Comments on: The Sights and Smells of Home http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/12/the-sights-and-smells-of-home/ The PlayStation Home Magazine Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.2 By: LostRainbow http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/12/the-sights-and-smells-of-home/#comment-277712 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:52:56 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=42130#comment-277712 Great article! Now next time I go on Home, I am going to try to get a feel for what I smell!

I agree with you about the Midway smelling like carny food, but I also think Pier Park would smell the same way. I also agree about Tropical Escape smelling flowery! I was thinking the Dream Yacht would smell like fuel (from the boat), salty sea air with a hint of fish. The Bowling Alley would smell like well….a bowling Alley! Also outside of the Hollywood Hills home may smell like chlorine from the pool!!

I think smells take you back to a place. I am a huge Disney World fan and sometimes when I am out I say, “I smell Disney”. They have a bunch of 3D films that use smell and I love when that happens.

So, next time I am on Home, I will take time to smell the roses!!! Looking forward to figuring out what I would think each place would smell like!

]]> By: SealWyf_ http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/12/the-sights-and-smells-of-home/#comment-277595 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:53:15 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=42130#comment-277595 Scents are definitely powerful memory-simulators. This time of year, the ubiquitous smell of Christmas trees always sends me on a whirlwind memory riff. And thinking about Christmas brings back the sensory memory of the Christmas tree smell.

Now I’ll have to start thinking about what all my favorite Home spaces smell like. Great article, Ted, and very thought-provoking.

]]> By: KrazyFace http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/12/the-sights-and-smells-of-home/#comment-277487 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:43:09 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=42130#comment-277487 Our sense of smell is primarily an primeval one, that we largely take for granted now -- if at all. I dare say most of the smells we smell now are subconscious. But it’s an interesting idea to try to incorporate it into the games industry. Saying that, games like the AC series probably benifits a LOT from not having this extra option. I mean, Jerusalem during the crusades? Or worse, Acre right after its sacking -- no thanks, I’d rather not smell that. Heh, infact NONE of the AC games would do well with smells -- Venice during the Renaissance? Rome’s Viaducts and streets? And I’m willing to be the entirety of Constantinople just reeks LOL!

But Home is a bit different, I’d probably avoid places like Edo, Resistance Cafe or even my EU “crack den” -- watch out for the horse poo!!! But I’d end up attracted to places like S2 Racer, Motorstorm and the WipEout spaces for that heady sublime intoxication of motor oil and fuel heh.

Nice read Ted, got me thinkin’.

]]> By: Burbie52 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/12/the-sights-and-smells-of-home/#comment-277405 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:44:06 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=42130#comment-277405 Fun read Ted! The rain forest in Hawaii smells like earth, rain and flowers. I think that if Home smelled it would certainly have a wide variety of scents in it.

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