Second Life...no life?

DublinWriter

Not sure if this is the right forum, but anyways.

With all the recent media type, I decided to check out Second Life for myself. After 10 minutes I've decided that it doth both sucketh and bloweth.

The clunky 3D engine aside, I really can't understand the attraction. Sure it maybe a good idea, but I think they've executed it badly.

Anyone here a fan, and why? Was I a little hasty in my dismissal of it?

OFDM

Should this be here??????

Must check this thing out...

(http://secondlife.com/ - for anyone who doesn't know what's happening)

Caco

OFDM wrote:

(http://secondlife.com/ - for anyone who doesn't know what's happening)

Thanks, I hadn't a clue what was going on!

Ruu_Old

Moved from AH. Never heard of it, must have a look too.

DublinWriter

OFDM wrote:

Should this be here??????

I don't think so as it's not really a game.

Suzanne Vega has played a concert on it and Duran Duran I think were the first band to play a live gig using avatars. Even BBC's newsnight broadcast an interview using avators.

All the hype it's been getting reminds me of the short-lived VRML craze in the late 90's.

I was just wondering is there anyone here actually using it on a daily basis?

projectmayhem

i gave it a go 2 weeks ago. i intended to invest time in it, learned how you do stuff on the training islands and what not. so i was all set, and off i went into my 2nd life.

first thing that struck me was lag. it was like having a connection consisting of a slave boy whistling into the phone

second, was the fact that everyone is either 13 or 40. a strange mix of old and young.

third was that it's basically full of IRC idiots, only now with a graphical display of their idiocy.

took me about 30mins to realise how horrible it was and uninstall. and the 30mins really were just me saying "wheee" while flying around

Smellyirishman

I find it hard to relate to a populous of 95% furries, very disturbing.

Good concept, rubbish execution.

StarryBud

Ah come on now, how many games have actual hookers and allow you to shag them? Hurray for user-created animations! There's nothing sexier than a polygonal head bobbing up and down on your polygonal penis. There's even some site that reviews and rates all the hookers in Second Life. Hurray for the Internet.

Vokes

Saw this on BBC breakfast news. Journalist also mentioned that some woman (now married wiht kids) missed out on a singing career when she was younger but gets to perform a concert every other week for people in this Second Life thingy.

I think ill give it a miss.

EWheelChair

Something like that could only be filled with the type of weirdos you avoid on the internet.

Mantel

Sounds like 3D myspace...

Sarsfield

I'm so glad I found this thread. I've spent a couple of hours over the last few days wondering wtf Second Life was all about. I only downloaded it because it's referred to regularly on the BBC news website.

Glad I'm not the only one thinks it's bollox.

K.O.Kiki

Hmm, this has been in EDGE & The Escapist for a year or two now -- usually with quite interesting articles & reports of how people are making a living (i.e. money) out of it -- from the afore-mentioned sex trade, to casinos, "virtual holidays", content-creation (shops, weapons, costumes etc) and even a virtual mafia!

But yeah, I don't think I'll bother signing up either -- I'd probably waste all my money within a month!*

*(not on hookers!)

flogen

projectmayhem wrote:

i gave it a go 2 weeks ago. i intended to invest time in it, learned how you do stuff on the training islands and what not. so i was all set, and off i went into my 2nd life.

first thing that struck me was lag. it was like having a connection consisting of a slave boy whistling into the phone

Yup.
I went on, again, out of interest following plenty of hype... I pretty much knew I was getting myself into a 3D IRC room, but I tried it anyway.
The lag was awful, so bad that there was very little I could actually do...
All it seems to be is a chat programme where people are spending real money to get fake land...
No thanks, will stick to... well, games instead.

Dont be at yourself

The technology isnt capable of the ambitions of its creators, and so it's hard to judge the merits of these ambitions.

Or, I thought it was rubbbish when I dabbled in it. For 30 minutes.

DublinWriter

flogen wrote:

No thanks, will stick to... well, games instead.

Or real life. If they used the BF2 or a modded Quake2 engine, that would be another matter, but Second Life is basically poo-on-a-stick.

The concept is very good, but the execution is rubbish.