So last night I got to try out Playstation Home like many other PS3 owners. After downloading a huge system update, installing that, then downloading Home, and then installing it, and then trying three or four times to get into the program I finally got to the create a character screen. Seriously, the PS3 is the worst console in terms of being able to just turn the system on and do something.
Since this is a Beta, there weren’t many clothing options, but there were a lot of customizations for how your avatar looks. It’s much better looking and not half as retarded as Microsoft’s NXE avatars. With the limited clothing options though, so far everyone is wearing the same freaking shirt and pants combo.
My biggest complaint with the character creation is that there are currently no goatees or soul patches. WTF?! How are us that saw our glory years in the ’90s supposed to represent ourselves? Even worse, how can I make my modern era Billy Ray Cyrus without a soul patch?! I couldn’t even make Achy Breaky era Cyrus, due to a lack of mullets. Lame!
There’s not a whole lot to do in Home at the moment. It’s more of a glorified chat room. You can be retarded and buy clothes and furniture for your doll house, but I’m not really into that. It’s also a huge sausage-fest as the population is 90% dudes with the rest most likely being dudes who are pretending to be chicks with about a 1% margin for chicks that are really chicks.
It’s also fun to see people running around and yelling at each other. I don’t get enough smack talk in my online multiplayer shooters, so it’s nice to hear more of it when I’m cruising around a pretend mall. Oh and speaking of the mall, it’s ultra lame that you have to download each new location. The PS3 is good at being a games machine, a Blu-Ray player, and something I can either stare at or read a book while it downloads and then installs something. It’s just like having a PC in my living room!
So far Home is decent if you like pretending to dance with other dudes, but if you don’t like doing that… you might want to just go and play some games.