The developers behind this years LittleBigPlanet 3 are currently working on several AAA projects, with at least one being powered by the Unreal 4 game engine.
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?
CFIUS needs to greenlight Tencent's buying Sumo Digital due to concerns of national security, Sumo and Tencent agree to work together to ensure the deal comes through
Yikes.
Spoken like a person that has no real working understanding of the Chinese government or the oppression its citizens are subject to. As an expat living in the US I agree that this place is a far cry from perfect, but to suggest that US and Chinese authorities are alike shows a lack of understanding both for China's politics and for the benefits of America's ideals of freedom.
Before rebuking and backing up your claim in this thread, consider:
~in China, you can be arrested (and according to testimony, imprisioned, tortured, or killed) because of your religious views.
~in China, you can be arrested, imprisoned, tortured, or killed because you spoke ill of the government.
~in China, you can be denied a passport because you disagree with anything the government says, or have ever attended a protest.
~in China, you cannot jaywalk because you will be caught on camera and prosecuted due to the deep surveillance of the citizens in all dense public areas
~in China, the state owns the vast majority of major news a and journalistic publications and use them to print lies and propaganda for the state.
~in China, the government closely controls the internet and disallows access to most content.
I could go on.
I’m america you are called a domestic terrorist and put on a fed list for speaking out at a school board meeting lol. We’re trending towards the social credit score with a quickness. Enjoy the American “ideals” or whatever is left of them while they last.
Not even close. US government had a million problems but chinas is still incomparably more evil.
Hence why it’s the only thing I trust less than the American government. But if you want to pretend that the American corporate press is any different than the CCP propagandists then you are an idealist and not a realist. We are better, for now…. And that’s not saying much.
It’s slipping quick though and it’s already too far gone.
@sourOG Only way you're put on a list for speaking at a school board meeting is when you're an idiot and start threatening people... https://www.npr.org/section...
"Confrontations over masks, vaccines and how race is taught in schools have many school board members across the U.S. worried for their safety.
Mobs are yelling obscenities and throwing objects. In one district, a protester brandished a flagpole against a school board official. Other cases have included a protester yelling a Nazi salute, arrests for aggravated battery and disorderly conduct, and numerous death threats against public officials.
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In Ohio, a school board member reportedly received a piece of hate mail that said, "We are coming after you and all the members on the ... BoE [Board of Education]. ... You are forcing them to wear mask—for no reason in this world other than control. And for that you will pay dearly." Threats have prompted school board members, many of whom are volunteers, to resign.
Turning Point USA, a group closely aligned with former President Donald Trump, maintains a website called School Board Watchlist, which includes the names and photos of members of school boards around the country who have adopted mask mandates or anti-racist curricula. The group maintains a similar website targeting professors for liberal views that has been linked to several incidents of harassment."
So yes, you can be put on a watch list for speaking at a school board meeting. If you start threatening or assaulting people... Then again, the people doing that are the ones cheering on the domestic terrorists from Jan 6th...
Parents angry about “masks, vaccines and how race is taught in schools have many school board members across the U.S. worried for their safety” doesn’t sound like violence to me. It sounds like useless, incompetent state losing its grip.
I don’t give a shit about trump. Get over it.
Speaking of state funded propaganda, it’s funny you link to NPR lmao. You even use the same language and are still going on about trump.
This is a prime statist here, observe people. People like this are why the CCP is launching hypersonic rockets into the atmosphere and the US military are being trans activists and rooting out the “white supremacy” from their ranks. Jan 6th 😱😱
^ @kthxcrayon, fwiw I was being facetious and I agree with all your points. Still, the fact is, the US spiralling the plughole right now - and China is waiting in the U-bend.
Replies(2)“The letter asked the U.S. Department of Justice to mobilize law enforcement agencies to respond to “threats and acts of violence against public schoolchildren, public school board members, and other public school district officials and educators.”“
From an article about the school board. Believe it or not violent threats are not protected speech as decided by the Supreme Court of the US.
Depends on your definition of violence. A white kid sitting in a “POC” space is considered “violence” in modern America. That’s just one dumb example of the tired shit Americans put up with these days.
Lol what. Please cite that article. Never heard of that being considered violence.
