April 18 HomeCast
What’s in this episode:
Cutthroats | More Cutthroats | Even More Cutthroats | Clusterpuck | Aurora Update | New Novus Prime Outfits
I’ve been waiting for Home’s Killer App…the arcade-perfect port of Donkey Kong or the addictive gameplay of Angry Birds that would make Home a must-visit destination for gamers. There are already some excellent gaming experiences in Home; I’ll put Novus Prime, Blaster’s Paradise or Sodium 2 up against the best games on any system, but they all have something that’s vaguely equivalent elsewhere.
Cutthroats: Battle for Black Powder Cove is a step toward that Killer App I’ve been looking for. The gameplay is brilliant: Take four friends, put one at the wheel of a ship and the other three at gunner posts, and let them battle it out with several other ships. It’s inherently team-based and inherently social, the kind of experience that only Home can deliver, and it even features the brilliant touch of a random escape portal near the spawn point, to prevent griefers from simply strafing the docks.
A game this good deserves a special presentation, and that’s exactly what this episode delivers. The first four minutes of its extended runtime are all about Cutthroats, and there’s even some footage that developer Deuce_for2 was kind enough to share. If you haven’t played Cutthroats, what are you waiting for? If you have, the question is where it goes from here.
May 16th, 2012 by HearItWow | 2 comments
HearItWow is the former producer of HomeCast, which may have entertained some people as recently as 2012. He is currently attempting to reinvent talk radio and occasionally pokes his head up to write about really cool things happening in PlayStation Home. His weekly radio show can be heard live on wmfo.org from 7 to 9 PM Eastern on Wednesday nights.
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DEMON WAR Horse!!! This was a lot of fun to do too.
yes it was Boston Pete Lives lol