Monday, October 31, 2011

PS Home update makes me not hate PS Home as much

For all those new and excited PS3 owners who try out Playstation Home and quickly run screaming from their living rooms at the realization that you've been sucked into a crummier version of Second Life, guess what? It might not burn your eyes as much anymore. But it'll still burn a little.


Playstation Home, which many view as an online dustbowl, has made some strides in the past to get their users back. They've added some more top notch games to their line-up, which is only available to those who brave the digital wasteland of spam and bright blue personas who never quite seem to load. But now the Playstation Home is getting a massive make-over which has been very long over due, seeing as it needed a make-over since the PS3 launched.

The new Home system will not only look better and be more cohesive, but it will also offer quests! The quests are similar to those found in an MMO, except instead of killing a certain number of wild boars and collecting their pelts for XP, you'll probably be wandering around to check out their new features and play trivial games until you get a certain score. But at least you'll have direction, which is something Home has been lacking for years. So hopefully the quests will start off by showing users the new content and leading them around the new maps.

Thankfully, the maps included in the update look good and feature some pretty nifty content, like characters from other games wandering around, as video game character cameos test highly with Home users. Also included will be an FPS which is run entirely on the Home engine, a feat few thought possible as the Home engine can barely run itself. But at least they're trying, and if it's even a single percentage similar to Counter Strike, I'll be giving them a pat on the back.

Though before the update launches, I hope they do animal testing to make sure the eye burning has lessened, because if it stopped, how would we know we're on Playstation Home? For more details on the update, I give you the Playstation Blog which features a man who simply cannot take his eyes off his computer screen.

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