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[mrfredman]

So this is slightly old news, but Playstation Home came out of beta, and was released to the public, who promptly proceeded to mime sexual acts and dance around due to the lack of anything to do.

I don't have a PS3 so I've just been poking around youtube looking for videos of people being ridiculous and finding their own ways to play. It seems that most of the good videos of humping avatars were quickly taken down, but here's some hilarious dance party videos.

Running Man Line -


Billie Jean Dance Circle -


Dance Off - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdl1tyL80_8&feature=related

Has anyone tried this?

Is there any possible way to save this hopeless world, or is Sony just kicking itself when its down again?

[Valter]

I knew this thread would show up at some point. 

I think the problem is that Sony made its plans for the PS3 and PSP while we were in a time of relative prosperity. We're now in a depression, though, and Sony really fucked up its assumptions on how the consumer trends would progress.

[Derek]

Sony fucked up a lot of assumptions.

Home is just hilarious, though.

[JLJac]

Honestly, what did they think it would be? If you make an MMORPG with no goals, no levels, no weapons, no violence what do you expect people to do but to go around humping each other? I don't see the point with the whole thing... Why did they make it in the first place? 

[Microwave]

yawn

[handCraftedRadio]

All they need to do is throw some guns and zombies in there and they'll have themselves an actual game.

[Titch]

If there was a console where the entire community system was a zombie survival game I would bite.

[Core Xii]

And they said Home would be the PS3 seller.

But then I've kind of stopped following Sony's escapades. They were so bad they became funny, but now it's past funny and back to bad again.

[The-Imp]

I thought the Ps3 would be fun if I got one... And then this happened.
 :D

[PaleFox]

Honestly, what did they think it would be? If you make an MMORPG with no goals, no levels, no weapons, no violence what do you expect people to do but to go around humping each other? I don't see the point with the whole thing... Why did they make it in the first place? 

Myst Online had no levels, weapons, or violence, and people liked it. Admittedly not enough, though, to make it successful. Several MMOs have not been about the killings yet still succeeded.

[JLJac]

Yeah I know, was just kidding

But at least they have some kind of goal right? From what I've heard of home it's like... a big lobby, and nothing more. Don't really know so much about it though, maybe I should shut up

[TheBlackMask]

But then I've kind of stopped following Sony's escapades. They were so bad they became funny, but now it's past funny and back to bad again.

Ditto.  Any publicity is good publicity, in Sony's case, I guess.  If we all werent able to laugh at them on a constant basis we probably wouldnt even pay attention to them.

[BMcC]

LOL I JUST CAME

:D

THEN AGAIN, I'd be proud to make a game where everyone gets in a circle and dances to MJ.

[Capten]

But seriously guys, this is the game 3.0!!!

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

I think an online sexual mmo (something like second life but specifically geared toward sex), if it were done intentionally, would be both more moral and more fun than violence-based mmorpgs.

[The-Imp]

I think an online sexual mmo (something like second life but specifically geared toward sex), if it were done intentionally, would be both more moral and more fun than violence-based mmorpgs.

Oh Rinku you slick devil.
 :D

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

Although isn't that basically what Second Life sort of is right now? I haven't played it yet, but my friend hachi-roku has and he says that 90% of its user-created world seems to be about sex.

It wasn't specifically intended for that, but when you give users control over something that's what naturally happens. There are a lot of sexually oriented monsters in Spore too.

For those who don't know about Second Life, it's apparently an MMO where users create everything: all the graphics, all the world, all the items, they even do most of the scripting and coding, and they can buy things that others create from them. So it's like Spore, except Spore did it with only the creatures.

But my main point of the post is that sex or even anything vaguely sexually related in videogames seems to be looked down upon (like it is in Playstation Home) but it's much more moral and fun than violence is, so it's weird that violence dominates games whereas sex is pushed out of them.

[TeeGee]

But my main point of the post is that sex or even anything vaguely sexually related in videogames seems to be looked down upon

Which reminds me of an anecdote. When we were working on The Witcher, we had a request from ESRB to somehow cover the nipples on vampiress' breasts for the USA version of the game. So we covered them with blood splatters, and everything was fine.
Covering breasts with blood, gotta love USA's moral principles .

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

Hahahaha, that's the best anecdote I've heard in a while. I'll remember that.

[Ivan]

Home is awful.

I made a character that looked a lot like me, put on one of the 5 t-shirts you can wear, walked around pointlessly, then finally sat down in the mall to play a game of chess with someone. They were awful at chess and someone else stood over us (the games actually carry over into the gameworld, so everyone can see) and yelled "Woop!! Woop!!! WRONG MOVE!!" over the microphone every time either of us went. It was pretty funny. I haven't played it since then and probably never will.


Also, this is pretty funny: