A smart developer needs to create a Fight Club Arena for Home. They would need to create an avatar with built in moves that you rent at the Arena (like the pinup girls with the weird walk animation). Those who want to fight go to the Arena public space, rent a ‘fighter’ for 24 hours who can be used ONLY within that space, go to an assigned ring (like the way bowling alley spaces are allocated), and fight alone or in teams. Make the rental cheap enough that anyone can afford it (.49 cents?) to cover the cost of creating and maintaining the space.

Base the fight moves on the rock-paper-scissors concept. Rock = uppercut, Paper = roundhouse, Scissors = clinch (not the best examples -- I know zero about boxing). 10 tries in one round. High score wins. Green Arena = 5 rounds. Red Arena, must have won fight in Green Arena to qualify = 10 rounds. Black Arena, must have won fight in Red Arena to qualify = 15 rounds. Leader board for each level. No chips -- no gold crowns -- no reason to cheat.

Space around the arenas for fans to gather and watch the fights. Free.

The animation work is what I presume would make this a job for a master programmer. The fighter (you) would be controlling the choice of the three moves.

I think it would be worth the time and expense to create this, however, since it would quickly become one of the most popular spaces in Home. It could even be expanded later to include team ‘classic boss’ battles. (I would love to be in a team of 4 to take on Sephiroth). Or new, even more fiendish bosses crated by the programmer.

If the moves can only be used when wearing the fight avatar -- and then only inside the Arena ring, it would eliminate the possible problems identified by DangerDad and lordrinja. By building the moves into the costume, there would be no possibility of taking the fight outside that space.

Thanks for the ideas! Keep the comments coming.

I like the arena based fights, based on simple Gameplay models, NES title Punchout comes to mind as a more scaled down model, or Karate Champ, in using the twin sticks like it did in the Arcade version. (Which works well in Emulation btw on my Playstation pad for PC)

But the real trick is having ‘Your’ Home Avatar doing the fighting. Not some other Character model, otherwise it would take the ‘personal’ touch out of the fighting.

I do not want to open a debate on the difference between the USA and Europe (France) on the legislation of firearms, but I think it’ll be the worst thing to do! especially in a metaverse so short moderated, when looking at who enroll!

gideon is absolutely right to talk of happy slap!
this is a game that allows very easy in the right mood to settle accounts ^ ^

let violence and weapons at the door of home! there are so many beautiful things to do instead of fighting …..

I hope that despite my broken English I managed to make me understand!
Good day to you all!

I don’t like shooter war games. I’m not very good at video games period for one thing.

When I get to the western Redemption I would rather ride around and be peaceful.

Seeing the boxing robots in EA Sports Center I wished they were functional. I believe I would pay to play on that one and even pay to watch others duke it out. I would even pay a nominal fee to enter the Fight Boxing area to watch others fight with the robots (depending on price and quality of the game).

The Slap Happy demo in Central Plaza is fun, and funny. I might buy the game when available. I hope there’s a watch option with good seats.
A fighting game setup based on humor sounds like fun.

In the Feva Arena I met someone from over seas who had an outfit that allowed martial moves. I asked for a demonstration and got one and thought it was cool. Then I said “Watch this” and used the Cheer jump option and pushed forward and flew through them and said, “I can do that too.”
It would be fun to have a martial arts suit and a place where people could practice their craft on each other if they buy the outfits.

A mention was made of a verbal “joust” between a female avatar and a male avatar and the female was cutting up the male. I’ve that that happen and it’s a joy to see a cad cut to pieces with words. Perhaps a verbal jousting area. Maybe even something intellectual such as a debate would be enjoyable for some.

I’ve never played Second Life or anything similar online and I did not like a very very brief foray into The Sims years ago.

It was a very nice article, CheekyGuy and something we and SONY might want to seriously think about.

But for now, I’ve got to look up George Santayana and find out who the hell that is.

Whether anyone likes it or not, there are a lot of text-bubble wars in Home every night. HSM’s biggest criticism of Home, ironically, has nothing to do with Home itself, but rather a fair percentage of the people who inhabit it. Giving these borderline-illiterate knuckle-draggers a place to get it out of their systems will go a long way towards confining much of that nonsense to one space.

And, beyond that, a fair number of Home users would be curious to try out user-versus-user fighting (which, if PG-rated, would be a lot more tame than most of the fighting games presently on the market and perfectly in line with Home’s broad-spectrum appeal). Upgrades would be big business. And, just like Arena mentioned, people (myself included) would pay to spectate and watch other users fight.

Criticize the behavior all you like, but even the Romans had the Coliseum.

Killer article, Cheeky.

Playstation Home Fight Club? PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YES!

I would pay to go to a public space, and just watch people on Home duke it out.