FTL

Yuji Noeji

Looks like a fancy IMVU to me. I'll wait until I know that there's a substantial adult userbase. The teenybopper crowd is what killed every other "virtual world" for me.

ShaggE

I don't care what they do, as long as that make it more into the Metaverse that Second Life failed to be.

Arsenicberyllium

I've already heard people call it Second Lively and Not-So-Lively considering, at the moment, all it is is a 3D chat room. I may be biased, but my first impression was, "No scripting? No physics? No MMO World? No sale."

However, dragging furniture onto walls and ceilings then stacking up 3 TVs that play Rick Roll on them was rather amusing.

DaveKap

I bet you 10$ schools will allow this to be downloaded because it has the Google name in it.

The_Green_Ninja

@chiablo: Two hours? I'm hitting save in 3D Studios as we speak :)

okenny :)

4chan and SA goons are licking their chops.

Diesel_Power

@KingBlister: They'll come from the sea, first - where we don't expect them.

tsathoggua

*big breath*

WHYYYYYY???

*pant pant pant*

chiablo

@KingBlister:

I'd give it two hours.

Pezdispenser

@KingBlister: Two days is being generous, I think. And optimistic.

The word that I would use to describe my feelings for this game: "Eh." The art style is...unique, at least.

Aethyr

Thats cool, I guess it beats clicking "Gmail" on my tab when you can have your avatar run to it?. Does that make sense?

PsycheE

Virtual worlds hold no interest for me. Their just becoming obnoxious

chaos_isnt_here

Two days until Lively is invaded by thousands of flying wangs

KingBlister

It's soooo slow. I'm about to give up.

argh

@TheDollHouse: Did you try... I dunno... making a male avatar instead?

DaveKap

This is horribly wrong of me but in the pic the group in the far left looks like a short sonic giving head. And I really wish I could unsee that.

Chaoticevl

Oh god how did i get get here?

I am not good with kotaku.

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

Clearly Google just wants a piece of that sweet, sweet furry sex pie.

tehawesome

What is Google thinking? I bet they're going to find a use of AdSense in this virtual world of theirs. Other than that, Google should never get into gaming. Period.

KJA

I'll try this out for a week and then delete it. I need something to wright in my blog. I've been off MMOs for about 9 months now. I used to be really big into SL until guys were being possessive of me and were trying to make me put my second-life over my real-life.

TheDollHouse

@Diesel_Power: its pretty silly of me but somehow i cant wait to see what theyll end up doing in there

DirtyDebutant

Definitely more IMVU than SL. I was messing with it a bit but ended up giving up because it just didn't seem that interesting.

I'll play with it a little more, but it's pretty far from interesting at the moment. Maybe when it gets a little older.

HikariOblivion

I love the picture. "Oh God. How did I get here. I'm not so good with computer". I'm almost debating trying it out after that.

...

Nah.

sariah

I want it for mac please.

beez1717

I ran around Second Life as Master Chief for a bit, but then realized I could be doing other things, all of which would be FUN.

DukeOfPwn

@Chaoticevl: Oh thank god I wasn't the only one that had to do a double-take!

Kia

Most important question: can you make it rain giant phallic symbols on furries and other people that reason and tolerance left far behind?

Noris159

I downloaded it just to see whats the big deal but I cant get into any rooms. It keeps prompting me to download the client.

F'ing Vista...

Fermbiz

@DirtyDebutant:

Exactly! Me too.

Diesel_Power

whatever their goal with this shit is, they just lost me after 10 minutes trying to get in.

it consistently amazes me how many intertron services get launched without the necessary infrastructure. their eyes are always so wide with greed - they wont invest the time or money into a capable enough launch, but they sure as fuck will advertise it to everyone and everywhere and spread the word around, guaranteeing a fuss is made across their audience but noone can actually join in.

red

I see there is a Neo Gaf world already. I fear for the internet.

jackal888

Oh god now all I see is Sonic.

