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HOME integration updates (Uncharted, Resistance and Warhawk)

MistaCreepyMistaCreepy Registered User regular
edited February 2008 in Games and Technology
Taken from Kotaku:
WARHAWK:
Sure, Uncharted and Resistance may have wicked cool feature sets for PlayStation Home, it's actually Warhawk's planned game portal that has us most excited. According to our sources, the Home lobby for the Incognito dogfighter will serve as a "war room" where up to eight players can meet to discuss their strategy for an upcoming match. Sure, you could do that with text or voice chat, but it sounds like the developers have gone the extra mile to make planning your battles even cooler.

http://kotaku.com/361562/how-warhawk-makes-home-really-really-cool
UNCHARTED :
While Resistance: Fall of Man's integration with Home should have bonus content fans excited, old school run-and-gun shooter fans should be pretty pumped about what they may be getting with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune's contribution. We hear that the Home portal for Naughty Dog's PlayStation 3 adventure will follow in Resistance's footsteps, allowing Home avatars to explore the game's levels without the threat of being shot at, a nice feature.

But it's the Uncharted mini-game that has us far more pumped.

http://kotaku.com/361563/how-uncharted-drakes-fortune-makes-home-really-really-cool
RESISTANCE:
While Home for the PlayStation 3 may have generated plenty of buzz for Sony at last year's Game Developers Conference, its late arrival and the setting in of reality may have made it put a damper on the hype surrounding the service. We've had our doubts that Home may ultimately be nothing more than a prettier Second Life, a glorified 3D chat room, one that only makes getting to the games we actually want to play a bit of a chore. But we've recently learned some very interesting things about how three first-party published games will take advantage of Home's features that have us very excited.

http://kotaku.com/361560/how-resistance-fall-of-man-makes-home-really-really-cool

All of this is front page on Kotaku. HOLY SHIT at the warhawk war room and the contra style minigame for Uncharted! I need Home NOW. Sony just loves to give out good news lately.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I buy a PS3 soon enough.

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  • ChewyWafflesChewyWaffles Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    As cool as that Warhawk room sounds, no one's going to use it.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Great. So now every game on PS3 will have its own personal Ironforge.

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  • MistaCreepyMistaCreepy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Reading about this on GAF is funny and it gets me pumped. You guys are boring as hell.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    MistaCreepy wrote: »
    Reading about this on GAF is funny and it gets me pumped. You guys are boring as hell.

    By 'boring as hell' you mean 'not gigantic collossal retards' right?

    GAF has been getting pretty damn stupid lately.

    I blame evander.

    only joking. he is merely one cog in a gigantic clockwork machine of stupid
    only joking, for real

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  • FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Maybe because these things don't seem very exciting? I say this only based on the stuff you quoted. I haven't bothered with the links.

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  • MistaCreepyMistaCreepy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Okay.. for those too lazy to go to the links, heres the big parts of it:
    UNCHARTED :
    According to our sources, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune comes to Home armed with a side-scrolling 2D arcade game, described to us as reminiscent of both Contra and Out Of This World. Sounds kind of like Capcom's 2D remake of Bionic Commando in its execution, full of enemies and exploding barrels to shoot.
    Resistance:
    One of the first games expected to shine in one of Home's series of game portals is Insomniac's Resistance: Fall of Man. Resistance is said to provide Home visitors with an interesting room to explore, one that will let PlayStation 3 owners visit unseen areas of the game and tap into bonus content in the form of "intercepted" radio communications between European and U.S. forces.

    These hidden transmissions will help to flesh out the Resistance story, giving players a better understanding of the game's conflict. We hear that Home avatars will have free roam of unpopulated levels, not unlike a virtual Resistance museum.

    Basically these developers are really setting an example on the kind of free content we can expect from HOME. If third party games such as MGS4 and Devil May Cry jump on the bandwagon, we can expect to get some really great shit from HOME.

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  • ThreepioThreepio New Westminster, BCRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I should really buy a PS.... Wait.

    I should really buy a second PS3.

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  • WickerBasketWickerBasket Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    This sounds great but I wish they'd start the beta soon. I've been hearing about Home for ages and I'm starting to get impatient while all the news of new features trickles in.

    I really didn't expect them to be adding stuff like this though, is it dependant on the developer?

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  • MistaCreepyMistaCreepy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Its dependant on the developer but think about it. A home room is great advertising. Also if I will be checking on Home extras when Im on the fence with a game... alot like what some 360 owners do (example: What kind of achievements are there?)

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  • ChewyWafflesChewyWaffles Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    MistaCreepy wrote: »
    Reading about this on GAF is funny and it gets me pumped. You guys are boring as hell.

    Sorry, I'm not excited about exploring empty levels and shit like that. It's a novelty - you'll look once and never bother again. I have all three games and I'm yawning about this.

    EDIT: FFS the people at GAF are raving idiots.

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