Microsoft's Answer to LittleBigPlanet

eagle21 - 324 days 17 hours ago

Scene it? Nope.
Lips? All talk.
Banjo? Did it release?

LBP just got 10 nominations at AIAS including GOTY. Record setting number of nominations. Feb. 19th is the award show. LBP FTW!

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chaosatom - 324 days 17 hours ago

Microsoft is Purely making this game for the Casual image, nothing else.

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I_am_rushin - 324 days 17 hours ago

Nerdy girl, "This is my world."

Weeeeeiird!

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umair_s51 - 324 days 16 hours ago

Are you guys serious?

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truewittness - 324 days 15 hours ago

this a community game that a regular person made, not a big delevoper and nothing to do with MS. it will have no achievements and it will probably cost 200 MS points which is $2.50, which 90% of the community games cost. the other 10% cost 400 MS points.

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ThanatosDMC - 324 days 14 hours ago

So... ummm... what was the game?

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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 324 days 14 hours ago

lol, looks like a ps2 game

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phosphor112 - 324 days 12 hours ago

it fails. Last time I checked. Tools like RPG maker was not for casuals. Don't tell me this is really any different. Only thing that you don't have to do in this is make your own sprites. People have hard enough times making a 2d map, let alone a 3d one. I mean come on? I'm not trying to bash this...but..damn.

Also, it's not win if you can't make a CPU that goes against you in tic tac toe, or a calculator. lol

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andyo13 - 324 days 12 hours ago

looks more like little big headache.

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Maddens Raiders - 324 days 11 hours ago

ha, my ass.

Next!

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The Mikester - 324 days 11 hours ago

Microsoft would have to work there butts of to match LBP and really there isn't a way to match and/or beat LBP.
yeah this game will be like it but no where near to what LBP is like.

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eelnats2000 - 324 days 9 hours ago

trying to understand whats going on in the video.

It obviously shows that its not easy to work with, the guy controls it really poorly, and i dont really see what the appeal of this game really is..

I mean, i'll give it the benefit of the doubt, but to be honest, i dont know what else to say but... wtf was that?!

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KRUSSIDULL - 324 days 7 hours ago

Looks like Viva Pinata and Spore bound togheter or something...

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BrianC6234 - 324 days 7 hours ago

"this a community game that a regular person made, not a big delevoper and nothing to do with MS. it will have no achievements and it will probably cost 200 MS points which is $2.50, which 90% of the community games cost. the other 10% cost 400 MS points."

Media Molecule is no huge development team. I wish I had my Sega genesis still. Then I could play that game. What, it isn't for the Genesis? What about the SNES? Maybe the Jaguar or Saturn?

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BrianC6234 - 324 days 7 hours ago

"If this "game" is intended to be for casuals...
it fails."

I agree with that. The guy talking couldn't figure out what was going on. The menu system isn't intuitive at all. Casual gamers would try it for two minutes and give up. And serious gamers would say it stinks. Those graphics are horrible. I hope with all the cutbacks Microsoft is having they get smart and kill that game before it gets released. It will do nothing but make them look bad. Even if it's just an XBLA game it isn't good.

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superaktieboy - 324 days 5 hours ago

i have no idea what the girl was doing ... i bet that girl has been trained for hours and hours before she was able to do this.. i would also bet that that level didn't just take "a small circle" to make it lol more like days of work lol

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Montrealien - 324 days 3 hours ago

well Jamesrock. 50 people agree with you here on N4G, thousands and thousands don't give a crap in the real world.

Reality = LBP, great game, deserves all the praise, Kodu, interesting concept, derserves a look. The real world does not accept F*n****.

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herbaldoctor7 - 324 days 2 hours ago

this games a joke

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Saint Sony - 324 days 2 hours ago

Firstly, Little Big Planet is a game that everyone can enjoy who have PS3.

Community games for 360 on the other hand works only in minority of countries where 360 is available. USA and I guess some of the European countries, but many countries are still without MANY MANY MANY services that Xbox 360 offers in USA.

Therefore most of the 360 users are based in USA. Rest of the world is not that important for Microsoft it seems. Too bad.

Anyhow, Kodu or boku or what ever is FAR from Little Big planet, so chill down everyone. It's not a game that is going to be available for everyone.

When MS makes community gaming service available to everyone, in every country, only then it can be considered as a great service/possibility.

We all know that best coders and game makers comes from everywhere else than from USA. Community gaming service is nothing untill it's for everyone.

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popup - 323 days 23 hours ago

I appreciate what you are saying above but all the apparent coincidences between other brands ideas and then soon magically appearing 'nothing like it but better that it' does smell an awful lot! In fact, I can think of nothing whatsoever that MS has ever truly pioneered. (there must be something)

More like an attempt to 'duplicate' originality and innovation. Shame those words don't really go well with the word 'duplicate' It's a good job they don't make movies...

