GameTap recently spoke with Pete Smith, senior producer at Sony Computer Entertainment, to find out more about how LittleBigPlanet users will be able to play and create together, but also what he expects will happen when the game finally gets into our hands this fall.
Smith mentioned in the interview how people are already doing totally unexpected things with LittleBigPlanet's creation tools, they we're surprised to hear that members of the team have already even created entirely different games that don't even revolve around platforming. One level that was created resembled Pong, with a single sackboy on each side of the screen bouncing an object around in the middle of the level. Needless to say, they're anxiously awaiting to see what else people are able to do with LittleBigPlanet's toolset.
A little segment of Gametap's interview below:
GameTap: Speaking of Halo 3, and the Forge specifically, people have come up with ideas that weren't originally intended for that game. Do you expect the same sort of thing to happen with LittleBigPlanet?
Pete Smith: Definitely--and that's already happening. One of the levels that we kind of have behind the scenes is not even a platformer. It's just on a single screen. People are asking, "Could you do a shooter?" And we're saying, "If you can build it, you can do it." There are so many things you can do and it's amazing. We've got things like pivot points, and you think that it spins things and that's the only way it can be used. Then you let the designers get their hands on it, and they do the most amazing things. One week, the team went mad building robots and machines that stomp around and fire things. It's like, what have you put new into the game to do that? But no, it's all the same stuff. We're just using it in a different way.
I think if you look at something like Forza, [Microsoft's racing game], the car customization tools in that are very simple, but the results are quite spectacular. I think with the tools we're giving and the fact that it's a gameplay experience to build things, we're just going to blow people away who have been doing this stuff. They've been doing it well, but we're just a whole level above that. It's quite mindblowing when you see what some of the designers are doing.
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.
a AAA hyped game that isnt a shooter
It shall be really interesting what people make, I mean Pong out of LittleBigPlanet? lol
I want to play on this game so bad it looks amazing.. I want to make a final fantasy map, dont know which though.........
Finnaly some gaming news.
Probably the best article in the last month this should already reach 1000 dregree.
My most anticipated title of 08.