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Tom's Games: LittleBigPlanet Review

And LBP isn't exactly average. In fact, it excels in every aspect, from multiplayer connectivity integrated into the Story mode to environments that just look too real for a console game. If anything, LBP came just in time for the PlayStation brand although it's a shame that Sackboy and all its sticker fun wasn't available for the original PlayStation console. Still, LBP is a masterpiece in gaming fun and is an example of excellence that should raise the bar on not only the platform genre, but on console gaming altogether.

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TheMART5647d ago

Yes its a great game but Media Molecule patch the movement system

Baba19065647d ago

i like the movement nothing wrong with it i think.

felidae5647d ago

i have absolutely no problem with the movements .. BS

*back to Gears 2 ...

TheMART5647d ago

idontcare

Why is about every review mentioning it then? Go read up the reviews dude...

Why is it that when I play the game I experience it also?

Johnny Rotten5647d ago (Edited 5647d ago )

The movement's more like a 2D side scroller on L.S.D or something. The way I've been playing is to take a split second pause to "flick" your controller down or up to advance to the other tiers. Practicing building levels helps out a lot too.

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Daz5647d ago

you cant lie this is a great game and different.
But im bored of it already. not my type of game but i gave it ago.

To busy enjoying resistance 2 coop :P

Noctis Lucis Caelum5647d ago

I'm also bored of it alrdy, it isn't a game for everyone.

SonyOwnsNextYear5647d ago (Edited 5647d ago )

I played resistance2 for 4 hours yesterday, got tired of shooting things... so i started playing Lbp..when my ribs hurt and was tired of laughing i played some nba2k9..then i popped in donnie brasco for some 1080/24p viewing.i was never bored. If a person cant have fun and make good times ...then youre simply a boring person.

no joke, n4g gets boring, seeing the same fairies fighting over the same burrsh1t.see what i did there?

Seriously if you get bored with online games, then you are just a boring person to begin with.

Baba19065647d ago

hmm i dont think ill get bored that fast there is so much to see and do. i cant stop playing it.

Sarcasm5647d ago

It can probably get boring if you play by yourself.

But I had a lot of fun with LBP with my younger brother in law, nephew, niece and my fiance.

I think that might have been half the experience with LBP. As a single player game, yeah it will tend to get old. But nothing makes me feel happier than playing this with the family.

Foxgod5647d ago

Well, you could have seen that coming.

It doesnt play better then Mario, it doesnt look better then Mario, it doesnt sound better then Mario.

When you create levels, they always have the same feeling to them.
This game fell victim to the hype.

Sarcasm5647d ago

"When you create levels, they always have the same feeling to them."

No I disagree. I'd have to say it's all based on the creativity of the maker.

Foxgod5647d ago

The physx always feel the same, most creators are trying to recreate levels from other games.
But you can alter the way the controls feel, its still a clunky sackboy whopping on the screen and constantly falling to death.

Armyless5647d ago

as much as it is a hobby. Like smoking crack would be a hobby if it were good for you... and it came in a shiny sack-boy wrapper.

LBP is GOTY folks.

Foxgod5647d ago

theres no reason to claim that this will be GOTY, if this was a WII game you would have pissed on it.

Armyless5647d ago (Edited 5647d ago )

It doesn't have a picture of Mario plastered on it.

PS. You must have lost your way, MicroSomething is over there -->

Monchichi0255647d ago

As Great as this game might be...I feel Sony is botching LBP launch. I mean I didn't even know this game was out till I walked into a Gamestop and happened to see it inside the case. i mean, there was no posters, no flyers...NOTHING!!!

and I haven't seen no commercials or heard anyone talk about it! Grrrr

It's things like this that piss me off about gaming! Great games get ignored and crappy titles like ones from EA get all this press!!!!

TheDude2dot05647d ago

The game is hilarious. I always slap the other sackboys (not girls because that's just wrong) and hold onto them and jump off edges. The game's great fun.