I suppose he has to earn a living somehow, but... WTF?

Naturestee

What a waste of resources.

majatt

Call me when I'm in Snow Crash. Then we'll talk.
Call me when social interaction isn't a hassle, and has the same ease that a text interface can bring me

I'm a tailwagger and I find it a joke as a gamer.

huginn

Is yiffing allowed?

Zamzoph

Less than a minute and I'm already pissed off. EVERY name I try is taken. BULLSHIT.

HfAsianInvasion is NOT taken. Fucking fail.

HfAsianInvasion

I gave this garbage all of 5 minutes. It was EXTREMELY laggy, boring, and hard to manage. And once you finally got everything set up (the way you didn't care to), you basically just sit in a room and say random things via chat bubbles as well as place random objects around the room to give you a customizable feel. If that's what they want to call it.

After 5 minutes, I made the comment, "I think I've had enough. I'm out of here." And like a herd of deer, they all followed in my footsteps, saying amusing things like, "Yeah! He's right! Me too!" and "I have also had enough. What is the point in all of this?" That last question being one that I even asked myself as I stared at my computer screen.

The End.

UCB-Disco

@Tannrar: You just drag your character.

SirFenwick

It would be marginally nicer if we had some actual control over our characters. Like, say, wasd, or even the arrow keys.

Tannrar

God damn, this fails in so many ways. I selected an ID, and then when I try to log in again, it tells me to select an ID. I type in one, and it says "You have already selected an ID."

HfAsianInvasion

After getting the backwards RickRoll video to play successfully for as many people as possible, I declared myself the winner, awarded myself 1 billion awesome points, and logged out victoriously.

Rob Phelps

There are no virtual worlds, there are computer games. That and fugly character designs again.

Mayu-mayu

@HfAsianInvasion: same

thejakeman: visit my site!

@HfAsianInvasion: That happens with mine too. What's up with that?

JennifARGH

I miss the Sims Online....

Otacon85

Home = Completely Owned
Should have been faster, Sony!

Speaking of being beat the punch, I wonder if the DS 2 will have an iPhone-like accelerometer.

Swift_

No mac?

Spoony Bard

Good idea, violently horrible execution. I have a 2.8GHz, 1.5GB RAM, XP and a 5 meg connection to the web and this thing brought my system to its knees. I could barely do anything and selecting an avatar is super confusing.

I have a whole new respect for Home after seeing how bad this works.

Again, a good idea but it needs a ton of work to actually perform like most Google tools: fast and easy.

incredibilistic

Furries ruin everything

NoBullet

@NoBullet:

Actually Furries are making all - well lots - of your games! I'm guessing you've played a number of games created by Furries.

The studio I work for has 3 furs in it. Other top studios have a ton too which I know.

So there. :P

...anyway back to the 'epic' world of game development....

bmills

Second Life.... most boring "game" I've ever played.

FreekyDeeky

Right now, it looks fairly shitty and pointless. Like another Google product released into Beta for absolutely years.

If they integrated this with Google Earth and Sketchup, it might get somewhere. But right now, it's just a misfiring 20% project.

hahnchen

how i shot google takeover of blizzard, valve, and bungie?

in other news, /b/ has desensitized me to furries

chairman_lmao

This reminds me of how much I had wished Second Life had been playable.

Clunky controls, and an interface and way of doing things that mostly felt like a god damned application instead of a game ruined that for me :(

I'd love a MMO where all you did was explore, and not have to worry about leveling or fighting or any of that :(

otimus

This doesn't look like their answer to Second Life at all. It's just 3D avatar chat client. Here you had me all excited.

Lokno

"It's just 3D avatar chat client."

You just described second life.

Trym

This isn't like second life, it's like "There". In fact it looks like Google bought "There" and then retrofitted the software.

Gwydeon

Did someone just say "furries"? 'Cause I think I just heard someone say "furries".

Pi-face