me of the "MS Home" interface in WIN95 where you had this living room with a a dog named Bob who would run and get your documents and shit for you. It was horrible too and died a quick death at the hands of double clicking on the windows desktop to open your files. I imagine this will do the same.
I think you mean to say "fittingly enough." It'd be on the ironic side if it was grossly understated. Sony needs to learn that less is sometimes more, much much more.
Call me practical, but the clinical look of the 360 Dashboard work just fine for me. More importantly, it gets me gaming and connected to media, friends and whatever VERY quickly.
like when the guy was watching the trailer, he zoomed in by actually walking up to it and trying to position himself perfectly... in situations like that they need to offer you a click-zoom process that is easier then moving around a 3d environment...
This is a nice addition to the PS network which I really think is quite cool, but as has been said they need to not force you into it but offer it in conjunction with a regular OS environment that is streamlined rather then GTA point A-Z structure
Did he say other people can come walk around in your little homes as well, because that would be cool. what would be cooler though is if people can create environments in the public sphere so that people can host chatrooms...
The issue is will it be usable enough that I care that it exists or is it just going to be a bloody hassle.