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LittleBigPlanet Thread II: Turbo. MGS DLC (guns, levels) Dec 23!
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LittleBigPlanet is a 2.5D platforming game developed by MediaMolecule for the PlayStation 3. It has garnered massive hype and near universal praise, along with heaping dollops of controversy. Its iconic main character, Sackboy, represents the game's beautifully rendered craft-world aesthetic and endless customization aspects, while the game itself supports much more than simple customization; players are encouraged to build and share creations with a design kit that is both incredibly easy to use and oceans deep.
Play
LittleBigPlanet's story mode spans over 20 full levels and a multitude of smaller tasks, races and challenges. The gameplay thrives on collection (with secrets and unlockables under every flowery upholstered platform), chaotic physics (with oodles of momentum built up in springs, pistons and explosives) and 'co-opetition' (every bit of gameplay supports 4-players, and encourages working together as much as it encourages battling for bubbles full of points). The flexibility of the physics engine and the openness of the level-editor means that for a long time to come you'll be bouncing over platforms, shooting away aboard rocketships and dragging unfortunate (cardboard) peasants into pits of spikes and fire.
Create
LittleBigPlanet's editor offers you a blank canvas to build whatever motor-driven contraptions and cardboard-box level layouts you can dream up. If the 'blank canvas' bit sounds daunting, don't worry! There are a stack of MediaMolecule created-templates for you to mess up with stickers, objects gifted from the story levels (or shared levels), adjustable music and colour-correction tools. Still sounds tricky? Learning's an absolute charm, with the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry providing witty instruction on the Pop-It menu, and everything it can be used to conjure up.
Share
It's been called the Youtube of videogames, and for good reason - LittleBigPlanet has an incredibly easy system for sharing content, built right in to the same sub-menu you use to play story levels. An easy tagging system means levels are labeled with relevant information after every play, and the 'heart' feature works both as a personal seal of approval and a bookmark for later use. In the short time that the game's open beta was running we saw homages to everything from Mario to WipEout, along with gritty noir crime levels and bubbly worlds of colour. There's no imaginable end to the kind of content we'll see, so there's only one thing left for it - start up those servers!
Reception
Current MetaCritic score
LittleBigPlanet sets out to resurrect the simple fun of a game you control with left, right and jump. It sets out to make the side-scrolling platform game relevant and exciting again. And it succeeds ... at their most ingenious and surprising, the systems of cogs and tunnels and traps that the Sackboys tumble through are worthy of Nintendo's best designs.
Edge wrote:It’s a multiplayer riot, a visual landmark, a feat of engineering, and one of the most charming games ever made. But even those accolades are dwarfed by its scope, its potential, and the apparent endlessness of them both.
We all figured it would be good, so the question was, just how good would it be? The answer is that it's absolutely fantastic, an instant classic that actually turned out to be better than my expectations.
This is a beautifully assembled game, with a patchwork visual style that covers the technical achievements underneath... Little Big Planet is a startlingly imaginative take on the platforming genre, and its story mode, while short, is truly outstanding.
[url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=199300]Computer and Video Games[/url] wrote:You will become obsessed. You have been warned.
Controversy and Recall
LittleBigPlanet was originally scheduled for release on the 21st of October in North America, and on the same week in most other regions. Unfortunately it was brought to Sony and MediaMolecule's attention that one of the licensed tracks in the game featured verses taken from the Quran; an issue which grates with some Muslim beliefs. The decision was made to recall the game from game store back-rooms across the world, and a version with the offending phrases removed will be on sale in very late October / early November. It's frustrating for everyone, not least of all the people who worked so hard on the game - but it happened, it's not going to change, so it's best to think about our long future with Sackboy, rather than be bitter about this short, painful period.
Future
While the future of LittleBigPlanet was always going to be a very long one, with constant community levels injected into every net-connected copy of the game - for free - MediaMolecule and Sony have also promised to keep the game relevant and interesting with new tools and features. And yes: the L word. Licensed content has already been confirmed for the game from franchises as big as Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid, with rumours saying there's a deal underway with Disney.
UPDATE: Metal Gear Solid DLC, December 23rd
Metal Gear Solid DLC Trailer
Level pack includes:
New Costume: Gurlokovich Soldier
New Building Tools: 72 Stickers, 12 Materials, 10 Decorations and 18 Objects, plus 3 Music Tracks, a sound object, an interative music track, and a new 'Plasma Ball' danger element
New Developer Levels: 5 Story Levels & 1 Challenge, from MM and Konami
New Gameplay: Functioning ! searchlight, a 'Laser Sight' gadget and the Paintinator Paintgun, for making a mess and killin' mechanised goons!
Feeling poor? That's alright, because Media Molecule are generous.
- Non-MGS Level Pack owners can PLAY the MGS Story Levels by joining a “host†who owns the pack and play the levels online together. Now you won’t be able to keep any objects, but you can have tons of fun just PLAYing.
- MGS Level Pack owners will be able to CREATE levels with any of these items (including the Paintinator) and SHARE them online for everyone to play.
More information here. Get ready! ...the game has changed.
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Penny Arcade Levels!
