LittleBigPlanet. This was called the saviour of the PS3. Sony marketed the game into high heaven, and made some serious hype. First, lets put this get this out of the way; this isn't Fable, Daikatana, or Spore. Meaning, it delivered.
Basically, the game revolves around it's phrase. Play. Create. Share.
Somewhat self-explanatory, users are allowed to make their own levels and allow other people to play with them in a up to 4 player co-op. Local and Online. You are allowed a huge arsenal of tools and materials to build with. What's amazing though is that the devs gave you the tools they used to make a level, which allows for some interesting levels.
Now, there are quite a few ways that a dev could have seriously screwed this game up, but they didn't. The gameplay is AMAZING. Running through a level working together and at the same time competing with 3 other people is a feeling like no other. The cooperation is phenomenal. For example, the R1 button allows you to grap on to an object or another Sacboy/girl. Suppose you're having trouble getting up a ledge. The other people in the group can actually make a rope of people to get you up the thing. Graphics wise, it looks AMAZING
Now, this is all amazing, but there are flaws. There are some things you simply can't build, such as a timed switch, or a resetting switch. They may not seem like alot, but they're vital to a game like this, which is a serious con. Another one is that the Z dimension is very unresponsive. When in the middle of a jump where it requires you to switch between back and foreground, it may not do this fast enough. And I also heard that moderators are allowed to erase your level without a warning. Bleh.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
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.