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titntin5647d ago

You can only agree :)

I do try not to buy into hype, but this game has left my household humming tunes and smiling more than almost any other game has.
I fully expect to be playing this game still next year, and I don't say that about a lot of games.
Initial frustrations with the controls are simply a learning curve - you simply can't yank the controls about like you would on a traditional platformer, as the in and out of screen mechanic will make you pay for that! Once you've got your head around that and use the controls with a bit more precision, you can appreciate the subtlety of the controls and physics for what they are - sublime.

Sarcasm5647d ago

"but this game has left my household humming tunes and smiling more than almost any other game has. "

Yeah tell me about it. My niece and nephew is always asking "can we play Little big planet!?!?"

It's the first time where I don't hear them say "Can we play Wii Sports!?"

Good times.

And the secret behind it, is just the way the sackboy looks. "Cute" as it's defined by them.

I don't care what MS tries to come up with. Banjo with user-created mods, or some type of LBP rip-off. But the element that makes LBP so charming is the sackboy. He can be imitated, but never duplicated.

na2ru15646d ago

that banjo bear and his kazooi cookooie look creepy

Sir_Ken_Kutaragi5647d ago (Edited 5647d ago )

AMAZING Game it is!!! ;-P
It's EVERYTHING they said it would be and more!!! ;-P
Better than any BORING SH*T on any other Console!!! ;-D
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Xbox Street Gang5647d ago

I wish I had a PS3 for this game but I'm too poor to admit it. :(

Anyways, back to Bullet Witch...

Johnny Rotten5647d ago

I'm finally getting the hang of making different switches n stuff. Now if I can just come up with a little bit of creativity to put these swicthes to use!

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein38d ago (Edited 38d ago )

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.

MrBaskerville37d ago

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.

0hMyGandhi37d ago

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.

thorstein37d ago

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".

Profchaos37d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein37d ago

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.

Number1TailzFan37d ago

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.

MrDead37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

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.

Killer2020UK37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

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.

Huey_My_D_Long37d ago

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.

banger8838d ago

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

gold_drake38d ago

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.

Barlos38d ago (Edited 38d ago )

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.

Deeeeznuuuts37d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername37d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai37d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

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.

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Top 20 Best PlayStation 3 Games (20-11)

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."

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shinoff2183724d ago

No ps3 is not retro. I dont even consider ps2 era retro. All imo.

shinoff2183724d ago

Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).

Quick google search

badz149724d ago

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.

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An update on the LittleBigPlanet server and online services

Classic LittleBigPlanet servers are to be shut down permanently following hacks.
Sony’s drastic move comes after months of downtime for the older games.

darthv72955d ago

It was fun while it lasted. And some of the user created stuff was a blast to play with.

Snookies12955d ago

Whaaa-? That's crazy. Didn't expect it to be permanently shut down...

Teflon02955d ago

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 :(

Profchaos955d ago (Edited 955d ago )

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.

MadLad955d ago (Edited 955d ago )

Feel bad for the people who dedicated so much time into this game.

Battlestar23955d ago

Nice edit to your troll comment.

MadLad955d ago (Edited 955d ago )

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.

CaptainHenry916955d ago (Edited 955d ago )

He's been on a roll and it's comical 😁

RedDevils955d ago

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.

Christopher955d ago

I am also sorry people enjoyed the online aspects of the game?

mikey15955d ago

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

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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

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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.***

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Dreams players are being employed by game studios
DEVELOPERS INCLUDING MEDIA MOLECULE HAVE HIRED FROM THE COMMUNITY

NEWS
3RD MAR 2020 / 11:49 AM
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Tom Ivan***

The CREATIVE CONSOLE creates JOBS... What are they using to Sculpt??

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the failure that is the MOVE controller. lolol

John_McClane954d ago

Why would anyone disagree with your statement? I don't get get it.

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John_McClane954d ago

@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.

mikey15954d ago

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

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***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

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Battlestar23955d ago

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.

Profchaos955d ago (Edited 955d ago )

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.

darthv72955d ago

What are you going on about?

Profchaos955d ago

The attackers breached and manipulated the servers to place abusive messages all over the game ccontent https://www.ruetir.com/2021...

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