LittleBigPlanet, touted as the PS3's biggest game in 2008 - which yes, i would agree with if Metal Gear Solid 4 had not come out that year.
It, however was the most important game to come out in 2008 and could be the most important game to come out on the consoles so far this generation, it brought user generated content to those who were always too intimidated to get into user-generated content in games due to the complexity of the tools and the lack of help available to those interested.
Graphics:
One word, amazing! While it is quite a technical accomplishment, it isn't a killzone 2 impressive. The thing that makes the graphics great is mostly the art style. Yes, it may look like a childs game at first glance, but this is the great thing about LittleBigPlanet - you can make it look how you want - for example, if you played through the user-made Dead space level you wouldn't call it a childs game again. It has wide appeal and the art style is completely unique to LittleBigPlanet.
Sound:
Another place LittleBigPlanet excells in, it has a licensed soundtrack - but isn't anything you'll find playing on the radio. The soundtrack, even though not created specifically for LittleBigPlanet - sounds like it was, if that makes sense? It is catchy and really keeps with the mood of the game.
There are loads of tutorials in the game, all voiced by stephen fry - a voice many people recognise, even if they don't know who's it is. Fits really well with the game and makes sure that a wide range of people can understand it.
Gameplay:
This is a side scrolling 2.5D platformer, however it isn't your typical side scrolling platformer, it is physics based. While this may throw some people off to completely hating the game, for me - this is what makes it great, it makes you calculate your moves and generally is fun to mess around with.
One of the great things to come out of the user-generated side of things is that this gameplay is used in all different ways, you may not even see your sackboy and it may not even feel like your sackboy is even there, it could be your sackboy playing a large user-created tetris or pinball game - the huge variety of amazing things that have been done by the community is amazing.
There is one negative i can comment on, which is the controls - now they're fine 90% of the time, but when it comes to switching between the 3 panes on the levels it can feel unresponsive, depending on what you are doing when you are trying to change panes. It is a small annoyance that i wish they would tweak through a patch or something, but after a while you get used to.
Story:
There isn't much of a real story, there is one there but that isn't the point of the game. There are around 60 pre built levels on the disc with most of them being story ones, however there are some great little mini games. Anyway, the way i see it - is that the story is mainly to show you what is possible on the game or just to have to some great co-op fun on.
The levels show off the amazing creativity behind the level designers at media molecule and really show what the game is capable of, even if some of the user made levels have even shown the developers what the game is actually capable of.
On the story levels, you can find "Prize bubbles", these prize bubbles includes items which can be construction material to build your own levels with or clothes for your sackboy to wear, either way - for some odd reason, even if you're just playing it for fun, they are really fun to collect.
Online:
The user-generated content delivery method is single handly the best i've seen on ANY game, not just console games, ALL GAMES.
All uploaded content is displayed on a planet, you can scroll through the planets, you can use search filters with the most popular, most hearted (favourited), highest rated etc etc. It used to be over crowded with rubbish, but all the best stuff now is all pushed to the front with the rubbish being thrown to the back.
Now, actual online play - this seems to rely totally on the hosts connection so you can come across very laggy games if you join one that is already in progress, it seems to send all the physics data (which is very intensive) all at once to try help your PS3 catch up with where everything is.
However, if their connection is good it will catch up pretty quickly then the lag will go away. If you join a level at the same time as the host and their connection is good, then you shouldn't have any lag problems either.
Actual play online is a great laugh, slapping other sackboys around never gets old. Like explained above, gameplay can be pretty much anything, along with puzzles that require more than one player, so co-op comes into this and is great.
Conclusion:
This game had alot of hype, and as far as i am concerned it delivered 100%. The game is great fun and with all the updates, it just keeps getting better - there are the hardcore players that pump out all the great content and there are the casual players who just play the hardcore players levels.
The content just keeps getting better and will continue to, this game will live on for years. Highly recommended.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.
Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.
It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.
And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.
Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.
And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.
The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".
Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.
The Outlast Trials just came out.
But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.
It was all filmed by a psychopath.
As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.
Bodycam looks so real.
People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.
The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.
Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.
The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.
Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?
This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.
Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.
So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.
Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Is the PlayStation 3 retro? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer as the system definitely has the age to be considered retro, having launched in 2006, over 15 years ago now. But with it being home to so many massive games, many of which still hold up today and in fact were released for the PlayStation 4 when that console was released, make the PS3 a retro console that doesn’t feel retro."
Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).