(Post your Level Name or PM me to have your level added. Cheers to MetaHybrid for the initial list!)
Braintrust [OrangeTroz]: Ghost Light, Half Court Hoops, Thermal Spud
Chance [Chance_Splinter]: Booger of Prophecy
darknessbear [darknessbear]: The Lost Vessel
FZero Racer: Magican Tower Way, Tower Power Rd. 1
Jenosavel [wingedlion]: Moonlight Garden
Jrootabega [Jrootabega]: After the Experiment
Kateconspiracy [Kateconspiracy]: Top secret mission through the core of LittleBigPlanet
Lennylightspeed [Lennylightspeed] : American Sign Language: Alphabet: A-I
LordNibbler [JPbrowncoat] : Mr. Moonguy's Mad Obstacle Course
MetaHybrid [MetaHybrid] : Picture Puzzle
Polkster [Firerhea] : The Miracle of Life
Reznik [RenegadeGuardian] : Child's play '08
Scotty : CrEEpZoNe (final), Cave of the Snow Monster
Speed Racer [Mushpie]: 25m
Toma [Toma84] : Little Big Deadly Gas Fortress, Tumbling Labyrinth
The Bus : Avian Temple
The Reverend Dr Galactus [RevDrGalactus] : Scorched Tanks
The Stig [czarcraft]: Tiny Tanks
Unintentional [Unintentional]: Dissovle World, Death Mountain, Edwina's Swamp, Part2, Part 3
Links!
MediaMolecule's Blog
The Official Site
us.playstation.com Community Site
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Jesus Christ I can't fucking wait.
Also, can we not "discuss" the delay in this thread? If you want to be an ignorant hillbilly can you do it somewhere else? I hear Neogaf and Gamefaqs are popular with that crowd.
bought my ps3 for this (and blu ray), now I wait.
add me to the list (and already playing too
dude refused to override it and he didn't even know about the recall. I am bitter now
Amazon.co.uk are still giving me an estimate delivery of the 24th. Maybe Amazon are rebelling!
Yea, this is how I felt last night when I stopped by Wal-Mart.
Hey does anyone recall any feature where people could create levels cooperatively? Because that would be the shit.
I'm too lazy to pick up my second controller to try it out.
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you can definitely do it locally, and it should eventually be patched in for online too
judging by the trailers the soundtrack seems generally fantastic - i can't wait to hear it all
in other news, if you're in australia and happen to be thinking about picking up a playstation, sony are giving littlebigplanet away with every new ps3 sold - as soon as it's finally released, that is. pretty good deal!
Though judging by my financial situation I'll be getting a PS3 only next year.
LBP is definitely a game I'll get once I get my PS3 though.
If only it was that simple. Blue-dot.
Im wondering how unlocking content is going to go, as far as the costumes and things. It would be neat if it were based on saved files or what games you owned (like monster rancher, putting certain discs in to get certain monsters)
I was SOO excited for today. But atleast now I can pick up a check from work before i go buy the game.
I'm gonna call them up today and see if that's still the case.
I r excited!
No case or manual? You're kidding.
YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!
Ok. Maybe it is. But Dead Space, Far Cry 2, Fable 2 AND Little Big Planet so close to together?
I'm not made of stone. Sure I could just have some willpower and wait on buying one or two of them.
But that ain't how I roll.
But this delay does put LBP only 1 week apart from Gears 2. Those are the only 2 games I have pre-ordered this fall. This delay sucks.
They give you the disc and a box of lego. You have to make your own case. Damn, I should have marketed that idea to MM.
heh. Nah just the disk and a jewel case for 50usd. So I guess I kinda saved 10 bucks.
Ah, well. I'm broke this week anyways.
Feels kind of like black market Legos, doesn't it? And by that I mean the greatest feeling in the world.
No luck
Thanks WalMart! Your inferior information management is our gain!
I feel like I just won the lottery
See, I thought this would hold true for me...till I remember I live in the same city as their home office and I doubt the stores around here screw up that much.
Well luckily WalMart forgot to flag the game as "recalled" in their computer, only "do not sale". Which is the same lock down apparently as when you try to scan a game before release date. Just took a very small bit of convincing (along with help from the one other guy there to buy the game) that WalMart had made a mistake in removing the release date lock.
I made sure to put everyone's id's in the end of the last thread. :P
I'm trying not to think of this game as much as I can. It does work.
I'm pretty sure one of the two Wal-Marts around here would sell it to me. They really don't give off any sort of "give a shit" vibe, so I doubt I'd have much of a problem.
You're lucky, you with your lackadaisical work force. Up here in Winnipeg everyone from HMV to fucking Zellers seems to know exactly what's going on.
I haven't tried them yet, but one of the stores is pretty well in the ghetto, and the other is close. The other one is also the most stolen from Wal-Mart in the state. I doubt they'd care, seeing as it'd be an actual sale!
"I can't sell it to you, there's been a recall."
"Look buddy, we both know I'm doing everyone a favor here by offering to pay for it."
"I did think that was pretty cool of you."
On another note of fiendish desperation, a local grocery store has it in their flyer for this week (for only 49.99!), so I'll give them a shot later today.