I have only spent longer on a Gran Turismo game than LBP now and I can see that record being smashed :)

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thegood33 - 323 days 22 hours ago

Man, I love my Xbox, but that game looks horrible.

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thegood33 - 323 days 22 hours ago

@ popup
I would say the achievement system and xbox live in general are extremely innovative. Downloading movies and streamin netflix on a three hundred buck system is also really cool.

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The Lazy One - 323 days 21 hours ago

it's a visual programming language for making games.

Little big planet is a platformer with a robust level editor. This is not a level editor. Go look up Alice from Carnegie Melon. It's a similar thing, except that it probably won't suck as much as Alice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

it's designed to introduce younger people to programming and logic structure.

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kunit22c - 323 days 17 hours ago

This connot even be compared to LBP this sucks, its barely customizable, not really much gameplay, and this just looked horrible im sorry, LBP beats this by a million miles, i couldnt have fun with this if i tried. and before i was thinking there wont be a LBP 2 because the first was so good they cant make it better, but i thought of a way customizable 2d and 3D gameplay, that would be sweet to have them both, and both because just incase the 3D LBP sucks.

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gumgum99 - 324 days 14 hours ago

shhhhh.

they'll hear ^_^

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Jenzo - 324 days 8 hours ago

Unlike the rest of the people in here I believe the guys over at Media Molecule are clever enough to know the difference between big budget retail games and community games.

Anyways, community games are awesome.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 324 days 7 hours ago

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm with Jenzo on this one. If anything, Media Molecule is going to download this on day one to see what these indie developers are really capable of. They themselves were indie developers not so long ago. Sony gave them the break they deserved. Why not download this game and see if there's anyone worth signing on? I'm sure Microsoft and Sony are both looking and the indie developers right now. They need innovation. They need talent. Nintendo can get away with this impulse-buy crap.

Jenzo...we finally came to a conclusion: Some people are just dumb.

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Jenzo - 324 days 6 hours ago

lol! True. Anyways, it's silly to even compare LBP to Kudo. They are not of the same magnitude/budget, and it shows.

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Covenant - 324 days 17 hours ago

With ketchup, or steak sauce? :)

I agree: This will have to work hard to beat LBP. The concept looks like fun, though.

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no-spin - 324 days 17 hours ago

No way. MS does not understand the style of LBP
now they come with "me too" strategy.
if they do as they did with the me too avatars (ugliest representation of a human being so far) then this games will SUCK
MS interpretation of style is loud music in the background, in your face explosions and poor creativity

of course the game will score 9/10 everywhere

LBP = greatness

KODU = crap

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GiantEnemyCrab - 324 days 16 hours ago

"Kodu? more like crap"

You played it? You speak as if you have and can compare it accurately to LBP. Which from what I've seen shouldn't be compared.

Kodu is to teach young folks how to develope games and LBP is a very fancy level editor. Not to take away or undersell LBP which many enjoy and is excellent, they are just not the same thing.

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Dark General - 324 days 15 hours ago

It's more than just a "level editor". The sheer depth of tools you have and the possibilities you can do with the game stretch out farther than what alot of people think. Just look at the Gradius level (if you have the game) or the tic tac toe level. The things you can actually do if you put your mind to it is amazing. Calling it a mere level editor is a understatement.

Also you might have not known but there's one particular creator (his name escapes me at the moment) who is going to school to become a game designer. LBP helps him with level creating, polishing and bug checking, i think that's a good testament to how deep LBP really is. Not to mention fun to boot when playing with friends.

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Willio - 324 days 13 hours ago

Kodu does not "teach young folks how to develope games," when all the functions are already there. Its identical in terms of editing/creating a level.

@truewittness

I thought xbla community games were free....

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Bits-N-Kibbles - 324 days 11 hours ago

by KO in the first 5 seconds...

no-spin!!!!

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Tony P - 324 days 8 hours ago

Regardless of what you derive from it, it was in fact intended to teach rules of simple programming to kids and inexperienced users of all ages. Not as MS's "LBP killer" like our thorough gaming media reports.

http://research.microsoft.c...

Whether it actually accomplishes that task in a meaningful way is something we can argue about all day.

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The Lazy One - 323 days 20 hours ago

ok... it's more than a level editor. It's a robust level editor.

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ice_prophecy - 324 days 15 hours ago

While playing LBP i was thinking. Someone made this?! with our toolset? Holy crap its awesome.

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cherrypie - 324 days 6 hours ago

JESUS, you people are UTTERLY CLUELESS.

This is a LONG DISCUSSED product from MS Research. It has been publicly shown at conferences by MS Research for over two years.

This has NOTHING to do with LBP. Zero. Nothing.