Quick google search
No the PS3 is not yet a retro console. But if you're gonna put 1 game from a series in this list, then LBP2 should be there instead of the original, Motorstorm PR is also an overall better game than the 1st game and to put Tools of Destruction over A Crack in Time is a blasphemy when ACiT is the best game in the series.
Classic LittleBigPlanet servers are to be shut down permanently following hacks.
Sony’s drastic move comes after months of downtime for the older games.
It was fun while it lasted. And some of the user created stuff was a blast to play with.
It's still up on PS4, they just shut down the PS3 end because hackers on PS3 can't be stopped and go on the game making announcements that can't be avoided without having to go back to all the old game codes and updating to remove the feature etc. It's one of those sad and garbage things where hackers ruined a good thing. I'm mostly sad about the Vita, I'm not sure if I have my music stages saved to my Vita, meaning they're gone forever if I didn't save them back to it. They were good too :(
Have to say I expected them to be permanently shut down problem would be in the underlying server architecture and possibly something like a depricated authentication protocol which has to be replaced that the PS3, PSP and vita can't support which is why they can't be securely restored on those consoles but the PS4 does support it.so lbp3 was restored on that.
Given the attackers were able to breach the server there was obviously a fear of lateral movement once inside their servers so I can't blame them for this and it makes sense despite the huge blow to the community millions of hours spent building that community.
Despite this blow I believe the millions of creations are going to be available via lbp3 and it's capability of backwards compatibility with user generated content so that's something to be thankful for still not a huge consolation to the many players who only own a older console but unfortunately that's the world we live in these games are old the older they get the more insecure the servers get which the company that make them.host them on and the more likely they need to be shut down.
I reread the article, and changed it, to be as honest on the topic as possible.
Let's be real, it was an easy reaction to have considering their actions of late.
This guy love stealth troll on playstation article as I see the pattern, but he doesn't want to admit that he's a MS fanboy.
TheRealTedCruz10h ago(Edited 10h ago)
Feel bad for the people who dedicated so much time into this game.***
I'm sorry for the PC fans port begging for Dreams to come to PC... You do realise that
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Little Big Planet 3 PS4 - PS Now PC gameplay
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LBP is on PS Now and PC right?? So less of the crocodile tears/crap when you stated PS Now was crap... Clue
https://www.gamesradar.com/...
The man who earned a job by playing LittleBigPlanet
By GamesRadar Staff March 03, 2015
***“We've hired four people from the LBP community" reveals Alex Evans, co-founder of UK studio Media Molecule and creator of LittleBigPlanet. Including one lucky soul who dodged death to get a job on LBP2. Enter John Beech, or 'johnee' to his PSN friends. Two years ago John was a builder with absolutely no qualifications to speak of. But now? He's a full time designer at Media Molecule working on LittleBigPlanet 2, one of the most anticipated titles on PlayStation 3. This is his story.***
https://www.videogameschron...
Dreams players are being employed by game studios
DEVELOPERS INCLUDING MEDIA MOLECULE HAVE HIRED FROM THE COMMUNITY
NEWS
3RD MAR 2020 / 11:49 AM
Posted by
Tom Ivan***
The CREATIVE CONSOLE creates JOBS... What are they using to Sculpt??
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
the failure that is the MOVE controller. lolol
@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.
John_McClane9h ago
@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.***
lol
of course there is.. He was stealth trolling stating all LBP contributors wasted their time making levels for LBP... I pointed out that some of the contributors for LBP + Dreams have actually got JOBs because of the CREATIVE console. Just like Gran Turismo fans
https://www.gtplanet.net/te...
***Team GT Academy Competing at the Nürburgring 24hr This Weekend with Kazunori Yamauchi
May 18, 2012 (updated Mar 13, 2016) · News Article
by Jordan Greer · 37 Comments***
If you are so clever, step up and show me where I was wrong, or keep schtum and we'll see what a hero "John Mclane" actually is. lol
Understandable they had to do this better to be safe then sorry. I just wish those right wing racists that hacked the servers and started posting homophobic slurs would get want they deserve a good few decades in prison.
That's the thing I guess if it wasn't them it would just be someone else and we would still be in this position regardless of their intent.
The attackers breached and manipulated the servers to place abusive messages all over the game ccontent https://www.ruetir.com/2021...
Yeah totally agree here... LBP just continues to get better and better. My creative drive never lets up (even though few people play my levels) and the community is going strong. It's one of those games that I hype up for myself, knowing that it'll be awesome, and then it comes around and it 100% lives up to the hype. Now if only they could focus more on DLC like the creator pack and the MGS pack, rather than just costumes, and I'll be really happy.
Great review Deathrow ;)