@rhodochrone1_5665January 30, 2025
This is a HIGHLY polished platform for games and creativity that's still groundbreaking and unmatched today. Its potential after a decade of development and a huge investment from Sony has been squandered. If it got multiplayer support and could take advantage of modern hardware it would be a huge leap forward for digital expression and escapism. I've sat in VR, in a beautifully lit, intricate environment I swiftly sculpted around me with my own hands, with glossy logic chips floating in space around me like I'm Tony Stark. I could reach out and visually map the flow of behaviours in my scene.
You can do everything within a continuous 3D space, from actual music production, to animation, to gameplay logic to sculpture, all without a loading screen or even a change in your interface. To do this with other people, to be immersed in your own worlds, as whatever you want to be, expressing yourself to your finest limits of ability, always advancing, is a vision I don't see anyone coming as close to as Dreams did, at least for a long while.
I dreamt for many years through my teens of Dreams being filled with people and dynamism, but the project was tapered off before true liftoff. R&D for multiplayer never completed. It's a world of possibility, but one limited by PS4 hardware, and one where you're quite alone. It's a huge waste.