Cite what article? It was some dumb video that it reminded me of lol. I’ll find it, it was all over the news. They all talk the same. Like general milley and his white rage obsession. He was so concerned about that shit he left a bunch of Americans in Afghanistan. And then they did a drone strike on terrorist leadership to look like they were being tough. It ended up being an Afghan family getting water. These people are a f****ng joke. I don’t wonder why the world hates us anymore lol.
https://youtu.be/zIUapVJv6Q...
This was some big story about a couple of kids getting harassed by some idiot. Listen about 35-45 seconds and and she describes them sitting there as violence. “This is the kind of violence the ACLU protects” or some such nonsense.
A large chunk of Americans are morons that believe that anything opposing their view is “violence”. That’s why it depends on the definition. Another example is Dave Chappelle. His latest show the closer was considered violence against lgbtq. It’s just rhetoric they use to moralize their shitty behavior and canceling people. It’s common and it’s bullshit but it works ike a charm. Americans (especially corporations) are largely non confrontational and fold quicker than a chair in a wresting match. I don’t care when these idiots use the term. But when an attorney general uses it as a vague term? Homie don’t play dat *smack* lmao
See the US government doesn’t torture you and kill you. If you think the CIA, FBI and the rest aren’t running domestic operations with corporations then you are a fool but that’s not the main arm. The culture just black balls you wipes you from digital services. Suddenly no big publications would be anywhere near Chappelle and canceled his documentary. It’s the price you pay for thinking jokes aren’t violence. Did the “culture” want Dave Chappelle canceled? I don’t believe so. The corporations did though. Because they are morons too.
How about actual violence? You’re on the wrong political side? Well you can’t have a pay pal or a gofundme. Like that rittenhouse kid that just had his first day of trial for killing those rioters in Wisconsin. People were trying to donate to his legal funds and gofundme and a bunch of other services dropped him off of the service. But kamels Harris can get funds to get rioters out of prison. Like I said, it’s all how you define it. When your actual violence is considered justice by the state but my words are considered violence by the state? We’re in China, my dude.
Hahaha damn that video of the girls complaining about the sticker is pathetic. But bare in mind man like yes there are a lot of dumb morons saying shit like that, but they’re still just the loud minority, I don’t believe that behavior is really part of law or supported by our representatives (except for the dumbest of them). Agreed Chapelle’s special wasn’t bad at all, but once again it’s a minority complaining about it, not the majority of people or a reflection of an entire party. I think if people are threatening violence, as in literal violence “I’m going to hurt you,” not a sticker of political views there needs to be some law to deter that (as there already is).
The silent majority doesn’t complain though and are largely oblivious. The loud minority control the narrative, control the corporations, control public discourse.
Unless you mess with the silent majorities kids, then they go apeshit lol. The worst example from the guy up there could come up with for a violent message to the school board is “I’m coming for you”. That doesn’t have to mean physical violence, it could mean they are going after their job on the school board. Virginia just flipped a bunch of seats on Nov2 on this one issue. A deep blue state turned red because they were going after their kids. Labeling parents domestic terrorists because they are pissed that the state is claiming ownership of their kids is laughable. And the jerks that justify it like the guy up there are bootlickers.
Our representatives and unelected bureaucrats are just as stupid. They are the ones pushing the shit lol. There’s maybe a handful of representatives that are worth a shit. The rest are useless.
I really hope the American security panel puts a stop to this game company being sold to Tencent.
Tencent in my opinion has too many ties to the Chinese Communist Party and giving them control of Sumo Digital makes no sense to me.
Exciting to see what will come out of these newer engines like Unreal 4. I see some small clips that come out of the hobbyist crowd that make it almost impossible to distinguish real world environments with a virtual one. Wanna see what the pros can do when they get familiar
This isn't news, it's a lazy "garme jurnalizt" speculating, poorly, about a job posting.
Ooh, the butthurt is strong with this one!
Maybe you should look into getting a REAL JOB, son. Any fool can plagiarize a job posting and sprinkle it with fluff.
they should fix LBP3 before they start thinking about that because that game is still really, really broken even after 2 patches.
Interesting. Very glad to hear that. LBP isn't for me, but it does show they are very creative developers. And they need a new IP with LBP3 selling so poorly.