The PS4 version of LittleBigPlanet 3 has been discounted to just $9.99 on Amazon. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is also on sale at $29.99.
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Last of US was organic feeling. The "queer" thing doesn't feel tacked on like a lot of the games now.
Very true. TLOU was class through and through.
I felt it was embarrassing how some people couldn’t handle a story that had a gay protagonist. Was TLOU the ONLY game where we played as a gay person? I can’t recall another.
What are you talking about
No one really give a shit Ellie was hinted to be Gay / Bi in TLOU and no one really cared when it was pretty much confirmed in Left Behind. Hell no one cared Bill was gay.
The story of Part 2 was a poorly paced, poorly written revenge story. Ellie being gay wasn't what people had an issue with. The whole "Dina & Ellie" relationship was some horribly written gay representation tho. Dina was so "gay", she got pregnant by Jessie. Dina was so "in love" with Ellie that despite basically raising Joe Jr together for 2 years with Ellie, ditched her at the end.
I agree. It's all about one being mature including being secure within themselves. One being triggered about a LGBTQ person especially a fictional LGBTQ character in a video game evidently has some deep issues within themselves.
Bruh she wasn't gay until the dlc, not a hint of her sexuality throughout the main campaign. Not even a hint of gayness up until the kiss in the DLC really, just 2 friends having fun and there's nothing gay about friends bonding. The true gay star of TLoU was Bill as we found out through the gay mag cover in dry nut. Bill simply exists, wasn't made into a huge deal, wasn't some gay icon for the people, he was gay AF without it being his whole personality. Least in the game, cause as much as I absolutely loved Bill's episode in the show, his character was all about how gay he was and that took a bit away from him imo.
@inverno. I couldn’t agree more. That story element was added after the main game release. Possibly because Neil Druckman wanted to make an impact.
Speak for yourself. Before the dlc I had clearly thought that Ellie could be a lesbian character , which was revealed later in the dlc.
I think the hint was when she threw away the mag. and said bye 'dude.' Then the DLC. But we would have to interview the writers to know for sure. Nevertheless, in screenplay writing, usually, all lines attached to imagery mean something, so I tend to think the hint was on purpose.
Bill character, in the show, isn't about how gay he was. It's about a relationship between two people. It's a natural continuation of his character.
The problem is that the industry today is putting queer or gay or what ever just to look good, i have no problem having a gay characters in movies or gaming if it adds to the story the last of us tv series did a nice story which was intersting to watch others just put a trans char just to mark down a V, the viewers dont care if its not contributing the story..
Is this the only thing the industry has to talk about? How full of yourself do you have to be?
Really? This is what I find on the top of N4G? Is there a filter where I can remove any LGBT and this pride stuff permanently? Dont care at all and dont want to see this stuff as its against my beliefs and its offensive to me.
You guys do you, but don’t you force this on us -_-
Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.
Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.
Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.
First, you don’t know who has or hasn’t played it. So that’s your assumption. Secondly, even if people haven’t played it in awhile, it’s still nostalgia. Those memories of sharing your creation and having fun playing other peoples creations. Third, no game out there is really like this or as iconic. Today if they made this they would nickel and dime the whole way through and it would launch broken.
Reason why i really dislike online games.. they become unplayable over time.. LBP story mode is actually only a tutorial
How would you know who's played it or not? What about those who get into games years after their release? They can't now. Besides, and more importantly, this sets a bad precedent across the industry when it comes to game preservation and people's ability to enjoy what they've paid for.
People still play it but not a lot probably a fee people and I know you 2 guys haven't played it in a long time. If the server was doing so good it wouldnt be shut down. As I said the same people that whine and cry saying bad things on Sony etc are the same ones that havent or stopped playing a certain game in years. Let me ask you guys straight up and y'all tell the truth have you guys played it recently and when you did for how long did you play it.
@blackblades “ Let me ask you guys straight up and y'all tell the truth have you guys played it recently and when you did for how long did you play it.”
Whatever “straight up” and “y’all” is, I can tell you the “truth” to answer your question.
I’ve been playing LBP2 for the past 5 years, I have 10 levels to Ace in a row and a coupe more hours in create mode for platinum. I played LBP2 earlier today in crate mode.
It sucked when LBP 1 and 2 servers were closed on PS3, but all those creations were still playable on PS4 LBP3.
Every level creation since LBP1 can’t be played now
Just disappointing. I have such nostalgia for this game and the user levels from LBP 1&2 and I already was gutted when they were shut down but at least they were on LBP3, and now this means I can't ever revisit those creative worlds again. All because some trolls or whatever decided to exploit these games, of all games, for some reason.
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What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.
There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap
Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.
Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.
Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.
Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...
Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...
All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years
It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.
This right here
Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal
Imagine if sony kept up ps home development
The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss
When they refused a days gone sequel and no acknowledgement of a infamous series remaster of those gems, I knew Sony slick abandons stuff, sure they still release good games but to an extent smh
Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.
Honestly, I think a well-designed LBP-style game would do better than ever in the current state of the industry.
People have short attention spans. Having something that is pick up, play a few levels and put down again is the experience the "masses" are after.
Keep it as a 2D platformer only with well-designed base levels, make it easy to build new levels and more importantly easy to access new content - personally I always found the way Forze Horizon 4&5 provide daily, weekly and monthly challenges via new content that they've built or handpicked from the community is a system that works great - and then stick it on mobile and PC with Steam Deck support.
Make it F2P with a one-off fee for the level editor (to stop people spamming crap onto the store) and have MTX for more characters, outfits etc. and there you have a live service game that Sony should be all over.
Do the same with a new Karting game and a 2D fighting/Smash Bros style engine and you have three bangers right there.
(I appreciate the N4G community will hate the idea of LBP being a live service game with MTX and I get that but I think if there's one game this model could work well for, it's this.. just imo)
Astro's is similar.
Not enough people cared to play it, so they cut it.
Sony has never been a kid friendly console. This should be obvious. People go to Nintendo for this stuff.
Its on media molecule though. They did not want to continue LBP. Sony accepted that.
Sumo continued it. With a solala lbp3 and a great sackboy though.
Its not sonys fault. They dont want to force a studio to create a new LBP game.
But I would love a revival.
For some people Sony can do no right either. You can play Sackboy A Big Adventure on PS5. So there is "a game like this" on PS5.
I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.
Sony in the Andrew House era did support them massively though. They let them do their thing with LBP and spent millions marketing it. I remember one E3 they even used LBP to cover the boring parts of the presentation where they talk about sales figures etc.
And then they allowed MM to announce their game on the PS4 console announcement/showcase event and waited the entire generation for them to release it.
Isaac Clarke of Dead Space fame has appeared in many games, both as a playable character and an Easter Egg. Have you played them all?
Cheapest the Amazon link shows me is $19.99 for digital. Its shows 23.99 for disc. NO $9.99 any where.
Doesnt beat the $35 gold edition sale on psn a few weeks back. Sucks it was obviously digital only but still.
LBP3 is $9.99 at GameStop