From the article: "Sony PlayStation's Jonathan Fargher told The Sun: "It's fair to say that Nintendo has got Super Mario and Sega had Sonic. "It's about time Sony got their own iconic mascot - Sackboy will be that character.
"He's a charming and personable character people will take to and the fact you can dress him up how you like will appeal. Mammi mia ... old favourite Super Mario may soon have met his match in Sackboy
"You'll be able to make him a spaceman, pirate, cowboy, zombie - there's even an Evel Knievel outfit for him."
The emphasis of Little Big Planet, the biggest PS3 release yet, is on design and customisation."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wait until some 40 year old, hormonal, lonely women gets wind of this. I bet she'll rally up all her daytime soap opera watching friends and have the name changed from sack"BOY" to sack"PERSON" wait and see.
Sackboy for the Win.
He does all sorts of diffrent stuff and these vids speak for themselves while Mario eats mushrooms and picks on lizards for the last 15 years or more.
"He's a charming and personable character people will take to and the fact you can dress him up how you like will appeal. Mammi mia ... old favorite Super Mario may soon have met his match in Sackboy
"You'll be able to make him a spaceman, pirate, cowboy, zombie - there's even an Evel Knievel outfit for him."
Well thats pretty much the problem, While Mario is still the same person for all these years Sackboy is dressed to your likings.
There for Mario wins. He hasn't changed, and that's what a mascott is all about: Representing what you are and always will be.
And comparing them is just weird >_>.
I don't know if I'm prepared to play Sack-Races and Little Big Baseball.
It seems almost better to me to let LBP be the innovative and expansive experience that it promises to be without burdening it with the pressure of mascot-hood or the detrimental effects that being a mascot can have on a franchise (like weak cross-genre spin-offs).
Mario has weathered mascot-hood (mostly) honorably, but look at what it has done to others (*cough* Sonic *cough*). I say Sony should let LBP be a brilliant game first, see how its received, and then begin thinking about how to use the franchise in the future wisely without endangering it.