neotopia dev David Dow explains why the team chose PlayStation 4 for their game, though they are considering other platforms as well.
"We talked with madmunki about neotopia, how it's going to be improved over PS Home and whether it's coming on platforms other than PS4."
"We spoke with David Dow about what went wrong with PlayStation Home and the improvements they are planning for neotopia, including support for Project Morpheus."
I had great hopes for PS Home, but ultimately it was very boring. I hope this one can have better activities.
Ohhh this could be really interesting with a bit of Morpheus involved. I never played home, but if you can create your own space and show it off with some immersive goggles to your friends I can see myself getting sucked into it :P
Agreed, Project Morpheus seems perfect for a game like this, although I believe this is supposed to be third person by default. In VR, first person is king.
I loved the concept behind PS Home. The idea was great but the execution was very disappointing. I'm curious about this new project (or natural evolution?)
The project was ambitious and i even think well implemented considering the hardware limitation and what they had to work with. I believe the issue had to do with the resources they had disposable and that didnt let Home fully realize itself.
I think it was a good first try and with Ps4 they could do alot better and build on what they know works.
It is true, as the dev says, that PS Home was just too slow in pretty much everything. It was a painful experience, which is the opposite of what attracts casual gamers.
Hmm something like Xi with VR would be pretty great.
PSHome in its heyday was fun, I hope they pull this off.
Did you use PlayStation Home? Are you sad that it's coming to an end? Well, don't lose hope! neotopia is hoping to replace your virtual world needs on the PS4 console.
Kickstarter campaign?! £250,000 goal??
I don't see why Sony isn't funding this project (if there are hopes it will replace Home).
Still, if people wish to donate then why not 'eh?
I'll pass.
I only got any use out of it when I broke my fingers playing football, couldn't play anything other than pool on PSHome.
It was just a huge shopping mall for companies to advertise their wares, missed opportunity right there.
I had high hopes for Home....maybe too high.
I think with the Internet connection I had back then plus going into it when it 1st launched it put me off for good.
I hope Sony can do something better in the future... This is a kickstarter so I guess it has no Sony support.
Home was a great concept that was realized fairly well given the hardware limitations but also had its drawbacks. If something like home was done on Ps4 it would be alot better, i hope it does happen.
Imagine walking around someone's Home mansion, then sitting in the gameroom and picking up DS4s and playing a local co-op game through SharePlay.
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Are you talking about gamelaunching? Because Home already had that. From Home you could set up a game launch event. Other people in Home can see open game launches and if they owned the game they can join in the launch event and when you have enough people you boot up the game directly from Home. Nobody used it about a week after the feature was put in
I felt the same, I think with Home Sony made to big of promises like being able to stream music and videos off your console only to run into license issues. I had fun in home, got free places for my avatar and the few linking to games and rewards was cool. I had just hooped they would put in Trophy support and a better way to integrate it into everyday playing. It became a separate type of game that had fun games within it, but just didn't integrate well. I'll miss it though, it did have good things to it if you gave it a chance.
Yeah exactly the internet connection I had when the thing launched was terrible contributing to its inevitable abandonment. For example, when I had to download a new area I wanted to visit I had to wait for at least an hour and the download would crash most times. I know my IP and speed was the main culprit but there wasn't much fun there to begin with.
we need a home replacement but one that uses simple mii like simple avatars that you can customise, same goes for game areas
Sony should make their system unique, no need to copy anyone else.
Going with a fully customizable avatar, you make it look how you want would be the best option.
The project is very interesting. I am curious to try it.
It would be cool if PS4 and PC could play together, they already can in War Thunder.
I'm glad they like it.
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More games>Less games. That is all.