"That which is perfect is finished"
there is a specific allure to things that don't exist anymore. This isn't exactly the case with ps home now, but it's not entirely functional again at least yet. Still, that creates its own different type of interest
Truth of the matter is, many games that have been shutdown had somewhat inevitable deaths, be it due to waning interest by the players or the developers or both, added to the sheer action of time and money and changes of console generations. Not that this isn't a shame, it is, but it's understandable why it happens. This very much applies to home.
"The past, present and future of games" (description for Alpha Zone 1 - Game Test Area)
Projects such as destination home and toontown rewritten serve to freeze time in their own small ways. Preserve a bit of live service gaming history for the foreseeable future
I never played toontown on its original release and didn't play much home. But it's so interesting to me seeing these lovable 3d spaces be afforded a second chance
Home is functionally pure vibes, because the actual videogames in it are mostly lousy. But, since it's a time capsule especially, and we know which turns this type of software took and whatnot, there's a melancholy added to these already mostly empty feeling places
The private spaces, which were always supposed to be barely populated, are kinda depressing. But they're cool
Seeing the advertisements for games released at least a decade ago, weird, obsolete brand tie-ins, feeling the load times, seeing how long player avatars take to load on actual hardware. It's a perfect time capsule of this game's time's imperfections, the ambitions of sony's capital expressing themselves in peculiar manners we'll never see again, however always questionable they were. The game itself has a museum for a partially in-game ARG that had been shut down, which is extra poetic nowadays.
Ps home is lovely because it's not monetized anymore, because it doesn't advertise anything new, because it's stuck in around a decade ago. Its main worth to me is in death (of course this isn't true to many people, who made friends in the game and whatnot) but it had to live to then die. It's interesting to think about, I think
there is a specific allure to things that don't exist anymore. This isn't exactly the case with ps home now, but it's not entirely functional again at least yet. Still, that creates its own different type of interest
Truth of the matter is, many games that have been shutdown had somewhat inevitable deaths, be it due to waning interest by the players or the developers or both, added to the sheer action of time and money and changes of console generations. Not that this isn't a shame, it is, but it's understandable why it happens. This very much applies to home.
"The past, present and future of games" (description for Alpha Zone 1 - Game Test Area)
Projects such as destination home and toontown rewritten serve to freeze time in their own small ways. Preserve a bit of live service gaming history for the foreseeable future
I never played toontown on its original release and didn't play much home. But it's so interesting to me seeing these lovable 3d spaces be afforded a second chance
Home is functionally pure vibes, because the actual videogames in it are mostly lousy. But, since it's a time capsule especially, and we know which turns this type of software took and whatnot, there's a melancholy added to these already mostly empty feeling places
The private spaces, which were always supposed to be barely populated, are kinda depressing. But they're cool
Seeing the advertisements for games released at least a decade ago, weird, obsolete brand tie-ins, feeling the load times, seeing how long player avatars take to load on actual hardware. It's a perfect time capsule of this game's time's imperfections, the ambitions of sony's capital expressing themselves in peculiar manners we'll never see again, however always questionable they were. The game itself has a museum for a partially in-game ARG that had been shut down, which is extra poetic nowadays.
Ps home is lovely because it's not monetized anymore, because it doesn't advertise anything new, because it's stuck in around a decade ago. Its main worth to me is in death (of course this isn't true to many people, who made friends in the game and whatnot) but it had to live to then die. It's interesting to think about, I think