Home feels surreal to someone who has been elsewhere for several months. I had nearly forgotten about chronic lag and endless load times. They’re annoying, but I’ll have to visit at least 50 times to get that Gold, especially since Brent keeps nagging me to win all the Home trophies, for his sake if not my own.

I figure I’m not alone in this return-to-Home disorientation. Trophies, especially easy-to-earn ones, are gamer bait, and they’ll bring in lapsed Home players as well as new ones. I just wish they had been added much, much earlier.

Again…great read Seal!

To each their own (I’m not a gamer, I’ve tried a few and played a little) but I find it a bit strange that someone would play a game they don’t like just a win a trophy. But maybe I’ve done something similar on Home?

Yes! hondahole 4 life!

Haha I’m just bust his chops. But I am quite serious about this being a good article. Like honda, I didn’t get into Home either. Tried it a few times, left after a couple hours after each time and eventually never looked back. I was actually surprised rather recently to learn that Home was still up and running. With how little press Sony has given it in more recent times (to the point where if they’ve done any at all, I hadn’t seen it), I had just assumed everyone had lost interest and it had been shut down.

And yeah, Home might be more appealing if it had any kind of influence for itself outside home. A simple comparison would be to 360’s avatars: there is no 360 version of Home, but every user creates an avatar and you see the avatars when you look at your friends list or whatever. And some 360 games have unlockable avatar awards so you can dress your avatar in a Gears of War shirt or a Crackdown armor suit (or one of my favorites, a half a pair of pants for You Don’t Know Jack) for anyone who looks at your profile to see. It’s not anything extraordinary that will make people buy a 360 over a PS3 or anything, but it’s still a neat little thing that other people can easy see. If Home had something like that which carried out into your main PSN profile for everyone to see regardless of if they use Home, I might become more interested in it.

P.S. HONDAHOLE =D

A “charming elderly lady” indeed. I think I’ve just received my revenge for referring to him as an “engaging ‘monster’.”

Brent will be posting the link to this article on the PS3T site, so we may have a lot of avid trophy hunters reading about Home for the first time. I encourage them to check out the other stories on HSM. Home is a very interesting place, for those of us who “live” here.

I’ve always considered the trophy system of the PS3 a missed opportunity. If you combined Home with the trophies, they’d make much more sense -- they’d become actual rewards rather than just bragging rights. Although Batman Arkham Asylum just gives you a whole Bat-Cave for simply owning the game, imagine how proud you could be of that space for “plating” the game instead. This, I always thought, would be the very thing that integrates Home with the games on the system.

Mount Olypus for getting so many gold trophies from God of War? A personal WipEout space for X amount of trophies gained? Or how about those Motorstorm jeans I love for hitting a certain trophy count?

The missed opportunities for pulling gamers into Home are now so vast and so many, well, it’s just embarrassing really.

Sorry Sony me old mukka, but you didnt just drop the ball on this one, you let it slip down a damn man-hole and be devoured by urban-legend-sized crocodiles.