This has come from an effort to teach young children programming concepts.

The utter ignorance -- and the confidence that this forum has in that ignorance -- is just astounding.

Again, I repeat: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LBP. Please, if you're going to have a discussion about Kodu (formerly Boku) -- GET INFORMED FIRST.

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ice_prophecy - 324 days ago

Err... Why can't we talk about LBP in here? Its in the title of the article, in the text itself, and it is being compared?

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The Lazy One - 323 days 14 hours ago

You just can't compare a visual programming language to a game with a level creating toolset.

The article, as well as a majority of the people in here are completely ignorant as to what kodu is, and what it's going to be used for.

One is a game with a system for sharing user generated content. One is a visual programming language. You shouldn't even really be comparing them at all.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 324 days 14 hours ago

Bought the LittleBigSoundtrack on iTunes and a few songs from the game you can't find on there.

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truewittness - 324 days 15 hours ago

community games are downloads only

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MaximusPrime - 324 days 17 hours ago

isnt there a "dumbed down killzone 2"?

there are two of them

gaylo and tears of war

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THC CELL - 324 days 17 hours ago

haha i did not want to rub that in but bubble up lol

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GameOn - 324 days 17 hours ago

There/Their.

You should know the difference.

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Sir Ken_Kutaragi - 324 days 16 hours ago

More like 'K[RRoD]u!!! ;-D

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eelnats2000 - 324 days 16 hours ago

really stop saying its their answer to LBP.

they are setting themselves up for a promise that they cant keep.

This is not a fanboy rant, but this game will never be in the same league as LittleBigPlanet.

That is a fact.

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Deadman64 - 324 days 15 hours ago

"Ever since it was announced, people have compared it to Sony's big hit LittleBigPlanet."

People are comparing the game to LBP, not Microsoft.

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shawnsl65 - 324 days 15 hours ago

he was right "isn't THERE a" not your assumption of "isn't their a"

grammatically pwned!

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eelnats2000 - 324 days 15 hours ago

I never said anything about microsoft. o_0

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PoSTedUP - 324 days 14 hours ago

"and there home" is improper...

eye is smart two yu no...

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bujasem_89 - 324 days 12 hours ago

Microsoft are stupid rip off's damn there lame i mean seriously how pathetic is that and even if there game is better i'm just lettin u guyz know it might be its natural cause when mimicking someone its normal to prefect what there doing but since MS is tht stupid they might not surpass it or might but just a little but when and if LBP2 comes out it will kick its ass right back where it came from

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n to the b - 324 days 15 hours ago

how bout PS3 with me-too motion controls & me-too PSN???

that said I don't see how this could be near as good as LBP (not that I've played LBP).

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FFXI101 - 324 days 15 hours ago

n to the b, is that best you can say? you bring that up in other article too. I think you have short term memory so let me remind YOU again, SEGA was the first company that bring online game play service to the console not M$, you dumba$$. Motion technology has been use before, Wii isn't the first one to use it. Now, write that down, cause is getting old you use it every Fking time. And yes, it is not and will not be as good as LBP.

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n to the b - 324 days 15 hours ago

and yet only now that their competition has become successful with these innovations does sony try and play catch up.

dreamcast didn't last but MS saw an opportunity in the online space. that's a lot more intelligent and forward-looking than what sony has done. now maybe Home I might be inclined to give them some credit for, since sony is expanding the online concept in a new direction (for consoles at least)...

I guess I think it bears repeating since suck-a-d0rk has conviently forgotten sony's past copycatting.

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n to the b - 324 days 15 hours ago

here's another sony me-too incident that I'll bring up again: remember how originally it was HD-DVD that was the next-gen disc to have online features? then blu-ray caught sh1t for not having it and had to (notice a pattern here?) play catch up.

sorry early adopters of blu-ray with no ethernet port. you'll just have to buy another machine!

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dukadork2 - 324 days 14 hours ago

"how bout PS3 with me-too motion controls & me-too PSN???"

nintendo did not invent motion control and even more important, sony started the whole casual physical gaming on PS2 with Antigrav which wii fit is riding very high right now.

here's a crappy GS review just to give an idea:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2...

PSN? the only thing sony copied is achievements which i don't care about. otherwise, we have NXE, a laughable "answer" to Home: lol

condolences for HDDVD dude, here's a kleenex

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NewZealander - 324 days 10 hours ago

all companies do it.

sony took trophies, motion controll, hard drive, they even copied nintendo 64's analogue stick back in the day.

who cares if they want to copy the compitition, its called good buisness and it happens with everything.

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Cellypower - 324 days 13 hours ago

If its that easy you do it then!!

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DeathroW22 - 323 days 17 hours ago

It won't be released as a game, so most likely won't even get put on metacritic.

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